Karimu 2022 Goals
Last updated April 2022
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.
- Ayalagaya Secondary Sanitation System - Fully completed and connected March 2022.
- Ufani Primary bathrooms - Fully completed in March 2022
Sustainability and Maintenance
- Ayalagaya Water System Maintenance - Ongoing. You can also view the current status of water maintenance on the Karimu Water Maintenance Dashboard.
- Student Hygiene Education - Ongoing
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.
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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.
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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.
- IT System Expansion for Ayalagaya Health Center - In progress, started in January 2022
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. The Maternity Ward and the Outpatient Building have been completed. The Overnight Ward is underway and the Obstetrics and Family Planning Building is planned for this year. That leaves the laboratory and mortuary for 2023.
- Ayalagaya Overnight Ward - In progress, construction began in November 2021
- Ayalagaya Safety and Security Enhancements — In progress, construction began in February 2022
- Ayalagaya Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Family Planning Building - planned start June 2022
Sustainability and Maintenance
- Ayalagaya Medical Building Maintenance - Ongoing You can also view medical maintenance on the Karimu Health Dashboard.
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.
- Disabled children hostel at Dareda Kati Primary - Planned
- Classrooms for Gajal Primary - Planned
Open a High School in Ayalagaya Ward - We will be opening a new high school in Ayalagaya in July 2022! It is officially accredited as a science high school. After completing the construction in progress, there are two remaining buildings on hold: the computer classroom and one last old classroom building that needs to be remodeled.
- Ayalagaya High School Dining Hall - In progress, construction began September 2021
- Ayalagaya Physics and Biology Labs - In Progress, construction began November 2021
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.
- Furniture for all schools - Completed in January 2022
Advance Phase 4 - Supporting Teacher Excellence - This phase focuses on teaching quality and teacher retention.
- Computer training - Recurring, next class planned for October for Dareda Kati teachers
- Teachers scholarship program - Ten teachers have received scholarships for the 2021/2022 academic year.
Sustainability and Maintenance
- Ayalagaya School Maintenance - Ongoing. You can also view school maintenance on the Karimu School Dashboard.
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 are currently consulting with local experts to develop this strategy.
- Vanilla farming - In progress
- Entrepreneurship Training - Launching April 2022
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.
- Train Effective Savings Groups - In progress
- Provide Financial Assistance to qualified savings groups - In progress
- Formation of a Savings and Loan Federation - Planned for 2H 2022
Arri Ward
Sanitation
Bring clean water to Arri - In progress
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 inAyalagaya will be done in Arri in 2H 2022.
Education
- Teachers scholarship program - Nine teachers have been granted scholarships for the 2021/2022 academic year.
- Importance of Education - In progress
Financial Services
- Train Savings Groups - In progress
Babati District
Karimu Social Fund
- Boay Teachers Housing - Although started in 2021, this was based on 2022 Karimu Social Fund contribution to the district and completed in January 2022
- Dareda Mission Hostel - In progress
Additional projects beyond our service area
- Tuberculosis campaign - In progress, supporting Ayalagaya, Arri, and neighboring wards
- Disabled children hostel - In planning, While the hostel will be built on the Dareda Kati campus, it will actually serve the entire Babati district