Intervita works in Tanzania
Why we workThis region of Tanzania is extremely poor. It lives off subsistence farming and is lacking in basic infrastructures: roads are not asphalted, there is no electricity, 50% of the population has no access to drinking water. The development of the agricultural sector, which has good potential, is slowed by an inadequate support by institutions to the production and marketing of products. Soil erosion and the exploitation of forest resources by the poorest part of the population, place the territory at risk.
Our aimsThe activities promoted under this project aim to uproot the region’s poverty and hunger, improving the use of natural resources and assuring environmental sustainability. The increase of income generating activities serves to ensure a lasting, sustainable social-economic development in the villages of the Madunda area and the Ludewa district. Finally, we aim to improve basic education and health in primary school children, guaranteeing them access to quality services.
How we work

The project is developed in collaboration with ACRA, an Italian NGO specialised in rural development and which has been working for some time now in the country, in association with the Njombe diocese, the national energy body TANESCO, and the local communities.

 

Description of the projectThe project proposes completing the development of a hydroelectrical plant that will supply public (schools, local offices, health centres, missions, etc.) and private infrastructures with energy. The area forests will be replanted to protect the Kisongo basin and new economic activities will be started up (mills, carpenter’s workshops, internet points), along with income-generating initiatives linked to bee-keeping, farming and crop growing, in respect of local traditions and the environment. Activities supporting 8 schools will begin to improve the infrastructures, teaching equipment, educational skills of the teachers and hygiene and nutritional conditions of 3,052 children aged between 7 and 13 years old.
 
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