A school class constructed by the people of Katindiuka in collaboration with Friends of Ifakara makes these young children possible to acquire their basic education. Before the construction of this class it was not easy for them to learn in such beautiful class and population was more than 100 pupils in one class, hence lowered the attendance and the understanding level because of poor facilities existed to accommodate the number pupils. Our partnership with Katindiuka primary school is continuing on other projects like toilets for the pupils and extra classroom especially for kindergarten.

IALI Foundation comes as a sister organization of the Association of Friends of Ifakara officially registered this year 2019 under Tanzania NGOs act of 2002 with registration No. 00NGO/00010203. This does not only open up a new page of operations of its planned projects but also the continuation of already established and ongoing projects to people of Ifakara.

Since the establishment of project office in Ifakara 2013, worked in partnership with catholic diocese and the parish of Ifakara for the Association of Friends of Ifakara –Austria/German. The project office has implemented her projects regardless of encountered challenges during the period. The official registration of IALI Foundation in Tanzania comes to solve such encountered challenges as it will now operate independent NGO with all legal rights and obligations.

Such projects include; supporting parish works and catechists, agriculture and animal keeping for insuring food security and livelihood improvement at household level, education through sponsoring High Achieving Low Income students from poor families, empowering women on various socio-economic aspects like income generating activities, developing to them small entrepreneurship and agribusiness skills. Nevertheless, teaching and empowering the youth on life skills, ethics and HIV pandemic preventions and protection for good and better health not only individually but a society as a whole. This time also we focus on environment protection through education on climate change mitigation and tree planting.

Tree planting, landscaping and gardening project for youth 

Rice farming among women 

Animal keeping for goats

…and pigs for family income

Animal keeping for goats and pigs

School construction for young pupils 

Sunflower…our future new cash crop project within the region 

Tremendous appreciations go to the Association of Friends of Ifakara-Austria/German and all the people for facilitating this very important process of working independent and continuing funding our projects which in collaboration with the government aim at helping especially poor people to realize their livelihoods through the above mentioned interventions to young people and women in specific for the region.

Certificate of NGO registration according to Tanzanian laws and regulations

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Kilombero secondary school in Ifakara town is one of our partner that we work together in educating the young students on ethics, HIV prevention and life skills development. The project entails awareness creation on danger of HIV, teachings proper ways and means to avoid the disease and possible ways of infections, empower them on socio-economic skills like engaging on income generating activities to avoid temptations leading to early unsafe sex which is very common.  

This July we implemented together with students and teachers a social event of poems, songs, drama and music from various groups including students themselves to pass the knowledge among all participated people. The T-shirts were printed the club slogan, which also helped as motivation to the club members and awareness to many through it and among the outcome of the event was the official inauguration if the club at the school, more students joined the club of which more and more knowledge is expected to be disseminated to youth in order to create awareness on targeted issues for a safer society in general. We expect this club in the future to reach more schools and more people within Ifakara.

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This is Fransica Doka the orphanage, she lives with her grandparents who are incapable of managing her studies. Since she is in ordinary level schooling our association Friends of Ifakara took the responsibility of assisting on paying her studies, yet she is one of the best students in the project

(score the 2nd grade in her advanced level examination…congrats).

Today she demonstrates that being financially incapable is not a give a way thing to fail but with a support someone can manage to do better in school. She is proud for herself and the association for her achievement.

As she prepares joining university, she says her ambition is to be a geologist. Danke for all members of the association for a help to make this happens to her, she encourages this program to continue as it is very important to uplifting the students especially coming from poor families like the one she belongs.

The farming becomes interesting when the crops are seen shining like this in the field. To a farmer as well this is a time of charming as it falls in a truly image drawn during planting season. Every one is now proud of her efforts of farming as the field demonstrate the assurance of food and income at home, and the association too feels strong to make this happen to families we work together. Proud of our work from farm level to facilitatation level, this is now we call farming is charming. Asante sana the association of Friends of Ifakara.

People in need are everywhere regardless of the age or gender and our support touches also the life of such groups. Below in the pictures are orphanages from Huruma ya Mungu Orphanage center in Kikwawila Ifakara, as an association working with different groups in need we also thought to share our life by supporting these young children on important household stuff for them to feel are connected with us, in whatever way also feel our presence in their normal life of growth. Though we don’t share day to day life experience at the center but still we remember that there are such groups of people who need our connection, support and care. That’s what we did for them this Easter season and for sure we brought a smiling face to these youngs and the care takers as well. Our slogan was every day to make sure each have a smile and proud of being him or her.

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On the sit is Fr. Martin, the director of the orphanage center, him and the children were so much thankful for us visiting and sharing them our time, thoughts and the support, a young lady standing in blow (Clecensia) on behalf said “asante sana kwakutuletea zawadi…pasaka itakuwa nzuri sana kwetu” means that thanks foe the gifts..this Easter will be wonderful for us.

For us as the team in Friends of Ifakara we are very much pleased to share our efforts to make everyone happier and proud .

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Danke to every member in the association who makes these possible to happen to our people in Ifakara, by Moses the coordinator.

