Projects Funded in 2010

Friends of Tanzania provided a total of $47,150 to projects in Tanzania in 2010. These projects were divided into two types:

• Budgeted Funding - whose source is the general donations of our members and friends. We were fortunate to have funds to cover 11 projects for a total of $25,350.
• Giving Back Project - are member donations for suggested projects of special interest, which meet FOT criteria and go through the same Project Committee review process.
  These projects helped extend our own funding capacity in Tanzania for an additional $21,800 this year.

$1000 for plumbing tools, Songea, Ruvuma Region, African Benedictine Hanga Abbey. The Abbey plumbers work and train students as plumbers in the community and use the money they make to support the vocational training departments at the Abbey. In addition to the 12 students in the plumbing program and 150 monks in the Abbey, the villagers of Hanga will benefit as their plumbing systems are improved.

$3000 for tree seedlings and materials, Njombe. Iringa Region. NJOWECA (Njombe West Environmental Conservation Association). FOT funded NJOWECA in 2007 and 2008. In this reforestation project there will also be awareness training in 4 villages with 3,500 people living in and around the reforested areas planted with new seedlings.

$3000 for a water project, Songea, Ruvuma Region, COCOTO, whom FOT helped in 2008, will prepare 12 hand pumps and cement for 12 drilled boreholes. The current phase of the project will provide the villages of Gumbilo and Mtwangimbole with a safe source of water for use by local families and also for farmland irrigation. Approximately 8,500 people in the two villages will benefit from the project.

$500 for vocational education/ sewing project, Kahama, Shinyanga Region. The Kahama Education Centre will purchase four sewing machines, tables, fabric and sewing notions to give girl - school leavers sewing skills. These skills will qualify them for help from other support organizations and enable the girls to start their own private businesses.

$2350 for an electric soap mixing tank, Ujiji, Kigoma Region. The Women Promotion Centre (WPC)/ and WEMA, a women's self-help group, will provide their members a safer, more efficient means of making soap. Their small sales profit will help to increase available credit in a revolving micro-financing credit fund which will assist more WEMA members.

$3000 for micro-finance project, Gungu Ward, Kigoma Region. The Tanzania Women Social Economic Development and Human Rights Organization (TWSEDHRO) successfully and professionally used a 2009 FOT grant of $1500 as capital for loans to a limited number of small groups of women who set up businesses such as selling fish or farm products and repaid their loans with interest. The additional funding will allow the program to expand to more women.

$3000 for building supplies, Mayega Village, Mwanza Region. The Busega Children's and Development Services Assistance (BCDSA) will install doors and windows in a nearly-completed dormitory for 26 children and finish covering the recently constructed septic tank.

$2300 for tree nursery seedlings, equipment and materials, Sumbawanga, Rukwa Region. The Rukwa Environmental Conservation Society (RECOSO) will sell tree seedlings at a low cost to individuals, farmers and public institutions in this reforestation project. The planned follow-up visits to those who have bought and planted the seedlings will be covered by the income from the sale of the seedlings.

$3000 for a poultry project, Shinyanga. The Ebeneza Group maintains a center for orphans and people suffering from HIV/AIDS. Funding will allow the monthly production of eggs, with about a quarter reserved to feed those at the center. From the sale of the remaining eggs, the monthly income will help maintain the project, care for the orphans, and assist in paying administrative costs.

$2200 for 20 solar driers, Lushoto, Tanga Region. The Juhudi Women Association for Community Development will construct the solar driers and train 250 women on how to use the driers to preserve fruits and vegetables for marketing, thus reducing the waste of produce which rots before it can be brought to market. This should also extend the availability of produce for families.

$2000 for a milling machine, Mara, Musoma District. The Anglican Church of Tanzania will purchase a milling machine for Hekwe Village, so the women, who carry their grain to be milled, will not have to walk such great distances. Two prior milling machine installations in two other villages in the Diocese of Mara have been successful.

$2600 for sanitation system, Karatu District, Arusha Region. The St. Brendan's Lostete Dispensary, maintained by St. Brendan's Kitete Parish, provides health services to the Maasai people. The majority of the patients are women and children. Heavy rains destroyed the old latrines at the dispensary and the funding will provide the construction of new latrines with a septic system, which should be unaffected by weather conditions.

$10,150 for girls secondary school scholarships. Geita, Mwanza Region. The Geita Girls' Secondary School Scholarship Program continues its 8th year providing scholarship funds for girls in need to complete their secondary school education. Each year 25-30 girls are able to continue their education.

$4000 for school construction, Ulaya Secondary School, Tabora. This year funds will assist in constructing a dining hall and teacher's house.

