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Dear group members , my name is Yizukanji Yoradi Sikombe, a country project Director of Africa Child Foundation Mission of Tanzania . email. morogorofacmttanzania@gmail.com.     and Wahasp number is +255 764814904.  

CONTACT ADRESS IS 

AFRICA CHILD FOUNDATION  MISSION OF  TANZANIA

MSIMAMO STREET, KIHONDA WARD

P.O.BOX  53, House no. 173/ Block 2.

MOROGORO-TANZANIA.

Email. morogorofacmttanzania@gmail.com

Email. sikombe@acftanzania.org

Call. +255 764814904. /+255768245874

Website. www.acftanzania.org

Thanks for accepting me to that group. 

Our first project are 

SCHOOL NUTRITION GARDENS (SNG) PROJECT

The School Nutrition Gardens (SNG) project aims to promote healthy eating habits among children by encouraging schools to establish organic vegetable gardens. Students will learn how to grow food and how to incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables into their daily diets through the SNG project. This project teaches students valuable problem-solving, teamwork, and responsibility skills in addition to promoting healthy eating habits. In addition to promoting a healthy lifestyle, it is a great way to create a sustainable source of fresh produce for the school community.

The SNG project in Morogoro region in Tanzania aims to implement organic farming in 41 primary schools and 41 villages. Because organic foods are free of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that could accumulate residues, they are considered healthy and environmentally safe. According to some consumers, surveyed, poor eating habits are causing an increase in non-communicable diseases. This strategy aims to increase access to diverse organic foods that are affordable and reliable for consumers.

This project aims to prevent children from attending school hungry; the project will provide food for 123 primary schools in Morogoro, Tanzania to feed their students. Secondly, the environmental degradation that the Morogoro region is facing will be solved by planting fruit trees to be used during hunger times and prevent hunger; when the fruit trees are planted, the fruits will be used to prepare food, allowing the community to overcome its hunger.

As fruits and roots are used as food by the community during dry seasons, we need to prepare the community by planting 100,000 fruit trees in each district. By doing so, the community will be able to get rain, water plants, and other crops during dry seasons, and also preserves the environment. Local communities rely on crops for survival, so the loss of woodlands, forest cover, and other trees is devastating. Especially noticeable is this in Morogoro, which has a significant percentage of youths under 35, as over 75% of Tanzania's population is under 35.

As a result, school children and young adults struggle to eat. A vast biodiversity loss is underway in the mountainous ward of the Mgeta Mountains, where all crops and forests are degrading. As a result, we see an environmental degradation-led reinforcing loop where youth's opportunities for better life are greatly reduced by environmental degradation.

Second Project are 

Introduction 

Bridging Green Conservation and Womens empowerment in Tanzania

Women form the backbone of the agricultural sector, contributing significantly to food production, household income, and community development in Tanzania. 67% of working women are employed in agriculture, predominantly engaging in small-scale farming, tending to both crops and livestock.

Women ensure food for their families and bolster food availability in the region. They play a crucial role in the entire agricultural value chain – from planting and harvesting to processing and marketing. Moreover, their involvement in agriculture also significantly impacts household income, with women often reinvesting earnings into their families contributing to education, healthcare, and improved living standards, prioritizing the welfare of their families and communities.

 Challenges that women face in rural Tanzania

Despite their pivotal role in family and community life, women in rural areas face various challenges, encompassing environmental, economic, social, and political factors. Environmental challenges, such as the effects of climate change, degrading soils, lack of natural resource management, and agro ecological farming methods, are not directly gender-related but disproportionately affect women, given their predominant engagement in agriculture.

Some specifically gender-related challenges include:

• lack of finance

• limited access to resources like land

• limited access to markets

• unremunerated workload

• exclusion from decision-making

  Third Project are . 

• Morogoro  Women in Agriculture and Business Initiative (MWABI) 

• Africa Child Foundation Mission of Tanzania is tackling these challenges within the Morogoro Women in Agriculture and Business Initiative (MWABI). Since the project’s first phase (2021-2022), MWABI empowers women in the Morogoro  Region through training in organic agriculture, small business and saving and lending methods to create climate resilience, increase food security and gender equality.

• The project’s second phase (2023- 2030) Shall include builds on its initial success, ensuring sustained support for smallholder farmers, particularly women, adopting climate-resilient practices and engaging in entrepreneurial activities. Smallholder farmers, some of them  shall be organized into a model-cooperative during the project's first phase, continue to be motivated and supported to practice organic agriculture, engaging in value addition and entrepreneurial activities. The model-cooperative, shall be  managed by the majority of women (70%), coordinates production, stores, processes goods, and markets organic agriculture products.

• Climate resilience through agroecological practices

• To increase climate resilience, ACFMT trains female smallholder farmers, who are affected by erratic rainfall, persistent droughts, and deteriorating soil health, in agro ecological practices. In workshops and trainings, ACFMT teaches methods and best practices such as agroforestry, farmer managed natural regeneration (a reforestation method), and farming God’s way (a conservation agriculture method) to conserve the environment and reduce pressure on the natural resources. ACFMT also introduced energy-saving stoves. These are now built by the women and run as an enterprise helping to sustain themselves.

Meanwhile, the MWABI women have already planted 9500 trees and constructed 789 energy saving stoves to protect trees by using less firewood

Fouth Project are 

The SSLG Model - How it works in the context of MWABI:

The money savings go into a box which is locked three times and three different group members are in charge of one key each.

1. ACFMT Saving and Lending groups are formed.

2. Women meet weekly to contribute their shares to a business and social fund. The money goes into a box, which is locked three times. Three group members elected from the group are in charge of one key each. The box is stored in the safest house of the village.

3. If a woman asks for a loan, the group decides together, thus ensuring full transparency. The loan shall not be more than three times of the woman's savings.

4. When a woman asks for a loan, it must have a business-related purpose, such as buying land or tools for agriculture.

5. The loans must be repaid within one to three months. There is an annual cut. At the end of the year, the box is opened ceremoniously by the women, and shares are given back to the group members.

6. Apart from that, the system also includes a social fund to help in case of sickness, childbirth, etc. Money from the social fund does not have to be paid back.

Within the initiative, we are planning to establish 98 saving and lending groups which will have  830,415,000 TZS (332.166 EUR) cumulative savings circulating as micro-loans within the groups. Through MWABI project, 3 APEXES with 20 saving and lending groups have will be  formed and be registered.  

Women will acquire leadership skills through ACFMT training on group dynamics and leadership, and all 98 groups  will be led by women. They will save through their groups, acquire loans, and invest in income-generating activities for livelihood improvement. The weekly meetings will serve as innovation accelerators, where women will  pitch new businesses which they will got loan to start a business. Furthermore, these meetings foster cohesion among the women, not only in business terms.

Fifth Project are 

We are dealing with collecting dust bin from the market at Morogoro , region, what we face is the car for collecting dustin from the market are not available which cause the cleaner to use bicycle in transfering remain materials , so of them are carring to the head.  we need to know if we can get car for transporting rabish from the market which  will cause the market to be clean and reduce diseases . as we know that 98% of the people to the market are using market to get food so it is the very important area to be clean .

Finally. We are well coming partners who can select any project and work in Tanzania with them in those project shown above. 

Regards 

Yizukanji Sikombe