By Benedicto Hosea | Project Leader
Improving lives is the great passion and commitment which Mboni ya Vijana Group has been implementing through activities those make community feel world a better place for life. However climate change is a threat hitting the means of production which is the main means of fulfilling the demands. Thanks to your donations we have been creating living ways through food and water accessibility as well environmental works by families. This report stipulates and presents some of the remarkable success and what next we are to achieve for the best of Kasulu community and the world at large.
The community of Kasulu is engaging in small farming however most of the families rely much on poor and uncontrolled farming that does not enable them harvest enough food. We have created the best path that everyone is now going through. The best farming practices have shown great success whereby we managed to increase yields by 260% in rice and maize. Here is the reference;
Deleli and Rose did not know whether Zeze land was able to grow and produce rice to the high extent however; they have managed to produce eight bags of rice on the small plot of land that did never get used for production. “This has been my wonderful lesson to grow and manage rice on land that people cannot even consider for production. Learning and adapting to better farming methods, is the great thing I noticed in my life. I couldn’t believe we could have harvested eight sucks/bags of rice on the land at Zeze – Deleli says”. Rose says; “we have cabbages from a very poor soil. This is because we are learning how to improve soil to increase agricultural yields for both income and food security. This kind of experience, is giving food and income enabling us improve lives”.
Drought is the major obstacle in tropical regions especially Tanzania lying 450 south from the equator. The sun heat hits it to the maximum of 12 hrs in 24hrs of a day. We have been developing irrigation scheme to enable families produce food through the year and through drought. Apart from irrigation, families need water for domestic for living improvement. This is what we are doing and there are these references; “I am not worried with food anymore, I can farm during rainfall and dry season after access to water from the borehole for irrigation. These maize aren’t the possible planting and harvesting in the absent of water during the dry season but I have them throughout the year” – Jesca says.
Not only Jesca, Mama Dunda hails the water access as it reduced the time he wasted for water collection and added time for farm works and other businesses. Mama Dunda says; “My husband went to collect firewood in bushes and went to stream to collect water by a bicycle. He spent most of the time on collecting perishable family facilities. I have been nursing and I couldn’t help him. We lost income and time to produce food. Now I access water within 50 meters, I can leave my baby home and get water. My husband now use most of time at farm and shop selling goods. We are increasing food and income security by the presence of water closer”.
Ntagoma is a father of the family with 6 household members and he is feeding his family from the small help we made to him. He got a loan of 320,000/= Tzs for farming and starting small business. “I am very proud to have time to live this time. I didn’t think I would have made good life like it is now. The loan of 320,000Tzs has made me start and establish my vending shop. This shop helps me get more money to invest in farming and family help. I have the shop and tomatoes garden which I would not have managed without the help from Mboni ya Vijana Group” – Ntagoma quoted.
Improved education is the impact that we are proud of following enable youth feed their families scheme in Zeze Kasulu. The scheme has increased food, income and water access to the families and resulted into increase of number of pupils joining secondary education and environmental related. We planted and educate students about climate change and adaptations both play the role of increasing awareness among the community and students. Here are some reference cases;
Shadrack is a form three student at Zeze Secondary school and he comes from the very poor family. He is one among the other students farming Zeze Secondary School Environmental Club. Here he says “Nothing impossible on earth that is what I can say. I didn’t believe that I could have studied secondary education because of extremely income poverty of my family. No one who would have helped me in my family, if Mboni ya Vijana Group hadn’t helped my mother. She strived with small businesses and improved small farming which give to us food and income to help us get good health, ability to buy school needs and therefore I am good in academic at the school. I am as well aware of the climate change and I am planting trees to combat it”.
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