We completely abandoned children a new and good home in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Unfortunately, so a number of children in Tanzania are abandoned after birth. Too many results in the shame and social problems to bear children outside marriage, for others it is poverty that makes them unable to care for their children.
Tanzania has long been highly restrictive adoption - despite the fact that they regard this as the most ideal for abandoned children. It has been shown that adopted children often have been treated as 2. rangs children in the families they have come to. The authorities have also no mechanism for adposjon out of the country.
This has led to the few and large children's institution-one in the country over the filling - and even if the children get food, clothes and a bed to sleep in - they do not experience the closeness and care and safety of growing up in a family.
Tano Trust is therefore working with Moyo Mmoja Trust for the operation and development of caring family home 
(In opposition to traditional children's institutions) for completely abandoned children. Together we develop small and locally adapted family households where children without known relatives growing up as a family with their new mothers, siblings, responsible males.
Since these children do not have the traditional safety net of family and relatives elsewhere in Tanzania, we place great emphasis on providing them the best possible new start on life. We have chosen to apply the standard fairly high for these children, with a common desire that they also develop into a resource for Tanzania - instead of the "social problem" many abandoned children in countries such as Tanzania, are for (ie street children, ungdomskrimminelle etc.). It is therefore up to the children not to stand out and stigmatized in their communities, but to be a natural and positive part of this.
The most common reasons for ending up as an abandoned child in Tanzania is when the mother - and possibly the father if known - death and other family are not known, do not make himself known, or simply feel compelled to abdicate all responsibility.
A not uncommon situation is deliberately leaving children in public places such as Dar es Salaam's huge central bus station. In these cases, parents or other family arrived with their children to the city by bus from rural areas or smaller cities. By leaving the children in places like this, it is estimated that there will always be someone who will take care of the kids and hopefully pass them on to local authorities - which will take action. The authorities, however, has no resources to even take care of abandoned children, and they would not in any way to facilitate a legitimate way for parents to leave their children. For this reason, it is only one government-run orphanage institutions in Dar es Salaam. The only government social workers then can do is to send children on to private institutions. Mostly these are the most disadvantaged regions of Dar es Salaam and unfortunately they are of varying and often very low standard.
