ADRA Africa Report Vol2

PRACTICAL GOSPEL

POSITIVE IMPACTS GOSPEL PRACTICAL

POSITIVE IMPACT Vol. II Complied by: Yetunde Odeyemi | Edited by: Tayo Odeyemi and Zivayi Nengomasha

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APPRECIATION This publication would not have been possible without the committed input from our colleagues in the Country Offices. To all the Country Offices in the Africa Region, we would like to thank you for taking the time to write these amazing stories of Change, translating into English and responding to our queries during the compilation process. May God bless you and your service in ADRA.

Thanks go to: East Central Africa Division D. Republic of Congo Ethiopia Kenya Somalia Uganda

Southern Africa Indian Ocean Division Madagascar Malawi Mozambique SĂŁo TomĂŠ and Principe Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe

West Central Africa Division Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Ghana Liberia Mali Mauritania Nigeria Togo

We would also like to thank Yetunde Odeyemi (PhD) for the many hours she committed to the compilation, arranging and printing of this publication.

Many other people have also made significant contributions in this process, though not mentioned by name, your work is well appreciated.

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FOREWORD

The experiences shared in this second volume of ADRA Africa’s PRACTICAL GOSPEL: POSITIVE IMPACTS are the stories of how God is using human beings, specifically ADRA workers to meet the needs of His children as evidences of His love to humanity with minimal resources. I’m not sure those who benefited from the food donated by the young boy in the Mark 6 experience expected the food, though some may argue that they followed Christ because of the food. But even if it crossed their minds that free food might be available, I wonder how many of them felt that they would have enough, with probably at least 20,000 total mouths to feed.

Akintayo Odeyemi (PhD) (Executive Director, ADRA Africa Regional Office)

Dear Friends of ADRA, Community development work needs a measure of faith. For example, when ADRA country offices work on their annual budgets, most of the time it is based on assumption that donor partners will keep working with them, even on on-going programs. I’ve seen situations in which programs were terminated before the planned full term.

As I consider what Jesus did in Mark 6: 32-46 when He fed about 5,000 men (not counting women and children who are in a crowd majority most of the time), my faith is encouraged to move ahead with available resources, knowing fully that God will continue to bless. And that’s what happened in 2015.

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And that’s the Lord’s goodness. He provides, rewarding our faith. And at times, He uses it to correct our faithlessness.

We are happy to share these stories with you, and we are very grateful to all our partners – for faithful service, collaborations, provision of funds and other resources, which enable ADRA to continue to be of useful service to humanity. We are grateful for your prayers and moral support I hope and pray that you are blessed by our stories.

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ADVOCACY: Conflict Resolution Magic Dialogue Improved Marketing Advocacy Strategy Boosts Sales

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New Life For Mauwa’s household

Educational Equity For those With Disabilities

Functional Education Adults learning To Read and Write!

Girl-Child Empowerment A Girl-Child Goes To School Environmental Care Recycling For Community Growth

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EDUCATION:

Adult Literacy Training Empowering through Education

EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Resilience For Refugees Innovative Response

Resilience Through Keeping The Environment Timely Assistance

FOOD SECURITY:

Empowering Refugee Camp Residents Mobile, Audio and Visual (MAV) Campaign Saves Lives

Environmental Vigilante Of Drabougou Relief Assistance

Comprehensive Training Transformed Lives Utilizing Gained Knowledge Small Holder Agri-business Initiative (SHABI)

ADRA Ethiopia ADRA Madagascar ADRA Niger ADRA São Tomé and Principe

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ADRA Ghana

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ADRA Liberia ADRA Mali ADRA São Tomé and Principe

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ADRA Kenya ADRA Zambia

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HEALTH:

Health and Clean Environment Internalizing knowledge Openness Not Ashamed To Say

Health and Good Latrines ADRA Cameroon Change of Attitude ADRA Lesotho Bishop Preaching A Unique Gospel ADRA Swaziland The First Of Its Kind ADRA Swaziland

LIVELIHOODS – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Improved Productivity Household Economy Crop Production Training Appropriate Support Training For Business Savings & Loans For Business

A Farmer’s Testimony Improved Household Economy Family Benefits From Homestead Garden A Changed Life Empowered for Agri-business ASCAS (Accumulated Saving and Credit Associations)

TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT: Technology For Ease of Small Business Enhanced Capacity Mobile Phone for Small Business

Motorized Boat on Lake Kivu Resilience To Drought Confidence & Happiness Through Improved Income

WATER SANITATION AND HEALTH: Environmental Sanitation in School

Improved Water System Essential Water Supply Mother As Sanitation Trainer Training in Hygiene and Sanitation Adaptive Methods

Dustbin Testimony Retrieved Piping Column Of A Borehole Water for All Lessons On Tippy Tap The Hygiene Story Clean Hands At Kendra Primary School

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: Enhancing Latent Personal Skill Sensitive to The need Of Others Getting Wise Determined To Keep Going Courageous & Determined

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Bringing Out The Best Of Personal Skills Testimony – Much Needed Baby Kit Ordinary Female Gets Agri-Business Wise Empowered Women Women Head Families In Refugee CAMP!!!

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ADRA Togo

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ADRA Burkina Faso ADRA Cameroon ADRA Chad ADRA DR Congo ADRA Uganda ADRA Mauritania

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ADRA Kenya ADRA Mauritania ADRA Mozambique ADRA Nigeria ADRA Tanzania

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ADVOCACY

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ADRA Uganda

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

MAGIC DIALOGUE

“I take pride in ADRA’s trainings my entire family’s life changed. Before, I used to save for a whole year and share the money during the Christmas festive season. I would buy clothes and food items for Christmas, now I invest my money and it is yielding profitable results”.

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n Alyek central village, all cases end up at LC 1 court, which refers them to the Magistrates’ court if unresolved. The magistrate’s court, ruling usually leads to imprisonment thus widening resentments, fueling revenge and violence.

However when ADRA Uganda trained 57 years old OCUNGMUNG Margret’s group on violence free conflict management, the results were encompassing changes such as reduction grudges among community members village local council official and reduced forwarded cases.

At the Margaret’s group level the violence free conflict management approach was also employed through a suitable intermediating team, which works to resolve the cases out of court.

At the household level, Margaretemployed the magic dialogue technique to free her husband from imprisonment over a land wrangle case.

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ADRA Zimbabwe

IMPROVED MARKETING

ADOVOCACY STRATEGY BOOSTS SALES

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…. the marketing focal person, revealed that their roles included empowering fellow farmers and themselves, conduct themselves professionally, create linkages between farmers and buyers, market research to ascertain what is on demand, and plan delivery”

Farmers have resorted to a new method of marketing that have seen their sales rising as compared to previous years.

This method is known in their circles as the ‘lead marketer’s approach’. This marketing technique is characterized by the selection of leading marketers in the 8 gardens supported by ADRA Zimbabwe. Each garden has two lead marketers who have come together to form one committee.

This committee has a marketing focal person and an assistant.

