Projects Archive

Projects Funded from 1992 to 2006

2006

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.

2005

MAWAU, Ukerewe District, Lake Victoria, Mwanza Region:
Funds given in collaboration with the African Women's Association, (AWA), to set up a micro-finance program for young women on the islands. These programs provide small, but sufficient funding for many women to begin a business and repay their loans.

Mkombozi Vocational School, Moshi:
Funds to provide assistance in building a meeting room at a technical vocation school, a room used for education and community purposes.

The Mango Tree, Kyela, Mbeya Region:
Partner funding to buy bicycles for use by volunteers working in a program supporting over 4000 orphans and needy children in homes over a large area.

Majengo medical dispensary near Korogwe:
Funding (with an equal amount donated by the British Tanzania Society) for a rain water harvesting and storage system at the dispensary. These funds were generated by the Tanganyika I & II RPCVs reunion group and also a matching grant.

YWCA, Iringa:
Funds to set up a micro-finance program for young women who wish to establish small sustainable businesses and repay their loans.

Association of Retired Teachers (ART),Njombe:
Funding for school repairs of a primary school in which retired teachers oversee the work on their project.

Zinduka Development, Nyamuswa village in Mara Region:
Partner funding for the second stage of project development. The purchase of a copier provides not only to a needed service to the community but also a source of raising further funds for its many educational and community projects. Our - partner, - Zinduka, is a local NGO founded to help raise educational standards and economic development in Nyamuswa Village.

Jitume Mkoka, Dodoma Region:
Second year of collaboration with our partner to buy ten dairy cows. Each of ten families in Mkoka, an area north of Mpwapwa, agreed to contribute $50 toward the cost of their cow, provide a shed and provide their first female calf to another participant family thus promoting the sustainability of their project.

Roots and Shoots, Kigoma chapter of the Jane Goodall Institute:
Funding for sports and school supplies.

Rugambwa Girls Secondary School, Bukoba:
Funding for textbooks which were needed in sufficient supply to promote good educational growth rather than being shared with 10 other students.

Ngelenge Development Association, Ludewa District, Iringa:
Working in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders (EWB), San Francisco Chapter, funding was provided to complete construction of a Health Dispensary for which EWB provided technical assistance and materials. Our funding encouraged training of development professionals in both Tanzania and the US as well as providing a new dispensary.

Dongobesh Division Development Association, Tumati Village, Mbulu District Manyara Region:
Funding to DODDEA for bedding in a girl's dormitory to insure a safe and secure education and living environment for secondary school girl borders. Girls will stay in school longer with adequate facilities.

2004

Jitume Foundation, Mkoka, Dodoma Region:
Funds for the purchase of a dairy cow for each of ten families in Mkoka, an area north of Mpwapwa, each of whom agreed to contribute $50 toward the cost of their cow, provide a shed and provide their first female calf to another participant family.

Zinduka Development, Nyamuswa Village, Bunda District, Mara Region:
a) Funds to provide a roof on a new classroom at Marambeka Primary School. b) Funds to pay for to put walls on a girls' dormitory at the local community secondary school, needed to provide a safe place for girls to board. Our -partner,- Zinduka, is a local NGO founded to help raise educational standards and economic development in Nyamuswa Village.

Chinyemi Women Group, Morogoro:
Funds for help in purchasing roofing sheets, lumber, cement and paint to construct a classroom for the instruction of school leavers in sewing. Chinyemi group is a community based organization of 20 women, was to contribute labor and pay for the transportation of materials

CESD, Kasisa, Sengerema District, Mwanza Region:
Funds for help in constructing a well to serve Kasisa Primary School and the surrounding village. CESD is a Tanzanian ngo which was founded by two Tanzanian professors at Florida A&M. CESD built the school and has completed other community projects. FOT member Liz Platt recommended this group.

Gender Resource Center, Dar es Salaam:
Funds to help ship library materials to the Gender Resource Center in Dar. The Gender Resource Center works with the International Center for Research on Women in the US. The materials relate to Women and Aids, Adolescent Health and Women's Advocacy.

Kagera Regional Hospital, Bukoba, Kagera Region:
Funds to pay half the cost of a linear array probe to extend the usefulness of the hospital's ultra sound scanner and for use in pediatric imaging and in the examination of superficial structures and small areas.