$5050 for teacher training, Moshi. The Rural Teacher Capacity Building Workshop at Second Chance Education Centre holds its first session in January 2011. Eight international experienced educators collaborate in a mentorship program with 30 primary and secondary level teachers, headmasters, and teacher center directors from rural Moshi to present different learning strategies, critical thinking skills, and real classroom practice, in a week-long, residential, full English-immersion workshop.

$2020 for Sewing/Sweater-Making Project, Tanga Region, Lushoto. Lushoto Aids Control and Youth Capacity Building will apply the funds to purchase and transport to Lushoto 3 sweater-making machines, yarn, and spare parts. A handicapped woman will train youths, including other handicapped and orphaned youths, to produce and market sweaters and woolen accessories appropriate for their cool mountain climate. The organization covers the room rental and salaries of the project coordinator and teacher.

$2450 toward Agriculture/Beekeeping /Education Project, Iringa Region, Ludewa District, Lugarawa. Lugarawa Trust Foundation (LTF),which works with the Njombe Development Office, will purchase and transport to Lugarawa, equipment necessary for a beekeeping project: hives; smokers; buckets; protective clothing. LTF will use the proceeds from the sale of honey in their continued support of the secondary and college education of approximately 25 orphans in the community.

$2900 toward Water Project, Kagera Region, Ihanda-Karagwe. MAVUNO Improvement for Community Relief and Services, in continuation of a similar project funded by FOT in 2008, will buy cement and corrugated iron sheets for the construction of 5 rainwater harvesting tanks. Four families within proximity to each other will share a tank, thus permitting approximately 140 villagers to benefit from these 5 sources of clean water.

$2100 toward Education Project, Mwanza Region, Mwanza. DEFESCO (Developing Free Education Services Centres for Orphans) will be able to complete the construction of 2 classrooms with a tin roof, cement floors, and installation of water and electricity. The classrooms, located in an after-school tutoring centre, will serve in any weather, both day and night, the 6 educators and 166 or more orphans and destitute students.

$1740 toward Agriculture/Education Project, Morogoro Region, Morogoro. Mehayo Centre will purchase building materials for an addition to their poultry house, thus increasing their income from poultry sales and generating funds to expand basic education and job training for mentally and physically handicapped children and adults who now number about 50.

$2180 for Water Project, Zanzibar, South District, Jambiani. TUISHI will oversee the construction of a well in the proximity of crops to facilitate irrigation, helping to provide produce for a village of 500. The funds will also cover the costs of professional well-diggers, necessary due to the difficult terrain. The community will provide unskilled labor to complete the well construction.

$2320 toward Animal Husbandry /Health/Education Project, Ruvuma Region, Songea, Perimiho. Chipole Development Program will enlarge a rabbit and goat marketing project by constructing new sheds and purchasing additional animals. Proceeds from these sales benefit a community of 250 people in providing free health services, paying orphans’ school fees, and establishing youth groups.

$3000 toward Education Project, Mbeya Region, Rungwe. Kisa Catholic Parish will be able to complete the construction of a kindergarten to serve 120 young children and their families. As the total cost is $13,362, other funding sources are a local tea company and the villagers’ donations. FOT funds cover the purchase of building materials, hardware, such as nails and screws, and varnish. Community members will supply both skilled and unskilled labor.

$3000 toward Vocational Education Project, Kilimanjaro Region, Moshi. Mkombosi Vocational School will apply the funds to the installation of electricity in their expansion of buildings to double their enrollment from 80 to 160 students. Youth and women receive training in hotel services, computer and tailoring skills as well as entrepreneurship, obtaining life skills to support themselves and their families.

$2020 for Education Project, Dodoma Region, Dodoma. Tanzanian Life Project will now have materials to renovate 2 classrooms at Mtumbe Primary School to accommodate 100 more students. While the community will contribute unskilled labor, a small amount of the funds will pay for craftsmen to install doors and windows.

$700 toward Water Project, Iringa Region, Iringa, Idetelo. Maji Umoja is building 3 wells. The villagers will provide the unskilled labor, 1 pump, sand, stones, bricks. FOT’s funds will purchase 2 additional pumps and materials to line the wells. 155 people will benefit from close access to clean water.

$1500 for Micro Loan Project, Kigoma Region, Kigoma. TWSEDHRO (Tanzania Women Social Economic Development and Human Rights Organization) will use this capital to expand to Kigoma the successful micro loan program they began in Kasulu District in November, 2007. In Kigoma, during the first year of the project, 5 groups of 4 women each will be granted small loans to run businesses such as selling fish or farm products. As the loans are repaid with interest, future groups of women will receive micro loans.

