Tanzania Fund

Latest Exciting News:

€1,100,000 Project agreed with the European Union in a new partnership with the Tanzania Fund! The EU has agreed to partner the Tanzania Fund, donating €1,000,000 to supplement our promise of raising €110,000 (£100,000).

This year, the Fund has raised £51,000 so far towards this putting us half way to our target.

OUR CURRENT PROJECT

Tanzania Agricultural Scale-Up (TASU) is an Oxfam programme, aimed at providing Tanzanians with sustainable and secure sustenance and income. 80% of Tanzanians work in agriculture, so improving agricultural yields and resistance to drought would lead to a significant improvement in living standards, quality of life and life expectancy. Shinyanga was chosen in 2007 to be the pilot region for this project, and Oxfam requested the Tanzania Fund to be the cornerstone donor. The European Community has now also backed this programme with €1.0m funding.

The first focus for the project is on chicken farming, which provides the largest and most reliable source of protein in this area. So far the project has provided training for chicken keepers, assistance to over 6,000 locals, vaccinations for 400,000 chickens and is working with farmers to improve revenue and marketing. See the latest progress.

Read about how this project is helping Yela Magembe in Old Maswa and Catherine Elias in Bukigi village.

The Tanzania Fund:

We aim to help fund livelihoods initiatives in Tanzania. It was suggested by a group of Oxfam supporters after a visit to Shinyanga in 1999. Inspired by the spirit, dignity and determination of everyone they met, the group started the Tanzania Fund to provide a cost-effective means of establishing direct personal contact with the actual people who benefit.

Please read on to find out more about what projects we support and why we would like you! to join us...

The Tanzania Fund would like to recognise the major support to these initiatives given by the Tanzanian Government, European Union, Oxfam GB and Oxfam Tanzania. The projects themselves are all implemented by Tanzanians.