Hope, perspective and a second chance

While financially strong and well-connected actors worldwide have the best prerequisites for a self-determined life and a change to self-determination, it is usually poor and socially marginalized people who face crises with the greatest challenges in terms of everyday needs, education and self-determination. In addition, there are developments that additionally challenge children and young people from difficult circumstances in particular and restrict them in their development. The rapidly growing consumption of simple intoxicants to systematically spread drugs, especially in urban environments, has increased in recent years in the environment of children and adolescents between the ages of 5 - 18. The exposure of vulnerable people on the streets of cities and the neglect of children and adolescents by guardians has contributed to the fact that drugs are an increasingly relevant problem for individuals but also for society as a whole.

Second Chance is the first and only institution in Tanzania that aims to provide systematic and professional help to children and young people who are exposed to the destructive influences of an unprotected life on the streets of the cities in order to counter drug addiction, homelessness and abandonment. Second Chance sees itself as a Christian NGO, our staff and supporters are motivated by values such as charity, self-sacrifice and the desire for renewal. Together we can make a difference in the lives of children and youth, together we can shape the future.

In order to get children and young people out of existing dependencies of drug use, lack of perspective and poverty, Second Chance employees are out and about where these same children and young people can be found. In direct conversation, short-term and immediate solutions are offered and the acute need for necessities is served. With medically and socio-educationally accompanied exit and rehabilitation measures, the possibility of liberation from drug addiction and dependence is offered. With perspective-based approaches such as the provision of emergency accommodation and the placement of permanent accommodation, long-term perspectives are opened up in parallel with school and vocational training measures. With these measures, Second Chance creates new hope, ways out and space for self-determined life for the children and young people.