Tanzania

Key problem

Poor rural small-scale subsistence farmers in Kilimanjaro Region, particularly women on their own, face deep poverty.  They are struggling to reach new markets which would provide income to transform their lives.

What are we doing?

We are helping people (mostly women) to establish and manage sustainable profitable businesses to preserve fruit, vegetables and spices using simple low-cost, locally made dryers. We are also helping them, by improving quality control and packaging, to sell their produce locally as well as break into more formal and lucrative markets.  With our partner KWIECO we aim to reach new parts of Kilimanjaro Region through the Kilimanjaro’s Natural Food Co-operative (KNFC) and to establish a technical enquiry service on solar drying to reach other parts of Tanzania.

Key problem

Our partner KWIECO has been helping vulnerable and destitute women, widowed or often deserted because they have HIV/AIDs, to keep their legal right to their children and their land. Yet whilst these women are struggling to ‘put food on the table’ this can be too hard a challenge, and KWIECO asked APT to help them have a livelihood. 

What are we doing?

We are helping 400 destitute, abused women to obtain a source of income through employment or self-employment.  This helps them to obtain their basic needs – food, healthcare, education.  They are then in a position to fight for their rights and helped by raising awareness of what their legal rights are, mediation and other services, they can transform their lives.

Saidati is a mother of 4 children who has been helped with a loan and taught how to secure the best prices for her trade in bananas, fish and vegetables for her small but busy kiosk. She is very happy “the family is now sure of 3 meals a day and I manage to pay for school tuition for all my children”.

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