Mchakama

The UK office has been helping our landscape programme in numerous ways, one of which has been through an appeal to supporters. Money raised from the public in the UK directly helps underpin our programme. Therefore we are taking the opportunity to get some communications materials from places which have benefited from projects we have financially and technically supported.

Mchakama village is one such location. Here various initiatives have been catalysed, such as a women’s farming group producing sunflower crops now worth more than $1,000 per harvest, and an area of designated forest which is harvested sustainably for timber, bringing in thousands of dollars shared by the community for social projects such as new classrooms or homes for healthcare workers at the dispensary.

Project beneficiaries were happy to pose for some shots by a Tanzanian photographer, which look excellent in the previews. Later we ended up zipping around the paths for several kilometres on the back of motorbikes to try and locate the sustainably harvested forest. I hope it was due to the driver’s navigational skills rather than the forest having been felled.