Pelu Group, Njombe:
Funds to buy 800 chicks for a poultry project. The Pelu group includes 11 women in a village near Njombe.. The group will build the coops and feeding troughs at their expense.

Chuno Primary School, Mtwara:
Funds to buy desks, chairs, cupboards and tables for two new classrooms. Chuno school is supported by a community ngo, Mtwara/Mikindani One World Link (MOWL)

Community Center and Market, Tengeru Village, Arusha:
Funds for educational equipment and materials for teaching village women at a new market and community center. The materials will be used to teach about sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS/HIV prevention, horticulture, basic math and similar topics useful to women vendors in the market.

The Mango Tree, Kyela, Mbeya Region:
Funds to buy ten water pumps for five villages. The Mango Tree (TMT) program provides support for over 4000 AIDS orphans so they can continue to live with extended family members. TMT is modeled on the Malawi Children's Village

FINCA Branches in Tabora and Dodoma:
Funds for a grant of $500 to each branch for new women borrowers in village banking micro-enterprise programs. FINCA runs these programs and has a well established, worldwide micro-finance program.

Kabale Secondary School, Bukoba, Kagera:
Funds to bring electricity to a newly constructed chemistry lab; b) Funds to complete a girls bathroom/changing room , important to keeping girls in school.

Ashira Secondary School, Moshi:
Funds for building materials to restore an existing school structure into a computer lab and internet center.

2003

Kikundi cha Mwasele -A-: Shinyanga Town
Funds to buy oxen, a cart and a plow for an agricultural development group of six people. They have 10 acres they will plow - and they will rent the use of the plow to others. They are associated with a regional development group called Rural Initiative for Development in Tanzania (RIDE).

Tuinuane Group: Kesekibaha, Lembeni, Kilamanjaro
Funds to a village women's group to build a chicken house and buy some chicks. These women have previously banded together to develop a play field for children in their village and they are taking lessons on business management with a regional training group. Kilamanjaro Technical and Commercial Training Centre: Moshi, Kilamanjaro
Funds for building materials needed for construction of classrooms to augment the auto repair training workshop at this Techical and Commercial Training Centre.

Vision for the Needy: Dar es Salaam
Funds to purchase treadle and overlock sewing machines that will be used to develop a tailoring and dress designing project with disabled women. Vision for the Needy provides social services to disabled people country wide in Tanzania.

Umoja wa Maendeleo Mwambao: Makonde, Ludewa, Iringa
Funds to repaint and buy supplies for the Makonde dispensary. The dispensary services 9 villages with a population of 25,000.

Zinduka Development Initiative Fund: Bunda, Mara, Musoma
Funds to purchase building supplies to help build one new classroom for Busore Primary School. The classroom will accommodate 45 children. Zinduka is a Tanzanian development group that has worked with Project Zawadi, Inc. for about 18 months.

Dogodogo Centre for Street Children: Dar es Salaam
Funds to build a basketball court available to approximately 150 boys who attend a drop in center in Dar es Salaam. Tanzanian educators have begun to emphasize sports for building confidence and knowledge of teamwork. This project was supported by a Peace Corps volunteer.

SHDEPHA: Shinyanga town
Funds to buy sewing machines for an HIV/AIDS support group.-SHDEPHA- means Health Development for People Living with HIV/AIDS and members are HIV positive or living with AIDS. Membership remains open for others who are diagnosed to join and use of sewing machines by those who are healthy enough will give them a source of income and support.

Yellow Flower Group: Mpanda, Rukwa
Funds to buy sewing machines for a group of women who started working together in 1998 and have done some sewing business with two machines. Additional machines will allow them to teach young women the trade. They have worked with Caritas for guidance in business development in this remote region of west central Tanzania.

Kilamanjaro Technical and Commercial Training Centre: Moshi, Kilamanjaro
Funds for building materials needed for construction of classrooms to augment the auto repair training workshop at this Techical and Commercial Training Centre.

Mshikamano Tinde: Shinyanga town, Shinyanga
Funds to purchase 10 pigs and expand an existing hog pen to accommodate them. The group of six women has been keeping hogs since 1999 and wants to expand their work.

