After more than a decade operating, Tubiteho day center, a center for mentally disabled children was in need of expansion. The number of children in the center had surpassed its infrastructures capacity and it was obvious that expansion was a necessity if the center was to continue operating and yet the resources available could barely help the center carry its day to day activities let alone an expansion.

The number of children in the center was so high that there was need for more teachers to respond to the children’s needs while the center’s only bus for transport of the children from their homes to the center was no longer effective due to the number of children scattered in long distances from each other, it took a long time to reach each child during the morning and as hard during the evening dropping them back home.

In addition, the directors of the center confessed having trouble making the public aware of the importance of supporting children with mental disabilities. “Sometimes even the parents of the children did not believe that their children could be active members of the society and it is hard to convince them that disability is not inability”