Now owned and managed by the Catholic Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fathers “Spiritans”, Dogodogo Multipurpose Training Center DMTC, (Daniel Brottier Center) is a Street Children and Orphanage Center opened in 2003 to help most vulnerable children notably orphans and street children to regain their lost dignity by providing them with basic human needs notably food, shelter, health services, education and life skills. The Center is located at Bunju A, Dar Es Salaam, about 2 km away from Dar-Bagamoyo Road.
Being an educational center, it admits both boys and girls – aged between 3 and 18 years old who are orphans because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, children from the streets of Dar Es Salaam or children separated from their families due to various family problems leading to putting the lives of the kids in danger. Each year the centre receives about 45 new children from similar backgrounds.
For the past 15 years more than 1,350 boys and girls from the streets and similar vulnerable backgrounds, notably orphans and street children, have found a home, felt protected, loved,and respected as well as fulfilled in their trained life skills.
WHAT WE DO
Dogodogo Multipurpose Training Centre DMTC, (Daniel Brottier-DOGODOGO Center) is both an educational center and a home for vulnerable children (boys and girls), rescued from forced marriages, early childhood labor, notably domestic child employment, street vendors or trash picking and child trafficking. At DMTC the children receive not only psychological and spiritual support to heal their inner wounds but also childhood development services and second-chance primary or secondary education, specialized programmes for alphabetization, life skills development (vocational training), counseling, mentorship, rehabilitation programs and family reunification.
On the vocational training programmes, DMTC trains the vulnerable children on life skills like carpentry, tailoring, electricity, firefighting and rescue, welding, multimedia, computer skills etc, so that they can eventually be employed or be able to employ themselves so as to earn their living and in so doing be integrated into the mainstream society. For the past 22 years more than 1,400 boys and girls from the streets and from similar vulnerable background notably orphans and street children, have found a home, felt protected, loved, respected as well as trained for life skills.
OUR OBJECTIVES
Being human is itself a gift. Our remedy to realize this conviction is enshrined in eradicating the current crime of abandoning and mistreating the children, needless to say, neglecting the fountain of life. Many things we need can wait, The Child cannot. Right now is the time bones are being formed, Blood is being made and purified, senses are being developed and nursed to keep watch. To the Child we cannot answer “Tomorrow,” The Child’s name is Today and Now.
OUR VALUES
We are all equal in every terms, with this the first value to us is that everyone is valued and treated equally with each other and we ensure that all human rights are considered and applied to each of us.