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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

Deogratius Matemu

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

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

LY family was once featured in Better Lives monthly article “Productive garden assist family to follow their dream” in 2020. Now maybe I should call...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Feed children today for our own better society of tomorrow – Jan 2023

Education is one item which plays a key contribution to the wellbeing of our Mkyashi village in Kilimanjaro.Lishe bora identify a gap in the Kisuluni...

Utete, TZ – VICOBA group purchases a modern farm spray pump – Jan 2023

The Vicoba volunteer families thank KCM and Better lives for supporting them with a loan for buying a modern powered agricultural spray pump. It is...

Kikondo, UG – Zinabala VICOBA expands influence and harvests another good crop – Jan 2023

Michael Kiwanuka

In challenging weather conditions, Zinabala VICOBA is harvesting and storing another abundant maize crop as well as staging two more bee hives for delivery by...

Moshi, TZ – Sustainable Banana Management – Jan 2023

Deogratius Matemu

Bananas have been one of the major ingredients in the children’s meals at Kahe primary schools through their Grow-own-Breakfast (GOB) program assisted by Tupendane and...

Kikondo, UG – Rose sells pigs to invest in income producing land — 31 Dec 2022

Rose is smiling with cash in her hands because she achieved her target of selling her pigs this month, leaving her pens empty except for...

Ngara, TZ – Students learn and participate in Kabalenzi school clean water installation – 31 Dec 2022

SODAT in collaboration with KBL school’s board and parents continued improving their children’s life, health, and learning environment by building toilet blocks and installing clean...

Moshi, TZ – Mobile solar electric pump assists Tupendane team to manage drought risk – 31 Dec 2022

Application of an alternative cheap source of energy is of a key importance to the sustainability of our affordable safe food production in the current...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Strong marketing plays major role in our business growth in Mkyashi Village Community – 31 Dec 2022

What a joyfully day when women from Lishe Jamii Vicoba receives their first loan from Lishe Bora through their supports program from Better Lives. Lishe...

Utete, TZ – IBM’s innovation – 31 Dec 2022

TN family thanks KCM for the gardening and business knowledge they received alongside training Vicoba families’ savings and volunteering in productions to assist KCM self-sufficiently...

Digos City, PH – Rising Sun garden shop has good organically grown tomato crop – 31 Dec 2022

The Rising Sun garden shop knows of the urgent need for a more sustainable and ecological approach to growing food, and has produced many innovative...

Ngara, TZ – Mukirehe School partners with local social enterprise to manage banana field – 30 Nov 2022

It is seven months since Mukirehe School and parents met to partner with SODAT for management services for banana fields that includes maintaining and recording...

Siem Reap, KH – NN family survive COVID lockdowns, weather challenges and recent inflation thanks to their vegetable garden – 30 Nov 2022

The NN family have survived COVID-19, weather extremes and high inflation due in part to Russsian invation of Ukraine that together have created a world...

Moshi, TZ – Earning income for sustainable feeding program at Kahe Primary School – 30 Nov 2022

Tupendane has been improving the design of its GOB (Grow your Own Breakfast) program at the primary schools in Tanzania. One of the improvements strategy...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora and local government cooperate to deliver water to more families – 30 Nov 2022

MM is one of the 20 new families who now have a new drinking water connections for their homes. Drinking water was a big challenge...

Utete, TZ – HSN is very grateful to KCM for a Rent-To-Own motorcycle loan – 30 Nov 2022

The Rent-To-Own motorcycle loan has enabled HSN to start a people and packages delivery service in his community of Kindwitwi and the neighboring towns that...

Kikondo, UG – Jaja Sarah’s Kindergarten Recalls History and Plans Future – 30 Nov 2022

JaJa Sarah, who leads Wamukisa Support Organization in Kikondo village, will celebrate more than 40 years of teaching young children when she opens kindergarten the...

Utete, TZ – Kindergarten garden club is great fun! – 31 Oct 2022

After the KCM team assisted the start of Malihai garden club, with boarding students at Utete secondary school, the team started a garden club with...

Moshe, TZ – Happy meal in Kahe! – 31 Oct 2022

A breakfast serving is one of the joyfully activities that Tupendane is assisting the children of Mwangaria primary school with. Tupendane team in Kahe Ward...

Kikondo, UG – SMW family rebuilding their goat herd! – 31 Oct 2022

Wamukisa manager Michael visited the SMW family’s expanded goat rearing project just in time to help walk the flock home for the evening. After losing...

Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Jamii Village Community Banking group is earning sustainable income and assisting children to strengthen their health – 31 Oct 2022

Lishe Jamii VICOBA Group was established in January 2022 with 12 members aiming to start a nutritious flour selling business, the members were originally assisted...

Siem Reap, KH – Savun’s daughter and granddaughter enjoy their banana and vegetable garden – 31 Oct 2022

Savun really missed his family time when he was separated from them. Now that they are reunited in their Rent-to-Own home he believes that gardening...

Ngara, TZ – Mazingira VICOBA tree nursery is getting going! – 31 Oct 2022

The Mazingira Village Community Banking Association (VICOBA) is taking one step at a time and has now started to pay its loan repayments successfully after...

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...

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...

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...

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