Karimu 2024 Goals
Last updated March 2024
Ayalagaya Ward
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 Ayalagaya more than doubled the expected population and we expanded the bathrooms there.
All sanitation projects are in maintenance and monitoring mode.
Sustainability and Maintenance
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Student Hygiene Education - Ongoing annual requirement
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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 prescribed by the World Health Organization.
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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.
- Medical Scholarships - In progress
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IT System update for Dareda Kati Health Center - Planned
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IT Installation for Gajal Dispensary - Pending funding
Advance Phase 3 - Expanding the Medical Services through a Health Center - Karimu completed the construction of all buildings for the health center and it is fully operational, 24x7, including the surgery center for pregnancy related surgeries.
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Medical Equipment for the Health Center - In progress, complete except for incubator and ultrasound machine
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Dareda Kati Health Center Night Time and Emergency Access - In progress
Sustainability and Maintenance
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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%. We are also planning to build school kitchens so that students and school staff are not impacted by the smoke from open fires.
Extend Phase 1 - Creating a Healthy School
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Extend Ayalagaya School Kitchen - Planned 2024
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Ufani Primary School Kitchen - Planned for 2024
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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.
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Advance Phase 4 - Supporting Teacher Excellence - This phase focuses on teaching quality and teacher retention.
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Teachers scholarship program - For the 2022/2023 school year 4 teachers were awarded scholarships
Sustainability and Maintenance
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Ayalagaya School Maintenance - Ongoing. You can also view school maintenance on the Karimu School Dashboard.
Income
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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.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship Training - Our 1st class graduated Dec 2022, the 2nd class should begin in April 2024
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. We hope to reach the sustainability phase in 2024.
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Arri Ward
Sanitation
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Free and clean water was brought to all of Arri ward in 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.
Sustainability and Maintenance
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Health
Complete Phase 1 - Foundation for a Healthy Community - This focuses on providing access to basic healthcare within a 1 hour walk.
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Education
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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.
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Vanilla farming - In progress, began June 2020.
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Green Bean Pilot - In progress, began in May 2022.
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Chicken Pilot - Deferred to 2024
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BioChar pilot - In Progress, began in November
Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship Training - First class graduated Dec 2023, second class began Sept 2023.
Financial Services
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Train Savings Groups - In progress, started December 2021
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Provide Financial Assistance to qualified savings groups - In progress
Karimu Social Fund
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Tuberculosis campaign (various wards within Babati District) - In progress, supporting Ayalagaya, Arri, and neighboring wards
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Water harvest system for Maasai community (Monduli District) - In progress
Karimu 2024 Goals
Last updated March 2024
Ayalagaya Ward
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 Ayalagaya more than doubled the expected population and we expanded the bathrooms there.
All sanitation projects are 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 prescribed by the World Health Organization.
|
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.
- Medical Scholarships - In progress
-
IT System update for Dareda Kati Health Center - Planned
-
IT Installation for Gajal Dispensary - Pending funding
Advance Phase 3 - Expanding the Medical Services through a Health Center - Karimu completed the construction of all buildings for the health center and it is fully operational, 24x7, including the surgery center for pregnancy related surgeries.
-
Medical Equipment for the Health Center - In progress, complete except for incubator and ultrasound machine
-
Dareda Kati Health Center Night Time and Emergency Access - 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%. We are also planning to build school kitchens so that students and school staff are not impacted by the smoke from open fires.
Extend Phase 1 - Creating a Healthy School
-
Extend Ayalagaya School Kitchen - Planned 2024
-
Ufani Primary School Kitchen - Planned for 2024
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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.
|
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Advance Phase 4 - Supporting Teacher Excellence - This phase focuses on teaching quality and teacher retention.
-
Teachers scholarship program - For the 2022/2023 school year 4 teachers were awarded scholarships
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.
|
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 - Our 1st class graduated Dec 2022, the 2nd class should begin in April 2024
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. We hope to reach the sustainability phase in 2024.
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Arri Ward
Sanitation
|
Free and clean water was brought to all of Arri ward in 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.
Sustainability and Maintenance
|
Health
Complete Phase 1 - Foundation for a Healthy Community - This focuses on providing access to basic healthcare within a 1 hour walk.
|
|
Education
|
|
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
-
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