formerly headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Northern Diocese after it was shifted to the new building located in the centre of Moshi town opposite to Moshi main bus stand terminal.In 1990 the ELCT-ND received grants from the Foundation of Bread for the World to rehabilitate and change the premises into Women Hostel.
The Hostel helped women to rent rooms at minimum prices.
The objectives were to:-
- Protect women and children from social harassment they previously encountered when they spent a night in Moshi bus stand waiting to connect another bus or to be picked by their relatives in night or in a day time. (Two decades ago there were serious problems for commuter transportation in Moshi town).
- Accomodate girls who got pregnancies before marriage or who were ready to change their religious beliefs and become Christians as a result be rejected by their parents or families.
- Assist girls who were not residents of Moshi municipality whom either were employed for the first time or transferred to work at Moshi to stay in the Hostel until they managed to rent houses.
- Provide accomodation for employed single unmarried women, widows, divorced, separated and married when husband is out of Moshi town,
- Meet with women groups for prayers and discussion on community and social development issues.
- Accomodate women who nurse their sick for a long time at "Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)" a referral hospital.