ADRA Zimbabwe has trained these farmers in various empowering techniques and relevantly in marketing and advocacy, on how to be best negotiators on the market, package their products in a competitive way and how to collect records to determine profits or losses and how best to plan for the future.

Farmers are appreciative of the kind of market confidence they have gained through various trainings that have boosted their self-esteem and what they can achieve. They are now well known for producing marketable produce in upmarket and leading markets in Harare such as these up-market supermarkets SPAR, OK MART, PICK n’ PAY and Food Lovers Market among many.

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EDUCATION

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ADULT LITERACY TRAINING

NEW LIFE FOR MAUWA’S HOUSEHOLD “ADRA’s adult literacy training has improved me, I am able to read and write, improve my sale of farm produce and knowledge of goat breeding” Mauwa NASANGO, aged 48, resides in KanandaI, andis a mother of nine children of which 6 are still alive. She is married to Jean MBAKWA, whose sight got impaired in 2000.Due to the husband’s blindness since 2000, she decided to work hard in agriculture and small business, thus becoming her family sole breadwinner.Her daughter and four boys are schooling and one of her other children has completed schooling.

Jenga II Program established a livestock bank to increase the diversity of revenue sources in the Mauwa’avillage. The beneficiaries were divided into groups of 10-15 members, with one half of the members receiving a goat and the other half a ram. The five-women committee authorized to manage the bank, were trained on basic management principles.There were stated guiding principle for the animal distribution, agreed means of sustainability, and a means of conflict resolution if the need arose.

Veterinary and extension services through local service providers were encouraged to foster links between the project beneficiaries and stakeholders of the goat value chain. It was envisioned that goat owners would increase their income through the sale of goat milk and possibly meat, and also use the products to increase the nutrition intake for their households.

Mauwa received trainings from ADRA, and her initial one goat has generated four young kids.

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ADRA Ethiopia

EMPOWERING THROUGH EDUCATION

EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES “Abdisa and his family members are grateful for ADRA Ethiopia’s SEAQE project”

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n order to change the existing situation of exclusion in education, ADRA-Ethiopia, through its Strengthening Access, Equity and Quality in Education (SEAQE) project, has been intervening by providing training for PTAs (Parents Teachers Associations) and innovative advocacy initiatives. Following training sessions, the PTAs embarked on awareness creation activities through home-to-home campaign for the enrolment of children with physical disabilities to the school and re-enrolment of those who had dropped out from school.

This action has created the best opportunity for 11 years old Abdisa Hirpo to attend School once again, an act which he loves so much. The schoolteachers in collaboration with the community provided schooling materials like exercise book, pen and additional special support in the form of appropriate text books, giving him a front seat, enabling him by reading notes from the black board and text books.

Though, at first his peers discriminated against him on the play ground of the school compounds as the ‘new boy in the block’ the on one hand and due to his disability on the other hand, his teacher provided a soft landing by kindly requesting his entire classmates to consider him in all their activities.

His teacher continues to work for equity for Abdisa

through arranged tutorial class, writing big letters on the black board, equal participation with other students through one-on-one engagement with him for day-to-day learning.. He now stood on his 4th rank out of his class during the first semester of this year. He was rewarded by the contribution of the community, which has been initiated by Teachers and PTA.

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FUNCTIONAL EDUCATION

ADULTS LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE!

“Thank God ADRA was there, now, I can read and write…“Many adults now speak up, expressing their ideas …,” Marie Therese Rasoarimalala is a 30-year-old mother from Anjeva, a small town located 30 km outside Antananarivo, Madagascar. Marie Therese comes from a large family and finances were tight. “I studied until grade 2,” she said. “I didn’t finish because I have 9 siblings, and our parents couldn’t support for all of us.” As a result, Marie Therese never learned to read or write.

Marie Therese’s situation is not uncommon in Anjeva, or Madagascar as a whole, where more than 35 percent of the population aged 15 and older are illiterate (UNESCO, 2015). Literacy rates have been falling for the last 15 years, as schools have lost funding and poverty has caused enrollment rates to drop.

Tony Randriantsoaan undergraduate student studying in Antananarivo, in October 2014, decided to attend anADRA Madagascar and the Malagasy Bible Society for volunteer literacy teachers training.

On completion, Tony chose to apply what he’d learned in his hometown Anjeva. He wanted to help them learn to read so as to be able to do basic things (paying tax, filling administrative forms)and he knew the experiencewould also be valuable

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for him.

Tony obtained permission and full cooperation for the literacy program from Raymond Ramandimbiarijaona, the Mayor of Anjeva to the point of receiving a room in a government building for his literacy classes.

Tony’s class started at the beginning of May 2015, with only 32 students.

However, throughout the 3-month term, the number of students increased to a final total of 136 (age range 14 – 52) all of whom could read and write by the end. Most of Tony’s students did not study when they were younger because their parents could not afford to send them to school.Others had studied, but could not finish primary school.

Tony experienced many challenges in teaching the class. “Initially it was hard for them to write because their primary occupation was mainly, farming and chiseling stone, for example,” said Tony. “They also had difficulty memorizing things, since they were adults and mostly parents who it is characteristic with being preoccupied with thoughts of homes and what they will cook for their next meal”.In only one month, thechanges were apparent,playing out asdiligence, prompt attendance, being able to read and write, renewed confidence and increased self-esteem.

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Therese says; “When I couldn’t read, I was sad to see others able to read and write. Also, people used to mock me,fortunately, ADRA was there. Now, I can read and write,”“People can’t take advantage of me because now I have learned how to read”.

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GIRL-CHILD EMPOWERMENT

A GIRL-CHILD GOES TO SCHOOL

“ Thanks ADRA MAVs campaign strategy is an eye opener! How dangerous Ebola virus disease is!If only my parents had access to MAV earlier, they could be living today? WithoutADRA, all of us could die!”

My name is Ramatou. “I am 33 years old and my husband died 3 years ago in Niamey leaving me with 5 young children.

While all my boys attended school, it has been a great challenge for my daughters to go to school. Though I know going to school could give people a better future, my boys were the only ones sent to school by their father. Culturally women are trained to be good housewives taking care of their husband and children. Of my three daughters, two are already teenagers but never went to school. My third daughter was 3 years old when the father passed away. At 5, I was willing to send her to school but I lacked the courage, determination and the money to send her to a school.

Then last year I heard about some people from ADRA asking parents to send their girl child to school and also giving them some advises on how to avoid some dangerous diseases like Ebola and Aids that already killed many people in West Africa. ADRA people all encouraged me and even offered to support her with some school materials and a female goat to provide milk for the entire family.

The goat would also bear kids to generate additional income for our family that will serve for her future education.

Today Ramatou is 7 and she is going to school. Though I am sad because her two sisters did not have the same opportunity, I am glad that my last daughter can go to school and is willing to continue as long as possible and become an educated woman”.

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ENVIRONMENTAL CARE

RECYCLING FOR COMMUNITY GROWTH “…government representatives called for replicating recycling project in more schools” RibeiraFunda, located in the Lemba district of São Tomé and Principe (STP), is one of the poorest communities in the country, with no electricity, portable water, lack of toilet facilities it gives a picture of a very dirty and unhealthy environment. In 2006 ADRA STP worked in the only primary school in RebeiraFunda, supporting activities such as provision of; school’s teachers and feeding children twice daily when school is in session to ensure retention and attendance.

