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Mukibogoye primary school in Ngara district in collaboration with SODAT continued improving its banana field by using better growing methods learned from the local farming...

Kikondo, UG – HHJ Family Hopes to Expand Crop Growing and Pig Raising for Nutrition and Children’s Education – 30 Oct 2021

30 Oct 2021

The HHJ family is working hard growing kale in their FAITH garden and starting a pig raising business with mentoring provided by Better Lives and...

Kikondo, UG – Village assists SMW family’s goat and crop businesses to rise again after COVID-19 tragedy – 30 Sep 2021

During the Uganda COVID lockdown, the enterprising father of the SMW family died of the disease, leaving his wife and seven children grieving in economic...

Utete, TZ – Family visit daughter at boarding school – 30 Sep 2021

KCM manager Frank’s family were very happy and proud when they visited Agnes at Sisters of Mary boarding school in Kibaha region on parents visit...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Small vegetable garden is helping improve family health – 30 Sep 2021

The EBM family started their organic vegetable garden with training and assistance from the Lishe Bora garden shop team three years ago. Since then, the...

Ngara, TZ – Schools prepare corn fields on time – 30 Sep 2021

SODAT collaborated closely with three schools to successfully prepare for planting five acres of land with corn. They worked together to design the planting and...

Siem Reap, KH – Supportive community is building children’s confidence – 30 Sep 2021

The Rent-to-Own home community in Peaksneng near Siem Reap, Cambodia is proving to be a safe, healthy and happy environment that gives children more confidence...

Kilimanjaro TZ – Mkyashi water collection tanks no longer needed? – 30 Sep 2021

These water tanks served the community from mid 2016 to 2020, after Lishe Bora in collaboration with BetterLives made it possible for more than 21...

Kikondo, UG – COVID response encourages community spirit – 30 Aug 2021

The COVID pandemic in Uganda has presented extreme challenges, but has also offered an opportunity to Wamukisa and the Zinabala Village Community Banking (VICOBA) group...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – EA family installs home electicity connection and invests in a barber shop – 31 Aug 2021

The EA family are smiling becuase they have connected their home to the electricity grid, and have invested in a barber shop business. Elizabeth the...

Siem Reap, KH – Living with a pandemic – 31 Aug 2021

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The corona virus has spared no one. Lives and livelihoods have been turned upside down. Families have been separated by lockdown measures. Business and communities...

Moshi, TZ – Kahe community seeks a natural balance between Donkeys and Grow-own-Breakfast program for their Children – 31 Aug 2021

Finally, we all agree with ” love to children first” by being one team through collaboration among Ward and Village government leaders, Schools committees, Donkey...

Utete, TZ – Family sells chickens to purchase a home water connection – 31 Aug 2021

The OMM family are feeling encouraged because their chicken project continues to gradually recover after the pandemic lock-down, and they now have a clean water...

Moshi, TZ – Tupendane Manager Deo gives thanks for surviving COVID-19 – 31 Jul 2021

31 Jul 2021

Today, 12 Aug 2021, is my most blessed birthday ever. This is because, thanks to our Almighty God and through the prayers and Love of...

Kikondo, UG – GRY family welcomes their home water standpipe – 30 Jul 2021

31 Jul 2021

Mama GRY is delighted because she saved enough in a year to install a home water standpipe for her family. She is very grateful to...

Siem Reap, KH – Rey presents Sareun and Aikon the title for their home and land – 31 Jul 2021

31 Jul 2021

Rey Diez, manager of Peaksneng Thormacheat Garden Shop, is so very happy to present Sareun and Aikon with their ownership title for their Rent-to-Own home....

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Shop team and “Lighthouse” family assist neighbor – 15 June 2021

15 Jun 2021

The Lishe Bora garden shop team and one of Lishe Bora’s long-standing “Lighthouse” families is assisting the EBM family to rebuild their home vegetable garden...

Utete, TZ – Asha is growing vegetables for the kindergarten breakfast again – 15 June 2021

15 Jun 2021

Asha is now strong enough to work in the garden growing vegetables for the kindergarten breakfast. She has completed her treatment and is back to...

Ngara, TZ – New banana trees start to supply school breakfast – 15 June 2021

15 Jun 2021

The Mukibogoye Primary School and local community are very grateful for Better Lives partner SODAT’s assistance with re-planting their banana trees after disease devastated the...

Siem Reap, KH – SS and the Peaksneng garden shop promote organic growing – 31 May 2021

31 May 2021

SS is a village official who assists the people, and is a believer in the value of organic growing and compost fertilizer. He practices what...

Battambang, KH – Vegetable gardens contribute to income during COVID-19 – 31 May 2021

30 May 2021

Sokherm has been preparing new raised beds to plant salad and lettuce. He has built five each for salad and lettuce. In two weeks time,...

Utete, TZ – Livestock transportation impacted by changing regulations – 15 May 2021

The ever-changing regulatory and economic conditions in Utete region are a challenge for Dickson and his community. Dickson was attempting to buy and sell livestock,...

Ngara, TZ – Mukibogoye Primary School is using the new storage building – 15 May 2021

Mukibogoye Primary School has de-husked, sorted and bagged their corn harvest for the first time in their new storage building that was built last year....

Kikondo, UG – Building mutual trust starts in the garden – 15 May 2021

The GJM family has been developing mutual trust with our partner Wamukisa since 2017 because of how they have cared for, and been able to...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Mkyashi community briefs partner about water supply challenges – 15, May 2021

Mkyashi families want to restart the flow of piped water in their community, so they recently briefed the manager of Better Lives partner Tupendane about...

Moshi, TZ – Good harvesting under a grey sky! – 15 May 2021

The sky maybe cloudy and grey, but the students of Mwangaria Primary School have bright spirits as they harvest the school’s corn field for their...

Siem Reap, KH – Savun has built trust to qualify for affordable housing – 30 April 2021

30 Apr 2021

The Peaksneng Thormacheat garden shop started assisting Savun five years ago, and now he has qualified for affordable housing in the form of a Rent-to-Own...

Battambang, KH – Garden shop assists families during COVID – 30 Apr 2021

30 Apr 2021

COVID infections, while still at a relatively low level compared to many countries, are on the rise in Cambodia. This means eating from family gardens...

Moshi, TZ – Furaha Group expecting success – 15 April 2021

15 Apr 2021