NGOME is a community-based health education NGO, established in 2006.

Goals; mission statement:

NGOME promotes good health practices in the region and town of Mtwara through raising awareness and providing professional health consultancy, support and care, encouraging local volunteering and initiating income-generating community projects. The strength of NGOME is to co-operate with all stakeholders of the region to bring about a healthy self-reliant and sustainable community that is able to proactively fight against poverty and diseases like HIV.AIDS.

How NGOME achieve these goals:

The entire team is a group of volunteers, with 3 of them being trained volunteers in sexual health.  After their normal work, they head out to 3 local schools, host a drop-in centre, head out to patients’ homes etc where the following takes place:

Raising awareness about reproductive health, diseases like HIV/AIDS and advocate for appropriate health decision-making in the community.

Providing quality health consultancy, care and support for those in need.

Encouraging self-reliance, independence through entrepreneurship, traditional art performances and income-generating programmes in the community.

Current projects:

Community awareness and sensitisation on HIV/AIDS, malaria and burden of diseases through  cultural and community events. (NGOME Cultural Theatre – NCT)

Provision of community home-based care (NGOME HBC)

Mpapura entrepreneurship project. They sell scultptures and carvings too in their Mtwara office

Community-based reproductive health and life skills education.

Staff names/roles:

Chairperson:

Mohamed Nkanyama.

Email:  mnkanyama@yahoo.com

Phone: +255 (0) 784608375                   

General Secretary:

Deogratius Makoti

Email: deomakoti@yahoo.com

Phone: +255 (0) 714113952 / 782956772

Treasurer:

Juma Mbulu

Email: judambu@gmail.com

Phone: +255 (0) 653887340 / 688346510

Commitee Members:

Stephano Mbalale/ Wada / Flora Madwfa / Nelson Kimuwoga / Husna Dadi

Contact details:

NGOME

PO Box 968 Mtwara

Boma Street (Mtwadeco), Room no CH/5.

Opening Hours:

8am -3.30pm. Monday-Friday. Sat and Sun occasionally.

Other:

NGOME are eager to recruit more volunteers, funding to continue expanding their projects and work, people to drop in to their centre and to buy their sculptures too.