To start the new year, we have nice news from Singida and the Upendo Home. At the end of last year, Naomi graduated as the second student from Upendo Home. We are very proud of her and wish her all the best for the future! The director of Upendo Home, Afesso, tells us a little more about Naomi: We are all proud of Naomi for being our second girl from UH to reach university level. When Naomi was a young girl, her parents separate after many fights, and Naomi was left to live with her alcoholic father who was not [...]

With the construction of a girls' dormitory, the regional cooperation wants to increase the chance that girls in Singida attend a higher school. The state of Salzburg is supporting the construction of a dormitory for schoolgirls with 100.000€, enabling them to attend school. The remaining funds must be financed through donations. Donate now "It is more likely that a girl [in Tanzania] will be married off before she turns 18 than that she will go to secondary school. Girls are more likely than boys to have to cook, clean, fetch water or collect firewood at home. There is less time [...]

Singida News 2022 (German) "We have a success to report! A few days ago, the Salzburg regional government pledged funding for a girls' dormitory at the secondary school in Mwasauya in the Singida region. This is an additional project to the regional cooperation Salzburg - Singida and is particularly close to our hearts, because it further strengthens the promotion of girls." reports Dieter Rachbauer in the Singida News 2022. Furthermore you can find a travel report and news from the Upendo Home here: Singida News 2022 (German) You are welcome to order printed copies for distribution from us: singida@tanzania.at.

From visiting the Regional Commissioner and the Mayor of Singida to the Maasai private school and the street children's home (Upendo Home) to health stations and the women of the chicken breeding project. This and so much more was the board trip in August 2022 with our chairwoman Martina Berthold and board members Anna Schiester and Johanna Schnellinger. Together with the team of Salzburg-Singida and the Tanzanian partner organization CIP (Community Initiative Promotion), we visited the projects in the Singida region. During the trip we talked with participants, visited Upendo Home, and political relations were deepened. It was an intensive [...]

In Tanzania, it is particularly difficult for girls to complete high school. 97% of children in Tanzania attend elementary school, and nearly 80 percent complete it. In secondary school, however, the gap between boys and girls widens and fewer girls pass the final exams. There are many reasons for this: Culturally and religiously influenced the image of the role of women and girls. Especially in poor households and households with many children, boys are given more support for their education. Girls have to help in the household and there is less time for learning. Early pregnancies and marriage: In Tanzania, [...]

The photo is a snapshot of three of our girls at Upendo Home: Anna (10), Chiku (14) and Muzna (10). All three are wearing sweaters made in the knitting workshop by the older girls. Anna's red-white-red sweater has similarities with the Austrian flag and can't be a coincidence. Chiku is too small for her age, a result of neglect and malnutrition as a little girl. Her mother died, her father remarried, but the stepmother showed no interest in the girl and did not care for her either. So, Chico ended up on the streets and came to Upendo Home in [...]

Luzia Amon is the new member of our team. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Global Project and Change Management in the Netherlands in the summer of 2021 and gained experience in project work in a human rights organization in the Philippines and at EZA Fairer Handel in Köstendorf during an internship. "My family has close contact with Uganda and thus I have been interested in Africa, a particularly colorful and diverse continent, since childhood. Especially formative were the trips to and through Uganda, which made me realize how much the standard of living in other regions of this [...]