Community Concerns of Orphans and Development Association (Cocoda)

COMMUNITY CONCERNS OF ORPHANS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (COCODA)

P. O. BOX 712, NJOMBE - CHAUNGINGI STREET ALONG SONGEA ROAD, OPPOSITE TANESCO REGIONAL OFFICE

Email:[email protected] Website: www.cocoda.or.tz

COCODA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT

COMMUNITY CONCERN OF ORPHANS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

REPORTING PERIOD: 1 JANUARY – 31 DECEMBER 2018

Projects Implemented Councils  SAUTI Project Njombe Region councils: Njombe Town Council  USAID BORESHA AFYA Project   Njombe District Council  USAID KIZAZI KIPYA Project  Makambako Town Council  USAID Tulonge Afya  Makete District Council  Wanging’ombe District Council  Ludewa District Council

Prime Recipients Implementing Partners  DELOITTE CONSULTANCY LTD  LGAs JHPIEGO   Health facilities  PACT TANZANIA  FHI360

Programme/Project Budget/Year Programme Duration  SAUTI 182,970,583 5 Years  USAID BORESHA AFYA 31,388,076 5 Years  USAID KIZAZI KIPYA 297,158,227 5 Years  USAID TULONGE AFYA 159,376,560 5 Years TOTAL: 670,893,446

Report Submitted By o Name: Mary Kahemele o Title: Executive Director o Organization: COCODA o Email address: [email protected] o Phone No: 0754 071 288

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms / Abbreviations ...... 3

Executive Summary ...... 4

I. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ...... 6

II. SAUTI PROJECT ...... 6

III. USAID BORESHA AFYA PROJECT ...... 10

IV. USAID KIZAZI KIPYA PROJECT ...... 11

V. USAID TULONGE AFYA ...... 14

Human resources ...... 19

Challenges...... 19

Way forward ...... 20

Success story ...... 21

List of Acronyms / Abbreviations

AGYW Adolescent Girls and Young Women AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ARV Antiretroviral CBHS Home Based HIV Services CBHSP Community Based Health Services Providers CDO Community Development Offer CHF Community Health Fund COCODA Community concern of orphans and development association COME Community mentors CTC Care and Treatment Clinic DC District Council FSW Female Sex Workers GBV Gender Based Violence GBV Gender Based Violence HBHCT Home Based HIV Counselling and Testing HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus IGA Income Generating Activities KP Prev Key Population Prevention LGA Local Government Authority MSM Men Sex with Men MVC Most Vulnerable Children OHSP Other Hot Spot Population OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children PFSW Partner of Female Sex Workers PLHIV People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus PLHIV People living with HIV and AIDS PMTCT Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV PP prev Priority Population Prevention PPT Periodic Preservatives Treatment SBCC Social Behavior Change Communication SILC Saving and internal Lending Community SWO Social Work Officer TB Tuberculosis TC Town Council VCT Voluntary Testing and Counselling VSLG Village Saving and Lending Groups

Executive Summary

Community Concern of Orphans and Development Association (COCODA) formally registered as a non-governmental organization in Tanzania in year 2000 with registration No. 10278 under Ministry of Home Affairs and later in 2015 with registration number 00NGO/00007795. COCODA was registered to operate in Tanzania Mainland but currently implementing its activities in Njombe region. COCODA’s establishment, resulted from intensifying concern among community members in Tanzania mainland over the surging number of orphans, mainly as a consequence to increased number of people infected by HIV and dying from AIDS, majority being adults leaving behind young children without parents. It was obvious then that this trend had a direct negative impact on social and community development. Hence COCODA envisioned offering effective response to this situation through providing education to local community members to increase awareness on facts about HIV/AIDS in order to reduce new infections and stimulate mobilization for all matters related to HIV/AIDS including care of orphans. Since its establishment COCODA has recorded scaled achievement as evidenced by substantial numbers of community members reached by various programmatic interventions implemented by the organization as well as heightened level of partnership with funding partners, the government as well as community based implementing partners. In the financial year of 2018, COCODA continued to implement four awarded project in all councils of Njombe Region, these were SAUTI project under JHPIEGO implemented in all six councils of Njombe Region, USAID Boresha Afya project funded by USAID under DELOITTE implemented in Ludewa district council and Wanging’ombe district council, USAID Kizazi Kipya project funded by USAID under PACT Tanzania implemented in Njombe District council, Njombe Town council and Makambako Town council and USAID Tulonge Afya funded by USAID under FHI360. Through the four projects, COCODA achieved to implement demand creation interventions for HIV, STIs, FP and GBV screening services reaching 90511 KVPs in all six councils of Njombe region. The organization also managed to reach 11543 PLHIVs adults and children

