LTT's Outreach - Supporting the Bereko Community❤
We know that LTT's work is being well received and that our programmes can be replicated all over East Africa, which is why we are delighted to offer our services to other NGO's. Just this week, we provided advice and guidance to an orphanage in Uganda wanting to grow food for themselves. For the past 10 months we have been advising the Bereko Community, just 40 minutes down the road from Babati about fruit and vegetable production. This is what their partners in the UK said about us...
“Livingstone Tanzania Trust (LTT) has been a Godsend to the community in Bereko, Tanzania. The elders of Bereko wanted to do more for their community but did not know where to start or what to do. They needed inspiration. In April 2019 they visited Livingstone Tanzania in Babati and were shown around the projects. They came back excited and full of ideas: ‘we did not know that this was possible in Tanzania’. Since then, and with the support of LTT’s project management expertise, the elders have formally constituted a group, have a project plan, a budget and cashflow and, on land donated by one of the members, have now had their first harvest of tomatoes. The onion harvest is due soon, followed by bananas and papaya. They are planning for three crops a year and funds raised will be used to support community projects such as new classrooms for the school. They are already sharing all that they have learned and others in the community are learning from the modern farming techniques. The project has been visited by government officers and other communities and the benefits are already multiplying across this part of Tanzania.
There have been setbacks, and I suspect there will be more, but the community have worked through them all under the expert guidance of LTT. It is truly remarkable to see just how much has been achieved in twelve months. This could not have been achieved without the guidance and support from Robsone and Yohana on the ground and Julian and Sophie (mostly in the UK). We all feel enormously privileged to have been able to benefit from LTT’s expertise. They have provided us in the UK with confidence too, with good communications, pictures and financial reports as the project has progressed.
We are all, in Bereko and here in the UK, really looking forward to continuing to work with LTT and to learning more from them. They have provided us and our friends in Bereko with expertise, confidence and almost most importantly, HOPE.””
