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It is one year now since the collaboration between the Mwangaria Community, Tupendane team, Richard Challoner School students and teachers from UK built up both...

Ngara, TZ – TMH crop trading and shop businesses – Jun 2023

TMH’s staple crops trading business is growing sustainably, and now he has launched a retail and supply shop business in town through Vicoba savings after...

Utete, TZ – VICOBA volunteer families benefit from high sesame prices – Jun 2023

The Vicoba volunteer families finally harvested their sesame when it was the highest selling price ever in the market. A harsh drought affecting the sesame...

Kikondo, UG – Family adapts organic gardening to commercial growing – June 2023

The GJM family excels at creative and adaptable ways to earn income on the path to sustainable living, now including a large garden to grow...

Siem Reap, KH – Dream does come true – May 2023

Cambodia has been deeply marked by years of war. Over the past 6 years since we started our program, poverty in the villages has decreased,...

Moshi, TZ – Training children for sustainable living – May 2023

Children, teachers, parents of primary schools in Kahe, Moshi, Tanzania are practicing a Grow-own-Breakfast program in collaboration with Tupendane. The program has benefited the children...

Ngara, TZ – MKB laptop and printer improving school academics – May 2023

Mukibogoye Primary School staff, and students thank SODAT for the office equipment support that will assist students to grow academically. The school received a laptop...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora provides knowledge to children for opening up their path towards sustainable living – May 2023

Children, teachers, parents of Kisuluni primary schools in Mkyashi, Tanzania, in collaboration with Lishe Bora managed to start a banana growing program in school. The...

Utete, TZ – Asha’s house loan payment completion story – May 2023

Asha’s family is happier now that they have home ownership after completing nine years loan payments. She thanks KCM and BL for the loan and...

Kikondo, UG – SMW family earns and saves money from FAITH garden – May 2023

28 May 2023

The resilient SMW family, one of the early participants in Wamukisa’s Food Always In The Home ( FAITH ) gardening program, continues to thrive with...

Ngara, TZ – MVG Vicoba expands from tree nursery to also corn trading – Apr 2023

Mazingira Vicoba Group (MVG) is making good progress one step at a time every year toward its sustainability, growing in business and investment to benefit...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora is starting a catering business – Apr 2023

Lishe Bora is starting a catering services business as a way to build its own sustainability, so that it can continue to assist local schools...

Utete, TZ – Vicoba families Sesame production and business development story – Apr 2023

The farmers who planted their Sesame fields as usual, in January after the first rain, lost their sesame because it died due to the drought....

Digos City, PH – Squash garden creates better health and income – Apr 2023

The Sunrise shop has become a good example and mentor of growing techniques to the families in Barangay Colonsabak, Purok 5 Barak. The shop shares...

Moshi, TZ – Maendeleo Primary students re-build their thorn bush fence and vegetable garden – Apr 2023

The students are rebuilding their fence of thorn bushes, which protects their school breakfast vegetable garden, after sheep and goats broke through it and enjoyed...

Kikondo, UG – MVP Family FAITH garden saves money and improves nutrition – Apr 2023

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The MVP family’s three children smile as they re-plant kale seedlings inter-cropped with beans in their FAITH garden. MVP mother and father had lived in...

Ngara, TZ – AJ’s sardine business story – Mar 2023

31 Mar 2023

AJ, a thirteen years experienced cook in Mukirehe school, is rejoicing after receiving and paying back all of the 800,000 TZS entrepreneurship capital loan from...

Utete, TZ – Siasa Primary School starts their Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) – Mar 2023

31 Mar 2023

KCM collaboration with Siasa Primary school and students’ parents began to implement a breakfast serving program through the “Grow-own-Breakfast program”. To develop a longtime existing...

Siem Reap, KH – Mrs PWP explains why the family values their home vegetable garden – Mar 2023

31 Mar 2023

In the dry season (37 degree C / 98 degress F) in rural Cambodia Peaksneng, some families argue about who among them has the greenest...

Moshi, TZ – Local indigenous knowledge on dealing with extreme Draught in Kahe – Mar 2023

30 Mar 2023

The Global Effect of the weather has been well experienced by the school children of Kahe primary schools on their school feeding program in the...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Drought on Mt Kilimanjaro and its effects on the Children health at Lasso and Kisuluni Primary Schools – Mar 2023

30 Mar 2023

During these difficult moment of the long drought on Kilimanjaro Slopes, the Kirua Kahe water project has failed to constantly supply enough water to our...

Kikondo, UG – VICOBA member expands tree nursery business – Mar 2023

30 Mar 2023

Wamukisa team members Michael and Rose explored Kikondo’s expanded avocado and eucalyptus tree nursery. KIP family started the tree nursery business two years ago when...

Siem Reap, KH – Mother’s gift to her children is food and education – Feb 2023

Providing Food and education to Ra children as a single mother is the thing that Ra called achievement. Since her husband Chea went to prison,...

Utete, TZ – OM hopes that new development in Kindwitwi area will increase demand for his egg and chicken meat business – Feb 2023

The New ward office, Secondary school and Vocation training center will be located in OM’s village, and OM hopes this will add value to his...

Kikondo, UG – Benam Nursery School serves breakfast and learning to local children – Feb 2023

School term 1 started in February with Jaja Sarah, the director of Wamukisa Support Organization and chairperson of Zinabala VICOBA, opening her new school room...

Ngara, TZ – Schools’ corn farm harvests and parent contributions sustain school breakfast – Feb 2023

The three schools don’t have sufficient land to harvest enough corn to sustain yearly feeding requirements until the next harvesting season. This made the schools...

Moshi, TZ – Children when assisted are proving to make their own daily breakfast at schools – Feb 2023

Assurance of daily breakfast availability for children in primary schools in Kahe is one of the major Challenges, which becomes Top priority for Tupendane to...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Small strategic sustainable step is a key to the Human lives improvement – Feb 2023

Afya Bora Women Vicoba group has been progressing through the Lives Improvements path of its members since when they started their nutritious flour business last...

Ngara, TZ – TMH is happy to receive a VICOBA loan to buy a motorcycle for his crop trading business – Jan 2023

31 Jan 2023

TMH is a Mukirehe Primary school cook who received loan of 700,000 TZS from the Village Community Bank called Mazingira Vicoba Group (MVG). He used...

Siem Reap, KH – Productive garden assists family to pay their Rent-to-Own home’s rent on time – Jan 2023

31 Jan 2023