FOREWORD

2019 marked an important milestone for DGFT Tanzania. It was the year full of success in

implementing development projects.

2019, our budget advocacy work scored some important goals. In our sexual and

reproductive health information and services project, we supported 10 schools and community

around the schools with important education concerning genders issues, relationship and

reproductive health. We see great achievement in this project since we managed to lower the

number of schools pregnancy and cases of gender based violence.

DGFT innovative programming has once again shown that investing in knowledge building and

information sharing on small business introduction for women groups is the surest pathway to

the empowerment of women. Today, through our support women are real engaging in small

business which enables them to generate income to run their families.

Also supporting local subsistence farmers and schools by planting avocado trees on their farms

in close collaboration with them in order to provide them with additional nutrition, a new

source of income and environment conservation, DGFT sign contracts with them that commit

them to maintaining the trees and we have seen very positive results so far. The main barrier

here is the cost of the avocado seedlings and training workshops. The water intensiveness of

growing avocados is not an issue in this area due to the abundance of water in this

mountainous region.

Conducting regular tree planting events e.g. on Earth Day (combined with education and a

large-scale environmental cleanup). DGFT works with a number of local institutions in order to

achieve this: firstly DGFT have meetings with local community leaders who advise on which

native /exotic trees are most suitable to be planted in the particular area. Secondly, DGFT

receive help from Tengeru Horticulture. And finally the local Forestry College and local primary

and secondary schools get involved in the planting as the Foundation is strongly focused on

environmental education as well.

As we present our work in 2020, we reaffirm our commitment to working with community, our

partners and donors to empower the community to be healthy and enable them to utilize the

environment without threatening it.

1.0 ABOUT DULUTI GREEN FOUNDATION TRUST

Duluti Green Foundation Trust (DGFT) is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization that

carries out its functions and duties in Arumeru district since 2005 and legally registered by the

government in 2008. DGFT has rooted its activities in empowering the local community and

environmental conservation mainly through planting trees, protection of water catchment

areas and raising awareness on environmental conservation to the community.

Duluti Green Foundation Trust (DGFT) is a result of the endlessly effort of Ms. Gladness Obed

Pallangyo whose vision has always be, seeing environments conserved and local community

make use of it to improve its well-being. DGFT runs Environment Conservation Program

through Village Environmental Conservation Initiative (VECI).

For more than 15 years, DGFT has tree planting program through which it has managed to plant

thousands of trees of different species in various areas of Arumeru District. DGFT targeted

areas are both public and private land, with this regard more than 90,000 tree have been

planted in public areas including water catchment areas, hills, mount Meru, hospitals and

schools compound while also more than 10,000 has been planted in private land. DGFT mostly

engaged in planting indigenous trees and sometimes exotic trees.

Duluti Green Foundation Trust, with funding support from the Germany embassy in Tanzania

implemented a 6-month (June 1^st - December 31^st, 2019) Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)

and GBV prevention project in Arumeru district, more than 5000 community members were

reached with the education and services.

Works of the DGFT mostly have been funded by part of money obtained from Tengeru Cultural

Tourism Enterprise in which tourists interact with local people, learn about culture and make

their contributions to help the community improve their living condition. Money obtained from

this Enterprise is not enough to sustain the vision of the DGFT Director Mama Gladness

Pallangyo who is looking forward to support the local community more. Actually, economic

independence through environmental conservation for Tanzanian people is at the heart of

DGFT’s vision and programmes. Through DGFT’s current programmes, significant attempts have

been made to remove some of the obstacles that may prevent communities from taping

potential opportunities to invest, accumulating assets and fulfilling their aspirations.

1.1 OBJECTIVES

Our General Objectives is to address the Sustainable Development Goals to Tanzania Communities in

Addressing Promotion of environmental conservation and protections, Poverty Alleviations through

community participatory programs and support all people with the humanitarian needs in the

community.

Specific objectives being:-

-To improve socio-economic conditions of the people in need.

-To improve the general welfare of the communities whenever the foundation will be working.

-To create and improve social amenities for members and surrounding communities living within and

outside the Trust area.

-To develop community based projects that will enhance the welfare of the members and general public

-To organize volunteering programs.

-To educate people on environment issues.

-To fund orphanage centers, training centers, Nurseries and Secondary schools.

