Our Passion

                                               

Passion of Volcano Development of Children       (VODEC)

It was midday on the fifth of 2005 that I was walking in a sanawari street in the city of Arusha, and I saw the children sitting under the tree of sadness. When I asked why they were sitting instead of going to school, they told me that they did not have any notebooks and uniforms, so the teacher drops out of class because they do not have school equipment. I felt very painful in my heart.

 When I returned home I asked myself a lot of questions but a bigger question I wondered why I could not help them, I thought my income was little but in my heart there was a great power to help the children. It was difficult but because it came from the heart, I started writing my idea of ​​helping children.

The task of helping the children was not easy because some of the requests I had made discouraged and told me that I did not have the money so I did not worry about child care. Because I concentrated on my mind but money was traveling to work so I could earn money and continue to care.

One day while I was in the middle of the city after telling what to do, I saw a boy picking up a blank plastic bottle. I asked him where he was going, and he told me that he sold a factory but one kilogram was tsh 200 / = less than a quarter of a dollar but I saw it would help me to fulfill my goal. I started picking up a blank bottle until it became an annoyance to my tenants until the one told me that he was going to expel me. But I did not give up .I went on the floor and I was thinking of another source.

Through the empty bottle project I managed to start helping five children. In my urban circuits when I was picking up a bottle I saw young people carrying big bags, when I asked them to climb a Mt Kilimanjaro. told me What a price they paid for a dollar and a half, I said better with the climbing mountain despite its difficulty, which I watched and raised from tsh 200 to 3000/= a day (it was in 2006. but from 2013 it is $ 5 to 10 a day).

I started climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and stopped picking up the bottle but it was not easy again it was hard five times because I loaded about twenty kilograms loaded with my bag . I went in the morning till evening and it was the camp.

I climbed Kilimanjaro seven years and I stopped climbing the mountain and went to a driver's college for a month and got a certificate.  I got a driver's licence.

After finishing I was reluctant to work and returned to picking up a bottle. For all the time I was helping those five children.

One day I went to visit my sister-in-law (angel) and she told me to take her to the drama because she told me a talent. After joining the group of Volcano Arusha group we were able to record the film but after the sale, the sailor ran away with all money to Burundi. I kept picking up a bottle because I set myself up to pick up bottles every morning and at night I was driving taxi on clubs.

After seeing that I could play a drama, I started playing a comedy in primary schools. It was a good idea I could help 30 children. Six months’ later care service has been the government said it is not permissible to continue submitting until the registration of the organization. When they was told I started to sign up but while I was in that process I got a driver's job at Climbkili.com’s tourist company.

In the same year march 2012, I registered the Volcano Development of Children (VODEC) for NGO OOO5346 in Tanzania mainland. The headquarter of the organization is located in Arusha, Tanzania (East Africa), since I have registered with many outdoor friends. So far we are reaching 30 outreach children but we do not have a center to save children.

And I am currently working on temporary drivers at Abercrombie & kent company ltd in Tanzania.

EMANUEL MUHINDO –Founder of  VODEC