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Co-existence with the local community and crop protection are key factors we consider for our Grow-own-Breakafast (GOB) programs in primary schools below Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania....

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora is partnering with Rollins College Students to assist Mkyashi Primary school – Apr 2024

The Lishe Bora team has identified that Mkyashi Primary school faces some challenges, and lack of enough quality breakfast for the school’s students. The Lishe...

Ngara, TZ – MVG VICOBA repays corn trading loan and switches to the rice business – Apr 2024

After a year, the MVG Vicoba group has successfully paid SODAT its 4.9 M TZS total corn loan after trading corn in Ngara main market....

Utete, TZ – ASM hopes to assist Kindwitwi Village families with money transaction services – Apr 2024

ASM family business is making one step at a time, believing Vicoba savings and sesame harvests benefits would change his life by launching money transactions...

Kasaka, UG – Wamukisa’s small sustainable steps expand Kasaka programs – Apr 2024

During April Wamukisa used the last part of Uganda’s dry season to continue expanding Kasaka-Gomba operations by improving its headquarters farmhouse with plastered exterior walls,...

Siem Reap, KH – Thank you to visiting student volunteers from UK and South Africa – Apr 2024

March 28 marked the start of welcoming students to Peaksneng Village this year, we are very grateful to them and pleased to highlight the contributions...

Battambang, KH – Visiting students will be assisting families this summer – Apr 2024

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In this quarterly report we outline the progress and impact of the support provided by visiting foreign students to families in past years, and look...

Digos City, PH – Food Always In The Home (FAITH) organic gardening knowledge helps provide jobs – Mar 2024

This letter from Rey Diez, who started Sunrise shop near Digos City, Philippines by teaching organic vegetable growing techniques of the Food Always In The...

Ngara, TZ – AJ business to expand and assist more families – Mar 2024

After a year of experiencing sardine business selling from home, and on the Fridays and Saturday market days each week, AJ realized there is an...

Utete, TZ – Student visitors assist families and children with their projects – Mar 2024

The SM school students raised funds to assist Better lives and KCM to extend and maintain its community projects and programs to benefit more families...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Community organization and visiting students assist rural schools in Tanzania – Mar 2024

The Lishe Bora team, Better Lives and Rollins University in Florida, USA have developed a regular hosting program that has run since 2014. It has...

Moshi, TZ – Local community organization is requesting assistance for disadvantaged rural schools – Mar 2024

Local community organization Tupendane wishes to expand its assitance to more newly applying schools, which have students who are not assured a meal every school...

Kikondo, UG – Cold Drinks Here! LBL Family continues their growth with rainwater – Mar 2024

The path of LBL father’s family has moved in many different positive ways since he and his sons started their FAITH garden seven years ago,...

Siem Reap, KH – Health is wealth – Feb 2024

Eun Dun, lives North East of the New Peaksneng Rent-to-own-Home community, just outside it. He has known the Peaksneng garden shop for many years, and...

Ngara, TZ – School parents target to supply school breakfast ingredients, and need assistance to improve kitchen – Feb 2024

SODAT in collaboration with her three schools agreed with parents to start contributing a full amount of the yearly child feeding ingredients from their home...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Kisuluni primary school’s creative water supply – Feb 2024

Lishe Bora is proud of being able to build a low cost local built gravity irrigation system at Kisuluni primary school, which feeds a covered...

Utete, TZ – AOM’s lifepath includes assisting others – Feb 2024

Finally, AOM returned back home to her family from her first semester in college and decided to volunteer her time to assist her community families,...

Moshe, TZ – Parent volunteers are assisting with building a school vegetable and banana garden where there was none – Feb 2024

The Tupendane team and Management has been able to make a successful small test vegetable and banana garden at Soko Primary school, which is a...

Kikondo, UG – OOR family’s children harvest nutrition and education from Food Always In the Home (FAITH) vegetable garden – Feb 2024

Whether picking nutritious greens or learning at Benam nursery school, the OOR children have benefitted greatly from the family’s FAITH garden. OOR family has four...

Digos City, PH – Farmer rediscovers path to sustainable living – Jan 2024

Chico Diez was very young when he learned how to plant corn and upland rice, and life was easy then. As the years went by,...

Moshi, TZ – Moshi district government improves nutrition and education for children with special needs – Jan 2024

Children living with disabilities in the Kahe community have not received sufficient caring support for their health and education needs over a long period. However,...

Ngara, TZ – SODAT, schools and families’ achievements in 2023 – Jan 2024

In 2023, the SODAT team assisted schools and the community to save costs of maintaining farming production. Also, volunteer parents enabled the SODAT team to...

Utete, TZ – KCM expands Grow-own-Breakfast assistance to Siasa Primary and Utete Secondary schools – Jan 2024

KCM in collaboration with the village Vicoba volunteer families, has maintained relationships and trust in gardening production for a daily breakfast for school children and...

Kikondo, UG – With VICOBA assistance, FMJ adds poultry to family businesses – Jan 2024

FMJ family’s standard of living has improved by adding broiler chicken sales to its activities to earn income. It was in June 2019 that the...

Utete, TZ – Village Community Banking (VICOBA) group is assisting families who assist their community – Dec 2023

RYJ joined the Village Community Banking (VICOBA) group called Vicoba Volunteer Families ( V V F ) believing that the savings, knowledge and loans from...

Moshi, TZ – Ginja Primary students celebrate saving banana seedlings from flood – Dec 2023

The impact of flooding was overcome in Kahe School District by quickly saving and building a seedbank stock of banana seedlings in the area’s Primary...

Kikondo, UG – Zinabala VICOBA reports successful year 2023 with opportunities for 2024 – Dec 2023

Before the December holidays members of Zinabala, some posed wearing their new VICOBA uniform shirts, met to learn results from 2023 reporting opened by the...

Ngara, TZ – SJ’s poultry business success assists him to start a timber business – Dec 2023

In addition to his poultry business, SJ has launched a new business selling timber after harvesting from the three acres of tree fields planted by...

Mkyashi, TZ – School vegetable gardens are commercial gardens during the holidays to assist sustaining Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) Program – Dec 2023

The Lishe Bora team, in collaboration with students and teachers of both Lasso and Kisuluni primary schools, has assisted the school children to succesfully grow...

Digos City, PH – Food Always In The Home (FAITH) garden can change a family’s life – Dec 2023