Utete, TZ – KCM is further developing Sustainable Projects initiated by UK students for the Community – Apr 2024
The KCM manager Dickson in collaboration with his team, and volunteer families in the community, has assisted KCM to successfully manage, maintain and further develop projects initiated by visiting student groups from Switzerland, Ireland and the UK in 2024.
The UK groups funded working material and volunteered manual labor to launch sustainable projects to assist KCM deliver solutions that support the community families, programing schools and children’s lives. KCM now maintains regular monitoring and mentoring visits to these projects twice a week for training and advising student clubs on good management, ensuring short and long-term goals are met daily, weekly and on a quarterly basis.
KCM is maintaining sustainability for these UK school groups’ major achievements:
KCM Water Project: Connection of sustainable gardening water and construction of a tank tower, as well as a fence to protect the garden from domestic animals. Harvests provide breakfasts to FRRTL children, leppers and elders in the community
Compost Production: Construction of a compost shed with compost boxes for making compost for school and community gardens, and demonstrating composting and organic production to families.
School gardens: School organic garden projects doing well as part of Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) programs, which have improved access to a daily breakfast for children, especially in Siasa, Katundu and Utete schools.
Infrastructure: Built FRRTL nursery kitchen and painting murals to kindergarten classes, provided sitting matts and sleeping mattresses for care of children who are not feeling comfortable due to walking distance to school or going to bed late at home. This was done for FRRTL, Siasa, and Katundu nursery schools.
BBTT garden: It is progressing well in line with training in sewing female sanitary towels and repairing clothes, with the help of sewing machines donated by UK groups.
Juhudi women empowerment Vicoba group: is continuing well with their sewing business and volunteering to sew and provide reusable sanitary pads to needy families, and grown school students to enable them to attend school comfortably, which assists the growth of attendance and academic performance.
Access to water at home: Four families (Ally, Miriam, Mtumbi and Rukia) are connected to clean water service, paying their bills on time and achieving gardening without the risk of crocodiles in the river where they used to fetch water.
In July 2025, another group of students from the UK are expected to assist Lugongwe school by launching an organic vegetable garden GOB program for breakfast. They will also assist Latifa and Saidi’s families to connect to the water supply service, enabling them to establish model gardens at their homes.
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