Good news! Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD, https://stats4sd.org/) has just granted us funding to build two water tanks for schools in Tanzania. These tanks will be built in Mwanga district, where Liana has previously built about 100 household tanks and over 20 school stoves. There has been no building of the school tanks that make…

Thanks to all the donations that we have received in October-November work goes on in Tanzania. This time a stove was built at Tawarini primary school in Rombo. This is the 25th stove since we started to work in Rombo in late 2017. Having all these improved school stoves must already make a big impact…

Ndanu and Tumaini completed a stove at Wama primary yesterday evenining. This stove was paid in total by Sherwood Sunrisers Rotary club in the UK. Thank you! The club had earlier built a kitchen building for the same school, but it still lacked a stove. So in this exceptional case Liana deviated from its normal…

Ndanu has started helping those schools that have earlier built a water tank and acquired hand washing kits start tree nurseries. Some schools have been independent in this activity, however, Maksau, Uruwa, Kitongoria and Usongo requested help. He has now bought a locally made metal watering can and a roll of polythen bags for each…

(alla suomeksi) Thanks to additional funds donated by Liana supporters in October we were able to build a water tank at Kwangu secondary school in Kwakoa village in Mwanga district. We had two projects in Mwanga between 2009 and 2014. Farmer groups – in collaboration with Liana – build over 80 water tanks (a tank…

(Alla suomeksi) A new water tank was completed again. This time at Uruwa primary school in Rombo. It was built by Ndanu, Ernest, Iddy, Rama and Florence. Florence built the gutters. Liana does all of its work by sharing the task and the responsibility with the beneficiaries. We collaborate with the schools in their efforts…

A water tank and gutters were completed at Kitongoria primary school on the 4th of September. Kitongoria primary has also earlier obtained a stove and hand washing kits through Liana. The tank was built by Ndanu, Iddy, Antipas and Mandela. Gutters were built by Daudi. It is interesting that all the tank builders except Ndanu…

The Finnish patent and registration office has now approved the new rules (constitution) of Liana. The two main changes are the following: The rules give us a better balance between improving the state of the environmental and improving human livelihoods We can accept as a regular member anyone who has adequate knowledge and skills to…