Kikondo, UG – FNS family grows income with a staple crop garden – 30 Sep 2022
The FNS family has expanded their income-earning projects by saving to buy land for a large staple crop garden where they grow and harvest maize... Read More
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Siem Reap, KH – Rey presents BCO family with key to their Rent-to-Own home – 30 Sep 2022
The BCO family tested renting a small shop in Peaksneng market a while back, and fortunately it worked and they started to build trust with... Read More
Moshe, TZ – Social Enterprise Tupendane’s team assists schools, and plants banana trees for its own sustainability – 30 Sep 2022
Tupendane’s team of seven people has been continuously improving an Easy, Efficient, Effective and Enjoyable (4E) repeatable Grow-own-Breakfast process for the local schools’ teachers, children... Read More
Ngara, TZ – Ester cooks at school and starts catering business with VICOBA loan – 30 Sep 2022
Ester has been cooking and serving breakfast to children at Kabalenzi primary school since 2011. She is now expanding her cooking services to the community... Read More
Utete, TZ – MAN continues to improve her family life – 30 Sep 2022
MAN continues to improve her family life by volunteering to assist KCM with growing food for the kindergarten children, and receiving a sewing machine loan... Read More
Kilimanjaro, TZ – Afya Bora Village Community Bank group receives first loan – 30 Sep 2022
Mary, manager of local social enterprise Lishe Bora presented Afya Bora VICOBA group with the group’s first loan. The group started on 24 January 2022... Read More
Ngara, TZ – MVG VICOBA tree nursery is growing well – 31 Aug 2022
The MVG Village Community Banking Association (VICOBA) was established in July last year, and has now started a commercial tree nursery. The nursery team has... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Water well will assist sustainability of schools’ Grow-own-Breakfast – 31 Aug 2022
The Tupendane team and crane operator are installing concrete culverts that line the new well on the future Rent-to-Own (RTO) home land in Kahe. The... Read More
Siem Reap, KH – CKS family is dreaming of owning a home of their own – 31 Aug 2022
The CKS family started as one of the Peaksneng garden shop’s seasonal garden families a few years ago. Father is 55 years old and lives... Read More
Kichondo, UG – Rose saves for home by raising pigs to sell at holiday season – 31 Aug 2022
In Kikondo Village, Wamukisa team member Rose is known for her strength and hard work, her smile and humor, and her knowledge of pig raising... Read More
Utete, TZ – Asha’s next step on the path to her family’s sustainability – 31 Aug 2022
Asha has generously given her first house, which was built with a loan from KCM, to her mother and two sons to live in. Asha... Read More
Kilimanjaro, TZ – Kisuluni students are harvesting their Grow-own-Breakfast – 31 Aug 2022
A big thank you to Lishe Bora team’s mentoring of the students of Kisuluni primary school, it is paying off with productive harvests for their... Read More
Kikondo, UG – Zinabala VICOBA harvests an abundant maize and bean crop just ahead of drought – 31 Jul 2022
The Kikondo Zinabala VICOBA (Village Community Banking Association) group harvested in July the staple crop garden they started with February soil nourishment and early planting... Read More
Moshi, TZ – UK students assist Tanzanian primary school students while discovering Tanzania – 31 Jul 2022
UK students assisted Tanzanian primary school students to increase the sustainability of their Grow-own-Breakfast program by working together on new improvements. The visiting students, primary... Read More
Ngara, TZ – RP starts his motorcycle passenger and delivery business – 31 Jul 2022
RP has purchased a motorcycle with a combination of VICOBA (Village Community Banking Association) savings and a pay advance from his job as a school... Read More
Utete, TZ – MAN family is proud of sesame harvest – 31 Jul 2022
The MAN family is proud to have earned 200,000 TZS from their sesame harvest. MAN is one of the volunteer families assisting KCM to feed... Read More
Kilimanjaro, TZ – The power of education for FK – 31 Jul 2022
FK has been raised by her grandmother and father after his mother very sadly disappeared following his birth, due to a mental deficiency. He has... Read More
Digos City, PH – Rey assists his brother to access knowledge of organic gardening – 31 Jul 2022
Rey, manager of Peaksneng Thormacheat shop remembers his benefactor a priest who once said “you have received grace, skill and talent, everything needs to be... Read More
Battambang, KH – Healthy Life’s team still assisting families following the devastating pandemic – 31 Jul 2022
Healthy Life’s team is smaller but still assisting families to sustain their vegetable gardens following the devastating pandemic.
Moshi, TZ – Mwangaria primary school clearing the land to plant more banana trees to support their breakfast programme – 30 Jun 2022
Primary school students are clearing land and planting more banana trees. It is the next phase of the evolution of the school breakfast as it... Read More
Kikondo, UG – PEAS Samling Nama Secondary School Agriculture Club members get their hands dirty learning FAITH gardening – 30 Jun 2022
In the second school term, the PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) Nama Secondary School Agriculture Club Members continued learning FAITH (Food Always In The... Read More
Kilimanjaro, TZ – Rollins College group assists Lasso and Kisuluni primary school students to plant vegetables and banana trees – 30 Jun 2022
Students from Rollins College in Florida collaborated with Better Lives and the local social enterprise Lishe Bora in order to arrange a visit. They assisted... Read More
Ngara, TZ – Poor bean harvest causes search for a bean supply solution – 29 Jun 2022
The Ngara district experienced a lower than expected harvest this summer due to lack of rain affecting the flowering phase of the bean plants. This... Read More
Utete, TZ – Volunteer group moves kindergarten vegetable garden to more sustainable area – 29 Jun 2022
KCM’s manager Dickson has volunteered his land, and families have volunteered time and energy to assist moving the kindergarten garden from the game reserve area... Read More
Battambang, KH – Pak and his wife have been assisting vegetable garden families during COVID-19 – 29 Jun 2022
COVID’s impact on health and the economic survival has impacted many families, and most of the ones that Healthy Life mentors and assists have seriously... Read More
Kikondo, UG – Zinabala VICOBA staple crop progresses well in rainy season – 31 May 2022
Maize which the YNM Family Agriculture Group planted in March already has grown taller than the leader of the group, the grain is maturing well,... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Design for less running expenses for long term sustainability – 31 May 2022
The uncontrolled tremendous raising of fuel price in the world has become one of the obstacles towards school farming practices in Tanzania, as it has... Read More
Ngara, TZ – SJ encourages others to be entrepreneurial by starting a poultry business – 31 May 2022
SJ works for local social enterprise SODAT, and wants to encourage and assist his community’s youth to engage in entrepreneurship for self-employment additional income. He... Read More
Kilimanjaro, TZ – Mary’s mother is happy in her new home – 31 May 2022
Mary’s mother is now living comfortably and happily in a more spacious house that Mary built for her to live in. Mary explains that “my... Read More
Utete, TZ – OM Poultry business is sustainable – 31 May 2022
OM’s poultry business is generating an income that is contributing to repaying the chicken house (banda) loan, and home improvement loans from the local Village... Read More