By June 2015 ADRA STP took up the bid to sensitize the Rebeira Fund a community on care for their environment so as to better and rid theenvironment of filth and dirt.

Part of the activities includeschool childrencollecting garbagesuch as plastic cans, bottles, plastic bags, metal container covers, pieces of sticks and woods etc.ADRA STP’srecycling team uses the

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garbage to teachschool children how to converted garbage into lovely work of Art. An exhibition of the recycle products attracted the attention of the national television, whichprovided media coverage while the products were completely sold out to visitors at the exhibition.

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ADRA Ghana

RESILIENCE FOR REFUGEES

EMPOWERING REFUGEE CAMP RESIDENTS “Thanks to ADRA, I can now feed myself, save about USD 78 (300 Ghana Cedis) a month, think of getting married and raising a family, I can fend for a family now. I feel a heavy load has been lifted off my head”

“I am a 26-year old Ivorian who was happily working with PETROCI Company Ltd in Cote D’Ivoire, earning USD 346.6 per month and with that amount I was able to support my parents and 4 siblings until the post electoral crisis in 2011.

Then, I fled my country,I lost track of my family and ended up in a transition camp in Ghana. Along with other fleeing Ivoirians, we were transferred to Egyeikrom Refugee Camp. Along with four other refugees I was enrolled on a poultry project to help improve our livelihood. Upon sales of the birds, three of the group members made away with the money leaving me with nothing. I had to depend solely on the food provided by WFP (World Food Program). Life became more difficult for me until ADRA came on board with the Livelihood Implementing Partner in April 2015.

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I approached the officers in charge and explained my situation; amazingly they supported me with 100 broilers and bags of poultry feed. I raised and sold the birds. ADRA officials had a meeting with me during which and we charted a new phase to the business, this yielded a profit of USD 207.40. I invested USD 118 (450 Ghana Cedis) of my profit into another business that of selling of cattle skin (“wele”), which was in high demand within the camp, soit is fetching me a lot of money.

Indeed, I am now comfortable.

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ADRA Liberia

INNOVATIVE RESPONSE

MOBILE, AUDIO AND VISUAL (MAV) CAMPAIGN SAVES LIVES “Thanks ADRA MAVs campaign strategy is an eye opener! How dangerous Ebola virus disease is!If only my parents had access to MAV earlier, they could be living today? WithoutADRA, all of us could die!”

ADRA Liberia was in the fore front of the fight against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Liberia, which was extraordinary. Since the emergence of the virus in March 2014,ADRA Liberiawith the support from the ADRA network and partners, made a long-term commitment to addressing the plight of Ebola survivors, affected families andorphans.

Glangasiazu community in Gbarpolu County is one of the communities that benefited from ADRA’s response to the Ebola outbreak. Initially, the community members had rejected interventions from all relief organizations including ADRA, as well as the County Health Team in the fight against Ebola because they believed that the Ebola virus was a ruse by the Liberian government and health workers backed by western nations who intended to generate funds and depopulate Africa. This

community was tagged “defiant community” thereby recording the highest percentage (at least 80%) of the County’s Ebola casespriorto ADRA Liberia’s intervention.

As a result of ADRA Liberia’s relentless effortand distinct community entry approach, authorities of the town finally allowed the ADRA team to carry out awareness program through; MAV campaigns, distribution of flyers, posters and Ebola prevention materials. The massive mobile campaigns sensitized the people to understand the cause and effect of EVD, andresidents constructing of access pathways through the forest area for motorcyclesof health workers and other humanitarian agencies to reach Glangasiazu. The result was decrease in and subsequent end of the spread of the disease in the community.

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ADRA Mali

RESILIENCE THROUGH KEEPING THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL VIGILANTE OF DRABOUGOU “Adama is happy about ADRA’s environmental protection effort but worried about community women who engage in cutting trees, &disappearance of certain plant species, roaming animals and increased degradation of the soil” Drabougou village, which lies 25 kms northwest of Segou city is characterized by the lack of indigenous and fruit trees like neem and baobab trees, mango, locust bean.

During the dry season, temperatures are extremely high and both man and animals suffer just as much as trees do suffer from being destroyed by straying wild animals or termites or women who cut them down for to make up for their low income–generating activities.

Forty - five years old Adama Traore, is a pilot farmer and also a member of the Environmental Protection Committee. The activities and support of ADRA MALI has awakened the community’s awareness on the dangers of deforestation, the benefits of tree planting and the construction of improved stoves.

Adama uses his position and acquired knowledge to help the community through public forums to understand the importance of trees, have areas designated and equipped to regenerate extinct species and thus create a favorable microclimate for the development of small wild animals and forest vegetation rich in micronutrients.

With the consent of the village chief and councilors, the cutting of some species such Vitellaria paradoxa Lannea microcarpa, Acacia albida and “Gouna” have been banned.

We rely heavily on the project Yiriwa for these logging problems by women who have no sources of income and the implementation of other more secure groves.

Mr. Traore is dedicated to agriculture and tree planting and he has dedicated much of his time to his work of protecting the environment.

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ADRA São Tomé and Principe

TIMELY ASSISTANCE RELIEF ASSISTANCE Sao Tome and Principe (STP) imports almost everything including food, thus encountering scarcity of productsis not unusual.

In August 2015, STP was hit by an acute scarcity of rice, in response to the nation wide scarcityADRA STP negotiatedand received a donation of 60 tons of rice, from World Food Program (WFP).

With this, ADRA was able to contribute to the reductionof the effect of the scarcity of among the most. Using the Adventist Church network in the country ADRA STP was able to distribute the rice (an essential food item in STP) donation among the most vulnerable, all over the country.

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ADRA Kenya

COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING TRANSFORMED LIVES

“…. FTTM Project transformed my life,that of my neighbors, restored and gave meaning to our livelihood again. Now, my mind is opened to see what I couldn’t see before,I grow vegetables, slowly we’re rebuilding our degraded environment through tree planting” Barwaka Nuro Ibrahim is married with five (5) children - one boy and four girls. She is a housewife and also does small businesses in Didkuro market centre. Her husband Nura Ibrahim is unemployed and therefore has no reliable source of income. Through the FTTM (Food Today and Tomorrow Mandera) Project, implemented

by ADRA Kenya and funded by Canadian Food grain Bank and ADRA Canada, Barwaka and her husband started vegetable farming using the multi-storey garden and kitchen garden approach. This gave them an alternative source of income through the sale of surplus vegetables after feeding their family.

According to Barwaka Nuro Ibrahim “Seeing my children go without food was my worst experience. I felt neglected and hopeless. The government our leaders did not show enoughconcern as we lost our livestock one after another to drought. ADRA gave us hope. We still can utilize our resources and earn something to feed our children. The FTTM Project trained us on in vegetable farming and forest conservation,implications of charcoal burning,its negative coping mechanism and consequences.Then we were givenfood (Rice, beans, oil and salt) and planting seeds.

