Nduruma - Austrian-Tanzanian women's promotion project
Since spring 2019, I have been helping Masai women in Tanzania to escape hunger poverty and to become self- employed. They provide food for more than 10,000 schoolchildren and are still dependent on help.
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Update due to Corona crisis:
Due to the current situation, a protective mask campaign has started in Tanzania. The masks are sewn from the traditional kitenges, i.e. the East African fabrics, on site in Tanzania. See also the photos in the details. We are currently having 1500 protective masks sewn, which are urgently needed on the plantations and in dealing with one another.
Funds donated through the crowdfunding campaign are also intended for the protective masks mentioned.
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Massai women who had had enough of nomadic life settled in the project area in Tanzania, which is as large as Lower Austria, several years ago. They built tiny houses themselves and made their living growing corn.
There are approximately 10 schools in the entire area, around 10,000 pupils are taught here. They live on a water tank that is delivered twice a week. With this they have to get by, wash, keep clothes clean - and drink.
The school uniform must always be kept clean, otherwise they will be expelled from the school. The Maasai women have assumed full responsibility for the "Nduruma" project area.
It is grown purely organically. So far we have been able to grow some fields and trees in this area.
The aim of this project is the complete self-sufficient nutrition of the Maasai women and all students.
For this we need more fields, trees and a small hand fountain.
What happens with the money if financing was successful
The association "NGO Gertrud, association for the promotion of water projects" has existed since 2017. I (Simone Biegler) founded this association at that time.
Why?
A friend of mine invited me to search for water in Africa! He owns a successful water company in Tanzania, but has not been as successful in an area funded by the Tanzanian government. So he asked me.
I had already completed several water search and interference field courses, so I accepted his invitation. In fact, I was very successful in an area where no one had ever found water. Certainly not a blonde woman!
At home in Austria I gave a lecture about donations.
That day "Gertrud" was on the calendar - that's why my club is now called that.
That was the beginning of my club. With the first donations for my club, I wanted to find a project that was created for the future.
One that actually makes it possible for local people to get out of poverty with the help of self-help. So I came to the Masai women in the project area. They wanted a better life for their children and have settled in Nduruma (Arusha Region). There are 10 schools there. These Masai women are highly motivated to learn a lot about cultivation and sales - and thus escape the poverty trap. This enthusiasm for women - despite the prevailing extreme poverty - made me start our project here.
Projektstandort: Nduruma, Tansania;, 12101 , Austria
Kaffee kann helfen
urch meine Vereinstätigkeit bin ich auch auf die unterschiedlichen Kaffeeplantagen gestoßen - und musste hier leider viele Ungerechtigkeiten erleben. Daher habe ich ab Juni 2019 meinen eigenen Kaffeehandel "Meicoffee" gestartet, wobei besonders Spezialitätenröster die Möglichkeit haben, nicht nur qualitativ hochwertigsten Kaffee - sondern auch Kaffeebohnen zu kaufen, die tatsächlich von einer fairen Plantage stammen, in der auf soziale Kompetenz geachtet wird, Gleichberechtigung selbstverständlich ist, die Natur geschützt wird - und komplett ressourcenschonend gearbeitet wird.
Eine Seltenheit in der Welt!
Natürlich geht ein Teil dieses Kaffeehandels direkt in die Vereinstätigkeit "NGO Gertrud, Verein zur Förderung von Wasserprojekten".
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Kaffee kann helfen
Durch meine Vereinstätigkeit bin ich auch auf die unterschiedlichen Kaffeeplantagen gestoßen - und musste hier leider viele Ungerechtigkeiten erleben. Daher habe ich ab Juni 2019 meinen eigenen Kaffeehandel "Meicoffee" gestartet, wobei besonders Spezialitätenröster die Möglichkeit haben, nicht nur qualitativ hochwertigsten Kaffee - sondern auch Kaffeebohnen zu kaufen, die tatsächlich von einer fairen Plantage stammen, in der auf soziale Kompetenz geachtet wird, Gleichberechtigung selbstverständlich ist, die Natur geschützt wird - und komplett ressourcenschonend gearbeitet wird.
Eine Seltenheit in der Welt!
Natürlich geht ein Teil dieses Kaffeehandels direkt in die Vereinstätigkeit "NGO Gertrud, Verein zur Förderung von Wasserprojekten".
- 00:40