Dar Urban Project, Tanzania

See the progress you helped make happen in your sponsored community

When the project started, local services including water, healthcare and education were under severe strain. More than half of all families were unable to meet their children’s basic needs as they were earning very low incomes.

Thanks to your support, your sponsored child and other children in the Dar Urban community have improved access to education, healthcare and clean water and their parents have more opportunities to earn income.

 

Before your help, many children were missing out on school because their parents could not afford to send them. Now most parents have enough income to cover their children's education costs and schools are much better equipped to support their learning.

Together we've achieved so much

Four classrooms and teacher housing were built to improve education access

In addition, desks and over 3,000 textbooks were distributed to improve school facilities and enable more children to learn.

  • 130 primary school teachers took part in refresher training to improve their teaching skills so they can better support and engage their students. 
  • School committee members have gained knowledge and skills to mobilise local parents in school fundraising drives and parents are now much more aware of the importance of education for their children’s wellbeing. 

83.4 percent of households had access to clean water by 2014

This was up from 63.6 percent in 2007.

  • 21,000 families received mosquito nets so they can better protect their children from malaria. 
  • 47 local health volunteers have been trained to educate families on child health and nutrition and the importance of a balanced diet. 
  • Improvements to maternal and child health services have led to an increase in the number of women giving birth with the help of a skilled health worker. This has reduced the incidence of mothers and infants dying in childbirth. 
  • Health clinics have been upgraded with essentials like toilets, incinerators, microscopes, ambulances and water and electricity supply. 

71.8 percent of parents could earn enough to meet their children's needs by 2017

This was up from 53.7 percent in 2014.

  • 40 gardening groups have been trained and supported to grow vegetables and raise poultry to meet children’s nutrition needs and generate income. 
  • Savings groups have been formed to enable families to save money and access low-interest loans to support income generating activities. Group members have completed training that has empowered them to run profitable small businesses including selling vegetables, running grocery shops and takeaway food stalls, and making batik fabrics. 
  • Five groups for unemployed youth are now able to earn income from growing and selling greenhouse vegetables after the project supplied them with irrigation kits. 

"In our savings group … we are supporting 10 vulnerable children in our community and we are encouraging others to do the same."

- Mwajuma, savings group member

Savings group powers business success

Mwashabani is a mother of four and a successful businesswoman who makes and sells batik fabrics. But this wasn’t always the case. Before World Vision started work in her community, Mwashabani’s family was entirely dependent on her husband’s meagre income. 

Things changed when she joined a savings group supported by generous child sponsors like you. As a group member, she was able to save and borrow money and learn skills to help her generate her own income.  

“By joining the savings group, I was able to learn how to make soap, batik and processing food,” she explained. “World Vision also trained us how to find a market for our products.”  

Mwashabani and fellow group members set up a profitable batik business, selling their fabrics in local and regional markets. In addition, she started making batik at home to sell to neighbours and now has her own production and sales team.   

Things changed when she joined a savings group supported by generous child sponsors like you. As a group member, she was able to save and borrow money and learn skills to help her generate her own income.  

“By joining the savings group, I was able to learn how to make soap, batik and processing food,” she explained. “World Vision also trained us how to find a market for our products.”  

Mwashabani and fellow group members set up a profitable batik business, selling their fabrics in local and regional markets. In addition, she started making batik at home to sell to neighbours and now has her own production and sales team.   

"I thank World Vision as now I am able to help my family to get their needs, send my children to school and rehabilitate my house."

- Mwashabani, mother and entrepreneur