Realising dreams

Monday, February 13, 2017

When you meet members of savings groups, you should be ready to hear voices of success and improvement in life standards. Through World Vision Tanzania savings groups interventions more than 65,000 women and men are contributing tremendously to improved lives of their children and families. 

Meet Mwajabu from Mgera, Kilindi District, north eastern Tanzania. She is farmer growing maize, rearing chicken and doing gardening especially on tomatoes. As Mwajabu puts it “Before I joined the group I had a poor life, for example I had difficulties getting food and taking my children to school. But after joined a JIPE MOYO saving group I have managed to take my children to school and built a new house”.   

Mwajabu’s son Mhina is has been able to join collage through his mother savings and small business. “I thank world vision for empowering my mother I am now in my second year. I believe though her knowledge I will also be able to do my own entrepreneurship activities. Mhinas dreams to be a successful entrepreneur” Says Mhina

Her achievements can be felt by her neighboring children. I am not helping my children alone but rather I have been supporting my neighbors’ children by using the skills received from my saving group. I was trained on vegetable and chicken farming and saving and buying of shares”. Explains Mwajabu

Mwajabu’s next move is to own money maker irrigation pump that will enable her to do farming in a large irrigation. “The farming method that we do now is very collective because we depend on rainfall but once I get that pump I will be able to do calendar farming. I will be able to harvest and take crops to the market when the profits are higher”. Highlights Mwajabu

One of the World Vision Tanzania’s Strategies for 2016/20 is to improve community and family livelihoods. Mindset transformation has been a major outcome of World vision Tanzania, after impacting communities with right knowledge and empowerment through Empowered World view.