On 5 October 2024, ECLAT and upendo for the first time celebrated the graduation of the teenage girls at ECLAT’s training centre in Emboreet. It was a truly emotional graduation ceremony for the first group from the pilot project, a moving celebration with 22 teenage girls who had developed into young women during their training…
On 17 May 2024, ECLAT and upendo laid the foundation stone for our most recent project: A vocational training centre for teenage girls who do not qualify for further education in Tanzania’s school system – as an alternative to forced marriage. Thanks to the financial support of various foundations, we have been able to build,…
The efforts of upendo are bearing fruit.
We have now been working with our Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT in northern Tanzania for a decade.
In 2023, we have once again implemented all of the projects in Tanzania as planned and we can look back on the past year with gratitude. This includes our commitment to developing schools as well as capacity building projects such as women’s work and family planning. On 16 September 2023, we had the opportunity again…
To ensure good cooperation of with our Tanzanian partner organisation ECLAT, we are always keen to share the perspective of our Tanzanian partners. Beatrice Loibanguti Laizer and Esther Paul Ndiimu are two young teachers. Both women are project supervisors in the Women Empowerment department. Their main task is to conduct training courses at the ECLAT…
In the meantime, ECLAT and upendo have been involved in development projects in northern Tanzania for several years. Therefore, in this information letter, we would like to ask ourselves whether our commitment is bearing fruit and what has perhaps already been achieved. With our upendo work we want to promote the development of a traditional…
A successful year for upendo Again in 2022, we were able to realize all of our projects in Tanzania as originally planned and we have every reason for being grateful. In addition to the water filtration project in Naiti, 11 primary school projects were handed over to the Tanzanian government, who runs the schools, in…