There is honestly remarkable improvement from how life was then and today. I am harvesting Sukuma wiki from my small garden, feeding my family and selling the surplus at my kiosk. I am using my skills gained from ADRA to do farming and educate my neighbors. Am happy to see my children healthy and going to school. My hope has been restored and I can now work tirelessly on my farm to get food.”

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ADRA Zambia

UTILIZING GAINED KNOWLEDGE

SMALL HOLDER AGRI-BUSINESS INITIATIVE (SHABI)

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For 18months now, I have been a beneficiary of this garden where the solar powered drip irrigation system installed provides me with water for my 24 banana plants and vegetables. Water is scarce in Msoro and no one thought of ever growing vegetables off rain season” SHABI project is a 36 months food security/ livelihood project funded by ADRA Australia and implemented in partnership with ADRA Zambia. The project focusses on supporting community led market gardens and small entrepreneurs with subsidized loans on processing equipment (oil pressers, threshers and tri-cycle transport).

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“So far I have harvested 5 bunches and each averages about 130 bananas. I have sold 80% for income of K400 (US$38) in the local market and the rest my children consumed. I then used the money to purchase 2x50Kg of fertilisers where I got 11x 50kgs bags of maize worth K825 (US$80). I sold the maize to the Food Reserve Agency and sent my grade 11 daughter to high school. Simply put, thank you ADRA, keep it up!” explained the smiling Mrs Banda in ChiChewa language.

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ADRA Cameroon

HEALTH AND CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH AND GOOD LATRINES

“I never linked the diseases of my children with the fact that we defecate in the open. We grew up knowing that the pigs and the rainwater would clean the soil of the excreta on it” Mrs. HenriettaMabang,is a housewife who resides in ADIAH villageof the township of Belabo in the Eastern region of Cameroon.

“Before the construction of latrines by ADRA Cameroon in our village, we used to defecated in the open fields.But since the day this project started point, personally I understood that if I had to preserve my health and that of my children, I have to construct a good latrine, always close the lid of the latrine hole after use to avoid flies from the latrine landing on food, utensils, and to wash the hands after exiting the latrine”.

You cannot believe that my children fell sick every month but since 2 months ago that I constructed my latrine and supervised its use; I do not make frequent visits to the health center. I thank the government that always sends the NGOs to call us out of our ignorance. I especially thank ADRA that identified and helped our village to rise to the point of being classified among the best villages that understood the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)approach. We ask the God Almighty to fill you with all Hisblessings as you go into other villages to sensitizethem on the same cause.

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ADRA Lesotho

INTERNALIZING KNOWLEDGE CHANGE OF ATTITUDE

“.. people don’t want to be on treatment, some peoples are changing their attitude because of ADRA and a changed attitude means a changed life” Mrs. Mathabo Mosoue from Morija in Maseru district of Lesotho works as a cleaner at Scott Hospital in Morija.

Although she has been working in the environment where she meets People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWH) every day she never had any interest in the issues of HIV and AIDs and never cared for people living with HIV and AIDS. She always thought people infected with HIV lived promiscuous lives and neither her nor her family could have the disease because ‘they are good people’.

quickly identified the signs and encouraged him to get tested.

Her husband got tested for both HIV and TB and was found positive in both instances. Her husband agreed to take the TB medications but after a month, he defaulted and started taking traditional medication.

“Although my husband has stopped taking medication, The information and the support I got from ADRA strengthen me because I know if I keep praying to God But she had a changed attitude after she met and and encouraging my husband, someday he will care like I listened to Mrs. Mapaballo Ketsi an ADRA ToT do”, stated Mrs. Mosoeu Training of Trainers) in Morijaer. Hence when her husband had the signs of TB (Tuberculosis) she very

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OPENNESS

BISHOP PREACHING A UNIQUE GOSPEL “I never finish preaching my sermons without mentioning something about HIV and AIDS. I did that even in front of the king during the Easter celebrations and now I am certain the gospel I am preaching is very unique” Jerome Tsabedze lost his second born son in 1997. He then suspected that he might be HIV positive. Being a renowned Bishop with so many followers I couldn’t face that shame. He just asked to be given the diet for HIV reactive people. His counsellor tirelessly begged him to go for a test. He eventually tested in 1997 and indeed he was HIV reactive. “I forgot about my being a Bishop, I was so infuriated that I felt that since I got it from some, I must also pass it on”, he reiterated. “My counsellor continued to follow me and begged me not to do that and he referred me to one organization for HIV reactive people.” Jerome eventually accepted his status and started protecting others. He had a problem at home as his wife never cheated on him; so she never understood the concept of using protection.

“I thus infected her as I continued to be scared of telling her the truth”.

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MrTsabedze got very sick in 2003 and beginning of 2004 his CD4 count was 50 and he was immediately enrolled on ART. “I still could not understand everything even though I was a board member for SWANNEPHA,(NGO umbrella body) until last year when there was a counsellor training organized by ADRA in my area” explained MrTsabedze. The teachings presented in that training changed his view of HIV and AIDS. Mr Tsabedze was then recruited to be one of the male ToTs for ADRA. “Today I have already formed four support groups around my constituency of Mpholonjeni and whenever there is a meeting for the pastors in my area I make sure there is a slot for talking about HIV and AIDS” he continued. Jerome has vowed to continue preaching the different gospel and next year he is planning to have counsellor training for all the pastors in his area regardless of the denomination.

ADRA Swaziland

NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THE FIRST OF ITS KIND

“Gradually my life changed, I started telling people about my HIV status, while seeking for more knowledge about HIV &AIDS. My thirst for knowledge was finally quenched when we were visited by the ADRA TOT team in my area, of which l will always be ever thankful for teaching me all the relevant health information pertaining HIV and AIDS” “In 2003, openly talking, and warning people that HIV and AIDS is real and that it kills if one does not take care of himself, gave me the status of being a mad man, the first of its kind in my area of Mphumakudze, because I was obviously the first person to disclose that l was HIV positive.”

Aron Dlamini, 43 years old, is today a diligent and faithful security guard and a successful farmer in the local standards of his area Ka-Phunga , having a large vegetable garden, many chickens, goats and cows, tells his story with painful remorse back to a time when he worked as a sugar cane cutter in the sugar plantations. When he received his salaries, “all I could think of was alcohol, women and sex”. With his eyes on the sky as if he sees something, he continues “Then l went to a clinic

when I suffered from a venereal disease. When the nurse said l should bring my partner for treatment, l was confused because at that time l had more than twenty sexual partners.“Getting seriously ill was a wakeup call for me. I was very weak, losing energy that I needed as a sugar cane cutter. In 2003, I developed skin problems, which sent me to a hospital and when my results came up positive, I felt like the whole world was crumbling over me. I detested the life l lived before, thinking of all the pains and problems directly attributed to it, and what l might have subjected my wife to. To add salt to injury, my wife also tested, and indeed she was also HIV reactive”

of his children, five boys, and his wife, of whom he is now so faithful to and tenderly loving. Since 2006 when he started taking ARVs his health was revitalized.

