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Livingstone Tanzania Trust
Tanzania
The Livingstone Tanzania Trust, formed in April 2007, is a self-help development micro-charity with the mission of alleviating poverty in rural Tanzania. The Trust is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and in Tanzania, and is primarily focused on assisting communities around Babati in the Manyara Region in the northern part of the country. The Trust believes that education is the starting point to combating poverty and works with schools and communities, helping to build the skills and knowledge in the region.
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Current Projects
The Livingstone Tanzania Trust helps schools develop an appropriate income generating source; once schools are run efficiently by the local community, we can successfully extricate ourselves from the project while ensuring infrastructure is in place for continued growth. This is a fundamental part of the process and ensures long term sustainability of our projects. Finally, we work with the broader community outside of the schools to assess their different needs. Assistance includes helping establish working groups and cooperatives, as well as providing training, materials and micro-loans. We endeavor to help communities move from subsistence to subsistence plus farmers and extricate themselves from extreme poverty.
The first primary schools’ income generation idea was to establish a school farm where students are taught new farming skills such as water harvesting and conservation, irrigation, composting and use of manure, livestock husbandry and fish farming. The work acts as a practical demonstration to the community who can come and learn at “open days.“ Trust volunteers help communities in skill building and by providing resources and are engaged for a variety of time frames.
Aside from building classrooms, toilets and kitchen we are also developing a holistic school farm concept that can be copied by other schools and the local subsistance farmers. we also work with community groups assisting them with their development programes
Partner Needs
The Livingstone Tanzania Trust supports the majority of its projects via materials bought locally – the communities do not suffer from lack of availability of resources, but rather the funds to access them. The communities we work with live in extreme poverty and cannot afford the materials with which to build the schools or improve their homes and lifestyles. Buying these goods on their behalf can make excellent presents for birthdays and holidays. Examples of needed materials (via donation) include the following – please visit www.livingstonetanzaniatrust.com/library/files/Good%20Gifts%20Ideas.pdf for further ideas:
$16 Buys an electric-free fridge. In the hot African heat food can rot quickly. This storage pot chills fruit and vegetables and can keep them fresh for up to 2-3 weeks rather than 2-3 days. This will encourage more people to grown fruit and vegetables and so help improve their diet and health of the community. These pots are built by the local women’s groups and so a purchase also injects income directly into the community
$30 Buys one student a complete set of text books for a year (seven subjects). These can then be passed on to the following year group and ought to last 10 years.
$30 Buys five reading books for the school library which will last for years and be shared by all of the students.
$50 Buys one fuel efficient stove with back boiler for one household. Not only will this stove boil water as it cooks and so kill any water borne diseases it also uses up to 80% less firewood and so saves the forests. These stoves are built by the local women’s groups and so a purchase also injects income directly into the community.
$200 Sends a student to secondary school for a year; please make this a four-year donation. You can select a student on whatever criteria you think appropriate.
$1500 Build a new school kitchen and reduce their firewood demands and create a smoke free environment for the chef.
$12,000 Builds a classroom with new desks.
$45,000 to build a playground that generates electricity, pumps water and can transform the live of countless people for years to come
Financial Needs
$16 Buys an electric-free fridge. In the hot African heat food can rot quickly. This storage pot chills fruit and vegetables and can keep them fresh for up to 2-3 weeks rather than 2-3 days. This will encourage more people to grown fruit and vegetables and so help improve their diet and health of the community. These pots are built by the local women’s groups and so a purchase also injects income directly into the community
$30 Buys one student a complete set of text books for a year (seven subjects). These can then be passed on to the following year group and ought to last 10 years.
$30 Buys five reading books for the school library which will last for years and be shared by all of the students.
$50 Buys one fuel efficient stove with back boiler for one household. Not only will this stove boil water as it cooks and so kill any water borne diseases it also uses up to 80% less firewood and so saves the forests. These stoves are built by the local women’s groups and so a purchase also injects income directly into the community.
$200 Sends a student to secondary school for a year; please make this a four-year donation. You can select a student on whatever criteria you think appropriate.
$1500 Build a new school kitchen and reduce their firewood demands and create a smoke free environment for the chef.
$12,000 Builds a classroom with new desks.
$45,000 to build a playground that generates electricity, pumps water and can transform the live of countless people for years to come
In Kind Needs
We would very much like to hear from you if you can assist with teaching maths to teachers or business skills to the community groups
Mission Statement
The Livingstone Tanzania Trust has a simple development model is a simple one, rooted in baseline assessment and consultation with communities, particularly primary schools but also in kindergarten and secondary-level education. With this assessment, the Trust helps determine what the problems are, how they ought to be tackled and how progress can be measured. The Trust then collaborates in the community school, creating an environment in which the students want to lean, while working to increase teacher resources and training.