4 with at least one of care and support services outside or in health facilities in Ludewa and Wanging’ombe councils. However, the organization identified 6775 OVCs in Njombe DC, Njombe TC and Makambako TC and reached them with nutrition, health, psychological support, education, food and household economic strengthening services through PEPFAR OVCs program. Moreover, COCODA managed to conduct Interpersonal Communication interventions for HIV test and treat, FP and ANC services in Njombe Town council reaching 45748 men and women at risk of HIV, pregnant women and youth both males and femals (aged 15 -24). All these projects have been implemented in collaboration with the Government at all levels.

I. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

In supporting government initiatives COCODA has implemented its activities in collaboration with other stakeholders. Majority if not all projects that have been implemented by COCODA have had their main percentage of work requiring management of field work activities at community level. At each one given time COCODA has been implementing multiple projects in multiple community areas. The following is the description of projects implementation for the period of financial year 2018 in Njombe region basing on projects;

II. SAUTI PROJECT

Sauti project is the five years comprehensive HIV prevention project targeting Key Vulnerable Population (KVP’s). Funded by USAID through PEPFAR fund and it is managed by JHPIEGO in partnership with Pact Tanzania, Engender Health and NIMR Mwanza. Sauti project seeks to contribute to the improved health status of all Tanzanians through a sustained reduction of new HIV infections in support of the United Republic of Tanzania’s (URT) commitment to HIV prevention. The project is implemented through three key interventions that are biomedical intervention, Social Behavior Change Communication intervention and structural intervention with addition of research which is cutting across all intervention. COCODA in FY 18 in partnership with JHPIEGO regional Sauti team implemented Sauti project activities in six councils of Njombe region. These councils are Wanging’ombe DC, Makambako TC, Njombe DC, Njombe TC, Makete DC and Ludewa DC, the intervention implemented by COCODA are Social Behavior Change Communication education to Female sex workers (FSW) and Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) as well as demand creation in different hotspots to the KVP’s not reached with SBCC education classes to access biomedical services offered by Sauti regional team. These biomedical services included HIV testing and counseling on sexual transmitted infection, Family planning and GBV Screening.

SBCC Intervention During this FY 18 COCODA SBCC through Community Based Health Service Providers managed to mobilize KVP clients and conduct SBCC education in different wards of the region with which total of 6011 clients were reached with SBCC education among them 2530 were AGYW, 3290 were FSW and 191 were MSM. HIV testing and counseling services were accessed by 5243 participants in which total of 162 HIV+ clients were identified however managed to enroll into CTC total of 155 participants. Family planning methods were offered to 1126 participants also STI screening was done to 3386 SBCC beneficiaries therefore 143 FSW were identified with syphilis and they were given treatment. The table below shows participants reached with SBCC education and biomedical services offered during October 2017 to September 2018 reporting period.

DISTRICT REACHE PP KP PREV HTC HTC LINK FP GBV STI PPT SY D WITH PREV FSW KP + ED GBV SURV SCR PH SBCC PREV TO SCRE IVOR EENI ILI MSM CTC ENIN NG S G +

IE GE AGYW FSW W/ng’ombe 1341 583 606 152 NA 1141 33 29 172 112 368 63 322 70 13 DC Makambako 773 336 382 55 NA 640 23 23 155 22 249 22 247 37 45 TC Njombe DC 688 299 311 78 NA 402 5 4 122 70 263 4 269 55 50 Ludewa DC 1045 453 470 122 NA 992 18 17 133 70 518 36 470 24 24 Njombe TC 1308 456 506 193 193 1236 40 29 78 101 376 19 1378 56 5 Makete DC 856 373 384 99 NA 832 11 9 54 13 748 4 852 0 6

583 600 900 821822 583 758758 486 486 800 500 456 453 700 371 373366 366 400 600 483483 437 299 299 437 500 373 300 371 400 299299 200 300 200 100 100% 100% 100% 99% 101% 100% 100 100% 100% 100% 100% 101% 100% 0 0