The youth are also part of the forefront group to support on different projects, the landscaping group pioneered for life skills development and environmental protection through tree planting is actively implemented in Ifakara. In fact is a new idea recently introduced by our projects in the association. The engaged young people are hoping to raise awareness to others on life skills but also getting income from it by selling flowers 💐 and tree seedlings to people in and even outside Ifakara Town. Our initiative is to keep the group empowered in order for tjem to realise their ambition to the society.

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Said in blue and Abdulakim are the founders of this landscaping group, but currently have 2 part-time more members working together

Women farmers are happy for the assistance from Max, the Austrian volunteer in Ifakara, though he is not used to farm fields but can easily catch up the process and be active in the rice farm, women are very happy to work together and feel proud of their work.

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After shamba work in rain season, we keep on striving for people sustenance and livelihood development in aspects of gardening and animal keeping.

Wenn die Arbeit auf den Feldern während der Regenzeit erledigt ist, bemühen wir uns wieter um Auskommen und das Verbessern der Lebensumstände der Menschen, v.a. in den Bereichen Gartenbau und Viehhaltung.

Currently after our projects, women in families do not only depend on one source of food and income generation, through the knowledge and teachings in groups women have diversified their activities into more diverse way that  enable them to have an extra source of household food and income to manage the family in terms of housing, medication, clothing, group strengthening in terms of financing themselves. This makes them proud of and more powerful in decision making not only at a family level but also at the level of community they belong. For this as an Association of Friends Of Ifakara we feel it’s real important thing to make these family proud of themselves.

Youth empowerment is one of the less emphasized part not only in Ifakara but within a country at large. The generation comes with less life development skills for own production, self-saving or even small business development for personal income sources and hence poverty circle continues within families.

Junge Menschen zu unterstützen und ihre Handlungsfähigkeit zu erhöhen ist nicht nur in Ifakara, sondern im ganzen Land, ein großes Thema. Jugendliche haben heute hier weniger Wissen über Selbstversorgung, ihre eigenen Finanzen und auch bezüglich kleiner Geschäfte, um Einkommen zu generieren, wodurch die Armutsspirale in einer Familie sich mit jeder Generation weiter nach unten dreht.

The association through our projects thinks beyond, that life development skills are also important part for a young generation other than only the knowledge acquired in classes for academic career. This time four pilot students are supported with animal keeping skills and chickens for starting their own small projects at home as empowerment strategy and everyone believe that after few months he/she will be in a position to have his/her own established income source from chicken keeping to enable his/her own expenses like pair of shoes, uniform, buying books for school and even supporting part of family needs at home (this is common in Tanzania for poor families).

Als Verein versuchen wir über die Projekte hinaus das Potential für Entwicklung gerade junger Menschen zu fördern und zu entwickeln, auch über das (akademische) Wissen hinaus, das sie in der Schule erwerben. Diesmal starten wir mit 4 SchülerInnen, die mit Hühnern und Weiterbildung (https://wordpress.com/post/freundevonifakara.com/538) zur Hühnerhaltung unterstützt werden, um eigene kleine Projekte Zuhause zu starten. Damit soll ihre Handlungsfähigkeit gestärkt werden und alle sind sich sicher, dass sie in wenigen Monaten dadurch Einkommen generieren werden können und so für Schuhe, Schuluniformen und Schulbücher aufkommen können, ja sogar zum Familieneinkommen und Haushaltseinkommen beitragen können (wie es in den ärmeren Familien Tansanias üblich ist).

From the left is Michael coming from Kilama village; he hopes that the supported chickens will empower him to manage his expenses for school. The next is Festus and Hidaya from Kibaoni; they are all ambitious to have quit a big number of chickens in few months to come and teach others to do self-owned activity at home as a part time productive work after studies in school. Zulfa (the last) a very charming girl says that this is an opportunity to her and her family to show many that her being a girl can make something at home as well as to the community, she promised to manage her chicken keeping and will also help others with chicken to start like the project did for her. This beginning makes the association to be proud of these four young students in our interventions.

Links steht Michael, der aus dem Ortsteil Kilama kommt und hofft durch das “Hühner-Projekt” Ausgaben für Schule und Bildung bestreiten zu können. Daneben stehen Fetsus und Hidya aus dem Ortsteil Kibaoni, die sehr ambitioniert sind und sich darauf freuen bald eine größere Zahl an Hühnern zu halten und bald schon ihr Wissen und die Erfahrungen aus dem Projekt zur Selbst-Finanzierung nach der Schule an andere Jugendliche weiterzugeben. Zulfa ist ein einnehmendes junges Mädchen, die das Projekt als eine Chance für sich und ihre Familie um allen zu zeigen, dass sie als junge Frau genauso (wie ein Mann) für ihre Familie und die Gemeinschaft etwas bewegen kann. Sie plant nicht nur für sich selbst zu arbeiten, sondern auch andere so zu unterstützen, wie sie vom Verein unterstützt wurde. Der Verein freut sich sehr über diesen Projektstart und wir sind stolz auf die jungen ProjektteilnehmerInnen.