Kwa Wazee

Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since aradually extended to over 300 grandmothers, who were caring for over 400 orphans by the end of 2005.

Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the modest pension provided by Kwa Wazee makes a significant difference in the lives of the supported grandmothers as well as the children in their care.

A permanent evaluation of the project is also designed to show how a system of pensions for the impoverished elderly could be implemented in other regions which are severely affected by AIDS.