“Sometimes it helps to be the first of its kind, because today I am taking my ARVs with no fear or embarrassment and with that same mind I am also able to move around the “sheebens”, the drinking spots in my area and tell the hard to crack men about the dangers of having multiple partners and the reality of the disease” he concludes.

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IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY A FARMER’S TESTIMONY

“I know a dozen young people who still theborder for adventure in search of the best of finances like I used to do. They have to follow my steps. To me, the best is already here. We just have to put in practice new technology”.

Mr. KABRE, a citizen of the village of Relou (Kayao’s municipality) benefited from BazegaWomen Project of improving soil fertility (composting) for improved agricultural productivity. Hitherto this project Paul would migrate to Cote d’Ivorie after the halt of the rainy season in Burkina Faso, in search of paid jobs that coudenable him sustain his family until the next rainy season.

For three years running Paul has not crossed the border in search of jobs or upkeep money for his family. Now having learned through ADRA how to make compost, his yield from the same piece of land has tripled. He has also added goats and sheep rearing from his sale of surplus yield.

“My name is Paul KABRE, a citizen of the village of Relou. I benefited from ADRA’s project on production of compost that I spread in my field. Do I really have to comment? You can see the result yourself! In the past I used to migrate to Cote d’Ivorie every year after the rainy season to look for remunerating activities to make some money to support my family.I take the opportunity to express my gratitude to ADRA and all its staff especially the provider of support for compost pit construction”.

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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY

IMPROVED HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY “..thanks to the CEP approach and FBA, income for my household” From POC to the FBA, the Jenga Jamaa II project provides a series of trainings, diversified and practical demonstrations of farming techniques and improved technologies for increased productivity and diversified production for the benefit of small farmers.Twenty-six years old DAVID Mwenga; a resident of Murunga village, Uvira territory, married to Meta, and father of one child benefitted from project trainings, which changed his life and that of his entire household.

the use of improved farming techniques and technologies has diversified productivity and

Though David is educated to secondary school level and Meta has a state diploma their knowledge of farming practices,

improved technology in agricultural practices and production,was low. Thus they incurred lowproductivity and poor incomes from their familylivelihood, farming.But with the move from the CEP approach to FBA, David attested that there being huge changes.

David is also one of the 135 persons who are active FBA members involved with COOADCOM (CoopérativeAgricole pour le Développementcommunautaire de Murunga), which is the Farming Cooperative for Community Development of Murunga.

Haven risen tobeing tagged an eminent

His new dwelling house

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He is planning to exploit large agricultural areas in the next season because he has a large stock of rice seed,to ensure food security in the household.

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CROP PRODUCTION TRAINING

FAMILY BENEFITS FROM HOMESTEAD GARDEN The money earned allowed us to afford school fees and school supplies. With that money we made a worthwhile contribution to the wedding of my youngest brother.”

Madam Anny Rushinda is married, a mother of 10 children. She declared that: “Before Jenga II we (women) were looked down upon in our communities.

We were not aware how to handle health and nutrition issues. Jenga II trained us on how to feed the infants and young children, use nutrition to handle general childhood illnesses, then, provided us with basic skills on fuel efficient stoves, water and sanitation activities etc. The project provided us also with seed and tools

for our homestead gardens. I could not imagine in Nyamukubi village that through homestead gardening I could address my financial issues.

For the first time I grew cabbage, eggplant and amaranth. We consumed one part and the rest we sold. Themoney earned allowedmy family to buy four chicken and we started our small poultry.

For the second time, we sowed red onions and the harvest was successful because one part was directed for household consumption and sold the other part with a profit of $122. We kept a portion as seed for the next growing season and also shared some of it with our neighbors”.

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ADRA Malawi

APPROPRIATE SUPPORT A CHANGED LIFE

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I had no hope, I dropped out of school and I was looking forward to marry and be a villager” onis Mngunila now 21 years old, had worked as a ADRA kept a clear determined tab on Jonis, through the volunteer (from 2012 through 2014) with ADRA Malawi collaboration of ADRA personnel with local authorities under Tsogolo Labwino II project, whichwas funded by (Traditional Authority), his grandmother and his ADRA Australia. Jonis was brought up by his widowed, schoolteacher.A sustainable way of assisting the young mother. At the age of 18 in 2013 he lost her to death just at boy to return to schoolwas mappedout for him. ADRA the time he was selected to a high school (secondary school). provided Jonis with sound educational advice, a bicycle, With his mother’s passing the only one left to house him school uniform, books and two goats. The other parties was his old grandmother. provided psychosocial support and values. The goats were to serve as supplementary way on raising school fees and Jonis was aware that while residing at his grandmother’s, he other education needs. ran the riskof indulging and adopting immoral behavior. Jonisenrolled inChilumba Community Day Secondary In his words “I had no hope, I dropped out school and I was School in 2014. He has sold three goats since then for his looking forward to marry and be a villager, I gave up on the hope school fees and now he has three (a she goat and two kids). of a bright future because there was nobody to assist me morally or Jonis is now in form three. There is a ray of hope in his eyes. financially for my education”.

A life changed indeed.

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ADRA Mozambique

TRAINING FOR BUSINESS

EMPOWERED FOR AGRI-BUSINESS “I´ve learned that working together is a better way to prosper, our community sees and appreciates the impact of SAFOZA project.

FO-Cuteliuais now stronger in its ability to negotiate favorable terms of sale,work with the local government, financial institutions and vendors of farming inputs.” which he sold through his FO. After taking into account TBasílioCamiloMarorois amember of theCuteliuaFarmer his production costs, he earned a profit ofUSD 354.8 Organization (FO),one of the FOs created and supported (18,600 MZN) (USD 62.9 (3,300,00MZN)from maize by the SAFOZA (Strengthening the Ability of Farmer and USD 291.8 (15,300.00 MZN)) from groundnuts).

Organizations in Zambezia Province Mozambique to Through SAFOZA’s training he had learned how to plan Access Formal Markets) Project, implemented by ADRA his finances, future expenses, his family’s food security, Mozambique and funded by AGRA (Alliance for a plan for seed banks, and save payment to help in land Green Revolution in Africa) and FOSCA (Farmer’s preparation for the next season.

