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Tanzania

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Why Plan Works in Tanzania

Throughout Tanzania families and communities lack access to adequate health care facilities and services. Health facilities are often poorly equipped, costly and several days journey away. Many families therefore, turn to local health practitioners for more affordable and accessible alternatives for their medical needs. Most illnesses in Tanzania are preventable and are the consequence of poor hygiene, malnutrition, unsafe water and unsanitary living conditions. The most widespread of these problems include malnutrition and pneumonia.

The educational system throughout Tanzania is also in disarray. Almost two million children from the age of six and up, many of them girls, do not attend school. Many adults do not fully understand the benefits an education can bring to their children and their families.

Plan programs in Tanzania

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Country Facts

Country Tanzania Australia
Flag Tanzania Flag Australian Flag
Population 37.6 Million 19.9 Million
Language Swahili and English. English
Capital Dodoma Canberra
GDP per capita
(USD/year)
288 $29,000
Life expectancy 45.9 80.3
Access to safe
drinking water
62% 100%
Literacy 69.4% 100%
Source: United Nations: Millennium Development Goals Report 2006