$3000 for Reforestation/Tree Nursery Project, Rukwa Region, Sumbawanga. KAESO (Kaengesa Environmental Conservation Society) will apply the funds for tree seedlings and equipment for a village tree planting project. The community will actively participate in planting the seedlings, building protective fences, and assuring watering. The entire population of approximately 25,000 in the surrounding area will be direct beneficiaries.

$10,150 for a “Giving Back” Education Project, Mwanza Region, Geita. Geita Girls’ Secondary School Scholarship Program, now in its 6th year, allows 26 girls to attend and complete their secondary school education instead of their being school leavers.

$5000 for a “Giving Back” Education Project, Mbeya Region, Tukuyu. Lutengano Secondary School Girls’ Scholarship Program, now in its 3rd year, will reward 10 girls who have achieved good grades and citizenship activities to continue their education.

$500 to buy 2 water pumps for 2 wells in Kitelewasi, Iringa region. A Peace Corps volunteer originated the project and worked with INCOMET, a Tanzanian NGO, to complete the building of these wells. Local villagers provided labor, materials and cement. The wells will provide a nearby source of drinking water for the village of 2,400 people and enable families to cultivate home gardens for both consumption and income generation.

$600 to Karishia, an NGO in Dar es Salaam, which runs a program to assist and support approximately 500 HIV/AIDS victims. The funds will help improve a farm outside of the city that grows crops used to help feed those affected with AIDS.

$500 to Peramiho AIDS Family Basic Education Control Action to purchase sports equipment and sports shoes for a youth program in Songea, Ruvuma region. The program targets 66 young people who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS.

$2,330 to the Sylaseveso Organization to teach carpentry, tailoring, and business skills to unemployed youth in Tabora town. Each year, from sixty to ninety young people ages 15 to 25 will receive training with the help of the organization.

$3000 for a reforestation project in Njombe, Iringa region. This is FOT’s second grant to this ongoing project run by Njombe West Environmental Conservation Association. The funds will be used to purchase seeds and equipment for a tree nursery. The project benefits 3500 people in the four villages in Wangama Ward by controlling erosion, providing catchments for water, and supplying a future source of timber, charcoal and income.

$3000 to the Women’s Department of the African Inland Church in Kambarage Province, Shinyanga region. The women’s group will purchase sewing machines and tailoring materials to train local women in tailoring skills. Up to 120 women will be able to receive training each year. Ten percent of the income generated through the tailoring business will be returned to the center to sustain the tailoring project.

$1500 to the Ebeneza Group for a dairy cattle project in Kahama, Shinyanga region. The group will purchase four dairy cows and use the milk produced and the profits generated to help in their efforts to provide 26 orphan children with food and school expenses.

$1500 for the purchase of classroom furniture and teaching equipment for the Maranatha primary school in Kigoma town, Kigoma region. Last year FOT provided Maranatha funds for a roof for their new classroom building. This year’s second grant will help purchase tables and chairs to furnish two new classrooms which accommodate 65 children.

$2,900 for five in-ground rainwater harvesting tanks which will be constructed in Ihanda-Karagwe in Kagera region. The Mavuno Improvement for Community Relief and Services organization is coordinating the project. The funds from FOT will be used to purchase cement and corrugated iron sheets. Each of the 5 tanks will provide a source of clean water to 4 families. In all, approximately 140 people will benefit from this portion of the project.

$2,800 for drilling boreholes and preparing hand water pumps for a water project in Ruvuma district, Songea region. The Community Consulting and Training Organization (COCOTO) will provide an additional $4,000 for sanitation and public health training and follow-up to the project. In this phase of the project, two villages will be targeted with approximately 7,365 people having access to the new wells.

$650 for the purchase of hand and electric carpentry tools to expand the Tanzania Development Trust (TASEDEFU) carpentry training program for needy youth in Dar es Salaam. The goal of the TASEDEFU program is to provide young people with marketable skills that will enable them to become self-sufficient. In addition to training about 45 young people each year, TASEDEFU assists them in finding employment after the completion of their training program.

$5000 toward the support of Phase 3 of the Shashui Water Project in Lushoto, Tanga region. This application came to FOT through our partner the Britain-Tanzania Society. Phases 1 and 2 of the project have already been completed and successfully bring a reliable, clean water supply to 41% of the Shashui population. Phase 3 will extend the water supply to the remaining 1,800 Shashui villagers.

