The cooperation between Salzburg and Singida in Tanzania has existed for almost 40 years. In March of this year we met with Ilse Hanak. In 1983 she was commissioned by local councillor Franz Klingspiegel to select a city in Africa to establish a sisterhood. She was the first person from Salzburg to visit Singida and reports: I traveled to Singida in 1983. [...] I went there by local bus from Dar es Salaam via Babati and arrived on August 5, 1983 at 18:45 at sunset as the first person from Salzburg in the city. [...] I immediately started discussions with [...]

Fatima attends secondary school in Mwasauya, Sinigda, Tanzania with other young girls and boys. She gets up every morning at 5 a.m., does simple household chores, and eats a small breakfast. Then she sets off for school - it takes her an hour. As a girl in Tanzania, Fatima would be more likely to be married off before the age of 18 than to attend secondary school. Tanzania has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world at 37%. Every year, up to 8,000 girls in Tanzania drop out of school due to early marriage or pregnancy. However, [...]

Annual Report Upendo Home 2022 (in German) The Upendo Home was founded in 2008 and is currently home to 27 children and young people aged 9 to 23. Furthermore, 15 youths and young adults are supported in financing an education or training or in starting a career. The Upendo home has three goals: CATCHING: providing a safe place (physically and emotionally) STRENGTHEN: to train and develop skills GIVE PERSPECTIVE: Provide psychological support and hope. You can find out how these goals are being worked on in our annual report (in German). Enjoy browsing and reading through it!

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, [...]