Becam Children School: Morogoro town
Funds for roofing materials to complete four classrooms of a primary school that started in 1999. The school serves about 100 children including a number of AIDS orphans.

Ilakoze Group: Musoma, Mara
Funds for purchase of treadle and electric sewing machines. This small group of 5 women has been sewing as an income producing project. Additional machines will help them increase their production and teach young girls who want to learn an income producing skill.

BEDA (Basic Education Development Association): Kihonda, Morogoro
Funds to purchase a heifer and dairy supplies for a small scale dairy project that will benefit the BEDA day care and nursery school. The school has about 50 students and they ill receive milk as part of their school meal.

Kipala One Theatre: Mkuranga, Pwani
Funds to plant seedlings of shade and fruit trees and prepare environmental education brochures. Their work will combine developing a tree nursery and education in surrounding villages about preserving forest and water resources.

Savana Disabled Group: Shinyanga town, Shinyanga
Funds for purchase of carpentry tools (hammers, drills, clamps, planes) for a furniture building group that includes about 2/3 disabled members.

Chapa Kazi Group: Manyara, Arusha
Funds to purchase a brick-making machine for bricks that combine dirt and cement. These bricks provide strong building materials and an environmental benefit because they do not need to be fired in a kiln like clay bricks thus saving a great deal of firewood.

Lupanga Youth Society (LUYOSO), Ludewa, Iringa
Funds to purchase piglets for a hog raising project to benefit a group of young people in the district. LUYOSO is involved with a variety of development projects including health, AIDS education, carpentry and sewing.

USHIVIMWA (Ushirikiano wa Vijana Mwandege), Mwandege, Pwani
Funds for a water pump and irrigation piping to increase the yield of their vegetable cultivation project. With increased production, they hope to obtain the contracts to provide vegetables to three secondary schools in their area.

2002

Nannyambe Disability Group: Ndanda, Mtwara
Funds to buy cement, roofing sheets and a welding machine for a workshop for fabricating assisted walking aids for disabled people. The workshop is associated with a local hospital. The assisted aids are sold to patients at a reasonable price and the proceeds are used to purchase further materials. This group has been working together since 1997.

Kikundi cha Kina Mama: Wete, Pemba Island
Funds towards the purchase of several sewing machines to be used in a sewing project that teaches sewing to women. The clothes produced by this project are sold to some 400 women and children in the area. The group has been operating since 1998.

Kaduma Vijana Kampuni: Njombe, Iringa
Funds for the purchase of hand tools (plane, spoke shave, saws) for a carpentry project. Started in 1996, the group builds doors, desks, tables, windows, office chairs and coffins for schools and homes.

Imani Group: Masasi, Mtwara
Funds to buy cement, lumber, roofing sheets and nails to build a cow shed for a dairy project. The group is composed of women who began the project in 1998. The project produces milk for members' families and for sale locally.

Upendo Ushonaji: Musoma, Mara
Funds to buy several sewing machines (both pedal and electric-powered) for a sewing cooperative. Started in 2000, the cooperative trains primary school leavers in sewing and embroidery. School uniforms and other items are produced and sold by the cooperative.

TRETA (Trans Regional Environment Technology Association): Moshi, Kilimanjaro
Funds to acquire hand tools (water can, wheelbarrow, rake, spade, jembe) and polythene tubing for a tree nursery project operated by young people. The association sells tree seedlings and flowers within Moshi Municipality.

Chandula Special Unit: Songea, Ruvuma
Funds for the purchase of sewing machines, tailoring equipment and cookery tools for a group, which provides vocational training for mentally, handicapped young people in tailoring and cookery. Established in 1990, the Special Unit will benefit 20 youths and 30 parents/guardians to become self-employed.

Maendeleo Kinamama Fashion: Moshi, Kilimanjaro
Funds towards the purchase of several sewing machines for a sewing project which trains young, unemployed, school-leaver girls. The project started in 1998. The project produces and sells children and adults clothing, school uniforms and wedding clothing.

Muungano-Mwigobero Group: Musoma, Mara
Funds for a brick-making machine for a community-based credit group. Organized in 1999, the group is mostly women and it undertakes self-help business activities to improve members' and community welfare.

