Moshi, TZ – Together we hope to improve the lives of children and teachers at Kisangasangeni Primary Schools in Tanzania – Feb 2025
Tupendane in collaboration with its partners Better Lives and True Adventure has linked its Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) program with UK schools by forming a hosting program for the UK students to visit and join in with the local efforts of the Tanzanian school community and local government to change their children’s lives.
The visiting students do this by working on improving the learning and teaching environment at public primary schools near Moshi. The hosting program benefitted Kisangasangeni primary school in 2024 when Tupendane hosted Redmaids’ High School teachers and students, who volunteered to assist with building up banana and vegetable gardens that feed 407 children and 7 teachers every school day.
This assistance created a very positive spirit that motivated parents and members of the local community and government to join the effort. Last year Tupendane purchased the required materials for roofing the school kitchen, with the parents and village government respectively providing and paying for the labor required to install the roof.
This has been followed by the district government fulfilling their promise of building a new teachers house and 3 classrooms, that was made during the goodbye ceremony for Redmaids’ High School students and teachers and their True Adventure leader. The ceremony included leaders of the Kisangasangeni Community and of the Village and District Governments, who said they wanted to join the efforts that the visiting students demonstrated to them by working to improve the learning and teaching environment at the school.
Today we are proud to see how quickly the Kisangasangeni School’s environment has been improved. We are also aware of other measures we could take to overcome the challenges of animals damaging the gardens and need for more reliable water supply for the gardens.
The school is hoping that Tupendane and its partners can join with the parents and local and district governments to offer solutions to the above mentioned challenges. Solutions that can enable easy and efficient gardening that delivers reliable food security for the children and teachers, and also opens an opportunity for the school to earn income by selling surplus harvest. This income could help create future sustainability for the Grow-own-Breakfast program!
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