$3000 for materials to build a girls’ dormitory to house 50 students at the St. Joseph Vocational Training Centre in Songea, Ruvuma region. The Sisters of St. Agnes run the center where both boys and girls receive training in tailoring, cooking, plumbing installation, carpentry and mechanics. The Sisters of St. Agnes will contribute an additional $2000 towards the project.

$500 to the Sakale Development Foundation in Muheza, Tanga region, to expand an existing tree nursery. The Sakale Development Foundation provides fruit tree and other tree seedlings to local villagers and informs them about issues of environmental protection. The FOT grant will be used to purchase composite manure and materials to build bamboo boxes for tree seedlings. The project enhances the lives of the approximately 10,000 people living in the area either directly, from harvesting the fruit, or indirectly, from the environmental benefits the trees provide.

$2520 for materials to construct latrines in Kileo, Kilimanjaro Region, for use by both Kivuluni and Mkombozi Primary Schools. These two schools, with a total of about 700 pupils, are adjacent to each other. The Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, which sponsored the project, is working to decrease the infection rate of schistosomiasis in the region and will supervise the building of the latrines and the follow-up public health training.

$1860 to purchase goats and build a goat shed for a revolving goat project. The Christian Youth Network in Tabora organized the project in which female goats will be given to caregivers of orphaned children. The Christian Youth Network will keep a male goat for breeding purposes. To begin the project, 56 goats will be distributed. As females breed, the baby goats will be given to more and more needy households.

$10,000 for scholarships for girls to attend Geita area secondary schools in Mwanza Region. This four-year old project in FOT’s Giving Back Program is helping 30 girls attend and complete their high school classes when they otherwise would have dropped out.

$5,000 for scholarships for girls to attend Luntengano Secondary School, Tukuyu Region. About 10 girls will be helped to continue their education due to good grades and good citizenship activities at the school. This project is in its first year and funding is through our Giving Back Program.

Songea Orphans Relief Services (ORES)
ORES, which began in 1996, has served over 600 orphans with education, home care, food and a variety of other activities for people living with AIDS and works to prevent mother to children transmission of HIV.  This Ruvuma Region project is assisted with an FOT grant for construction material for the renovation of a rehabilitation center for orphans.

Njombe West Environmental Conservation Association
The FOT grant covered materials to establish a tree nursery in Wangama, Njombe in Iringa Region in its reforestation project. The funds were used to purchase polyethylene tubes, a wheelbarrow, watering cans, and spades, and paid for the transportation of manure and tree seedlings to the tree nursery site.  In order to help to stem soil erosion, prevent rainwater runoff, and provide wood for local communities, the conservation association works to reforest rural areas that have been clear cut. 

Women’s Education and Economic Center (WEECE)
The WEECE project in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region trains up to 48 young women in sewing, embroidery, and batiking skills.  The sale of the completed garments provides a stream of revenue to the economic center and enables its members to continue their education activities in health and gender issues.  With the funds, WEECE will purchase sewing machines, fabric, and sewing notions  for their next tailoring project.

ARK Foundation, Library Project
Tumaini Community Secondary School in Dar es Salaam serves underprivileged children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In order for the school to meet Ministry of Education standards, it needs a functioning science lab and a fully equipped library.  Funds provided by FOT went towards the purchase of timber, hardware, and “must have” books for the school library to meet those standards.

Kikundi cha Wanawake Viziwi (Deaf Women’s Group).
The group is located in Dar es Salaam and is affiliated with CHAVITA, a Tanzanian organization for the deaf.  The Deaf Women’s Group generates income through weaving, sewing, and traditional handicrafts.  With the grant money from FOT, the group purchased weaving and craft materials.  Friends of Tanzania members were also able to connect the group with Global Sistergoods, a fair trade import business, which has agreed to offer some of the Tanzanian handicrafts for sale in the United States.

Mkombozi Vocation Center Expansion Project, Moshi
This Kilimanjaro Region project supports the expansion of a vocational education center for orphans. The funds were used to finish the roof of three new classrooms, purchase doors and windows for the building, and pay for eight toilets.  The expanded facilities allow the vocational center to double the number of students served at the center. Our first assistance was in 2005. 

Youth Build Future, Mbeya
Youth Build Future is an NGO that assists physically disabled youth. FOT funds provided corrugated iron sheets, cement, sand gravel, timber, windows, a door, and nails for the construction of the mill. The new grain mill will employ the disabled who will mill maize, wheat, millet, and soya for local farmers.  Without the new mill, the farmers must carry their grain on foot 3 kilometers to the nearest mill location.
                                  
