FWI Impact Report March 2024

Dear Friends

Below is our Impact Statement for March 2024:

1. Electricity supply here is unpredictable with frequent outages.

In order to protect vulnerable women and babies during natal and postnatal times, we have an ongoing project with the goal of installing 100 watt solar systems, with batteries, in all 40+ Usambara health clinics. This month it was the turn of the clinics in Kongei, Kwemakame, Kikumbi, Kivingo and Tewe;

2. Our ongoing malnourishment project provided weight check, nourishment for one month, and, if deemed necessary, medical attention, for 103 children located in six villages;

3. ⁠A local Sunga artist by the name of Makanyaga began to volunteer his time last year to teach ten teenagers how to paint and draw. We replenished the necessary art materials this month.

4. ⁠We delivered twenty five desks to Nkelei kindergarten the building of which we, together with the villagers, completed last month;

5. ⁠To the new health clinic in Kwemakame went three beds, two drip stands and two screens. Another delivery of essential equipment will take place in April;

6. To be HIV+ in Tanzania is to be shamed and ostracized. That invariably results in poverty. We have begun forming groups centered around ten clinics where people go for their ARVs. We distributed 114 chickens to 38 people, mainly women, at the Kangagai health clinic. The eggs can be either sold as a source of income or consumed for nutrition;

7. ⁠Irente school teaches 78 children. 28 of them are blind, 25 are albino, 6 are visually impaired, and 5 are without a disability. All 78 are severely disadvantaged and vulnerable. We purchased health insurance for all of them valid for the coming year;

8. Minor equipment deliveries went to Masereka, Tema, Sunga and Mpanga health clinics.

We have ongoing school toilet projects in Mziragembei, Kwekanga, Mambo, and Kwaresha.

Also we have almost completed a kitchen for Sunga health clinic and a laboratory for Mavumo health clinic.

We now have three women’s groups making menstrual kits for school girls.

The women’s group producing liquid soap continues to thrive.

Pamoja tunaweza. (Together we can)