A/Target A/Reached Progress A/Target A/Reached Progress

Graph1: PP Prev in six districts Graph2; KP Prev in six districts

Demand Creation Activities In this FY 18 COCODA SBCC staff together with Community Based Health Service Providers (CBHSP’s) rolls out demand creation activities to mobilize KVP’s in different hotspot for demand creation to access CBHTC+ services which is offered by Sauti regional team. Total of 90511 KVP’s clients were reached whereby 1837 positive cases were identified however managed to enrolled 1290 clients into Care and Treat Center services. Table below describes number of KVP clients reached with demand creation for the period of October 2017 to September 2018 and its categories in all six councils of Njombe region.

DISTRICT REACHE FSW AGY MSM PFS PWH PED HT LINKE D W W R C+ D Wanging’ombe DC 42781 8064 915 NA 1574 1581 2242 539 517 2 8 Njombe DC 2193 296 213 NA 251 1331 102 37 37 Makambako TC 855 360 308 NA 98 89 0 59 59 Njombe TC 18040 4400 2002 162 4992 5480 1004 338 300 Makete DC 10467 1237 1055 NA 1563 5027 1585 257 203 Ludewa DC 16175 3114 1352 NA 2031 6407 3271 296 174

60000 54304

50000 42781

40000

30000 16175 18838 18040 20000 15420 10467 855 2193 8461 10000 2934 149% 79% 96% 75% 105% 124% 572 0 Wanging'ombe Njombe TC Njombe DC Ludewa Makete Makambako DC

A/Target A/Reached Progress

Graph3: Demand creation of six districts

Pre Exposure Prophylaxis Services (PrEP) In this year we have started to implement PREP services to FSW of Njombe DC and managed to enroll 113 FSW into PREP services, Also PREP adherence meeting were conducted in each month with the purpose of discussing issues on PREP uptake. Furthermore, PREP refill were done in each month since we have started to implement although the number has dropped to 110 FSW beneficiaries due to mobility.

PREP beneficiaries during refill and adherence meeting at Lupembe on 24th September 2018.

III. USAID BORESHA AFYA PROJECT

In 2018, COCODA organization managed to implement and achieve planned activities under USAID Boresha Afya. Some of implemented activities implemented were; supportive supervision to 180 Community Based Integrated Services Delivery Providers (CBISD Ps) from 38 wards of Ludewa and Wanging’ombe District. Among project implementation wards, 21 wards were from Ludewa District which are; Ibumi, Mawengi, Madope, Madilu, Mundindi, Mavanga, Lugarawa, Manda, Masasi, Luilo, Mlangali, Lupanga, Milo, Lupingu, Ludende, Ludewa, Makonde, Ruhuhu, Nkomang’ombe, Mkongobaki and Luana ward. While 17 wards of the project implementation were of Wanging’ombe district council, which are; Ilembula, Luduga, Igwachanya, Wanging’ombe, Kijombe, Uhambule, Usuka, Mdandu, Imalinyi, Igima, Kidugala, Kipengere, Ulembwe, Makoga, Saja, Wangama and Igosi wards implementing interventions such as CBISD, Psychosocial Support, Medical and Nursing care, Nutrition education, Health Education, Referral, Provide positive prevention services to PLHIV clients, educating community on the GBV issues and emphasizing PLHIV clients to join/establish SILC and IGA groups, educating PLHIV clients on the important of contributing for CHF services, TB screening to PLHIV clients, Family Planning issues and enrollment of new PLHIV clients into CBISD services. USAID Boresha Afya project had its targets for the year 2018 based on the following categories; Number of HIV infected adults and children who received at least one care and support service outside or in a health facility (Care Comm), Number of PLHIV or OVC who received food and/or other nutrition services (Tz nut), Number of people reached by an individual, small-group, or community-level activity that explicitly aims to increase access to income and productive resources, including vocational training (Tz Econ), enrollment of PLHIV client into CBISD services, Current patients enrolled in CTC served by your program (these are the clients who attend to CTC, are on HIV care, and are still in the program continuing receiving the services) and forming new IGA and SILC groups. 10

CBISD Focal Person, Zainabu Mwalongo and Maria Joseph in collaboration with ward community development officer with blue shirt from Luduga counselling a PLHIV client who appeared as LTF client on the on the importance of starting using ARVs.

