TATU Project
Moshi
Tanzania
Contact person: Yi Fan
info@tatuproject.org
http://www.tatuproject.org/
https://www.facebook.com/TATUProject/?ref=page_internal
Topics
- Commune, community project
- Educational policy/project
- Environmental project
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
TATU Project is a non-governmental organization, created in 2013, that conducts development projects pertinent to Education, Empowerment and Environment. Our priorities are based on our 2014 baseline survey. From this research, we identified five problem areas which we try to address, often in collaboration with partners or other NGOs that complement TATU Project’s expertise. The problem areas are: improving Education, Environmental challenges, Health care, Marginalization and Access to Water.
TATU Project’s mission is to facilitate equal and sustainable development projects together with the community members of Msitu wa Tembo and Londoto in northern Tanzania.
We address community needs and build effective solutions through active collaboration with members of Msitu Wa Tembo and Londoto and relevant stakeholders.
The majority of our projects are set up within the Kazi na Sala women’s group and/or in cooperation with the various responsible committees in the community. The women’s group was started by TATU Project but is nowadays an independent legal entity, managed by, and for the women.
Programs and Projects:
W.E. Women Empowerment Program - An empowerment program for women to gain agency through seminars, financial skills and opportunities, and health initiatives.
W.E. Thrive:Economic Women Empowerment projects:
• Masaa - Maasai Jewelry Business Development:This business consists of selling handmade Maasai jewelry locally and internationally to share a long-standing tradition of jewelry making among the Maasai, while encouraging economic and social development. This project is run by a group of Maasai women, which are within the ‘Kazi na Sala’ women’s group in the community.
• Bicycle Business: : A bicycle rental shop for the community. This project is run by the women of ‘Kazi na Sala’. They manage the spare parts inventory, the shop’s accounting and also repair broken bicycles. This ensures that the women learn new skills and have autonomy in managing their business.
• Microlending Initiative: This project supports Kazi na Sala members in giving loans and encouraging entrepreneurship. This initiative is run by the women with support from TATU Project in technical training and management support. Both social loans and business loans are granted by the initiative to ‘Kazi na Sala’ members.
W.E. Care: Community Women Empowerment project:
• Kilipads social enterprise:The manufacturing of reusable sanitary pads and works to address the lack of knowledge regarding menstruation and curb taboos. With school girls being the main target, Kilipads conducts menstrual health seminars in the community’s schools for the purpose of raising awareness and distributing free sanitary pads to girls.
W.E. Grow: Personal Women Empowerment
•This initiative focuses on the women’s personal empowerment within their community. Through team building and self-realization, W.E. Grow provides women with the tools they need to become their own agents of change in the community by focusing on grassroots level empowerment at individual, relational, societal and institutional levels. W.E. Grow reaches out to women, through mediums like seminars, and provides them with a space to unlock their potential and discuss issues faced in their communities.
AFYA - Health Program:
• Medical Caravan - Healthcare for the community: Every year we conduct 2 medical caravans, in collaboration with a local non-profit, Pamoja Tunaweza,for the people of Msitu wa Tembo and surrounding communities, at the local dispensary.
• Kucheza ni Afya (Swahili for ‘Sports for Health’): We contribute towards the development and emotional well being of children through physical activities and sports. We work alongside physical education teachers in the community primary schools to design entertaining and educational games for students that support their growth and wellbeing.
• Chronic Illness Survey: Conducted in order to understand the prevalence of health problems in Msitu wa Tembo and Londoto and come up with feasible ways to solve them, while involving local healthcare professionals
• Home Based Care providers: Seven tanzanian volunteers that care for community members suffering from (often) chronic diseases. For these patients a visit to the dispensary is too expensive or is not an option because medicines are not available. An average of 61 patients receives a medical visit at their home per month.
• Community Health Workers: Group of seven women that raise health awareness through seminars in schools and community. With support from the Afya Program, the Community Health Workers provide seminars to the students of the 3 local primary schools and to the general community during the bi-annual medical caravans.
Research & Development - Work in identified areas to bring about development and growth in the communities we work with.
• Water - Work to provide residents acces
For other net participants we can procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.