Organizations Support Centre in Africa),which operates in the maize and ground nutvalue chain in the district Mr. Basilio said: - “Before I joined the association I was of Mulevala, Zambezia. In 2014, Basílio became the working on a land of less than 2 hectares for maize and groundpresident of the CuteliuaFO, just then SAFOZA nuts combined. I was only concerned about feeding my family. I project began a series of trainings aimed at developing use to have only a little left over to sell, toearn only about $62 FO capacity, obtaining accurate up-to-date market USD (3,000 MZN).I had even built a warehouse but I couldn´t information,improving organizational governance, postuse it effectively.I had thought that perhaps I could get more harvest handling and post-harvest storage. from my harvest, but my problem wasthat I was not connected to any market and I did not have any information that helped me Suddenly, Basilio and other FO members began to see to know where, when, and how much to sell or at what price. I their farming activity as a business and not just a lifestyle. never even thought about how quantity and quality could affect At the end of 2014, motivated by the results of the first the price and profits.Now I used my profits to buy a motorcycle, year (in which he received close to USD 114.4 (6,000 used for personal and business trips and theextra space in MZN in sales), Basilio decided to invest more in the thewarehouse I rent out at USD 0.19 (10.00MZN) per 50 kg 2015 agriculture season. He cleared a larger area of his property for cultivation. At the end of the 2015 season he bag. harvested 39 bags of maize and 10 bags of groundnuts,

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SAVINGS & LOANS FOR BUSINESS

ASCAS (ACCUMULATED SAVING AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS) “Members are thinking of legalizing the group through registration to have access to more loans to start small businesses that will consist in raising chicken” In the pastknowledge of loans was restricted to the place of themoneylenders, or banks. With moneylendersone could have money very easily, but most of the times wouldn´t be the right solution to take in a bad situation, because, instead of growing financially an individual is creating a pit of his own poverty, this is because the interest is too high between 30-50%. At the bank it is difficult because a person who is not employed does not have access to loan.

Since theSCIP/Ogumanihaproject introduced the approach of rotating savings in target communities, communities have had an awakening.

SCIP/Ogumanihahad planned to traincommunities targeted by the project.

As neighboring communities became aware of the benefits, they came asking that the SCIP/Ogumanihaproject extend the services of its income-generation technician for training in ASCAS activities to non-targeted communities too.

In response to the requests made by these communities, in April 2015 three communities (Marmanelo 1, Marmanelo 2 and Carreira de Tiro) outside the communities initially targeted by the project were trained in ASCAS in the district of Mocuba.

The Marmanelo group was composed only of women and by October 2015 the group was managing about US$ 52,219.30 (2,000,000.00MZN).

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ADRA DR Congo

TECHNOLOGY FOR EASE OF SMALL BUSINESS MOTORIZED BOAT ON LAKE KIVU “…..our motorized boat allows us to ferry our agricultural products like cassava, beans, maize, and banana even for other farmers up to Kituku market in Goma town where we sell at the best price” IMr. CHOBOHWA SABIN the chair- person of FBAs at Bushushu, attested that “Prior toJenga II project in our communities we could not envision a bright future because the banana plight cleared all plants in addition to the war.

As result we were really impoverished. We started as FFS and were provided with training and starter kits (tools and seeds).

We sowed and harvested a lot. JENGA project came also with an Emergency Food Security Project mainly focused on cash and voucher. Our FBA was selected as a vendor that boosted our activity.

JENGA II provided us with several training sessions on marketing, meeting with value chain actors, business skills, processing, market analysis, working in a platform for group synergy, improved storage technology.

The project also gave us a cassava-processing machine. Before the project we did not have means to transport our produce to the local market.

But, six months ago we were able to buy our motorized boat at $11,000 with the capacity of a dozen Metric Tonnes (MT).

This boat allows us to ferry our agricultural products like cassava, beans, maize, and banana even for other farmers up to Kituku market in Goma town where we sell at the best price. Back from Goma we transport manufactured products like groceries and soft drinks. For one transport trip we earn

$400. We have a vision to buy modern speedboat for carrying passengers between Goma and Bukavu towns. We want to express our undying gratitude to JENGA II and USAID for this program that took us out from the poverty to riches.”

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ADRA Somalia

ENHANCED CAPACITY RESILIENCE TO DROUGHT “I thank ADRA, a sincere appreciation from my heart for the support provided to me I have really noticed its positive impact within a short period and feel encouraged to grow vegetables in large quantities, also I am grateful for the support provided to my other community members, a special thanks to ADRA staff who have worked with us in a good manner” Mohamed has been farming for 15 years starting from the year 2000. He has a farmland of 15 hectares and he grows different types of fruits trees including, Orange, Guava, Papaya, Mango and Vegetables.

He used to put a lot of effort on fruit trees especially oranges and the fruits were harvested seasonally. He said “The vegetables require irrigation every day and the cost of fuel is very high and the expected return after selling harvested crops is very low and sometimes it doesn’t return the expense let alone profit that is why I do

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grow it very little and sometimes don’t grow vegetables at all”.

After ADRA began implementing the Building Resilience in Urban and Rural Households and Communities project in Gabiley (BRURHCIG) in Hadhlay village,Mohamed became one of the beneficiaries and the owner of the Farmer Field School where farmers are being trained on good Agricultural Practices. He was given vegetable seeds, plastic pipes for irrigation, farm tools and a drip irrigation was installed in his farm to grow different varieties of vegetables and solar water pumping system was also installed in his farm to irrigate the crops.

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harvested vegetable crops, reduction on hired number of farm workers, thus a real increase inMohamed’s income from the farm.Also healthier tree crops because the high-pressure from the water pump weaken the roots of the tree hence retarded growth of the tree crops.

Mohamed proposed that, “more farms to be installed with solar water pumping systems and outside drips to reduce the high cost of fuel consumption which is a main challenge for all the farmers and, frequent replacement of pumping machines that is demoralizing and makes farmers suffer loss from investing effort and money only to reap a financial harvest not commensurate”.

If done heis sure the yield production will definitely increase and farmers can provide sufficient fruits and vegetable to the whole of Somaliland instead of importing from Ethiopia and Yemen. school’’, Mary Anderea (member).

ADRA Togo

MOBILE PHONE FOR SMALL BUSINESS

CONFIDENCE & HAPPINESS THROUGH IMPROVED INCOME Akossiwa Egah lives in Canton of Dagbati, she is member of the Assiléassimé cooperative. ADRA Togo had provided the cooperative members various trainings on business management and linkages to the supply chain. At one of such trainings she learnt how to use her mobile phone to access the latest market prices and thus obtain better prices for her crops. With this partcular training she did not have to rely on middlemen

for her trading and get cheated. Now she can communicate directly with buyers and search for the the prices around town. This she could not do before participating in the Microcredit project.

Now she learned that the mobile phone has significant economic advantages: it is not simply a way to keep in touch with family, but also it can be used to facilitate work. The cooperative

enabled her to have her own phone so she does not have to go public phone points for required services.

Now she can negotiate and look for ways to increase production and diversify crops grown online.

She also had this to say “there is more love in my house, the degree of financial independence I havemakes me a decision maker in the home, it has earned me lots of respect from my family.

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WATER SANITATION AND HEALTH

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ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION IN SCHOOL DUSTBIN TESTIMONY

“Thanks to ADRA Sweden, ADRA Burkina Faso & Adventist Youth; your combined effort gives our city neatness and our youth sanitation education” In all high schools located in the city of Ouagadougou, the dustbins donated by ADRA Burkina Faso have been welcomed as lifesaving. The schools hitherto were being invaded by litter of dirt, from sachets of water and pieces of papers from pupils who do not respect rules of cleanness.

The Director of the school, and staff membersattested that placing the dustbins close to classrooms and cafeterias has greatly induced behavior change among school pupils.

