Your commitment - Uganda 2017
The project work with TOOLS FOR LIFE has given me the opportunity to help others to help themselves and to noticeably improve their quality of life. Thank you for this unforgettable experience!
Mara Weber
Many regions in Tanzania suffer from water shortage. Due to various factors such as climate change, the water shortage will increase. The project aims to provide the Mtae region in the Lushoto district with a sustainable supply of clean water. Operationally, the project is implemented by our partner organization Weltweit - Gesellschaft zur Förderung lokaler Initiativen e.V.
Current situation
Causes of the water shortage include changing rainfall patterns due to climate change, the rapidly growing population, clearing of forest stands in source areas as water reservoirs, agricultural water withdrawals (current consumption of 89% of available water).
In a first project in 2019 and 2020, studies were made and experts were interviewed on how the water shortage in the Mtae region could be solved. In the second project, which is now starting, the aim is to implement the suggestions of the experts and investigation. At the end of the project, the inhabitants of the region should have sustainable access to clean water.
Our actions
Part of the project is the conservation of degraded water sources through reforestation in Sunga and Rangwi Ward and the conservation of the Shagayu National Forest.
The sustainability of the project is guaranteed by the Mtae Water User Association (MWUA). The establishment of the organization is also a part of the project. The MWUA is to create awareness for the necessity of active forest and water protection and to maintain and repair the existing water infrastructure (pipes, wells, cisterns).
For this purpose, 20 inhabitants of the region will be trained as water engineers. This will be done in cooperation with the Mabughai Technical College in the Lushoto district. The training of the water engineers is supported by the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation.
Country | Tanzania |
Human Development Index | 163 |
The project work with TOOLS FOR LIFE has given me the opportunity to help others to help themselves and to noticeably improve their quality of life. Thank you for this unforgettable experience!
Mara Weber
My TOOLS FOR LIFE staff trip to Senegal in 2012 was a unique experience. And the fact that I was standing on a meadow where today, after only two years, there is a school for several hundred pupils, which the Foundation helped to finance, is almost unbelievable. Great cause and great projects that make a little bit of a difference in the world.
Olaf Schlotmann
It is inspiring with how much commitment and passion the foundation devotes to its projects.
Timm Wagenknecht