Funding  for the projects began in 2017, so far over £30,000 has been spent, and work has been completed in 3 villages.

The first completed project was at MlundeMlunde

Mlundemi water project completed, completed but still continuing due salt issues, project funded by African Palms, selling palm crosses

Mpeta 

Completed but work still continuing due to salt issues.

Mpeta water project, completed but still continuing due salt issues, project funded by African Palms, selling palm crosses
Mpeta water project
Mpeta water project, completed but still continuing due salt issues, project funded by African Palms, selling palm crosses
Mpeta water project

Continued support for the training of two students in environmental studies

The Chidya out patients department serves a number of villages including Namaunya, Ngalinje, Chiwata, Namdimba and Mkudumba.  It is the only health centre in that area so people are really reliant on the services it provides. However it was built in 1954 and was in such a state of disrepair that the government had threatened to close it down. The plan proposed by the diocese of Masasi was to construct new buildings including  a laboratory,  and also to install solar panels and proper rainwater harvesting systems to provide reliable electricity and water supplies essential for healthcare. 

The trust provided £9000 in 2018 and a further £6200 in 2019 to assist with the project.

New building view of Chidya health centre at south Tanzania, for Masasi people, project funded by African Palms, selling palm crosses
New building for Chidya health centre
New building view of Chidya health centre at south Tanzania, for Masasi people, project funded by African Palms, selling palm crosses
New building for Chidya health centre

Namikunda is one of the villages where the Palm Crosses are made. Discussions with the village elders and the diocese of Masasi came to the conclusion that instead of a water project the village would benefit more from investment in its school.

In the three years 2017, 2018 and 2019 £13,000 has been provided to help construct a number of new classrooms for the Namikunda primary school.

kids at Namikunda primary school, a village where palm crosses are made, project funded by African Palms, help to build more classrooms
Kids at Namikunda Primary School

The trust invested £5,100 in this project to help children who have basically been left out of the schooling system. This involved buying 200 students what that they would require in order to attend school, including exercise books, bags, uniforms, shoes, pens and pencils.

In 2019 the trust provided £3100 to a project implemented by the Anglican Church of Tanzania.

The area concerned was/is facing lower and lower crop yields, also there has become a lack of wood for fuel.

The aim was to train farmers to use better systems to increase crop yields and also to implement a program of tree planting,  starting with 12,000 trees including orange, mango, pawpaw, passion and a majority of Mikaratus and Miaborea.

In 2008 £34562.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority for books.

In 2010 £3500.00 was sent to the Masasi Eye Clinic for medical supplies.

In 2011 £45,000.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority who bought required textbooks for 156 primary schools in the Masasi area.

Pupils of Mkuti primary in a happy mood after receiving books, project funded by African Palms selling palm crosses
Pupils of Mkuti primary in a happy mood after receiving books
Pupils of Mkuti primary school holding books, project funded by African Palms selling palm crosses
Pupils of Mkuti primary school holding books from African palms

In 2012 £30,000.00 was given to the Tanzanian Education Authority, and 500 desks were made at Ndanda by local carpenters, for 12 schools in the villages where the palm crosses are made.

unloading desks for Masasi Villages project  funded by African Palms selling palm crosses
Desks being unloaded
desks arriving for Masasi Villages project  funded by African Palms selling palm crosses
Desks Arrive!
taking the desks into school for Masasi Villages project  funded by African Palms selling palm crosses
Taking the desks into school

African Palms

The aim of African Palms is to give people living in a very poor part of Tanzania the possibility of earning some extra money. The people’s daily work is the planting of maize, millet and some ground nuts to feed themselves and their families.
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