Water The Fields
Photography by: Hananasif
March 23, 2008
ROSA LOVES connected with this story through our friend Kat Costello. Kat's friend Sydney travelled to Tanzania last summer. While there Sydney went to an orphanage in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Africa. The Hananasif Orphanage started in 2002 by a man named Hezekia Mwalugaja who started it as a daycare that provided emotional support to local children along while also providing some financial help to pay for the children's schooling fees. With twelve children in the beginning, Hananasif Orphanage has grown to thirty and is now expanding so that they can provide these children with an education. They have recently received funding to buy 300 acres of land to build an education facility and also to cultivate the land to provide the orphanage with food.
They have launched their agricultural project on the 300 acres of land they have in the Mkuranga District, where they have also (as of March 2007) started their private secondary boarding school for orphans and vulnerable children from throughout the country. The agricultural project will serve them in three critical ways: first, provide nourishment to the students that they would otherwise never have - they have already started growing watermelon, passion fruit, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, ground nuts, etc. Secondly, it's an opportunity to teach the students about agriculture, development, and sustainability - all in the context of their community and their country's economy. The children already are excited to claim a row of a particular fruit or vegetable and commit to caring for it through the course of the planting and harvesting season. Finally, they can use the produce of the land to achieve sustainability for the school and the orphanage center through selling the surplus of produce. Specifically, they need 3 pipes, at $300 each and a water tank which runs at $250, plus transport and installation roughly at $300 for a total of $1500 USD.
Stay updated with the orphanage by checking up with their newsletter or visit their homepage at www.hananasif.org.
They have launched their agricultural project on the 300 acres of land they have in the Mkuranga District, where they have also (as of March 2007) started their private secondary boarding school for orphans and vulnerable children from throughout the country. The agricultural project will serve them in three critical ways: first, provide nourishment to the students that they would otherwise never have - they have already started growing watermelon, passion fruit, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, ground nuts, etc. Secondly, it's an opportunity to teach the students about agriculture, development, and sustainability - all in the context of their community and their country's economy. The children already are excited to claim a row of a particular fruit or vegetable and commit to caring for it through the course of the planting and harvesting season. Finally, they can use the produce of the land to achieve sustainability for the school and the orphanage center through selling the surplus of produce. Specifically, they need 3 pipes, at $300 each and a water tank which runs at $250, plus transport and installation roughly at $300 for a total of $1500 USD.
Stay updated with the orphanage by checking up with their newsletter or visit their homepage at www.hananasif.org.