Solidarity for Relief and Development (SRDG): Iringa
Funds to purchase breeding stock and a spray pump for a piggery and poultry project in Iringa Municipality. Established in 2001, the group seeks to provide employment and income to its members.

Upendo Centre: Mtibwa, Morogoro
Funds to buy cement, lumber and roofing sheets for a pig shed to begin hog raising to benefit mentally retarded children at the center. Started in 2001, the Upendo Centre has the objective of creating an environment of certain basics needs and amenities to assist the poor, the sick and the handicapped.

Ikuna Primary School: Njombe, Iringa
Funds for bookshelves and desks for a primary school renovation project The project began in 2001. These funds will assist in setting up an area where students will be able to obtain and read library books.

Kivulini Credit Shop, Moshi, Kilamanjaro
Funds for a revolving loan fund that allows group members to start income generating projects. This group of five members has contributed a small amount each month since 1999 to develop a fund for loaning to members. So far projects have included poultry and milk production.

Kiwachai, Mufindi, Iringa
Funds for seedlings and necessary tools to expand the work of a tea growing cooperative to include eight new members. The current ten members have worked together to develop tea fields since 1994 putting 34 acres production. This group learned about FOT from a current PCV. (Funds for this project were donated in memory of PCV Mark Raymaker.)

Environmental and Agricultural Promotion and Services: Karagwe, Kagera.
Funds to help develop a tree nursery. The group will buy seeds and protective tubing as well as soils and fertilizer to establish the seedlings. Seedlings will be distributed to public groups and households in seven villages.

Murigha Girls Secondary School, Msange, Singida
Funds to purchase a tank for maize storage. Founded in 1993, this girls' boarding school has graduated six classes. In the past few years, their maize harvest has been infested with rats and the storage tank will protect this essential food supply for 155 students currently enrolled. (Funds for this project were donated in memory of PCV Mary Fancourt.)

WAMATA, Dar es Salaam
Funds to purchase six bicycles for home care volunteers. WAMATA is a support group for people living with HIV/AIDS. Founded in 1989, the group has branches all over the country including the Dar es Salaam branch with 80 active volunteers. (Funds for this project were donated in memory of PCV Cathie Bloom Vawter.)

TEARA, Njombe, Iringa
Funds to start a hog raising project. This group of six women have worked together since 1999 in a tomato cultivation project using the produce for home use and sale in local and Dar es Salaam markets. They will expand their work with this hog raising project. The group has received business training from Caritas World Service.

Occupational Therapy Department of Muhimbili Hospital, Dar es Salaam
Funds for support of a computer room training project for patients and staff at Muhimbili. The Occupational Therapy Department provides assistance to adults with mental health problems in the Psychiatric Unit and has established small income generating projects to help them provide for their needs. (Funds for this project were donated in honor of Paul and Prentice Sacks. Paul is a former Peace Corps Director.)

Mlalo Women Group, Lushoto, Tanga
Funds to purchase chicks of layer breeds. Since 2000, this group of 10 women has banded together to purchase a few contemporary laying hens. They want to expand the project and sell eggs in the surrounding community. As the profit from their work increases, they hope to develop a small revolving loan fund to give loans to group members. This group learned about FOT from a former PCV.

The Grail, Mororgoro Town, Morogoro
Funds to build a chicken shed and develop a chicken project. This group of 15 women have already accumulated some building supplies for their poultry project and will use all proceeds to support children who are in school. An FOT member informed to friends in Tanzania about FOT and they developed this project.

Nchuchuma Carving Group, Dar es Salaam
Funds to purchase wood working tools. This group was established in 1999 and has produced woodcarvings for sale in the tourist market. They sell products from markets in Dar and Chalinze. The new tools will enable them to improve their products and involve additional youth in the carving work.

Mfaranyaki Integrated School, Songea, Ruvuma
Funds to put fields in maize cultivation at a school for pupils with intellectual impairment. They started the school in 1988 with 7 students and have grown over time to serve 47 students in 2002. Proceeds from the maize cultivation will help provide for services at the school and needs of students.

Wamama Wajane Kibena, Kibena, Iringa
Funds to purchase forest land and some tools for a lumbering project. This group consists of seven women, all widows, who began working together in 2000 to work as brick makers and lumberers. They have made made nearly 100,000 bricks and split 500 boards, all for sale with proceeds providing for family needs.

