Iselamagazi, Tanzania

Health and sanitation

• Constructed a health clinic and a house for the health staff
• Provided bed sheets for 1,400 sponsored children
  

HIV and AIDS

• Formed AIDS clubs in 13 schools; the clubs have 1,800 members
• Trained 70 teenagers to educate their peers about HIV and AIDS; they have reached 8,400 students
• Provided four test kits for the voluntary HIV-counselling and testing centre and encouraged community members to be tested and counselled for HIV
• Facilitated two counsellors based at the testing centre to attend refresher-training courses
• Trained 48 community-based counsellors
• Provided 40 bicycles for village health workers and community HIV and AIDS counsellors
  

Education

• Provided school uniforms for 628 children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Provided 1,000 text books for 13 primary schools
• Constructed seven classrooms
• Constructed six houses for teachers to stay near the schools where they teach
  

Agriculture and food security

• Provided 200,000 drought-resistant cassava cuttings
• Provided 60 ox-ploughs
• Trained 24 farmers to multiply seeds
• Established four livestock-keepers’ groups and trained 120 livestock keepers
• Provided farmers with 40 female dairy goats and four male goats
• Trained 120 members of school environment clubs to conserve the environment and raise tree seedlings
• Provided seedlings and materials for school tree nurseries
  

Economic development

• Facilitated 70 teenagers to learn tailoring skills
• Trained 70 people from four income-generating groups to make tie-dyed clothing
• Trained 70 members of income-generating groups in entrepreneurship skills
• Facilitated 24 income-generating groups to join a savings and credit society
• Trained 120 members of the savings and loans society in money management and entrepreneurship skills
  

Leadership development

• Trained 36 community-based organisation members and 26 development committee members in leadership, management and book-keeping

Challenges
The people of Iselamagazi still have a number of challenges ahead of them. During the next year, World Vision will focus on increasing household security by promoting drought-resistant crops and alternative ways to generate income. It will also continue to train community leadership to be able to respond to future development needs.