Who We Are

Action for Relief and Development Assistance (AFREDA) is a Tanzania, National, Voluntary, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), whose purpose is to promote the livelihood, income, health, education, nutrition, peace and human rights status of poor men, poor women and poor children in Tanzania, East Africa, through facilitation and implementation of integrated community development projects and programmes. AFREDA has its headquarters in Dar es Salaam.

AFREDA target groups are People Living with AIDS, caretakers of AIDS orphans, interest group members (farmers groups in Lindi), school children, out of school girls, community leaders, farmers, rural community members in the villages, diarists, theatre group members, vulnerable women entrepreneurs. AFREDA’s main approaches include: on-site training, use of theatre, use of school clubs/back home, people own process (POP), exchange learning visits as well as use of educative materials i.e. brochures, pamphlets and T shirts. AFREDA works in close cooperation and partnership with village Governments (local government in rural areas).