Tanzania

J602 The Umoja Centre

The Umoja Centre is a small youth education centre located in the Northern Tanzanian city of Arusha. Opened in 2009, the Centre offers a free education and support program to local youth (14-24 years old) who are living in extreme poverty and have therefore been unable to continue their education.

The young people with whom the centre work are neither working nor studying and have little or no chance of improving their lives without some sort of support. Umoja offer a one year in-house course which prepares students to re-enter mainstream education or gain meaningful employment. Those who re-enter the mainstream education system are offered financial and other support to do so as part of the Outplacement Scheme. Students are also supported in relation to their general health and welfare.

Staff and volunteers of The Umoja Centre continue to be inspired by the amazing young people with whom they work with.
 

J239 Tanzanian School Milk Project

The aim of this project is to provide long term and sustainable nutrition for school children in Tanzania by working with parents and teachers to develop a regular school milk program, (through evidence of a pilot program in Arusha). By providing a regular school break and 250ml tetra pack milk drinks:

• The children’s health status improved
• School attendance improved

Teachers noticed a difference of more alert and awake students.
This project also assists in the alleviation of poverty in local areas by offering a reliable market for smallholder diary farmers. School milk provides a regular income that has a flow on effect to their families and community.

J681 Likamba Community Development Project

This project aims to make a difference in the HIV/AIDS affected Mwika area of (Northern Tanzania by providing quality pre primary education for 72 children who have lost one or both of their parents to the disease. As well as supporting 185 HIV/AIDS widows to become economically independent and able to support their families. This project also encompasses basic health services to all registered children and medical aid for people with HIV/AIDS regardless of gender

J283 Amani Development Organisation (Hearts for Africa), Tanzania

To break the cycles of famine and the ever present poverty there is a great need in the following community development projects - Water Resources, Agricultural/Horticultural Development, Social Development, Health and Nutrition.

The community development program will include - Water Resources, Agricultural/Horticultural Development, Social Development, Health, Nutrition, construction of a conference centre, construction of school buildings for education and vocational training.

The immediate aim is basic sustainability of ADO’s operations to provide aid and development to the poverty stricken residents in the Makang’wa Village and surrounding region. The long-term aim is to develop a continuing capacity for expansion of operations from within Tanzania.

Water is a vital element of life and Amani believes that a reliable supply of clean fresh flowing water is the major cornerstone to a better future for the local people. This project is for the developing of a well and windmill and farming, but is part of much wider operations of Amani.

J584 Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Program

MSABI is a replicable and expandable program model for the implementation of low overhead community based water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects. The project commenced operations in the rural villages of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. This region has a history of regular cholera, typhoid and diarrhoeal outbreaks due to a lack of safe water and sanitation points.

The MSABI model is an integrated community focused intervention strategy and is based on international best practices and tailored to meet the specific needs of local communities. Interventions include community education, introduction of home based water treatment solutions, implementation of new safe water points and environmentally safe composting pit latrines. We use low cost, simple, easy to use “smart” technologies constructed locally from available materials.

J624N Kilimanjaro Kids with Futures Educational Centre

Team Vista’s major development objective is to contribute to the reduction of poverty and achievement of sustainable development in Tanzania through its project in Kaloleni, a community with no electricity that suffers from a high rate of HIV and with many children being raised by a single parent or grandparent.

Team Vista has many children requiring sponsorship to attend either the Nursery School or the Primary School. To date Team Vista has purchased for the community the existing one room Nursery school and have built a second classroom, painted, new roof over the entire building, provided educational equipment, connected electricity, added a rain water tank and are now funding the building of a new toilet block. The children now receive a meal each day and with additional funding we hope to have a complete medical check done on all our school children this year.

In addition to the above, Team Vista also aim to develop and promote community businesses such as farming and aquaculture to increased economic growth of families and the local area.

J648N Water Wells Tanzania

Beautiful Feet Task Force's Living Water Wells Tanzania project looks to provide local communities with access to reliable and clean water supplies. In many parts of Africa water availability is so scarce. They drink poor quality water often ridden with disease causing major health problems and death. Where they can walk the long distances to obtain it, it is women and children that often have to spend hours carrying the water back to their home.

The project objective is to provide 5 water wells by September 2011, and 5 more each year after that for 2 more years; a goal which, if achieved, will provide a lifetime supply of clean water for up to five hundred families in Tanzania each year. Furthermore, the project aims to be sustainable, ongoing maintenance is funded on a cost recovery basis from the local community. However, the construction of these wells will initially require a large amount of funds. This will provide vulnerable communities some measure of security by reducing the risk of disease, hours spent carrying water and increasing economic benefits.