Newsletter 14 – Easter 2012

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust is 5! How time flies when you’re busy. Well, that is certainly the case for us, an exceptionally busy five years. A huge thank you to all those who have been part of it whether as supporters, volunteers, community members or knowledge sources, we couldn’t have done it without you.  So [Read More …]

Newsletter 13 – Winter 2011

Welcome to our 13th Newsletter 50 Years of Independence On December 9th 2011 Tanzania will be celebrating 50 years since it gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Julius Nyerere, the Father of the Nation, led the country through the peaceful transition and a year later Tanganyika joined with Zanzibar to form the Republic of [Read More …]

Newsletter 11

Winter 2011 Poverty is a complex web The Livingstone Tanzania Trust understand that poverty is not a single solution problem but a complex web of interconnecting issues at whose heart is food insecurity, poor health and lack of education culminating in a poor lifestyle. To tackle just one of these issues without tackling the others [Read More …]

Newsletter 10

Number One Farm in Babati District The Livingstone Tanzania Trust have been awarded the title of Best Farm in Babati District 2010. Obviously we are delighted with this accolade as it recognises the hard work that the whole team have put into turning this barren landscape into a successful school farm. The farm demonstrates to [Read More …]

Newsletter 9

Teach a Man to Fish Award LTT is best in Tanzania The Livingstone Tanzania Trust has been formally recognised out of 260 entrants over 31 countries, for our work in entrepreneurial education by the Global charity Teach a Man to Fish. We received a $1,000 award for the Best in Tanzania. The award was in [Read More …]

Newsletter 8 – December 2009

Mombasa Visits In October we sent our project and farm managers and representatives from both Sinai and Waangwaray communities to Mombasa, Kenya for some training from Rene Haller, one of the world’s leading experts in holistic small plot farming. We want to establish a small holistic plot at the Waangwaray Primary School farm which can [Read More …]

Newsletter 7 September 2009

Water!!!!!! This is HUGE progress.We cannot thank enough those people who contributed so generously to this project. LTT, its donors and the Woodland Hill Montessori School in New York State have brought water to both the Waangwaray and Sinai Primary Schools. For the Waangwaray School Farm it means that we are no longer dependant on [Read More …]

Newsletter 6 – April 2009

Spring is the time when the seeds that have been sown start to grow and thanks to you we are starting to see the impact of our work. At the Waangwaray Primary School 100% of the students who sat their final year 7 exams passed. This has never happened before and even prompted a visit [Read More …]

Newsletter 5 – September 2008

It has been a busy summer, with a lot of the work going on behind the scenes, which is dull but necessary. We had our first year-end and that meant we had to review what we had done and what we have not done and why. All of this is available on the website under [Read More …]

Newsletter 4 – March 2008

Volunteers diverted from Kenya Quest, our volunteer provider asked if LTT was able to accommodate their displaced volunteers, which we were more than happy to do and had plenty to keep them busy. The dreadfully sad situation in Kenya after the December 2007 election led to a massive decline in tourism and volunteering, with everyone [Read More …]

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