When the project started in 2003, this remote rural community in Tanzania was facing many challenges. Families lacked essential healthcare such as immunisations and many women gave birth at home. Access to quality education was limited and most families struggled to earn enough income from farming to meet their children’s needs.
Thanks to your support, children in the Katerero community have improved access to quality education, good healthcare and nutritious food. Families now have skills and opportunities to earn reliable incomes and invest in their children’s future. This would not have been possible without the generosity of child sponsors like you.
Disclaimer: The before and after achievements are from World Vision reports and other related government documents. The achievements represent change over various time periods within the program lifecycle when our work to address each specific development challenge took place.
Children have access to clean water and hygienic toilets
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7,254 school students now have access to clean drinking water and hygienic toilets.
12 rainwater tanks and seven toilet blocks were built.
Child nutrition improved after farmers were trained in growing drought resistant crops such as cassava, maize and sweet potatoes so that more families have enough food to eat all year round.
96 percent of children can now read and write
18 classrooms were built or renovated and teachers were hired and trained to improve the quality of education, benefiting 6,300 children.
The school drop-out rate lowered significantly.
Literacy and numeracy jumped to 96 percent, up from 76 percent.
A focus on gender equality led to more parents supporting their daughters’ education.
1,500 farmers were trained in modern farming techniques
Farmers learned how to grow more crops and breed and care for livestock.
The number of families living below the poverty line dropped from 50 percent to 33 percent in the last three years of the project.
Many people learned new skills to diversify their incomes, such as growing vanilla, soybeans, avocado, tomato and cabbage, and raising goats, chickens and pigs.
Farmers' groups were formed to obtain better prices for their products.
- Edwin, who learned how to farm vanilla through the livelihoods project
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^The before and after achievements are from World Vision reports and other related government documents. The achievements represent change over various time periods within the program lifecycle when our work to address each specific development challenge took place.