CHAMA BUILDS ORPHANED AND VC CENTRE IN TANZANIA
CHAMA, TANZANIA CHAPTER CHILD “VULNERABILITY” IN TANZANIA Around 2000, in recognition of the complex ways that MALARIA, HIV and AIDS affects children and communities, development agencies began to shift away from the term “AIDS orphans” “MALARIA orphans” to a more inclusive category: “orphans and vulnerable children,” or OVC (USAID, 2000; World Bank, 2004). The term “vulnerable” was introduced as a category in its own right to describe children who were, for various reasons not limited to orphanhood, at risk of harm. Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) or Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) is defined as those children who are adversely affected…