Church at Brook Hills, thank you for your generous gifts to support mothers and babies in Tanzania. There are two centers included in this report: Bethel Kiwalani Child Development Center in Dar es Salaam and FPCT Katesh Student Center in Manyara, Tanzania. Your generosity in prayer and financial gifts are helping release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. We are pleased to bring you photos of caregivers actively participating in opportunities at the center, learning more about faith in Christ, getting much-needed health care for their family, and gaining craft skills to sell goods at the marketplace. Through all of these activities at the development center and through the survival program, families are experiencing positive change and seeing their future in a much more hopeful light. As you can see in the photos below, women are taking up the entrepreneurial lessons learned to have a successful place in the community marketplace and bring additional income to their homes. Couple that with workshops on making nutritious flours and other foods and babies are eating healthy and being well-nourished. Continue to pray for church and development center staff in Tanzania as they move forward serving, caring for, and loving families through the power and compassion of Jesus.
Survival Activities at the Bethel Kiwalani Child Development Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Caregivers Clean the Church Property
Caregivers tidy up the church surroundings to ensure they stay in a clean environment. Center staff teaches them to apply the same care to their homes for their own health and that of their family members.
Caregiver Surrenders Her Life to Jesus
The center ran a parenting skills sharing session with survival caregivers. In this session, one caregiver gave her life to Jesus. Senior Pastor Bishop Mwakalukwa lead her in a prayer of confession.
Health Screening
Seventeen parents and their children went through health screening to check their eyes, nose, ears, weight, and height, and screen for HIV, malaria, and other diseases.
Making Nutritious Flour
Survival beneficiaries learn how to make nutritious flour and other foods so they can make these items at home and save money. The ingredients to make these flours are readily available in their community.
Learning to Make Carpets
Survival caregivers learn different ways to make handmade rugs to sell in the community and generate income. This business opportunity will help them reduce dependence on others and bring much-needed money to supplement their husbands’ low income. These women then pass on their new-found skills to benefit other women, thereby benefiting the entire community.
Survival Mother Receives Bed for Her Home
To reach physical outcome goals, the center distributed beds to three survival families.
A caregiver sells coconuts in the market to generate income for her family
A Letter from a Caregiver at the FPCT Katesh Student Center in Manyara, Tanzania
Praise God for you!
My name is Pendo, one of the survival caregivers in Manyara, Tanzania. I love the Lord and am the 24-year-old mother to twins, Brayan and Brayton. There are some things I would like to share with you about the survival program.
I am so thankful that my twin babies and I get the opportunity to be part of this program. Without it, I would not be able to receive the services I am receiving here. The greatest thing is the time learning the word of God while attending sessions at the center, on home visits, and during group activities.
Through the survival program, I am so glad for the education and skills I am acquiring. I am learning about good nutrition for my children, how to plan my family, protect my children, the importance of immunizations and managing my baby’s health, Biblical principles of behavioral management, how to create an environment with sensory exercises, helpful play, and so many other lessons.
I also gained entrepreneurial and income-generating skills by attending different training and projects. Along with other survival moms, I learned how to start a small business and make liquid soap, create Batik cloth, make clothes from the fabric, and grow and sell vegetables and fruits from my garden. It has been fun to meet many different people when conducting group activities
This whole experience has been unique. Before joining the survival program, I was not in a position to undertake health screenings, pay for treatment and medications, or get all these nutritious foods. But now, I can do all these without problem and receive nutritious foods like flour, milk, sugar, and fruits each month. My children are healthy and happy. This has been such a great privilege, so thank you. I am thankful for the opportunity to be a part of the survival program and feel so supported.
God bless those who are sponsoring and implementing all activities,
Pendo
Recent Activities at the FPCT Katesh Student Center in Manyara, Tanzania
Learning to Make Batik
Survival mothers learned how to make batik at the center and were so successful, they went to market and sold everything! Several of the women want to continue creating and selling batik to earn supplemental income for their families.
Practicing Making Patterns on the Batik
The women practice creating flowers and other patterns on the batik. They will continue selling the homemade items in town and – they believe – continue changing their lives for the better.
Survival Caregivers Make Liquid Soap
Survival caregivers make liquid soap. It took them about a month to get a handle on this tricky product and are now looking to not only sell it but expand their business and earn a good profit.
Learning to Tailor
Survival caregivers learn and practice tailoring so that they can sew clothes for their children and pass on their skills to others. These women have started to see marketing opportunities to sell their clothes and tailor items for those in the community and surrounding areas.