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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Digos City, PH – Rey assists his brother to access knowledge of organic gardening – 31 Jul 2022

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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...

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

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...

Kikondo, UG – PEAS Samling Nama Secondary School Agriculture Club members get their hands dirty learning FAITH gardening – 30 Jun 2022

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...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Rollins College group assists Lasso and Kisuluni primary school students to plant vegetables and banana trees – 30 Jun 2022

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...

Ngara, TZ – Poor bean harvest causes search for a bean supply solution – 29 Jun 2022

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...

Utete, TZ – Volunteer group moves kindergarten vegetable garden to more sustainable area – 29 Jun 2022

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...

Battambang, KH – Pak and his wife have been assisting vegetable garden families during COVID-19 – 29 Jun 2022

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Siem Reap, KH – New Rent-to-Own house gives teacher and her elderly mother hope and a safe environment – 31 May 2022

A secure home is one of our basic human needs. In the village of Peaksneng so many families lack a proper roof over their heads,...

Kikondo, UG – Wamukisa trains PEAS Samling Nama Secondary School Agriculture Club – 30 Apr 2022

With the encouragement of the school’s administration and agriculture teacher Mr. Damulira Wilson, Wamukisa organized a training in organic farming methods for the members of...

Moshi, TZ – Building good relationships for a better tomorrow – 30 Apr 2022

Tupdendane team members Greenson and Naael are thanking Mr Matunzo for his support with ploughing 1.5 acres of Tupendane / Better Lives land. The Tupendane...

Ngara, TZ – SODAT is mentoring and assisting schools to sustain their banana production – 30 Apr 2022

Mukirehe Primary School is fighting a banana tree disease by removing the sick trees to stop the spread of the disease to other trees, and...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Kisiluni Primary School students are enjoying their daily meal – 30 Apr 2022

Lishe Bora is assisting Kisiluni Primary school to develop a program for serving their children a meal every day, in a way that the school...

Utete, TZ – KCM assists volunteer’s families to earn income from sesame and invest in businesses – 30 Apr 2022

KCM is assisting volunteer’s families with growing 8.5 acres of sesame by assisting with knowledge, farming tools and sprays to improve their commercial harvest. Sesame...

Siem Reap, KH – Rent-to-Own community members grow their food security during these economically challenging times – 30 Apr 2022