Moshe, TZ – Vision of sustainable school meals – Jan 2025
Tupendane is working in Kahe,TZ to assist with small steps for school income generation, which is a promising part of the schools’ feeding program sustainability – Jan 2025
The Tupendane team and Kahe primary school community have a long term experience of building up different continuously improved designs for feeding programs at Public Primary School’s in Moshi District of Tanzania near Mount Kilimanjaro.
A few years back Tupendane used the continuous improvement strategy to enhance the Grow-own-Breakfast design of growing and feeding the children. They started to make it a more sustainable one by adding selling of the surplus harvests to feed others. The pictured receipts and bank records track the income.
The new design has added value to the program to children, teachers and parents of Kahe primary by adding business ideas onto the current sustainable organic gardening of banana and vegetables. The excess harvests are transported to the nearby markets and sold, and the income is saved in the school farm bank account before the governing board approves any necessary operational expenses required for the sustainability of the program.
Last year the income was able to be used to improve sanitation standards at Kahe Primary School by renovating broken toilet floors in the children’s toilets.
We are still facing the challenge of finding reliable markets offering good sales prices for the harvests, which will boost income for reaching a sustainability threshold that achieves full independence for the program. Tupendane will look for a solution to this challenge.
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