“Indeed, when students come out of the classes these days, they immediately deposit pieces of paper and thrash in the provided dustbins. Even, after taking their meal the sachets of used water are deposited directly in the dustbins”.

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ADRA Cameroon

IMPROVED WATER SYSTEM

RETRIEVED PIPING COLUMN OF A BOREHOLE “I’m a better woman, there is more love in my home, with a degree of financial independence, I don’t need to ask for my husband for everyday shopping money. So there is much respect and harmony at home” In 2013 ADRA Cameroon rehabilitated the borehole in AkakPublic School, which Victor Nkwanba described as in being a state of disrepair for a long time before ADRA came to the rescue. The school had tried to repair it repeatedly but the repairmen always manage to do a bad job. The last repairman created a bigger disaster because, the whole piping column fell through to the bottom while he tried to disassemble parts of the pipe.

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our former source and nearly everybody in the community got infected with amoebas and diarrheas. Children were the most affected especially during the dry season when this source dried up and everyone had to dig a shallow well nicknamed (OYACK) upstream of River Mamela, which some members usedas the source of their water supply. Some others went to boreholes in far away villages.One day, we saw the ADRA car stop close to our borehole, I hurried to know what the visit was about,immediately they explained their intention for the borehole and a ray of hope sparked in those

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of us who gathered. ADRA set at work retrieving the fallen column and that we considered God’s miracle”.

ADRA rehabilitated the pump of the borehole, constituted and put a management committee in place.

“Today, we know how to really maintain our water point and we respect the recommendations received from ADRA, with assurance we can say that the complaints of the pains of stomachs and diarrheas have decreased in our houses”.

ADRA Chad

ESSENTIAL WATER SUPPLY WATER FOR ALL

“We thank ADRA for having eased for us the tedious task of searching for water over long distances. We will never forget ADRA” Baba Gamar chose to be the voice of the households in his community and also represent himself in discussing with ADRA Chad about the ADRA’s project activities in his community.

“I greet ADRA on behalf of everyone of us and thank you for presence on the project site. Wewant to thank ADRA for their support; we were a community of poor people, homeless and life was not easy. We were divided into three (3) blocks. We were traveling several kilometers to fetch water because there was no borehole nearby. When we were too tired to trek those long distances we do buy water. It used to cost us a lot but circumstances do force us to resort to buying water when need be. For 20 liters of water, we would be charged 100 CFA and we had to take a motorcycle taxi, which in turn demanded a sum of 400 francs for transportation to and from the SIDO centre water borehole. A total of 500 francs!!for a 20 liter jerry can of water.

ADRA will remain engraved in our memories forever. Thanks to ADRA for the borehole installed in our community. Now, we have access to safe water for drinking, washing dishes and we even managed to make small gardens in our backyards for the purposes of improving our diet. We will continue to thank you for having brought to us soap and bleach for dishes and laundry. With this water we can do manything.

We appeal to ADRA to bring us more boreholes and tents for shelter.”

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ADRA DR Congo

MOTHER AS SANITATION TRAINER LESSONS ON TIPPY TAP

“Prior to the project, all family members would wash their hands in the same bowl without using soap. We had no idea that we could spread diseases that way”.

Madam FUNGAROHO ALICE is a member of a Care Group in Nyamasasa village where JENGA II Program operates. She is very active and committed to Care Group activities.

“Since becoming a ‘Leader Mother’ I have learnt a lot from the JENGA II program. I am very happy to have learned about hygiene promotion and Tippy Taps.

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become a model in our neighborhood, whereas before the JENGA II training we were unhygienic and often sick just like all the other families”.

She added, “My daughter Limoo who is 7 years old and a student in Grade 2 at BWITEKERE Primary School has taught her youngest sister Joyce to use the Tippy Tap for hand washing. Best of all, our kids don’t get sick with diarrhea and other diseasesfrom poor hygiene habit as often as before. I am proud to see this generation of children adopting good hygiene practices”.

ADRA Uganda

TRAINING IN HYGIENE AND SANITATION THE HYGIENE STORY

“I feel good about myself and this success.I am now respected by others and can discuss community concerns. Thank you ADRA for changing my world. I had lost hope”.

When ADRA Ugandan came into 67years old Angela Abur’s group to train inhygiene and sanitation, most of the members had poor hygiene and sanitation culture. The trainings on toilets, bathrooms, and rubbish pits care,and the importance of drying racks helped the group members to improve their household sanitation.

After the training Angela and her

husband worked together to put up theirhousehold sanitation facilities, now “our household is clean and we no longer fall sick especially of diarrhea, our grandchildren are safe”.

According to Angela, “I have also learnt to read and write from my group, now I can read sign posts, I no longer get lost, I can tell towns by their names,

I can tell a hospital signpost and I no longer put thumb prints on paper as my signature or name, I can write”

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ADRA Mauritania

ADAPTIVE METHODS

CLEAN HANDS AT KENDRA PRIMARY SCHOOL “Diouwara, is happy teachers and children don’t have to leave school to go home to use the toilet” Thanksto, ADRA and UNICEF”.

ADRA-Mauritania builds toilets! Not waste and provided canarias(a usual dinnertime conversation, but traditional round, unglazed clay of very basic importance. Mauritania pot)for drinking water, as well as is entering the developed world with instruction in the use and care of urbanization, mobile telephones and the latrines and handwashing. a change in toileting habits. Imagine With the catalyst of the new attending a school for over 250 students, equipment, the Director mobilized a director and 3 teachers in a crowded his parents’ association to supply village on the paved cross-country the school with soap for the road with no bathroom facilities. The innovative handwashing stations students don’t yet appreciate the outside the latrines. They are now assisting with laying pipe from the importance, but their director does. city water supply for a faucet for the Diouwara is the director at one such school. school. He was recently transferred from another school in the area. Director Diouwara is thrilled with ADRA Mauritania, with funding from the latrines and the benefits they UNICEF built 2 blocks of latrines at represent for the school.

Kendra School not far from Kiffa, one of the larger towns in the country.

With homes right up to the school wall, students do urinate and defecate in the street, or use a neighbor’s home or go to their own home. It is the same story for the male and female teachers. Students with diarrhea or girls on their monthly cycle don’t come to school at all.

Now they can drink more water as well as have the latrines a few steps away.

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ADRA Kenya

ENHANCING LATENT PERSONAL SKILL BRINGING OUT THE BEST OF PERSONAL SKILLS

“…. being trained as a WUC member, I am now encourage and work with people as a ToT, I feel like a doctor, more of a health representative for my community”.

When ADRA Kenya was implementing the SWAP (Sustainable Water and Agriculture Project) funded by Ministry of Foreign affairs of Japan, in Kivou Village, Mwingi in the Central part of Kenya, the goal was to improve hygiene and sanitation through the introduction of water saving agriculture technique and increase access to safe water through the provision of boreholes.

One of ADRA Kenya’s approachesto creating community ownership to the project was to provide training on maintenance of water points through a Water User Committee (WUC).

