On our last visit to Tanzania, we were accompanied by District administrator Stefan Rößle and a small delegation from the Donau-Ries district. Stefan Rößle is also chairman of the association ‘1000 Schools for Our World’, with the help of which we were able to build new classrooms, a toilet block and a residential building for…
Thanks to the financial support of our friends and sponsors, upendo has already been able to build and hand over numerous school buildings to the Tanzanian government this year. The handover ceremony for two classrooms, along with equipment and sanitary facilities for the Naankaileer primary school, marks the latest success in our long-standing cooperation with…
Training centre for teenage girls – Our latest project
Thanks to the financial support of our friends and sponsors 2024 was both an eventful as well as a successful year for us. Not only because we were able to celebrate the 10th anniversary of upendo and to welcome Queen Cuthbert, the Regional Commissioner (comparable to a Prime Minister in Germany) on a visit to…
On 5 October 2024, ECLAT and upendo for the first time celebrated the graduation of the teenage girls at ECLAT’s training centre in Emboreet. It was a truly emotional graduation ceremony for the first group from the pilot project, a moving celebration with 22 teenage girls who had developed into young women during their training…
On 17 May 2024, ECLAT and upendo laid the foundation stone for our most recent project: A vocational training centre for teenage girls who do not qualify for further education in Tanzania’s school system – as an alternative to forced marriage. Thanks to the financial support of various foundations, we have been able to build,…
The efforts of upendo are bearing fruit.
We have now been working with our Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT in northern Tanzania for a decade.
In 2023, we have once again implemented all of the projects in Tanzania as planned and we can look back on the past year with gratitude. This includes our commitment to developing schools as well as capacity building projects such as women’s work and family planning. On 16 September 2023, we had the opportunity again…
To ensure good cooperation of with our Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT, we are always keen to share the perspective of our Tanzanian partners. Beatrice Loibanguti Laizer and Esther Paul Ndiimu are two young teachers. Both women are project supervisors in the Women Empowerment department. Their main task is to conduct training courses at the ECLAT…
In the meantime, ECLAT and upendo have been involved in development projects in northern Tanzania for several years. Therefore, in this information letter, we would like to ask ourselves whether our commitment is bearing fruit and what has perhaps already been achieved. With our upendo work we want to promote the development of a traditional…