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GA 1988 RES 033 - Activity Report

Submitted by Stephen.KASHINDE on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 17:07
General Information
Environmental education and awareness
IUCN Constituent: 
EB8E73A9-481F-E711-B6EC-005056BA6623
Period covered: 
2019
Geographic scope: 
Africa
Country/Territory: 
Tanzania
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Members: 
6806A500-B9A3-E011-96D3-002655853524
IUCN Commissions: 
6C406B86-8352-E711-B126-005056BA6623
IUCN Secretariat: 
Yes
Other non-IUCN related organisations: 
World vision Tanzania, Youth With a Mission Tanzania, Amani Centre Morogoro Tanzania, Mehayo Morogoro Tanzania, Morogoro Saving the Poor Organization (MOSAPORG), Street Kids International Tanzania,Morogoro Development Organization (MODEO), Morogoro Eldrely People’s Organization (MOREPEO), Morogoro Environmental Conservation Organization (MOECO), Union Of NGOs
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Field activitiesMacedonia Development Group Is an Evangelical Christian Community Based Organization in Morogoro-Tanzania running by Rev: Stephen Kashinde, in Northern part of Morogoro Municipal where most of its community are living in scatted areas and suffering from high poverty due to many families are running by women themselves who have not got enough knowledge of life skills . And capable to handle their families As an Organization; at the end of 2013, after seeing many children are suffering from hungers and low access of humanitarian services, we decided to launch a Christian non- profit Community Organization (FBO) called Macedonia Development Group, we managed to register it to the Government of Tanzania for a purpose of supporting community around the Organization in terms of access to Nutrition’s, Education and Health service while the focus group are children under 14 years. Through support of funds from “Street Kids International –Tanzania” has enabled us to reach at least 10 families who benefit provision of Nutrition’s each month, For further on how community benefits, please follow the presentation video link provided (07:24 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h-HoZWj8mo So far, as an Organization in the next three years we are seeking to expand this project from current, provision of Home nutrition’s up to School Feeding project. School feeding program as a social safety net has been popular in developing countries as an instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Importantly, this project assists to achieve higher school enrollment and attendance rate of students in primary schools, provide better nutrition fortified meals to children and help local government to achieve desired outcomes in educational and policy level. Completed
FundraisingThe nominee Macedonia Development Group (MDG) has been working in Morogoro Tanzania since 2013 with aim to improve lives of rural poor children and ensure their education in general. In this regard the nominee is planning to initiate school feeding project at a small village in northern part of Morogoro named Mkundi. Main objective of the nominee’s project is to provide morning meal to students from selected 3 schools of this locality for next one academic year. Approximately total 3300 students will be reached under this project. The nominee’s estimated budget is $409,900 USD what is required to run this proposed project including all financial expenditure. Moreover, the nominee is also working to improve the education facilities of schools in rural Morogoro ‘Room to Read’ is one of the nominee’s major funding bodies which will provide necessary financial and technical assistance on purchasing educational accessories for schools. The nominee believes that this project will change lives of poor school students who have to attend class in empty stomach always. The nominee will highly appreciate if IUCN funding committee awards its proposal and fund it for this project. On-going
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken: 
Achievements: The nominee has taken so many actions for fundraising we started sharing and applying to different organizations that provide funds for the communities, last year the nominee applied to Youth Entrepreneurship Competition 2018. The idea was to contribute resilience of life to most vulnerable teenage mothers below 21 years old in Morogoro Municipal in terms of wellbeing and economic status. While the target was to reach and network 1450 teenage mothers, who are in critical circumstance from 29 wards of Morogoro Municipal and connecting them with Government social welfare officers and other community development stakeholders for further assistance through established special network which will know as “Morogoro Teenage Mothers below 21 years old Welfare Network (MTWN)” See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-snug4xWNKQ Results: The competition was so tough the nominee failed it was so painful The nominee took the step of faith again to apply to another organization known as World Food Program (WFP) it was the same year 2018, the nominee came up with an idea of initiating school nutrition to Government of Tanzania’s schools because according
What challenges have you encountered in implementing this Resolution and what measures have you taken to overcome them?: 
The failure of our proposals we realized that we have not been meeting the donors’ criteria. How we overcame them: The author of the proposal must read the donor’s criteria with a great care then he can decide to apply or not, once we started doing that we started overcoming day by day; we can see changes even here in IUCN we were welcomed, we believe we’ll overcome.
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Field activities-Under this project 3 schools have been selected from poverty prone areas and the nominee will deliver food to 3300 students once in a day for six days in a week. -Meeting with local residents, targeted beneficiaries, head of selected schools, teachers, local organizations and government officials regarding the projects and present details of it to them -Tender to construct kitchen in every schools and initiate procurement procedure to buy food
Field activitiesRecruiting a consultant, new cooks and assistants and volunteers for every selected school to deliver the assistance accurately Delivering meal in every morning for six days in a week for next one academic year Training and awareness rising regarding local food production and distribution so that it can be used in School Feeding Project Programme Providing education materials to selected schools on need basis
Additional Information
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External link(s): 
School Feeding Project for Local Schools in Mkundi, Morogoro Tanzania