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Smart Farm

The work Mesha is doing is intensifying. She’s organizing women into groups for resource sharing and business development in collaboration with the Global Fund for Widows and with dedicated ICSEE funds.   Basic stove and solar work will get a boost from a new collaboration with our friends, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in

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Nature Conservancy Collaboration Updates

Can a rain-based, livestock-based economy survive when changing climate means the traditional livestock practices won’t work anymore? Indigenous communities are held in high regard for their understanding of the nature in which they live they. However, when nature changes, what is to be done? We must not hesitate to share

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Global Fund for Widows Collaboration Updates

As the need for organizing women for power and independence intensifies, The Global Fund for Widows (GFW) and ICSEE Tanzania have created a new collaboration to make even greater efforts possible. Over the years, together with the GFW, we organized 19 groups of 25 widows in Maasai villages. Later on,

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Climate Change & Diversity

Rain-based economies are in a very difficult position. To have a stable economy focused on livestock or agriculture, there must be weather stability, including reliable rainfall. As a result of global warming, there is persistent bad weather in many places, including the Maasai lands. Within the Maasai communities, we are

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What makes your donations so powerful?

Your donations go way beyond helping with day-to-day Project costs. You are supporting something much stronger. The People now grasp that life can truly be better–and that they are the key actors. It is these realizations that multiply your gifts over and over. The awakened energy of the People has

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Surprising Opportunities

Here is a snapshot of what International Development looks like in the here and now for the International Collaborative. Perhaps in the future, it will evolve to become quite different, but in the present, people are working together and creatively adapting to make life better. And surprising opportunities emerge. We

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New Education Programs Planned

New Education Program for Cypress Hill A significant social need There are many young people who need to repeat parts of the national exams to get the scores up to what they need to carry on with their life plans. They can retake the exams, but first need help to

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Empowered women

Women overcoming poverty–while engaging men as allies

Can women’s empowerment be measured? Is it obvious when a woman is empowered? A woman empowered simply has more power. And power is the capacity, opportunity, and freedom to act, when the action is to achieve something she herself values and wants to accomplish. To have more power, it need not

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Uhuru Torch Awards the International Collaborative

On June 17, the Uhuru Torch came through Monduli District, visiting two of the International Collaborative action centers. This represents the fifth time ICSEE has received this honor. The Torch recognized the ICSEE water sanitation system in the village of Mbuyuni, one of our three pilot water projects, as well

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Making it Work for Everyone

In Tanzania, Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are quite different from the National Parks. In addition to wildlife, WMAs include villages and livestock. Conservation goals include managing these areas so that both wildlife and village life can thrive. At some WMAs investors are looking at establishing lodges for visitors. With these,

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