Project Report
| Jan 9, 2018
USADF Extends support for TAHUDE Biogas Project - THANKS to GlobalGiving and its Partners
By Askwar Hilonga | Director
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USADF Extends support for Biogas in Tanzania
Along with the wonderful support we are receiving from our GlobalGiving donors, we are glad to report a generous grant from United States Africa Development Foundation (USADF) to boost our biogas project in rural Tanzania. TAHUDE is promised $ 124 k to benefit hundreds of households in Northen Tanzania from 2017 - 2020. USADF was convinced to extend its support after witnessing the benefit that was evidently gained by the biogas beneficiaries. USADF officials physically visited the beneficiaries and were convinced that it is a worthwhile project to continue receiving support from the People of America through USADF - we are so grateful on this.
As TAHUDE Staff, we continue to extend our gratitude to GlobalGiving and its generous supporters for helping us built our case - that biogas is a worthwhile project that can reduced human pain, particularly to mothers and girls who cook by using firewood. In our previous report (please consider our website http://gongalimodel.com/Biogas.html) we have given some statistics on 89 beneficiaries and the IMPACT to the environment.
We expect extended generous support from our partners on GlobalGiving in 2018, and we promise to update you from time to time. Please kindly feel free to share our success story with all your partners, family and friends. And please kindly drop-by our biogas project when you visit Tanzania, at anytime of your convenience.
ASANTENI SANA!
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Sep 29, 2017
USADF Promises to increase its support for Biogas
By Askwar Hilonga | Director
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TAHUDE - Gongali Biogas Project and trees planting
Many exciting things are happening with our Biogas Project in this quarter, along with the successful completion of the Biogas Loan Project supported by the United States African Development Foundation (USADF). USADF was very impressed to learn the IMPACT we made with the first grant they provided to TAHUDE Foundation. With this grant, TAHUDE was able to reach 534 people with green energy (environmentally friendly biogas from cow-dung).
USADF is now planning to extend its support probably from Oct / Nov 2017. With this, TAHUDE will touch another hundreds of lives in underserved communities in Tanzania. The project, along with avoiding carbon dioxide emission, also rejuvenate soil by using the organic fertilizer which is the waste product from the biogas system. TAHUDE also gave 8,000 trees to local people in the villages where the biogas project is being implemented.
We are grateful to the GlobalGiving supporters, though they were not many this time. I am sure our impressive success story with this USADF support will inspire many other donors to join our effort. The need is big because about 94% of Tanzanian population still depends on firewood for cooking. This should NOT be tolerated in this 21st Century (cutting trees for cooking!? NO!).
THANKS FOR CONSIDERING OUR PLEA FOR THIS PROJECT THAT BENEFIT EVERYONE ON EARTH (if our local people stop cutting trees then everyone on earth will benefit the free and fresh oxygen from trees)
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Jun 16, 2017
Biogas project supported by Government officials and foreign institutions
By Askwar Hilonga | Director
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USA Students Visiting Biogas Customers in Tanzania
This quarter is so unique to TAHUDE Foundation and the whole Gongali Community. We are glad that our project is attracting local and international attention. The government leaders formerly invited our Biogas project to be one of the exhibitors in National Health and Environment Day on 2nd June 2017. It was a splendid event.
Moreover, we received more than 100 foreign visitors who wanted to visited our project. The attached photos shows university students from USA visiting one of our customers in Gongali village - Tanzania. They were so impressed by our innovation.
These connections are contributing to our project publicity and we have been receiving donations from Anonymous (we respect the privacy of our customers who did not reveal their names) - but some donors also revealed their names. To all of them - along with the GlobalGiving - we say THANK YOU SO MUCH!
At present we have already built 89 biogas systems to our customers by June 2017. With your timely support we will be able to reach our target of 100 households before the end of 2017 - then we can cover more customers and scale-up this initiative to other regions in Tanzania and across Sub-Sharan Africa. The need is bigger than our financial capacity. For details about our project and how it benefit our underserved community, particularly women and girls (pain of looking for firewood for cooking, painful smoke when cooking with trees, eyes problem, etc), please contact us via hilonga@gmail.com.
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