Tanzania project profile

Ibuga ADP

Education
The people of Ibuga value education. However, there are not enough classrooms in Ibuga to meet the demand and more students attain the marks required to enter secondary school than there are places available.

Ibuga ADP constructs secondary schools and repairs primary school buildings. It provides desks, school materials and sports equipment and builds rainwater tanks and latrines. Mock exams provided by World Vision help students and teachers decide on subjects for revision and the best achieving schools are acknowledged, with the top students being awarded school bags.

HIV and AIDS
The ADP holds public meetings to educate the community about HIV-prevention and promotes HIV testing and counselling. Community committees are trained to care for critically ill patients, orphans, vulnerable children and families. Preschools are set up to care for and feed vulnerable children. The ADP provides the committees and preschools with nutritious food for distribution and vocational training centres teach teenagers job skills to help them provide for their siblings.

Health
In Ibuga, the most common fatal diseases, other than AIDS, are malaria, pneumonia, anaemia, diarrhoea, intestinal worms, malnutrition and tuberculosis.

The ADP constructs sanitary latrines. It trains village health workers to educate the community about nutrition, breast-feeding and family spacing, promote the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria and assist with immunisation campaigns for children, and women of childbearing age.

Water
People on the plateau have difficulty obtaining water, and those who live on the lowlands depend on spring water that becomes contaminated with silt during the rainy season. Few families boil water before use.

Ibuga ADP works with village leaders and teachers to promote water hygiene practices, constructs rainwater tanks and wells and protects springs from contamination.

Agriculture and income-generation
Crop yields are low. The dense population and pressure on land restricts the size of farms and limits the level of production. Moreover, poor roads make it difficult for farmers to transport their harvests to market for sale.

The ADP helps the community repair roads and construct bridges to improve access to markets. It establishes tree nurseries and encourages planting to stabilise the soil. Trained agricultural extension workers advise farmers on better ways to care for land, crops and livestock, and they encourage better diversification of food crops. The ADP provides farm tools, seeds, fertilisers and insecticides.

World Vision promotes alternative income-generating activities, such as food processing, dairy farming and fish farming, to groups of women and youths. It trains them to market their produce and keep accurate records. The groups can access loans through the ADP for start-up capital.

Community leadership
Community-based organisations are formed and trained to promote and manage development activities in the long term. The ADP helps these organisations apply to the government for official registration and ongoing support and has built a community centre for their use.

Sustainable development
World Vision and the people of Ibuga envisage that by 2013, the community’s capacity to access resources for ongoing development will be at a level that no longer requires World Vision assistance. We will keep you updated about their progress.