The table below shows targets versus achievements reached by the USAID Boresha Afya; Indicator Target Achieved % Care Comm 7570 11543 152 Tz-Nut 5936 10534 177 Tz- Econ 4480 7516 168 New PLHIV clients linked to Community Services 688 4544 660

IV. USAID KIZAZI KIPYA PROJECT

COCODA is being sub granted by PACT Tanzania to implement USAID KIZAZI KIPYA Project activities in Njombe town, Njombe District councils as well as in two wards of Makambako town council, these two wards are included by target and budget in Njombe district council. Interventions done by COCODA are provision of services to it beneficiaries (OVC) at households and community levels in collaboration with LGA, Live hood volunteers and community case workers (CCW).

To realize its intended goal USAID Kizazi Kipya project has built on results areas which deliver services to its beneficiaries such services including Health, Education and vocation training, Shelter support, Psychological support , Nutrition and food security and Households economic strengthening . Results areas that USAID Kizazi Kipya operated are; o Result 1: Parents and caregivers have the financial resources to meet the needs of vulnerable children and adolescents. o Result 2: Parents and caregivers have the skills to meet the needs of HIV infected and vulnerable children and adolescents. o Result 3: High-quality services are available to HIV infected and vulnerable children and adolescents.

Project Geographical Coverage summary District Total Number of % of wards Number of villages number of wards covered covered wards in the covered Districts Njombe DC 12 12 100 45 Njombe TC 13 13 100 44 Makambako TC 12 2 16 9 Total 37 27 84 98

USAID Kizazi Kipya’s operation involves numerous stakeholders including 1. Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC); These are children, who are HIV infected or affected, 2. Most Vulnerable Children (MVC); Children under the age of 18 years characterized by severe deprivation as to endanger their health, wellbeing, and long-term development, also these are primary stakeholders. 3. Caregivers;

These are the guardian, who has the greatest responsibility for the daily care and rearing of a child, 4. Adolescent; An individual between ages 10–19 years. 5. Community Case Workers (CCWs); Government community-based cadre who receive the 5-day National Integrated Case Management Training and who are expected to provide case management services to OVC/MVC households.

USAID Kizazi Kipya Project under COCODA implemented into three councils which are Njombe Town Council, Njombe District and Makambako Town Council. Under USAID Kizazi Kipya project there are five major Interventions/indicators that are used to measure the project progress and services that delivered to beneficiaries (OVC and Caregivers). USAID Kizazi Kipya has four major indicators including; 1. OVC_SERV This count the number of beneficiaries served by PEPFAR OVC programs for children and families affected by HIV .OVC_SERV is assessed at the individual level.

2. TZ_NUT This count on OVC under the age of 5 (0-4) who received nutrition services (NACS) outside the service delivery points.

3. TZ_ECON Under this indicator it count of beneficiaries (Caregivers and OVC aged from 15-18) who received a minimum economic strengthen services under USAID Kizazi Kipya project.

4. OVC _HIV STAT It is a measure of self-report of HIV status and is not an indicator of HIV tests performed or receipt of testing results. Facility-level HIV testing data are captured with another PEPFAR indicator (HTS_TST).

Beneficiaries reached by USAID Kizazi Kipya during FY 2018 (By each indicator)

USAID Kizazi Kipya Benefiaries reached in 3 councils (Njombe TC, DC & Makambako)

8,000 6,775 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 1,844 2,000 1,327 1,000 329 420 - TZ_NUT TZ_ECON OVC_SERV MUAC REFERRALS

V. USAID TULONGE AFYA

The USAID Tulonge Afya project catalyzes opportunities for Tanzanians to improve their health status by transforming socio-cultural norms and supporting the adoption of healthier behaviors. By addressing key social and cultural norms and social and behavior change (SBC) needs, USAID Tulonge Afya identifies the drivers of behaviors directly tied to health and leverages social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and other mutually reinforcing approaches to achieve the following results:  Result 1: Improved ability of individuals to practice healthy behaviors  Result 2: Strengthened community support for healthy behaviors  Result 3: Improved systems for coordination and implementation of SBCC interventions

