National Office:

CHRISC Tanzania

Anglican Church of Tanzania

St.James Church

P.O.Box 3103,

Arusha

Tanzania

Brief History and facts: CHRISC Tanzania

CHRISC was introduced in Mbulu in Tanzania by youth from KRIK Sotra in 1995. Mbulu was followed by Arusha (1999), Mwanza (2003), Dar Es Salaam(2003), Tanga (2003), Zanzibar(2003), Mbeya(2005) and Moshi(June 2006).

MBULU

The sport project was brought to Mbulu in 1995. Today the local groups are using most volleyball, but also some football. The work in Mbulu is today growing, and they have 20 parishes with teams of two kinds: Football and Volleyball. They aimed to teach in youth work, HIV/AIDS, drugs abuse and other teachings which are conducted with prayers and testimonies. It is 250 CHRISC participants in Mbulu.

ARUSHA

CHRISC in Arusha started in 1999 by Andrew William Kajembe, that met young KRIK members from Norway while he was visiting Uganda. He wanted to spread the evangelism through sports in Tanzania, but had also the aim of using sports as a tool for community development and HIV/AIDS in formation /education and also to empower youth in the Christian faith. CHRISC Arusha is today the biggest CHRISC district in Tanzania. They have workshops for the members with topics of HIV/Aids, leadership, micro finance and Bible teaching. CHRISC Arusha is a well organized district with activities in 4 different zones. They have 180 Youth teams, in categories of Boys and Girls U-16, U-14, and U-12. This brings around 2700 members to CHRISC in Arusha.

MWANZA

CHRISC was brought to Mwanza by Student KRIK Stavanger in 2003. In Mwanza Christian Sports Contact deals with youth mostly from poor families. Up to now CHRISC Mwanza have attracted many youth, and have established 4 zones with activities in Mwanza. Today youths in Mwanza have increasingly started sharing their personal experiences and helping each other. CHRISC Mwanza is now working mainly on achieving its goals and objectives of developing sports and community development activities which will create an environment of evangelism and spreading the word of God, which will enable us to win people for CHRIST. The total number members of registration (boys and girls) is 1760.

DAR ES SALAAM

CHRISC-Dar Es Salaam district started in March, 2003 and by today some tremendous sign of achievement has been spotted to this concept of sports and evangelism. In which more church leaders are now encouraging and allow their young people to participate in evangelism through sports. CHRISC Dar Es Salaam has a cooperation with Global KRIK Bergen. CHRISC-Dar has 1500 members of both sexes and different ethnic and religious back ground, who are drawn from 4 zones - namely Ilala, Ukonga, Ubungo and Goba.

TANGA

Started in 2003 in Tanga  Tanga had visitors from Norway in June 2005, and the district had a democratic election of a Board. The activities are growing. The National Camp for CHRISC in Tanzania was held in Tanga in Desember 2005 550 participants attended the camp, that was successful. Up to date sports programme has 1170 youth members of both sexes of different ethnic and religious back grounds

ZANZIBAR

Zanzibar started in 2003. In Zanzibar CHRISC was introduced by Brother James Kaleza who was the then chairperson of the Anglican Youth Organisation in the Eastern & Costal Zone. Zanzibar District started with 19 participants from all Christian denominations in Zanzibar in the Unguja Island. Today this district has 454 participants from the following 4 Christian denominations. Roman Catholic, Lutheran Church, ACT Zanzibar and Pentecostal Church Kwahani. CHRISC Zanzibar has a collaboration with Global KRIK Bergen.

Moshi

Moshi had leadership seminars in February 2006, and hopefully this will give activities when after some months.

Mbeya

Will start activities in 2006

Up to date Sports programme has more than 7834 members of both sexes, of different ethnic and religious back grounds and different abilities in the region.