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Karimu 2022 Goals

Last updated January 2023

 

Ayalagaya Ward

Sanitation

Complete Phase 1 - Creating a Healthy School - This focuses on providing sanitary bathrooms for all schools. Part of the school's commitment for receiving bathrooms is providing annual student hygiene training. We have completed this phase by completing the last of the planned school bathroom projects.

 

Sustainability and Maintenance 

Health 

See Karimu’s Health Program for an overview of goals and approach.

Complete Phase 1 - Foundation for a Healthy Community - This focuses on providing access to basic healthcare within a 1 hour walk. All of the construction projects for phase one have been completed! We are now focusing on health interventions.

Implementation of Phase 1 of the health interventions - Karimu is driving a series of health interventions based on research into the most important interventions for rural and poor communities. The rollout is prioritized in partnership with the district, ward, and local medical leadership and focuses on those items which will have the greatest local impact that can be delivered with current facilities. Please view the specific project pages for more information. 

 

Advance Phase 2 - Supporting Medical Staff Retention and Excellence - Phase 2 focuses on improving medical staff retention and excellence through housing and advanced education. The only remaining projects for 2023 are doctor housing, if needed, to support the health center and IT system installation for Gajal Dispensary.

 

Advance Phase 3 - Expanding the Medical Services through a Health Center - The key goal is to provide access to a health center (a mini-hospital) within a 30 minute drive. We were able to accelerate the completion of this project based on funds from Mary’s Mercy.

Karimu partnered with the Tanzanian government’s Babati District Medical Office to open the Health Center. The government has provided the center with additional staff—three new nurses, and one doctor and training for current staff to advance in their qualifications, such as in radiology and anesthesiology. In addition, they will contribute hospital beds, other furniture items, and medical equipment such as a refrigerator for medicine, an ultrasound and a biochemistry machine. However, they cannot cover all costs so Karimu will be working to help them close the gap in 2023.

 

Sustainability and Maintenance 

Education 

See the Education Program for an overview of goals and approach. In general, the start of new projects, even given adequate fundraising, is subject to a set of conditions being met by the local community and school. The full list can be reviewed in the Education Program description and status can be viewed on the Karimu School Dashboard, but the most notable ones are feeding all school children a meal, cleaning and maintaining the facilities, providing hygiene education and supplies, and student and teacher attendance rate of at least 90%. 

 

Advance Phase 2 - Building Adequate Learning Environment - Our goal is to provide healthy, bright, and sufficient classrooms to limit class sizes to 45 students per classroom. Even with all the completed construction we have still only achieved that ratio at 2 schools: Ayalagaya Secondary and Bacho Primary. You can see where we are by school on the Karimu School Dashboard. However, we have put most new classroom construction on hold (with 2 exceptions) until the water maintenance issue is resolved by the community. 

 

 

Open a High School in Ayalagaya Ward - The new high school in Ayalagaya officially opened in July 2022! It is officially accredited as a science high school.There are two remaining buildings on hold: the computer classroom and one last old classroom building that needs to be remodeled.

 

Complete Phase 3 - Promoting Academic Excellence - This phase focuses on providing resources usually missing in rural schools: a school library, adequate books, sufficient desks, sports, and art material and Karimu’s contribution is complete.

 

Advance Phase 4 - Supporting Teacher Excellence - This phase focuses on teaching quality and teacher retention.

  • Computer training - Recurring. The most recent class for Dareda Kati teachers completed in December. All Ayalagaya school teachers have had the opportunity to receive computer training.
  • Teachers scholarship program - Ten teachers have received scholarships for the 2021/2022 academic year. In September, 1 teacher was awarded his degree in education.

 

Sustainability and Maintenance

Income 

Income enhancement projects focus on increasing the income of households based on the local agricultural economy. We follow the priorities used by the local leadership to ensure more attention is given to those households with greater need, i.e., households with heads who are not able to work, are women, or young adults 18 to 35 years old. We have developed our income strategy and identified the top agricultural and livestock projects to pilot. 

 

Entrepreneurship

Financial Services

The Financial Services Program aims to increase access to capital for at least 25% of households. The program aims to form and train savings groups, support the formation of a federation whose members are savings groups, and provide capital for lending. 

 

 

 

Arri Ward

Sanitation

Health

  • Implementation of Phase 1 of the health interventions - The health interventions are being rolled out simultaneously in Ayalagya and Arri. See the interventions above in the Ayalagaya Health section. 
  • Health Survey - The same health survey completed in 2021 in Ayalagaya was planned for Arri in 2H 2022, but has been deferred to 2023 due to lack of funding.
  • TV for Tsaayo Dispensary - Completed May 2022

 

Education

  • Teachers scholarship program - Nine teachers have been granted scholarships for the 2021/2022 academic year. In September, 1 teacher was awarded his degree in education.
  • Importance of Education - In progress, started in September 2021
  • Kitchen for Arri Primary - In progress, started September 2022. Note: this was fully funed by a single donor so was advanced ahead of other projects.

Entrepreneurship

Financial Services

 

Babati District 

Karimu Social Fund

 

Additional projects beyond our service area

  • Tuberculosis campaign - In progress, supporting Ayalagaya, Arri, and neighboring wards
  • Special needs children hostel - Completed October 2022. While the hostel will be built on the Dareda Kati campus, it will actually serve the entire Babati district.