Tanzania Placement and Career Coordination, Nyamongo, Mara
Funds to help a pilot project of vegetables grown with improved seeds and simple irrigation scheme. Use of the irrigation pump, operated by pedaling will help increase the per acre yield of vegetables and crops in the area. Outreach will be made to about 470 households in the area.

Kuhama Group, Musoma, Mara
Funds to purchase a deep freezer for a fishing project. This group has twenty members, all women who are involved in fishing and selling their catch. The freezer will keep fish fresh for sale in markets as far away from them as Arusha. As their ability to preserve their catch increases they will increase their group membership. A Tanzanian FOT member living in the US informed this group about FOT.

Muganga Youth Club, Muganga, Mara
Funds for a youth group that wants to build a small local type boat for fishing. The Youth Club has more than 50 members who have participated in sports and social activities since 2000. With a boat they will begin a money-making project that will help them support their activities and develop more enterprise. The club members themselves will build the boat.

Barjomot Primary School, Hanang, Arusha
Funds to build desks for students in this primary school of 935 students. FOT has undertaken this project together with Global Education Partnership, a US based not-for-profit, working in Tanzania since 1999. Community members and parents from the school have raised half the funds to build 61 desks needed and this grant will supply the rest. (Funds for this project were donated in memory of PCV Steve Sterk.)

2001

Mbweera Each One Teach One Nursery School: Hai,Kilimanjaro
Funds for furniture and roofing of a nursery. In existence since 1996 this group focusses on the education of rural women and young people. They have published six educational pamphlets (on childcare, AIDS, gardening) and begun construction of a kindergarten. Our funds will help finish the kindergarten

Gwijumilege & Brothers Irrigation Project: Morogoro
Funds to install a water irrigation system for vegetable gardens. The group began in 1997 and has increased its membership from three to six. One of their members has attended a course in horticulture and landscaping.

Tumaini Group Poultry Project : Morogoro
Funds to build a chicken shed and buy chicks. The group consists of 10 women who began in 1999 to develop an income source for themselves and their families. They are particularly concerned with meeting school expenses for their children.

Tumaini Tunayo Fishing Co-op : Mkoani, Pemba, Zanzibar
Funds to buy a generator for their fishing project. This group of 10 members have been fishing together since 1990. The generator is for operating freezers and enable them to preserve their catch longer.

Jitegemee Bustani Irrigation Project : Shirati, Tarime, Mara
Funds for spinklers, water pipes and wheelbarrows. The group began with 13 people in 1997 and purchased a 5 horsepower water pump, and made bricks to build a reservoir.

Amani Centre : Morogoro
Funds for goats, chicks and roofing materials for anima l sheds. Amani Centre is a school for vocational training for children and young people with mental disabilities.

Mgwenya Jitegemee Group, Wells for Clean Water :Newala, Mtawara
Funds for a pump and other building materials to construct a well in Chihangu village. This group of 15 members has worked together since 1996 and has succeeded to build one well already.

Tanzania Teachers Union Nursery School : Songea, Ruvuma
Funds for building materials to complete a nursery school in Songea town. This group of 12 teachers at Songea Teachers College have come together to promote a nursery school in the community.

Hiluka Group :Ludewa, Iringa
Funds to help buy seed and plow 5 acres for maize cultivation. This group of five people has worked together since 1994 with a hog raising project. They now plan to use modern seed to increase maize yield in their fields and provide seed to others in their village.

Strengthening Older People Fishing Project : Ununio Dar-es-Salaam
Funds to buy fishing nets for a group of more than 50 fishermen in the village of Ununio. This group has been working together since 1994 and has been able to purchase 2 local fishing boats. The nets will help them increase their production.

Iringa Development of Disabled Youth and Children : Iringa Town
Funds to purchase batik making supplies. This group has been working in the last year with street children and will train them to produce batik products for sale. Money realized will be used to help meet basic needs of the children.

Manda Village Rainwater Cisterns: Manda, Iringa
Funds for cement and other supplies needed to build a rainwater cistern. The villagers in Manda have already dug a hole for the cistern and gathered stones and sand. This project is affiliated with Rural Community Advancement Association (RUCA) in Njombe.

