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African project updates: Burundi and Tanzania

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Updated: Oct 10, 2024

EWoB's Executive Director Mic Crenshaw has been working with local leadership on two main projects this year in areas of the African continent: Expanding ongoing access and education projects in Burundi, and starting a new land development project in Tanzania.



Burundi 2024 Progress


This has been a big year for Burundi!


July 2024 marked an entry point and beginning activity for five main projects:


  1. Women empowerment project 

  2. Additional digging for water canal pipes  

  3. Contract signature on the fruits plants distribution 

  4. Computer center visit, 

  5. And the beginning of road construction throughout the community



Here is a breakdown of impact of the Burundi project in figures:


  • Population in the target community: 610 Households

  • Computer training beneficiaries: 2021 (36), 2022 (50), 2023 (39), 2024 (40)

  • Schools partners of the center: 4 elementary schools: MUYANGE (60), NKONDO (30), NYAMAZI (30), NYARUSANGE (25)

  • Total number of students from the schools (145)

  • Fruit plants 2022: 1,800 plants distributed; Oranges (600 plants), Maracuja (600), Mandarines (600)

  • Fruit plants 2023: 7,700 plants; Japanese plum (5,500), Papaya (1,200) Oranges (500) mandarines (500)

  • Fruits plants 2024 (nursery under way): 2,000 plants.



New Tanzania Project


Mic Crenshaw visited Tanzania in June 2024, after he worked with Ombeni Mollel Jackson, a local artist and community leader, to launch a land development and food sovereignty project in the region of Ngorongoro.



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