Our integrated approach blends best practices from behavioral health sciences to address the complex individual-to-societal interplay that encourages change. USAID Tulonge Afya uses participatory, evidence-based, and theory-informed approaches. Through this, the project 1) addresses norms and inequities that drive poor health; 2) advance health while promoting rights; 3) use data better to support regional needs; 4) harmonize messages and media; 5) strengthen institutional capacity to manage and deliver high-quality SBC; and 6) facilitate coordination to maximize SBCC impact and efficiencies. COCODA started implementing USAID Tulonge Afya project since 1st of June 2018 through Community Health Workers (CHWs), Community Volunteers (CVs) and Peer Champions (PCs) who were recommended by Ward development committees (WADs) of each ward of Njombe Town council. Where by each ward has one Community Worker, one Community volunteer and one Peer champion who were oriented for project activities and are implementing the project at community level. Under USAID Tulonge Afya, COCODA provides support across a range of health areas, which include, but not restricted to: i. Test and Treat awareness-raising campaign to promote HIV testing and treatment initiation ii. Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) iii. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and early infant male circumcision (EIMC) iv. TB testing and treatment v. Youth-friendly health services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) vi. Family Planning (FP), including male partner involvement vii. Insecticide-treated net access and use (ITN) viii. Malaria care-seeking ix. Early initiation of Antenatal Care (ANC) x. Respectful maternity care xi. Facility-based delivery xii. Early childhood development, including exclusive breastfeeding, new-born care, and vaccinations

Through the network of Community Health Workers (CHWs), Community Volunteers (CVs), and Peer Champions (PCs), COCODA implements activities within two social and behavior change (SBC) platforms: an adult platform, and a youth platform by conducting target audience mobilization activities and Interpersonal Communication (IPC) sessions through the following potential platforms: i. Household visits ii. Clinic talks i. Community dialogues- small group dialogue ii. Referrals and linkages to health services, including peer navigators iii. Community mobilization

To support and reinforce the interpersonal communication work, COCODA works closely with local community radio by linking the selected radio stations with the target audiences.

Project Beneficiaries The beneficiaries of this project under the two platforms are categorized as follows;

Adult Platform 1. Pregnancy and life cycle packages Primary audience: Pregnant women Secondary audiences: Male partners, health providers, other key influencers (mothers, mothers-in-law, aunties, peers, community and religious leaders) 2. Parenting and caregiving package Primary audience: parents and care givers 18-49 Secondary audiences: influential family members, traditional leaders, religious leaders 3. Furaha yangu Phase I: at risk men 25-35, AGYW, Pregnant women, KP, OVC

Phase II: Men 18-24, 25-49 and in highest risk occupation, pregnant women, key population, care givers of HIV exposed children, PLHIV and people with TB

Youth Platform Primary target audience 1. Early adolescent girls (10-14), not yet sexually active (Pamela) 2. Early adolescent boys (10-14), not yet sexually active (Khamar) 3. Unmarried, sexually active older adolescent girls (15-19) (Subira) 4. Unmarried, sexually active emerging adult women (20-24) (Edna) 5. Older adolescent girls who have begun childbearing (15-19) (Maua) 6. Unmarried, sexually active young men (15-24) (Juma)

Secondary audiences 1. Parents 2. Female sexual partners 3. Health care providers 4. School teachers and administrators Achievements During six month of implementation in 2018 (June to December), COCODA managed to reach 25736 beneficiaries in Njombe Town council. Beneficiaries have been reached with SBCC messages of Furaha Yangu campaign using different tools like Flip charts, posters and fliers through Community Health Workers, Community Volunteers and Peer champions who conducted face to face and small groups of targeted audience’s interpersonal communication. These activities were implemented in all wards of Njombe Town council through household visits, clinic talks, group sessions, community meetings, community events and workplace events. The target for these SBCC activities was to reach 40000 beneficiaries, COCODA managed to reach 45748 beneficiaries. The figure below illustrates targets against achievements in percentage;

Percent of people reached against target for year 2018 through SBCC activities

Target Achivement 47% 53%

Target Achivement

The photo below was taken in one of SBCC sessions which are conducted in work place areas intending to reach mostly people who are at risk of getting HIV.

SBCC Session to tea pickers at Mawolo tea farm, Kifanya ward during joint supportive supervision

Human resources

COCODA is equal opportunity institution employing staff from various backgrounds to implement projects. During financial year 2018, COCODA hired 44 employees to implement projects activities as well administrative functions of the organization. The table below illustrates number of staff hired by COCODA categorized by project.

