Bugabo, Tanzania

Through World Vision, women have learned to make and sell batik clothes.

Health and sanitation
• Taught 381 mothers to use locally available ingredients to provide highly nutritious food for their children
• Assisted 120 households to construct sanitary latrines
• Installed rainwater-harvesting systems on top of the homes of people living with disabilities
• Supported two hospitals with beds, mattresses, insecticide-treated mosquito nets, stethoscopes and other equipment
• Educated 2,000 mothers about malaria and provided them with insecticide-treated mosquito nets at a subsidised price
• Provided insecticide-treated mosquito nets for all sponsored children
• Educated 5,250 students and 20 teachers about malaria
  

HIV and AIDS
• Trained 52 teenagers to educate their peers about HIV and AIDS, provided props to assist them to perform street theatre and 3,700 HIV and AIDS information brochures for them to give out
• Trained 85 home visitors to care for children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Assisted five community care coalitions to identify vulnerable children and support them; 1,037 children have been registered by the groups
• Equipped home-based care teams with latex gloves, soap and other items to help them to care for people living with HIV and AIDS
• Constructed seven houses for child-headed families
  

Education
• Provided uniforms for 600 children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Trained 40 teachers to use HIV and AIDS education materials in the classroom
• Completed construction of three classrooms and two teachers’ offices, and continued building seven more classrooms
• Provided 108 tables and chairs for a secondary school
• Supported 23 teenagers to learn vocational skills
  

Agricultural and economic development
• Continued to support 335 farmers who have been trained to use improved methods of farming vanilla and bananas
• Trained 20 women to make batik and tie-dyed clothes to sell; there are now two groups of women selling clothes and training others to do the same
  

Leadership development
• Held a workshop on children’s rights for the advocacy and children’s committees
• Trained 50 community leaders in management, networking and methods of making their community-based organisations sustainable
• Trained members of 23 new co-operatives in management; there are now 45 co-operatives in the area
• Trained 21 development committee members in good governance
• Facilitated elections for members of the development committee

Challenges
The people of Bugabo still have a number of challenges ahead of them. During the next year, World Vision will focus on increasing children’s school enrolment and achievements, developing the capacity of community leadership committees, raising awareness about HIV and AIDS and supporting community committees to take responsibility for addressing the epidemic.