Kumekucha Women Group: Mwanbani, Tanga
Funds for monolines used to cultivate seaweed. Kumekucha Women Group consists of 5 women involved in the growing of seaweed for export. They have been working together since 1999 and use proceeds of their work for family and community needs.

Binamungu Farmers: Kijunja, Kijunja, Kagera
Funds to buy a dairy cow. The six members of Binamungu Farmers have been cooperating since 1997 in developing fruit and vegetable production, coffee and banana plantations and hog raising. They have been associated with KAGDE, a development organization in Bukoba area.

Abebwae Fishing Co-operative: Fundo Island, Pemba
Funds for an ice box for preserving fish. The Abebwae cooperative of 10 people was established in 1993 and sells fish daily to about 30 buyers in the village.

Victory Women in Development Association: Dar es Salaam
Funds for filming of an HIV/AIDS educational video. This group has been working on HIV/AIDS education since 1997 and have provided counseling in six villages in their area.

Women Economic and Environmental Protection (WEEP): Dar es Salaam
Funds to support a revolving credit fund. The group began in 1999 and have given loans to women's group for their economic projects. As loans are repaid, other loans are given.

Yeresco Welding: Musoma
Funds to buy an electric grinder for their welding business. This group has been working together since 1997 making and repairing metal products for local use. They also have taken some young men as students. The grinder will make it possible for them to make hoes, machetes and knives.

2000

African Inland Church, Nursery School: Shinyanga
Funds for an ongoing project to instal electricity in a Nursery School building. The school enrols 45 children and provides employment to three teachers.

Kongei Secondary School Library Expansion:Lushoto, Tanga
Funds for bookshelves needed to expand the school library.

Juhudi Women's Group: Lemirakati, Kilimanjaro
Funds to expand the group's cow and chicken raising project, started in August 1999. The group has already built cow and chicken sheds.

Qoheleth Foundation Brick-making:Kahe, Kilimanjaro
Funds for a brick-making project, aimed at providing villagers with low cost, affordable and quality building materials.

Friendship Sewing Group: Musoma
Funds for a women's sewing group intending to purchase two additional sewing machines. The additional machines will also be used in a sewing training program for youths.

Juhudi Group Tree Planting: Musoma
Funds for an environmental conservation group, proposing a tree nursery project. The group has started a nursery of different tree species for sale.

Madrasat Nur al Atifal Nursery School: Wete, Pemba
Funds for a nursery school project started in 1997 in Wete, Pemba. The community has already built two classroom and an office.

Pondeani Water Supply: Chake Chake, Pemba
Funds for a water supply project. The money will be used for the installation of supply lines from the main pipeline already installed.

Women&Development Brick-making: Nansio, Mwanza
Funds for a brick-making project, headed by five women. The group's theme is to allow the building of "decent homes by using bricks (and) to eradicate the muddy houses".

Chake Chake Tree Nursery: Chake Chake, Pemba
Funds for a tree nursery project started in 1998. The project's expansion will also offer employment opportunities.

1999

MWOC Mzumbe Women's Worker Group:Mzumbe, Morogoro
(Identified by PC Volunteer K. Schaefer) Funds to increase the capital of a credit union. MWOC, in existence for 2 years, has 17 members, all teachers at Mzumbe Secondary School who have secondary businesses to support themselves. FOT funds will allow MWOC to loan larger amounts of money for longer periods of time.

Revolving Credit Fund : Kamanga Village, Mwanza
Funds to increase membership in a self-sustaining revolving credit fund. The fund was started in 1996 with 12 women and has now grown to 52 members! Members borrow money for various activities, including selling tomatoes and making and selling local beer. According to the proposal, "the fund has unleashed a strong spirit of entrepreneurship... and has opened new economic possibilities for women".

Pondeani Village Water Project and Development Committee: Pemba
Funds for mini-latrines for Pondeani Primary School. The school, which began construction in 1993, now has 4 classrooms and 200 students in Standards I - III.

Kupala Electrical Works and Supplies:Morogoro
Funds for a portable generator and tools for a group of 5 women who started an "ufundi" business in 1991. The women wanted to show everyone that "mwanamke anaweza kufanya kazi zote" (a woman can do all work). Their activities include electrical installation and maintenance and sign-painting.

