Utete, TZ – KCM is further developing sustainable projects that were initiated by the community with the assistance of visiting students last summer – 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 the community and visiting student groups from Switzerland, Ireland and the UK in 2024.
The visiting groups funded materials and volunteered their manual labor to assist KCM to deliver solutions that support the community families, school programs and children’s lives. KCM now maintains regular mentoring visits to these projects for training and advising student clubs on good management, ensuring short and long-term goals are met on a daily, weekly and quarterly basis. KCM is maintaining sustainability for the following projects:
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 elderly people 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 growing techniques 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 a long distance to school or going to bed late at home. This was done for FRRTL, Siasa, and Katundu nursery schools.
BBTT sewing club: 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 in turn 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 watering their gardens without the risk of being attacked by crocodiles in the river where they used to fetch water from.
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 vegetable gardens at their homes.
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