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It’s inspiring to see how the PAAP program is making a tangible impact on sustainability and self-reliance in schools! It is encouraging parents to contribute...

Utete, TZ – New kitchen changes cooks and children lives – Jan 2025

The FRRTL new kitchen boosted the efficiency of breakfast preparation, and made a significant difference for both the students and the community. The increase in...

Kasaka, UG – Basooka VICOBA members invest loan funds in rainwater collection – Jan 2025

Basooka VICOBA started this year with smiles after receiving a loan from Wamukisa for their first group project. The purpose of the loan is first...

Battambang, KH – The Benefit of a Vegetable Garden for Family Support – Jan 2025

Salee Oum

In July 2024, PP started his vegetable garden with the support of school students from UK. This initiative has brought immense benefits to his family...

Moshe, TZ – Community ownership is very important to the sustainability of Soko Primary’s Grow-Own-Breakfast (GOB) program – Dec 2024

Members of the Alpha Women Village Community Banking (VICOBA) group rode to Soko Primary School to maintain the school’s Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) vegetable and banana gardens...

Siem Reap, KH – Unused dry plot is transformed into a productive dry season vegetable garden – Dec 2024

Reynaldo Diez

The Peaksneng Thormacheat garden shop team has assisted LT to transform an unused dry garden plot into a productive vegetable garden, which has enabled his...

Utete, TZ – LKK aims to change her family story and assist her community – Dec 2024

LKK is a 20-year-old single mother living with her two children, three siblings, and her biological mother. She is determined to change her family’s story,...

Kikondo, UG – Zinabala/Kigasa VICOBA members celebrate harvesting together – Dec 2024

The newly merged Zinabala/Kigasa VICOBA’s fifty members have harvested their first crop produced by their joint investment of money and work, and danced to celebrate....

Ngara, TZ – Mukibogoye Primary School rainwater harvest system renovation is improving students’ lives – Dec 2024

Mukibogoye Primary School is making one step at a time toward sustainable water use with the renovation of its rainwater harvesting system. This improvement will...

Siem Reap, HK – A good education starts with a good home and garden – Nov 2024

Reynaldo Diez

The Leow Yang family is one of the families that enjoy the Rent-to-Own home (RTO) and Food Always In The Home (FAITH) programs provided by...

Ngara, TZ – ES business growth is taking another step towards self reliance – Nov 2024

Onesmo has just traveled a long way to visit David, his team and ES in Ngara. ES is an entrepreneur who has combined her culinary...

Utete, TZ – Garden fences positively impact breakfast servings and academic achievement – Nov 2024

KCM is taking significant steps to ensure the sustainability of breakfast programs at community schools, by fencing vegetable gardens to protect against stray animals in...

Moshe, TZ – Expedition Company, UK School and Australian Sponsor join forces to assist Ginja Primary School – Nov 2024

A few years ago, Tupendane trained Ginja Primary School to create an organic vegetable and banana garden to provide daily meals for the children. This...

Kikondo, UG – JFB family integrates pig raising with FAITH gardening – Nov 2024

JFB family mother has been operating a FAITH garden for the last 7 years. After realizing the health benefits of eating organic vegetables, she started...

Moshe, TZ – Maintaining interested parties’ energy is key to sustainable quality feeding programs in Kahe – Oct 2024

Tupendane and visiting school students from UK have assisted Kisangasangeni Primary School with building up an organic vegetable and banana garden aimed to feed the...

Ngara, TZ – Mukerehe Primary School office supplies assistance improves school and community ties – Oct 2024

Mukirehe Primary School, committee, and students thank SODAT for the office and football equipment support that assists students to grow academically and physically. The school...

Utete, TZ – Growth of KCM projects creates life changing opportunities for families and children – Oct 2024

Better Lives invited UK school groups to visit and contribute to KCM community projects. These visits have created hosting job opportunities that benefit the lives...

Kasaka, UG – Basooka VICOBA group registers to assist FAITH gardening, earning, and health – Oct 2024

This month villagers in Kasaka-Gomba achieved an important step toward better lives for their families by registering Basooka VICOBA (Village Community Bank). In the last...

Battambang, KH – How visiting schools assist families and schools – Sep 2024

Salee Oum

This summer, visiting schools from UK successfully built vegetable gardens and constructed toilets with disadvantaged families in Battambang. They also engaged with local schools by...

Kahe, TZ – Improved cooking facility is one hygiene step in the strategy to improve primary school children’s health. – Sep 2024

At Tupendane, we firmly believe that food is fundamental to health and well-being. Our initiatives at Ginja Primary School have successfully established flourishing gardens, allowing...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Successfull Gardening at Lasso Primary School after installing an Irrigation Water System – Sep 2024

Merry Andrea

Lasso Primary School Children have had a few years of hardship because of lack of easy availability of irrigation water to their Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) garden....

Ngara, TZ – SJ poultry business is benefiting community families’ lives – Sep 2024

SJ’s poultry business has significantly improved market accessibility for local farmers, allowing families to sell their beef chickens in response to growing demand in nearby...

Utete, TZ – DFT delivery business taking another shape and growing – Sep 2024

The DFT family embarked on a transformative journey when it successfully secured a loan of 4.8 million TZS in 2019 from KCM in collaboration with...

Kikondo, UG – Merged Kigasa/Zinabala VICOBA organizes first project – Sep 2024

The Zinabala and Kigasa group have merged to make one VICOBA of 70 members. Now they must learn to govern the larger group and practice...

Kikondo, UG – FMJ family adds staple crops to agriculture business – Aug 2024

The FMJ family (previously named GJM without clan reference https://betterlives.org/2023/06/kikondo-ug-family-adapts-organic-gardening-to-commercial-growing-june-2023/ ) has successfully grown maize, bringing more profit to its agriculture business. In June 2023...

Siem Reap, KH – School groups from UK and South Africa assist Peaksneng Shop to assist families and community – Aug 2024

Reynaldo Diez

This year our community hosted seven groups of student volunteers coming from different schools in UK and South Africa. They assisted our Peasneng Shop to...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Mkyashi Mamas join together to improve their girls’ health – Aug 2024

Merry Andrea

Lishe Bora Maendeleo Vicoba group has been continuously supporting their community by focusing on health and educational support. Through some knowledge and loans assistances from...

Ngara, TZ – JSK business is using opportunities to grow one step at a time – Aug 2024

JSK employed as a gardener at Mukibogoye Primary School gardening for students breakfast. He fully paid 2,884,000 TZS loan for his rent-own motorcycle for the...

Utete, TZ – KCM garden improvements raises harvests to benefit the community – Aug 2024

KCM garden improvements have raised the garden harvest to 14 Kgs per day for feeding special needy groups in the community. 7 Kgs feeds kindergarten...

Moshe, TZ – Kahe Primary Schools welcomed High School students from Ireland and UK this summer – Aug 2024