Jitegemee Group (Poultry Management): Musoma
Funds to purchase chicks and feeders for a group of 3 women who started a poultry project in 1996. They plan to sell eggs in the community.

Shining Star Disabled Group:Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam
Funds to expand a fruit and vegetable garden from 1 to 5 hectares. The group, with 10 disabled members, was established five years ago with the goal of economic self-sufficiency.

Upendo Ushonaji:Musoma
Funds for a sewing machine and supplies for a group of 5 women who started their own sewing business in June 1997. The women spent six months learning to sew, and have been expanding their business aggressively ever since.

St Helenna's Kindergarten School: Luagala Village, Masasi
Funds for corrugated iron sheets to roof a kindergarten for St. Helenna's Organization. The organization of 20 members built the school to provide education for their children and to allow the women to be more involved in St. Helenna's economic activities - brickmaking, harvesting fish ponds, and raising pigs.

Nkuhungu Mamas Environmental & Recreational Group: Dodoma
Funds for creating a recreatonal area, including soccer, basketball, and netball grounds. The women have already planted trees around the area and plan to sustain the project through sales of soft drinks and bitings.

1998

Tabata School Project: Dar-es-Salaam
The Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA) is a Washington, DC based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children of East Africa. AFA targeted Tabata Secondary School to improve the condition of classrooms and latrines in order to provide a healthier environment in which students can attend school. FOT funds, matched by AFA, provided much needed cement to re-floor the classrooms and latrines of this school, located just outside of Dar-es-Salam.

Nanyamba Shool Library Project: Mtwara
This secondary school, located in Mtwara Region, recently constructed a library for use by their 320 students, as well as the surrounding community. FOT funds will be used to paint the building and provide benches, tables, and shelves. Peace Corps Volunteer Alexander Barnes, currently serving as a teacher at the school identified this project.

Mafinga Library Project: Mafinga, Iringa
Assisted by Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Carlson, currently serving as a Math and Physics teacher, Mdabulo Secondary School (located near Iringa) has obtained donations of 300 lbs. Of books and 2 computers to start much needed reference library. FOT funds paid for shipment of the donated computers and were used to purchase materials for shelves for the library and a power converter.

Rugambwa Nursery School Project: Bukoba
Funding for school furniture toys and supplies. RNP is located at Rugambwa Secondary School and is sponsored by Kagera Group for Development (KAGDE). The project provides preparatory school education for 56 children between 2-6 years old, including 27 AIDS orphans.

WIFI Mabibo Tailoring Mart: Dar-es-Salaam
(Identified through FOT member Judy Gray). Funds to go towards sewing machines, an electric iron, and basic sewing supplies. WIFI (Women's Initiative for Family Improvement) has 30 members. This is their third major project in an effort to provide income generation and self-reliance to local women. They also participate in the 22nd Annual International Trade Fair in DSM.

Muungano Secondary school: Moshi
Funding for material for the foundation of a secondary school that will benefit six villages. The school's organizers have already purchased 20 acres of land, obtained permits, and received support from the local government via laws that require households to contribute money towards the building of the school.

Panda Miti Okoa Mazingira: Musoma
Funds for a reforestation project. Funds will buy seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and supplies. The group is also involved in educating the public in reforestation, soil conservation and alternate forms of fuel such as biogas.

Kamanga Credit Revolving Fund:Kamanga, Mwanza
(Identified by FOT member Elvira Williams).

1997

Tumaini Tailoring Marts: Morogoro
Started in 1994 by four women, FOT funded the purchase of two sewing machines, store furniture and raw materials to increase the product capacity of this organization, which formely wove only by hand. Thei future goal is to open sewing and weaving training school.

Akina Mama Wafugaji: Ibosa, Bukoba
Affiliated with Kagera Community Development Trust (KADET), this group of five women has been working together on a pig-raising project since May1996. Funds will be used to reconstruct the pigsty and purchase veterinarian drugs to improve the health of the animals and increase their worth for sale.

Bukoba Environmental Rehabilitation Women Pioneers: Bukoba
Also affiliated with KADET, this group of 22 women has been working to establish parks and flower gardens in their area for two years and want to further improve the environmental situation by promoting tree planting through their nursery. The group has acquired and prepared a plot of land for the nursery and will use FOT funds to purchase tools and equipment as well as start up seedlings.

