2025 ICSEE News

Project progress and special happenings

A great celebration

We’re planning a great celebration on February 10 with 35 women’s groups. We’ll recognize the groups' accomplishments and add some capital to each of their banks to make it possible for them to take on even more actions. Congratulations to all.

Pictured above is a group of women as they take their profits from their collective business. Those who were about to build a new house with three rooms and a metal roof got roofing sheets, which they are holding rolled up..Those who already had a house with a metal roof each received a cow.

Smart Farm updates

We purchased two additional acres of land alongside the Smart Farm and will soon install more drip irrigation capacity for bananas (pictured here) and maize.

We will share the enhanced irrigation set-up with our fellow farmers.

This adaptation to drought is definitely worth developing in a variety of ways.

We aim to demonstrate how productive this kind of groundwater development can be, with efficient and sufficient distribution.

Tree project update

Tree planting is becoming more and more exciting.

An increasing number of settlements are realizing that the addition of trees along their boundaries and fences are beneficial. The trees add permanence and stability while making the grounds more pleasant.

Pictured above is our tree nursery with many new seedlings ready for planting. Pictured at the right is tree nursery supervisor Neema Petey Julius, introduced to you in the Appeal,

A new water sanitation site

A new water-use collective along the main road in Mbuyuni is in the process of gathering a small, yet significant contribution for funding a new water sanitation system that will be coming soon.

It will take a polluted water source like the one above and transform it into clean, safe water available right from the faucet.

Installation will take about a week and we are happy that safe, healthy water will be available to hundreds of the community’s children.

A collaboration history

In 2012 in Maryland, I met the new director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) who was just moving from Australia to take over the job. 

Interested in our work, he invited me to ADRA's annual international conference held in Bangkok two years later. I spoke about choosing development activities with good environmental impact.

Amazingly, It was in Bangkok where I met the ADRA leaders of Tanzania. After returning back home we soon developed our initial collaboration, focusing on stove installations.

ADRA collaboration today

ADRA Tanzania usually works by raising donations from the Adventists of a European country. It then develops an ADRA program with a Tanzanian group like ours to implement it.

With our previous collaborative program, the Adventists in Germany realized we are a valuable, reliable partner. They saw that we could really deliver, and a layer of bureaucracy could be eliminated if they worked with us directly. And that approach is underway.

350 homes

We are now in the final process of establishing a productive program with ADRA to improve 350 homes. We are also collaborating with the Kakute organization on this project. They will focus on bringing large stoves and water to institutions. Our part of the collaboration will bring stoves and solar-powered lighting to homes.

Directly funded by ADRA Germany, these initiatives, named "Restore," will be implemented over a three-year period.

Meetings and trainings

Last week we met with the German ADRA adminstrators who came to Tanzania to launch this phase of the collaboration. We all met together with representatives from villages and institutions that will be the beneficiaries of the programs. This included the ADRA representatives, the Kakute leaders, local government, and administrators at all levels.

Local managers, including the Maasai Stoves & Solar managers, are all receiving specific training for this initiative (a session pictured above).

 It is wonderful to see the expanding enthusiasm for the work.

Receiving recognition

We are so happy to receive these requests for collaboration and the respect and recognition they represent. We appreciate the confidence that these organizations have in us

We treasure the opportunities your support provides, making excellent collaborations like these possible.

Thank you!

Fuel our progress

For a better life for rural Africans, and a cleaner environment for all

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