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Oct

Igunga exchange visit

What’s better than sharing your knowledge and experience with an enthusiastic and inquisitive group of people from different corners of the country? Two weeks ago we held such an event in Kongwa, one of our districts. Farmers, Maasai, village leaders and ecovillage project employees came to visit  LEAD Foundation from different parts of Tanzania. This resulted in 15 participants from centre-east Tanzania (Igunga) and a number from north Tanzania (Mbaash). After they had seen the Kisik Hai documentary, they were eager to learn
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18
Sep

Measuring in colours

These people have just received a colored stick from us. They are trainers from the Kongwa district in Dodoma who will keep track of the number of trees and the height of each tree with these colourful sticks. These facilitators specifically monitor the re-greening by the farmers they have trained before. For each height (color) the facilitators can shade how many trees a farmer has. For example blue (50-100 cm): 34 trees. Green (200 + cm): 12 trees. Etcetera. In the corresponding
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20
Mar

The traveling cinema in Tanzania

Our ‘Kisiki Hai’ caravan about re-greening one of the most affected landscapes has been traveling around Central Tanzania for one month already, and in two months’ time it will visit 60 villages. Today it is Iyumbwi village’s turn! The film inspires and activates farmers how they can re-green their land and make their land suitable to grow food again. Imagine that you have never or rarely seen a movie. A normal evening out for us, is THE event of the year
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1
Jul

A National Workshop on “Combating Desertification and restoring degraded lands into Food Baskets”

LEAD Fondation in collaboration with the office of the Parliament of Tanzania, World Agroforestry Centre/ICRAF and World Vision organized a national workshop for Members of Parliament and senior executives, from 18th – 19th June, 2016 in Dodoma, on regreening Tanzania. The main goal of the workshop was to scale up Kisiki Hai countrywide and to promote a National Regreening Movement involving the Tanzania Government, Civil Society Organisations and Development Partners to join forces in combating desertification and turning degraded land into
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Spread of FMNR in Central Tanzania

LEAD Foundation originally planned to move to the rest of Central Tanzania after gaining experience from the Kiboriani project in Mpwapwa and Kongwa districts. The FMNR tide is now taking its own course as FMNR makes its surprise appearances here and there in Central Tanzania and elsewhere. LEAD Foundation is finding it difficult to resist invitations from groups and institutions from Dodoma and Singida Regions for training on FMNR. LEAD Foundation Executive Director has been instrumental in the formation of FMNR
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14
Oct

Nyerere Day National Celebrations

Nyerere Day is celebrated every year in honor of the Founder President of Tanzania. Some of those who worked closely with President Nyerere are usually asked to give testimony about the life and work of the late President at the climax of the celebrations. This year the national celebration was held in Dodoma. Bishop Chiwanga, who served as Minister for Education under his Presidency, was invited. He began his brief testimony by leading the masses present with a very popular hit
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12
Dec

The Annual Uhuru Torch Race

The Uhuru Torch Race is another very popular annual national event when the Torch is raced through all the districts in the country. It attracts lots of people, with overnight celebrations where it spends the night. The District Commissioner, convinced that FMNR would make exciting news at the event, asked LEAD Foundation to stage FMNR demonstration on the Uhuru Torch grounds. He was proven right, judging by the keen interest shown by the Visitors and various people. The Zanzibar member in
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1
Dec

Scout Movement Opens the Door to plant FMNR Seed District-wide

Driven by the need to find best ways of nurturing youths, Mpwapwa district launched a district-wide Scout movement. 74 out of 93 villages sponsored a girl and a boy, turning out 148 youth volunteers, for a one-week residential training. FMNR was one of the principle subjects taught. Given its connections with the national scouting movement LEAD Foundation was charged with overall coordination of scout movement training for the whole district. For FMNR, this means there are at least 148 young people
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Rolling out FMNR to the whole of Mpwapwa and Kongwa districts

The urge to roll out FMNR to the whole of Mpwapwa and Kongwa districts was expressed during the first year, following introduction of FMNR to district leaders. It was repeated at the National Launch of FMNR in Dodoma in April 2013. District council departments, NGOs and Institutions were called upon to mainstream FMNR in their programmes. LEAD Foundation was challenged to brace itself for training trainers to be available at ward levels. This has begun to bear fruit. Heads of agriculture
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