Tanzanian partners of the Kilimanjaro Film Institute

Mkombozi

Mkombozi is the leading child-focused agency in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions, using education, research, advocacy, and outreach to help vulnerable children and youth to grow in mind, body and spirit. The Mkombozi Centre for Street Children runs a successful programme for empowering youth who live on the streets.

Tekua Centre

Tekua is a group of volunteers brought together by one common objective, to empower and assist young, less fortunate, less privileged youth who would otherwise be in desperate situations and thus enable them to have confidence in the future of tomorrow. Tekua is offering underprivileged youth free courses in languages and arts as well as teaching essential life skills with a focus on HIV AIDS.

Illaramatak

Illaramatak Lorkonoerei (meaning pastoralists of the dry land in Maasai language) is a Maasai NGO that runs community radio station in Terrat, 80 kilometres East of Arusha. Illaramatak Lorkonoerei is helping Maasai people who would otherwise have no access to education or information of any kind.

UAACC

Peter O’Neal founded the United African American Community Center UAACC, a non-profit community based NGO, in 1991 for the purpose of providing programs and projects for the enrichment of the Arusha community, both urban and rural and also to promote closer cultural ties to communities in America and around the world. The name was later amended to United African Alliance Community Center to better reflect the more global focus of the center’s concentration and outreach.
The centre grows organically always changing and striving to meet the needs of the community. The emphasis on youth and their issues is a key point in the operations of the centre with a focus on their challenges as well as their talents.

WAMATA

WAMATA is a non-governmental organization that works with people affected by HIV/AIDS. It runs Tanzania’s oldest clinic for HIV. WAMATA was founded in June 1989 by a small group of Tanzanian professionals and families to assist individuals living with HIV/AIDS diagnoses. WAMATA Arusha provides a range of services, from supporting those who have been widowed or orphaned by AIDS to providing programmes that provide AIDS orphans with real-world work skills.

Thomson Safari’s

Thomson Safari’s designs safaris and runs them from an office in Tanzania. All of the guides were born and raised in Tanzania and are trained naturalists, environmentalists and unparalleled game spotters. Thomson Safari’s has taken camera students of KFI up to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro which has given the students the essential training they needed before filming tourists climbing the mountain as a training on the job and an income generating activity for KFI.

Moivaro Lodge

Moivaro Lodge is an ideal spot to enjoy the impressive flora and fauna of East Africa. Moivaro Lodge is situated right in the heart of beautiful, natural scenery and yet is only 7 km from the town of Arusha. The lodge has been very generous in letting our trainers stay at the lodge for a very good rate and they have thoroughly enjoyed their time there. The lodge is less than one kilometre from Kilimanjaro Film Institute so this has saved us all time and money, we are extremely grateful.

Mrosso and Associates – Advocates

Mrosso and Associates have supported KFI in all the legal requirements including the legal set-up as well as legal advice for the staff and boards of the institute.