Joice is married, with 5 children. She is a housewife who rears goats and cattle, and was one of those identified as capable of serving on the WUC.Joice lived up her responsibility.Her contributions in the WUC meetings are motivating, encouraging andofgreat benefits to the community and the project. She is very good in mobilizations and a big assert to the project.“My life has changed. It has helped me improve my way of living and reduced the expenses I incur in treating water-borne diseases. I have become a TOT to my village and I know my village will be an open defecating free area through the sanitation trigger and also the water diseases will decrease”.

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ADRA Mauritania

SENSITIVE TO THE NEED OF OTHERS TESTIMONY – MUCH NEEDED BABY KIT

All that was said to the abandoned baby’s hearing is, “That is too bad. Sorry, I can’t help.”

Fatimata is a mother of 3 children. She recently adopted an unwanted baby, Mohamed, making four hungry children to feed.

She lives in a poor neighborhood of the capital city and, like her neighbors; she struggles to have enough food each day for her children and appropriate clothing in the cold months. He husband sells sunglasses in the street.

When a baby was discovered one morning on the ground near her home, several women clicked their tongues expressing their inability to help the baby’s situation.

Fatimata was determined to add the baby to her family and provide for her.

Soon after this, she was invited to a hygiene awareness session by one of the members of a local youth association, Je m’Engage! (I Commit!). The group assists ADRA Mauritania in organizing distributions and in health outreach. She discovered on arrival that in addition to the hygiene education, Je m’Engage!, in partnership with ADRA and the World Lutheran Federation, was distributing blankets in anticipation of the cold season.

Then, to her surprise, she was also selected to receive a baby kit with a blanket, a hat, several pieces of clothing, receiving blankets, a towel, some cloth diapers and pins, and 2 pieces of soap. She felt that God had smiled on her that day and confirmed that she should take in the baby that she named Mohamed.

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ADRA Mozambique

GETTING WISE

ORDINARY FEMALE GETS AGRI-BUSINESS WISE “Previously; I sold my farm produce individually in tins or basin, now I sell from the FO’s warehouse, I farmed less than 1 hectare now almost 3, I stored harvest at home applying no storage technics, now I store in the association’s warehouse applying learned technics Fifty-seven years old Alima Ricardo,is similar to other women farmers in the rural Cugune community of Mugeba locality of Mozambique has low level of education and relying luck of opportunities to survive. Her husband passed away in 2013 and she a family area no bigger than a hectare. With responsibility of taking care of three children and nephews, Alima decided to make a difference within the community members she was ready to fight to succed.

In 2015 she became a member of the Ghodo Canjiua association, one of the farmer organizations supported

by AGRA and benefitting from the technical assistance of the SAFOZA (Strengthening the Ability of Farmer Organizations in Zambezia Province Mozambique to Access Formal Markets) project,which partly facilitates marketing activities for agriculture products.

“The conservative system I was using before was the traditional one, exposing my harvest to pest and rust and with high level of losses.” –said Alima. After she joined to the FO, she had a chance to store her production for longer period, waiting for the rise of the prices at the market. In the last agriculture season she increased the size of the farm to five hectares producing a diverse crops with priority for maize and pigeon pea (60% of the farm). She also employed a change of production plan utilizing knowledge aquired from the trainings by ADRA technicans.

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ADRA Nigeria

DETERMINED TO KEEP GOING EMPOWERED WOMEN

“I have been trained on how to use this agro-processing machine for making spaghetti by ADRA,……If I can marry again I will but I’ll not find myself in a still situation as I was before ADRA came” Nigeria ADRA Nigeria funds a Ruth Joshua, a 37 year old widow than in Bama” livelihood intervention project among mother of 4 children who now Abubakar Zainab, 23-year-old widow women of Yola to empower and give resides in refuge in Yola after her says she got separated from her women the power to be decision- former residence in Bama Maiduguri, husband during the crises and has not was invaded by the Boko Haram heard from him, she hadconcluded,“It makers.

Forty-two year old Bello Hadizais insurgence. Her loss and deprivation is most likely he is dead”. This mother one of such benefitting women started when she and her household of 1 child claimed she had always been who though not displaced possesses had to flee to Yola for safety.She left a housewife with little or no earning tailoring skills and was struggling to behind her livelihood,which was a power as it is customary for her own a sewing machine before ADRA cleaning salaried job in a health center husband to provide for the family. “I identified her as one of the needy and has now resorted to farming. She have been living on charity ever since who could do with a helping hand. initially had kept what is left of her this crisis began and through aids from Hadiza conditions fitted well with the household together through farming International Non Governmental project objectives. Just at the time of and the assistance she has gotten from Organizations (INGO’s) and NGOs. I her struggle she got identified and the host community. Later she was have been trained on how to use this registered on the ADRA project. “It identified by the ADRA team,which agro-processing machine for making is not an easy thing for a widow to supported her with agro-processing spaghetti by ADRA Nigeria and I survive here in the north but ever machinery. Now she is better able hope to make a living out of it. If I can since ADRA came to my aid with this to cater for her children. She is also marry again I will but at least I will not sewing machine I see a better future more focused and better able to plan find myself in a still situation as I was for me and my children. More widows towards the future.“I feed better now before now” will appreciate this gesture if extended and I may have to settle here in Yola as I have hope of surviving better here to them”

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ADRA Tanzania

COURAGEOUS & DETERMINED

WOMEN HEAD FAMILIES IN REFUGEE CAMP!!!

“Previously; I sold my farm produce individually in tins or basin, now I sell from the FO’s warehouse, I farmed less than 1 hectare now almost 3, I stored harvest at home applying no storage technics, now I store in the association’s warehouse applying learned technics It is common sight in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp to find women moving in groups in the early hours of the morning during the food distribution week. Women, at different stages in the female life cycle head most households in the camp.

Typical of women, these heads of householdmake sure they are at the distribution center(s) for their food ration. Most of the women would have children clinging; hanging on to them, and even babies breast-feeding. This implied that the women spend time looking out for the little ones on the way to, be keen eyed in the mammoth crowd at the center so as not to loose sight of the children, still pay attention to details of their information as it is read out at the center, and then on the way back.

Thousands of children are born in the camp and most of their parents are single mothers and these children have visionsof a promising future in their heads. Dreams of becoming doctors, teachers, engineers, businessmen, politicians and all otherprofessions are not uncommon. But the household heads must make sure they are kept surviving with the only available food in the refugees camp.

Based on this sobering scenario ADRA Tanzania’s approach in providing relief to Refugees in Nyarugusu Camphas being that of providing relief with care and compassion. Thus ADRA Tanzania’spartnership with WFP is designed to; improve the nutritional status of vulnerable women and children,provide a monthly take-home ration to moderately malnourished children, address high stunting rates,provide blanket food

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assistance to children aged 6-24 months and pregnant and lactating women, and assistance to attend selected health facilities under ADRA’ AND WFP ’s Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition program.

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For More information, contact The Executive Director ADRA Africa Regional Office P.O. Private Bag, Mbagathi 00503, Nairobi Kenya www.adra-africa.org

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