Growing Healthy Food, Connections through School Gardens
When Peter Masaju started a school garden at Suguti A Primary School in Musoma District, Tanzania, he planted the seeds for more [...]
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08, 2019
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04, 2019
New School Libraries Help Unlock Literacy Among Students in Tanzania
If books open new doors to learning, then libraries hold the key. Yet, neither were within reach to students attending the schools [...]
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03, 2019
It Takes a Village: Community Support Vital to School Feeding in Tanzania
What’s in a name? When it comes to Chakula Chetu, the answer is everything. The program, which means “Our Food” in Swahili, [...]
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11, 2018
Never Too Early to Learn: Engaging Parents as Teachers in Tanzania
For years, Juma Mazaba Motoka has confidently served as the head of a small sub-village in Tanzania. But only recently did the [...]
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11, 2018
Bringing Literacy to Life for Students and Teachers in Guatemala
Primary schools in Guatemala’s Western Highlands are learning the classroom doesn’t always have to be confined to four walls or by-the-book lesson [...]
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08, 2017
Back to School and Beating Hunger
Students can’t succeed on empty stomachs. That’s why Project Concern International (PCI) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) since [...]
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06, 2017
A School for Our Children: A Community Unites
A blue-and-white wooden schoolhouse sits in the center of Taleno—a fitting spot for a building that has become the heartbeat of this [...]
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03, 2017
Learning on a Full Stomach
PCI and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) partner to provide more than 200,000 school meals every day [...]
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12, 2016
An Insider’s Journey to Improving Food Security and Literacy in Tanzania
This story was originally published on USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) blog, highlighting the Feed the Future school-feeding program implemented by PCI. FAS [...]
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12, 2016
Soap Stories: Tanzanian Students Take Health to the Next Level
When it came to health and hygiene, Buira primary school, a remote school in rural Tanzania, faced two major challenges. First, most [...]