Marito Nursery Center: Morogoro
This nursery school was established in January 1996 with the aim of improving the readiness of the local pre-schoolers to enter primary school. Due to an increase in the number of interested students, FOT has provided funds to purchase adequate classroom furniture and learning materials. The school's goal is to increase enrollment to 40 students.

Nsitoni Women's Group: Morogoro
In an effort to provide additional income and improve the health of their families, as well as the local community, two women have begun a cow-milking project. Funds from FOT will be used to purchase an additional cow as well as medicine and basic supplies.

Ukukwe Technological Training Institute: Kilosa
Begun in September 1993, this institute trains youth in technical skills in an effort to combat unemployment. With FOT's support, an additional classroom will be added to their Institute.

Trickle Up Project: Musoma/Arusha
Contributions provide seed money for small family businesses.

Ntugamo Formation House: Kagera
For years, parish priest has provided up to 20 orphans with basic needs. FOT funds will now be used to assist the children in developing a farm, in efforts to better improve their health and generate income.

1996

Ndaga Mentally Retarded Center: Tukuyu
Materials to erect an office for a school for retarded children started by Mwalimu Christina Mwakitwange and six other women.

Buhororo Orphans Trust Fund: Kagera
Self-help project to raise chickens to provide support and food for AIDS orphans. Another of Rev. Rugemalira's projects.

AHEAD: Shinyanga/Maswa
Further assistance to this Tanzanian NGO to set up a revolving credit fund for women engaged in micro-businesses.

1995

Boresha Mazingira: Arusha
Group of three women who grow and sell tree seedlings to "Make Arusha Green Again"; The group has grown 400 tree seedlings and sold them to sustain their own development.

Kitulizo Women's Group: Usa River
Seedlings, watering equipment, seed bags, and wheelbarrows to five women who buy and sell tree seedlings.

Juhudi Matumaini: Arusha
Heifer, shed renovation, and medicine to three single mothers engaged in sewing and cooking projects.

Umoja Group: Usa River
Sewing machine for a women's group engaged in sewing school uniforms.

Reverend Rugemalira Orphans' Assistance: Kagera
Assistance to 20 orphans in need of basic necessities, such as food, clothing, and shelter provided by a parish priest.

Lilian Ngowi Chicken Project: Arusha
Assistance to buy 400 boilers (chickens) for five women who started project with 100 chickens in 1990 and have expanded on their own.

Kombo Flour Milling: Dar es Salaam
Packaging materials for a group of five women who have bought a grain mill.

Lusako Vocational Center: Dar es Salaam
Additional sewing machine for a class. Started in 1992 by Ms. Agatha Muhoka to help school leavers improve economic opportunities.

Ms. Verdy Maswa: Dar es Salaam
Modern compound for broilers (chickens) to three women who raise chickens to sell to a local "hoteli"

St. Monica's Nursery School: Zanzibar
Materials for play activities for children ages 4-7. The school was opened in 1987 at the Anglican Cathedral and now has 150 students.

Children for Children: Arusha
Tanzanian NGO started by local citizens to assist street children. Rents a house and provides basic necessities and help with schooling for 26 children.

1994

West Victoria Develoment and Health Association (WEVIDHA)
Carpentry and agricultural tools to teach basic skills to street children.

Mahenge Agricultural Group: Mahenge
Tractor hire services and agricultural inputs for cultivation of six acres of food crops for consumption and sale to meet school and clothing needs.

Mlezi Dairy Cattle Project: Dodoma
Two cows and veterinary medicine, feed and improved cattle shed.

Huduma Women's Association: Arusha
Expansion of day care center for grassroots women's organization.

Ngome Street Children: Iringa
Community sponsored program to care for and educate street children.

1993

Ulasa Women's Milling Project: Urampo, Tabora
Construction of a milling machine shelter.

Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development (AHEAD): Shinyanga
Medical equipment and food preparation utensils to improve children's nutrition. The goal of AHEAD, a Tanzanian NGO, is to sustain motherhood and child survival through development.

1992

WAMATA: Rubya
Basic necessities to 12 orphans and 48 AIDS patients in a home-care based organization.

Trickle Up: Musoma
Seed money for small business planning.