Karimu 2023 Goals

Last updated March 2024

Ayalagaya Ward

General

Karimu conducted an assessment to see if our programs are reaching the poorest households. 

• Poorest of the Poor - Complete

Sanitation 

Free and clean water was brought to all of Ayalagaya in 2018 and we completed the last school bathroom project in Ayalagaya in 2022. However, the school population in Ayalagya has almost doubled the expected population and we are expanding the bathrooms there.

• Expanding Ayalagaya Secondary and High School Bathrooms - Complete (Feb 2024)

Other sanitation projects are now in maintenance and monitoring mode. 

Sustainability and Maintenance 

• Student Hygiene Education - Ongoing annual requirement

• Ayalagaya Water System Maintenance - Ongoing. You can also view the current status of water maintenance on the Karimu Water Maintenance Dashboard.

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 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.  Increase syphilis testing and treatment - Monitoring  Detect anemia during pregnancy - Monitoring   Training on Delivery and Newborn and Infant Care -  Monitoring Increase HPV Vaccinations - Monitoring Detection and treatment of childhood illnesses - In progress Tuberculosis campaign - In progress  Community health videos - In progress Sanitary home latrines - Project design Childhood vaccinations - Complete

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 are to complete IT system installation for Gajal Dispensary and Dareda Kati Health Center. However, there is no funding for these in 2023.

• Medical Scholarships - In progress

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 completed the construction in 2022 and 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.

• Medical Equipment for the Health Center - In progress

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%. 

Extend Phase 1 - Creating a Healthy School

• Extend Ayalagaya School Kitchen - Deferred to 2024

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. We are also planning to build school kitchens so that students and school staff are not impacted by the smoke from open fires. We have raised sufficient funds to build more classrooms and plan to execute them in 2023, but these projects are on hold pending resolution of maintenance issues at Ayalagaya Secondary school.

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.  Vanilla farming -  In progress, began June 2020. Green Bean Pilot - In progress, began in May 2022. Pilot extended due to new partner. Next planting in 2024 Chicken Pilot - Deferred to 2024 BioChar pilot - In progress, began in November

Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Program is intended to give 25% of households the skills to run a small business through a 6-8 month training and coaching program. 

• Entrepreneurship Training - One class completed in 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, provide capital for lending, and train community based trainers for sustainability.

• Train Effective Savings Groups - In progress, began September 2019

• Provide Financial Assistance to qualified savings groups - In progress, began March 2021

• Formation of a Savings and Loan Federation - Complete. Monitoring

• Train Community-Based Trainers for Savings Groups - In progress

• Provide Financial Assistance to a Federation - In progress

Arri Ward  

Sanitation

• Bring clean water to Arri - In progress, began Feb 2022. Incrementally turning water on since Aug 2023.

Complete Phase 1 - Creating a Healthy School - This focuses on providing sanitary bathrooms for all schools. In partnership with the government, we have completed 2 of the 9 school bathrooms.

• Dohom Secondary Bathrooms - In progress

Sustainability and Maintenance 

• Student Hygiene Education - Ongoing for schools whose bathrooms are complete.

Health

Complete Phase 1 - Foundation for a Healthy Community - This focuses on providing access to basic healthcare within a 1 hour walk. 

• Tsaayo Dispensary - Construction complete. Additional equipment is being donated incrementally.

• Implementation of Phase 1 of the health interventions - The health interventions are being rolled out simultaneously in Ayalagaya and Arri. See the interventions above in the Ayalagaya Health section. 

• Malnutrition Survey - Complete

Education

Importance of Education - In progress, started in September 2021 Kitchen for Arri Primary - Complete Teachers scholarship program - For the 2022/2023 school year 4 teachers were awarded scholarships.

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. 

• Vanilla farming -  In progress, began June 2020.

• Green Bean Pilot - In progress, began in May 2022.

• Chicken Pilot - Deferred to 2024

• BioChar pilot - In Progress, began in November

Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurship Training - First class graduated Dec 2023, second class began Sept 2023.

Financial Services

• Train Savings Groups - In progress, started December 2021

• Provide Financial Assistance to qualified savings groups - In progress

Karimu Social Fund

• New Stoves for Dareda Mission - Completed April 2023

• Student Housing in Babati Town, Babati District - Completed Jan 2023

• Tuberculosis campaign (various wards within Babati District) - In progress, supporting Ayalagaya, Arri, and neighboring wards

• Water harvest system for Maasai community (Monduli District) - In progress