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,…
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…
A look back at 2022 In 2022, we were once again able to accomplish all our projects in Tanzania as planned and have every reason to look back with gratitude. In addition to the water filtration project in Naiti, we were able to hand over 11 Primary School projects to the Tanzanian government, who runs…
As my husband is a founding member of upendo, I have been aware of the development work of upendo and ECLAT for years. It was only at the beginning of September that I was able to listen to Catherine Maguzu’s reports on her women’s work at ECLAT at the upendo information event.
In this newsletter, we would like to present some of ECLAT’s newer projects which, except for the first one, fall under the heading of “capacity building”. This includes ECLAT’s women’s empowerment work, but we have reported on this many times before.
In 2021, we were once again able to implement all our projects in Tanzania as planned, despite the Corona pandemic. And after 1½ years we have been able to travel to Tanzania again to visit the old and new projects and to discuss them in detail on site.