Since 2003, Ace Africa has provided services to over 2 million of the most vulnerable and marginalised people, particularly women, young people and children, living in rural areas of of the Western and Coastal regions of Kenya and the Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Mwanza regions of Tanzania.
Ace Africa works with the local community, government and partners to identify the priority needs of the most at risk in their society and, develop innovative, long term programmes in three broad areas; Community Health, Child Wellbeing and Development, and Livelihoods and Economic Empowerment.
Following a successfuly pilot, we are currently providing 2-year funding for an Ace Africa project to empower marginalised Maasai women in remote rural areas in Arusha, Northern Tanzania, with the skills and knowledge to improve their family health and economic security. In these areas, women have little knowledge of services available to them and rarely visit formal health facilities due to distances, cost, cultural barriers and stigma associated with Maasai health behaviour. In particular women and children do not attend ante natal or services for children under 5’s. The project will improve the health, wellbeing and economic status of Maasai women and their children, by increasing knowledge of and access to local health services and village and community banking services.
