By Askwar Hilonga | Director of TAHUDE Foundation
This quarter of 2015 was very exciting to TAHUDE Foundation for two reasons:
(1) We were PHYSICALLY visited by the GlobalGiving representative (Kelly Kurz). We were so happy to learn a lot from Kelly's presentation and site visit - based on his AMAZING insights on how to scale-up our initiative and many other PRACTICAL lessons. We visited beneficiaries of our project - school kids and their families. We went to their schools and few homes to see how much they enjoy our product/solar lanters. The school kids, their families, and teachers were very grateful to the sponsors who helped them through GlobalGiving. For anyone with an experience of working in Africa must admit what I mean - there are many places in rural areas where school kids cannot study after the sun set OR they still depend on harmful kerosene lamps and burners. The solar lanterns are still expensive - that is why we asked GlobalGiving and its partners to subsidize the solar lanters to make it affordable for kids in rural areas to purchase - THANKS FOR YOUR RELENTLESS SUPPORT.
(2) Our second success story this quarter is that our project leader, Askwar Hilonga, won the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, sponsored by the British Royal Academy of Engineering. This prize/award is very important for Tanzania and Africa at large because many young people in African and other developing countries need to witness the real success story of local innovators who work with their grass-root community - influencial people who have decided to GIVE BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. In this case Hilonga is now a ROLE MODEL.
We expect another quarter of outstanding activities - KEEP CONNECTED - WE WILL UPDATE YOU REGULARLY.
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By Askwar Hilonga | Director of TAHUDE Foundation
By Askwar Hilonga | Director of TAHUDE Foundation
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