Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service

Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS) works to reduce poverty and human suffering by empowering the vulnerable and displaced communities in Tanzania to achieve self-reliance.

TCRS runs a refugee project in the Kibondo district which is responsible for management, water and sanitation, food and non-food distribution, shelter, primary, secondary and vocational education, and camp infrastructure. The program serves 85,000 Burundian refugees in four camps. There are also three central warehouses and a system of transportation run by TCRS that allows 20,000 tons of food to be distributed to refugees each year. 

The project also works to enhance refugee self-reliance, using food production and micro-enterprise in the camps.  More recently the project has been able to create a vocational training centre and apprenticeship training program.  TCRS is also active in national advocacy on behalf of refugees in Tanzania, particularly in lobbying to allow for the free movement of refugees outside of the camps where they are currently confined. 

Contact:

PO Box 3955
Dar es Salaam
TANZANIA
Tel: +255-22-270-0579
Fax: +255-22-270-0581
E-mail: mail@tcrs.or.tz
Web: www.tcrs.or.tz