Ubuntu Pan-Africanism and Welfare for Africans (UPAWA) is a local non-governmental organization established and registered in 2021 with registration number 00NGO/R/2169 under Law No. 24 of 2002. This organization had been operating as an CBO since 2019 in Songea municipality but later on in 2021 it was registered as an NGO to expand areas of influence.
The organization primarily serves the vulnerable members of the community by facilitating the education of children, youth, people with disabilities, underprivileged girls, women, and older people in the community to make positive changes in their lives through the creation of a healthy social life and good health to bring about a cultural and educational environment aimed at meeting the needs of the local community involved in preserving their rights in order to strengthen their sense of belonging, their security and their self-confidence, to improve their ability to make integrated and correct decisions through the many and varied programs to help them grow and thrive physically, psychologically, and intellectually. Also, the charity has the sense of realizing the essence of the environment as the only thing that can make lives progress in a smooth way.
Registration number 00NGO/R/2169
Offices:
Physical address:
UVCCM Tower Underground Floor, Msamala-Songea-Njombe Road.
Beside Lake Oil Filling Station in Ruvuma Region.
Post Code: 57117
P.O.BOX 14 Songea.
The term “Ubuntu” is defined as “I am Because we Are,” meaning that, my presence depends on the presence of others and the presence of others depend on mine. Broadly speaking, the concept has the roots in the Zulu language where it is known as Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu which implies Persons depend on persons to be persons, the same concept is expressed in Shona Language of Zimbabwe as Munhu munhu nevanhu implying the same. Basically every tribe in Sub-Saharan Africa has a way of expressing the term “Ubuntu.”