Author: Cathie

The Eyes of the Youth

Seeds of Hope: Building Futures

Seeds of Hope: Building Futures Extreme poverty is reality for too many families in Kigoma, Tanzania. This doesn’t just mean there is not enough money for families to buy clothes for their children when they need them, enough food to eat, or resources for their work. This can also have an impact on families’ health,…
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Mboni ya Vijana – looking back and looking ahead…

Within the eyes of the youth is our world of tomorrow – find out what we’ve achieved in the last 11 years, and what we’re hoping to achieve in the next year.

Our Big Give Water Update!

Safe water has an immense power to change lives. Imagine having to walk 3 kilometres to collect your household’s water, carrying the heavy bucket the 3 kilometres home, only for the dirty water to make you and your family sick. Furthermore, as collecting water is often seen as a job for the women and girls,…
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Tackling the Water and the Climate Crises

Water is the key to life. Yet when we started our work, Mboni ya Vijana found Zeze and Kasulu facing droughts and a lack of access to clean and safe water. As climate change impacts our earth, water becomes ever more scarce for us as our ponds and streams dry up, our land degrades, droughts…
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Feeding Students in Kigoma

Midday draws nearer as you’re sat in class. After a long morning of studying hard in subjects like mathematics and science your stomach starts to rumble… What was the meal you were most looking forward to eating in lunch at school? For many of us we will have our lunch break, refuel with some food…
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Exciting Opportunity for Agricultural graduates!

Kheri ya Mwaka Mpya! / Happy New Year! We are always looking for opportunities to make a difference – to create positive change in the world. The start of a New Year is always a great time to look what lies ahead of us and what we can do. And what a brilliant way to…
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Help us Plant Trees in Kigoma!

Did you know that we’re on a mission to plant as many trees as we can in our area? Our land is degrading, desertification is happening before our eyes. This leads to a struggle in our agriculture, a loss of crops to eat and sell, further poverty… and our environment will continue to worsen if…
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Bringing clean and safe water to Kigoma

There have been two registered deaths of children from falls into ponds in Malalo in a year. Can you imagine just how much children are at risk in collecting water so far away from residents? Malalo children wash and collect water 3km away in the bush swamp. We want to build a well at the…
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Taking Climate Action in Zeze!

Climate change is real. We know because it’s communities like ours that it is hitting the hardest.   We face rising temperatures and increasing droughts, and these have an enormous impact upon our livelihoods.  Food insecurity is increasing because our agriculture is affected by climate change; key risks to our agriculture have included reduced crop productivity…
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Bringing Water to Titye Secondary School!

It would be at least a two hour long walk, approximately 2.3km, to reach the stream, queue, and walk back again. On a school day, this meant shortening the hours of students’ education. For the rest of the locals, this meant shortening their work hours. All to get water. We know this isn’t right –…
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