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A small test vegetable and banana garden is showing small signs of success. This is so important because the health and education of the 200...

Siem Reap, KH – UK school students assisted Peaksneng community this summer – Oct 2023

31 Oct 2023

Two UK schools traveled to Peaksneng Rent-to-Own home community in Cambodia this summer. They learned about organic vegetable gardening techniques, through hands on training, and...

Battambang, KH – Pak visits families to mentor and offer assistance – Oct 2023

31 Oct 2023

Salee Oum

Pak has always dreamed of making a positive impact in his community, which is why he works with Healthy Life Reinforcement shop and manager Salee...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Water for our Primary School Children’s Health at Kisuluni – Sep 2023

Lishe Bora team, with support from their partner Tupendane, has made it possible for the children and community of Kisuluni primary school area to access...

Kikondo, UG – GRY Family expands growing to supply school with commercial garden harvests – Sep 2023

The GRY family has expanded their agriculture activities by renting one-half acre of land to grow bitterberries (small eggplants). The family is among the five...

Siem Reap, KH – Lighting up the Rent-to-Own home community – Sep 2023

Around 70 per cent of people in Cambodia have no access to electricity, so most villages in the Cambodian countryside are covered in darkness after...

Utete, TZ – ASM solar business brings electric light to rural homes – Sep 2023

ASM family is a member of the VICOBA Volunteer Families (VVF) who are volunteering their energy and time to assist KCM with organic vegetable production...

Ngara, TZ – GSK believes that owning land is vital – Sep 2023

GSK has purchased an acre of land after MVG VICOBA’s earnings and savings were divided as shares to its members in August this year. GSK...

Moshe, TZ – School’s commercial vegetable and banana gardens role in the sustainability of their Grow own Breakfast program in Kahe Ward Tanzania – Sep 2023

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Children, teachers and parents of Mwangaria are succesfuly producing their own healthy vegetables and bananas from their school’s gardens. The harvests have been contributing to...

Battambang, KH – Mentoring assists PE family to build a productive garden – Sep 2023

Salee Oum

Mentoring can be extremely beneficial for poor families. Firstly, Healthy Life shop’s mentoring has provided valuable knowledge and guidance on cultivation techniques, suitable plants for...

Moshi, TZ – UK School assists Grow-own-Breakfast program in Kahe, Tanzania – Aug 2023

The collaboration between True Adventure, Better Lives and local partner Tupendane in Tanzania facilitated hosting of a group of UK students and teachers from King...

Ngara, TZ – Cook ELN starts a clothes selling business – Aug 2023

ELN has launched a clothes selling business using his portion of the MVG VICOBA group’s profits that were distributed in July this year. He received...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Sharing knowledge to improve lives – Aug 2023

The children and teachers of Kisuluni and Lasso primary schools in Mkyashi areas have been trained by the Lishe Bora team about different knowledge and...

Utete, TZ – SRN FAITH garden is a source of food, income and savings – Aug 2023

SRN’s organic Food Always In The Home (FAITH) garden has become a health and economic aid for the family by contributing daily green vegetables to...

Kikondo, UG – Zinabala VICOBA starts new business that supplies liquid soap to schools – Aug 2023

Zinabala VICOBA met to start their new income producing investment by learning to mix the ingredients of liquid soap for sale. Member Gladys stirred the...

Digos City, PH – JS has dreams for a beautiful future – Aug 2023

JS is a young man, hardworking and very eager to learn, he grew up as a farmer like his father. From the age he started...

Moshi, TZ – Tupendane and UK school team up to repair Mwangaria School’s cooking pots – Jul 2023

A few months ago the children of Mwangaria primary school were facing a challenge of how their meals were to be prepared after their two...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Sustainable School feeding program on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro – Jul 2023

Lishe Bora team is working hard training children and teachers about different strategies for ensuring daily school meals are produced sustainably at the Lasso and...

Ngara, TZ – Trial using no industrial fertilizer – Jul 2023

SODAT in collaboration with three Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) program schools harvested 7.5 acres of beans for 2,278 students’ daily breakfast serving. The seeds had been purchased...

Utete, TZ – DFT starts community shop business – Jul 2023

Finally, DFT family business and income grew after launching a retailer shop in the village center to assist in providing home basic needs, school supplies...

Kidondo, UG – family adds commercial garden to its agribusiness – Jul 2023

The YNM family has started its own agriculture business using earnings from maintaining Kikondo’s Zinabala VICOBA staple crop garden ( https://betterlives.org/2022/05/kikondo-ug-zinabala-vicoba-staple-crop-progresses-well-in-rainy-season-31-may-2022/ ). The family couldn’t...

Moshi, TZ – Commercial Banana & Crop Garden is a step on the Grow your Own Breakfast (GOB) program’s path to sustainability – June 2023

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