Mzumbe Women Workers Club (MWOC)
FOT first gave a grant to this women’s group in Morogoro Region in 1999.  The current FOT grant allowed the club to complete the walls and roof, purchase windows and doors, and install toilet facilities in the kindergarten and adult education center.  FOT has watched this group expand its community development efforts through the years.

Global Vision Tanzania
Based in Dar es Salaam this group assists members to build a tailoring business.  The FOT grant enabled sixteen women to purchase 4 sewing and embroidery machines and other supplies.  With economic advancement, the members will improve their efforts to educate the women in health, social and economic issues. 

Kinisa La Pentekoste, Pig Project
FOT funds to this church-based institution in Kahama, Shinyanga Region, helped purchase materials and pigs to start a pig project for its 27 members.  The funds from the project were used to support AIDS orphans. The project will bring more meat to 100 families and provide living expenses for 80 orphans.  

Maranatha Community Group
This community group founded in 2004 in Kigoma has 20 members who help orphans, disabled children and street children due to HIV/AIDS deaths among parents.  They provide day care, nursery and primary school education.  The FOT grant was for roofing materials to complete a primary school.

Second Chance Education Center, Moshi
Our partner, the Britain Tanzania Society, provided FOT with this Kilimanjaro Region project in Msranga, to help complete a school building for 57 students.  The school offers impoverished students who have had to drop out of school the opportunity to complete their education. 

St. Bakhita School of Nursing and Namanyere Hospital
A Member of FOT contributed further funding to FOT’s 2006 project in Sumbawanga,
Rukwe Region through our Giving Back Program. The nursing school has 125 students and a hospital of 150 beds without consistent clean water.  A 60 ft deep submersible electric pump, now provides adequate and safe water.   

Jacaranda School, Mwanza
Funding was provided by a member of FOT toward the cost of a well to serve 170 students at a private school in Mwanza.   This new school teaches classes in English in order to meet the demand for English educated students.  When the school is fully operational in all classes it will serve 540 students.  

Geita Secondary School Scholarship Program
A member of FOT has provided for 30 scholarships to ensure secondary school education for girls to attend Geita area secondary schools in Mwanza Region.  Now in its fourth year, this member is truly giving back to an area she taught in years ago in the Peace Corps.  If girls are to succeed, this type of help is vitally needed.

Lutengano Secondary School Scholarship Program
Another FOT member is providing help to 10 girls through scholarships at Lutengano Secondary School Tukuyu Region also through our Giving Back Program.  The aim of this program, now in its first year, is to encourage good grades and good citizenship activities at the school and to assist girls in continuing their education. 

Shamba Kapori Village near Korogwe
With the partnership of Devon Aid Korogwe, provide a well and pump to serve 700 villagers. This project provides clean, potable water and saves time for water carriers allowing them to engage in other productive activities. Each community provides at least 10% of the cost.

Mwanza Brickmaking Project
A shed for a brickmaking project suggested by a Peace Corps Volunteer and part of the PC Partnership Program. The shed will allow year round brick making and protected storage. FOT funding purchased roofing materials, timber and nails while the local community provided additional materials, labor and training.

Kashozi Village near Bukoba
A carpentry project at the St. Maria Goreth Organization run by the Sisters of St. Teresa. Two FOT grants bought carpentry tools for orphans to receive vocational training and provided electricity to their workshop to train students to use electric tools.

CHASAWAYA, Makambako, Iringa Region
An estimated 4,400 AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children are helped by CHASAWAYA, an NGO working to assist the most marginalized by providing schooling, vocational training and life skills so they have a chance to become self-reliant. The FOT funds helped complete construction of a school and training center.

Zinduka Development, Nyamuswa village in Mara region
For building materials and equipment to build a kitchen for a recently constructed girls dormitory in a community secondary school . Our partner, Zinduka, will provide other materials and labor to this project which provides a safe place for girls to live and board enabling them to stay in school.

Gumzo la Wasichana Ukerewe, Mwanza Region
A micro-lending grant to this NGO which encourages rural young women working on HIV/AIDS prevention and economic development.

St. Bakhita School of Nursing and Namanyere Hospital, Sumbawanga, Rukwe Region
A deep bore well at this nursing school and hospital co-sponsored with Britain - Tanzania Society. Clean water has been a big problem. And now access to clean, potable and constant water source is available for 125 students and the hospital which has 150 beds and the community.

NGEDEA/EWB, Ngelenge, Ludewe, Iringa Region
Irrigation pumps were provided to complete the construction of a health dispensary being built with the technical assistance of the San Francisco chapter of Engineers Without Borders. These funds will be used to buy foot pumps, training manuals and to pay part of the cost for the technical director to visit the village.

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