We work through implementation of projects and programs in Tanzania. Main themes that we work in and activities that we do are the following: –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE CHANGE, FOOD SECURITY AND INCOME STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME. During field visits, AFREDA staff supported farmers with initiatives such as crop rotation, irrigation, organic farming, vegetable gardening, soil erosion control, pest management, and crop diversification to improve agricultural productivity and food security<\/p>\n\n\n\n With regard to Climate change AFREDA provides education on climate change, resilience, adaptation, and mitigation, using the Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risks (PACDR) approach. Climate change initiatives are currently active in Tanga and Lindi, with plans to expand to Mtwara, Mara, Kigoma,Coast, Manyara, Singida, Kagera, Shinyanga, Mwanza, Geita, Dar es Salaam, and Simiyu Regions. 50000 villagers\/farmers in Tanga region and in Lindi region have been reached directly and indirectly with regard to climate change resilience, adaptation and negative impacts mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTICIPATED ACTIVITIES UNDER THIS THEME <\/p>\n\n\n\n WATER & SANITATION, HEALTH AND HIV AND AIDS PROGRAMME. HIV, AIDS, and malaria testing were conducted as part of a broader sensitization campaign to raise awareness, promote early detection, and encourage healthy practices among the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND PEACE BUILDING PROGRAMME. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What We Do We work through implementation of projects and programs in Tanzania. Main themes that we work in and activities that we do are the following: – AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE CHANGE, FOOD SECURITY AND INCOME STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME.With regard to agriculture and food security, AFREDA has supported and continues to support farmers through initiatives such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-834","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreda.or.tz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>With regard to agriculture and food security, AFREDA has supported and continues to support farmers through initiatives such as crop rotation, irrigation, organic farming, vegetable gardening, soil erosion control, pest management, and crop diversification. These efforts have reached over 200,000 farmers across Mara, Morogoro, Kagera, Tabora, Lindi, Kilimanjaro, Tanga, and Coast Regions, indirectly benefiting more than 4,000,000 household members, most of whom are children. AFREDA emphasizes inclusive approaches such as theater groups, demonstration farms, diarists who track community changes, and deliberate involvement of people with disabilities. Alongside these efforts, over 100,000 women and 700,000 youth have been empowered through income generating programs, including small business capital support, credit management training, and financial linkages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Organize climate change empowerment sports and game competitions bonanza events in villages to engage community members (boys, girls, women, young women, and young men) and facilitate planting of trees in primary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>With regard to water and sanitation, AFREDA has provided potable water to communities in the District of Gairo in Morogoro Region whereby over 20,000 community members have benefited. The use of theater performances in educating communities is paramount and over 5,000 theater group members have been trained and are educating communities during performances with regard to water, health, sanitation, STIs, HIV and AIDS, Malaria, Bilharzia and Diarrhea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>With regard to human rights, democracy, civil society and peace building AFREDA has facilitated the restoration of peace between farmers and pastoralists who have been in conflict over land in Morogoro Region. AFREDA has supported organization development of over 100 NGOs and CBOs in Zanzibar and over 1,000 NGOs in mainland Tanzania. AFREDA has further facilitated workshops on resolving clan conflicts in Mara Region.
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CHILDREN & YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.
<\/strong>AFREDA has been working with children and youth since its inception. Notable achievements in this regard include the provision of income generation support to families and households taking care of children in Kagera Region, in Mara Region, in Kilimanjaro Region, in Lindi Region, in Morogoro Region and in Tanga Region. With regard to Coast Region, AFREDA has supported children taking care of fellow children at family level where all are orphans whose parents have died of AIDS. In Tabora Region AFREDA has pulled out of child labor 1,500 children and brought them back to school. In Mara Region AFREDA has supported families taking care of children living in difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
AFREDA further promotes school children\u2019s education by constructing school class rooms, by constructing dormitories, by constructing health and hygiene facilities in schools, by securing and providing scholarships for talented children, by constructing clean water facilities in schools, by constructing teacher\u2019s houses, by providing required text books, by constructing laboratories and libraries in schools in Tanzania. We further promote sexual and reproductive health and rights education, education and awareness to combat Malaria, Bilharzia, Cholera, STIs and HIV and AIDS in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n