Livelihoods

Anthony visited our projects in Tanzania in February 2016 and blogged about his experiences on the ground. Read more about his exciting adventures with our local team and the women living with HIV who benefit from our projects. Greetings from Arusha where we arrived this morning after a longish flight via Nairobi.  Mondo TZ Chairman, David Kinisi, met us and we had a good discussion with him en route to the hotel.  One unwelcome change since my last visit is the...

This month in Tanzania we are preparing to start a new round of grants and business training in Usa River, near Arusha. We support HIV affected widows to start up small businesses in order to be able to support themselves and their children. This month 13 new beneficiaries will be trained in areas such as attracting customers, calculating profit margins and organising savings. They will bring with them a friend or family member to the training so that they will have...

I joined Mondo Challenge Foundation as Programmes Manager in July 2015. I have worked in development for many years starting as VSO in a remote teacher training college in Vietnam, and working for six years with Concern Worldwide in Mozambique and Uganda. My background is in education, particularly schooling for girls, but I have worked on aid projects of all kinds – for example, last time I was in Tanzania, 24 years ago, it was as a volunteer snorkeler helping...

Iain Parker (Development Manager) spent a few months in Tanzania researching the impact of Mondo’s projects. During his time there, Iain was able to help with the management of projects and spend time with the beneficiaries of Mondo’s work. There were a lot of positives and many grateful recipients, but as is inevitable in a country ravaged by HIV, a number of heart breaking stories. Iain spent most of his time working with the grant and loans program, which works like...