In which USAID Boresha afya project had 13 staff, SAUTI project had 7 staff, USAID Kizazi Kipya had 19 staff and USAID Tulonge Afya project had 5 staff.

SNo. Project Name Number of Staff 1. USAID Boresha Afya 13 2. SAUTI Project 7 3. USAID Kizazi Kipya 19 4. USAID Tulonge Afya 5 Total 44

Challenges  Shortage of condoms at the community level in areas such as hotspot areas (Bars, tea plantations, mining areas and timber sewing areas, guest houses and lodges).  Lack of GBV data collection tool and GBV guidelines at community level.  Improper channels in solving GBV problems arising in the community (many cases are channeled to WEOs and VEOs rather than CDOs or SWO).  Raining problem. During raining season it was difficult to reach some areas for supervision activities as well as during provision of biomedical services. This was experienced on February, March and April.  CHF service is not applicable to some private centers and it discourages PLHIV clients and community to contribute for CHF services.  Long distance and lack of transports to PLHIV clients to reach CTC centers during CTC clinic days lead to missed appointment and LTF to PLHIV clients.

 Wrong addresses of PLHIV clients during CTC registration, they are using nick names and wrong address it gives hard time to CHWs to be traced when they appear as missed or LTF clients.  Shortage of CHWs in project implementation areas hinders project activities such as enrolment of new PLHIV clients, enrollment of new household with OVCs.

Way forward  Providing education support to the community level so as to be aware with GBV issues, food nutrition, economic issues, TB Screening, family planning issues and prevention of new HIV infections.  Increasing the enrollment of CHWs to support COCODA to implement projects and bring better results in areas such as enrollment of new PLHIV clients, educating PLHIV clients and non PLHIV clients on family planning issues, GBV cases, food and nutrition’s, economic issues, TB screening, missed up, provision of SBCC educations and LTF clients tracing.  Requesting private health sectors to agree with CHF services scheme in order to provide better health services to the community.  COCODA and other stakeholders should communicate to ensure the possibilities of collaboration in some of their activities.

Success story

BONIFACE TOWARDS HIS DREAMS Boniface Chafungo Mfikwa is 15 years old and lived at Ikuna Ward in Njombe District. Boniface lost his parents at the age of 3 years due to HIV+. During the whole time since his parents passed away Boniface did never attend school due to income poverty of his family. As a result of illiteracy Boniface found himself engaging in child labor at a very early age in which he didn’t earn any income, perhaps he expected to get only a daily meal against starvation. This condition leads Boniface to be exposed in a vulnerable group and he got affected with HIV. During USAID KIZAZI Kipya ongoing enrollment Boniface met with CCWs Masoud Kigae from Ikuna Ward who took an initiative to registered him into the program of USAID KIZAZI Kipya according to criteria of enrollment as they met. On June 2018, PACT Tanzania introduced OVC out of school scholarship to support them and to acquire Vocational training for 3 months. Boniface were among the OVC out of 31 who were selected to join VETA FDC Njombe for Vocational training. During identification Boniface selected to participate carpentry course in order to fulfill his dream and he said that: “Before joining this course of carpentry at VETA FDC Njombe I never went to school so my level of illiteracy was high which made me feel inferior to others. When I took the carpentry course I planned to work hard because I knew the situation back in my village is difficult. It was a big challenge for me when it came to writing and reading, I found it difficult to cope with learning. After a month at the college I put more effort in my practical skills and started to feel confident when I made my first stool which was strong, and anyone could sit on it.” Regardless to be not able to read and write Boniface put more efforts on practical sessions as he were very capable to learn on capturing new knowledge practically. According to his efforts Boniface managed to construct various furniture such as stools, chairs and tables starting from stage one to six. Finally, after completion of his course following the USAID KIZAZI Kipya guideline, Boniface succeeded to graduate on 10th September 2018 as a best student on carpentry out of 8 students who joint the course from the beginning. Towards his dreams, Boniface said that: “My big break came on our graduation day on

10th September 2018 at Njombe FDC when I was certified as best student in my course but also received another scholarship by the college to continue studying at Njombe FDC. Now I am aware that education is the key to make me a better person. I am very thankful for the USAID KIZAZI Kipya scholarship that was provided to me.”