Tanzania Fund

Overall Changes
90% of Tanzanians in rural areas keep chickens - but rarely more than 20. TASU aims to bring 50 per household. Here's how:

Setup and Training

• 31 villages selected (30 were chosen but a neighbouring village copied ideas and attended training sessions and was therefore added to the project!)
• Formed 143 producer groups with 4,617 direct beneficiaries!
• Training on; disease control, housing, group dynamics and programmed hatching.
• Creation of a vaccine supply chain
• 120 Group Leaders (38% women) and 1,306 farmers (46% women) recieved training that they then passed on to fellow project members.
• 2 Motorcycles bought for district contact persons.

Entrepreneurship and Market Training

• Group members from 10 villages (so far) have been trained on Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC). SILC, not direct funds, help farmers save their money in order to build chicken houses and other credit needed to expand their business.
• Training on Collective Marketing has taken place. This is particularly good at combating the problems of middlemen who buy the chickens at the farm at low prices and then sell them at market for much higher prices. Likewise it allows farmers to group together to gain credit and organise their finances more effectively.
• Training on Entrepreneurship has taken place.

Study Tours - where farmers visited another successful TSAEE project, made links and exchanged advice.
Vaccinations - Control against Newcastle disease (306,000 chickens have so far been vaccinated and this is only 80% of those chickens to be vaccinated!)

Vaccination demonstration; training on how to prevent Newcastle disease using themostable vaccine in Zanzui Village, Maswa.