2.0 ACHIEVEMENTS

Duluti Green Foundation Trust has a great achievement as for the year 2019 in a number of community

development projects, the following are performance and achievement as for the year 2019;

2.1 SRH PROJECT

DGFT, with funding support from the Embassy of the Federal Germany in Tanzania

implemented a 6-month (June - December 2019) project titled “Reaching out school adolescent

in Arumeru district with Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services”. The main

focus of the project was to contribute in reduction of adolescent’s pregnancies, unplanned

pregnancies through providing reproductive Health education and services to enhance the

welfare of Marginalized girls and women. The project baseline data recorded that there were

40 pregnancy case confirmed in the ten schools supported with this project in the time of June

2017 to June 2019 but from the beginning of this project up to the evaluation time there were

no pregnancy case recorded which indicates a positive impact of our project. This project was

implemented within the broader goals of DGFT work in Tanzania which are aimed at ensuring

that poverty is alleviated and community is able to utilize the available resources and

opportunities without destructing the environment. Below are photos taken during training

workshops:

2.2 AVOCADO PRODUCTION IN SCHOOLS AND HOME GARDENS PROJECT

DGFT throughout 2019 has been supporting local subsistence farmers and schools by planting

avocado trees on their farms in close collaboration with them in order to provide them with

additional nutrition, a new source of income and environment conservation. DGFT sign

contracts with them that commit them to maintaining the trees and we have seen very positive

results so far. The main barrier here is the cost of the avocado seedlings and training

workshops. The water intensiveness of growing avocados is not an issue in this area due to the

abundance of water in this mountainous region. We had great achievement in this project

regarding that 4 schools, 1 college and 20 households has been supported this year while

2.3 ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION PROGARAME

This has been done through regular tree planting events e.g. on Earth Day (combined with

education and a large-scale environmental cleanup); DGFT works with a number of local

institutions in order to achieve this: firstly DGFT have meetings with local community leaders

who advise on which native /exotic trees are most suitable to be planted in the particular area.

Secondly, DGFT receive help from Tengeru Horticulture. And finally the local Forestry College

and local primary and secondary schools get involved in the planting as the Foundation is

strongly focused on environmental education as well. For the year 2019 we have planted more

than 5000 trees in different areas like 3000 trees being planted at Abia Hill and other 2000

being planted in different water sources areas.

Also we have re-established our tree nursery and hired 1 tree nursery caretaker by 2019 in

which for the coming years we will have enough trees to feed our community and area which

require trees the most in Arumeru district. Our tree nursery is located near to the Patandi

special needs teachers college. Below are the photos taken during the tree planting;

Tree planting event at Abia Hill

2.4 ORPHANAGE SUPPORT PROGRAM

DGFT has been very ambitious in supporting children and orphans in Arumeru district to ensure

that their getting basic needs and quality education. Our priority as for 2019 was the Ikunda

Orphanage Center where we have supported them in many ways including learning materials,

modern kitchen, solar power energy, transports cost and other center running expenses. We

are very happy for the work done at Ikunda orphanage center together with our volunteers and

tourists who visited our organization through Tengeru Cultural Tourism Programme. Almost

80% of the Ikunda Orphanage center needs were met through DGFT at the year of 2019 to

2020. The below are photos taken at Ikunda orphanage center;

DGFT Director and Project Manager Handover School books support, Freezer and modern

kitchen to be used at the Ikunda orphanage.

2.5 SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAM

DGFT has supported schools in different ways in 2019. First DGFT has reached more than 5000

students in 10 schools with Sexual and reproductive health education where our target was to

reduce early pregnancies and gender based violence both in schools and community in general.

Also 4 schools were support with avocado production project and here our organization has

supported these schools with 200 tree seedlings where in two schools the project has

performed very well compared to the other schools. Third, our organization has supplied

learning materials such books, pens, pencils, maker pens, teaching maps and atlas to Mavinuni

primary schools.

3. FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2019

Income

 Donors contribution

38,496,165.00

Expenditure

 Sexually and Reproductive Health Project

22,539,546

 Orphanage support Project

4,042,407

 School support

7,271,000

 Management Expenses

1,430,682

 Depreciation

235,594

Total

35,519,229

Balance for next year

2,976,229

4. CHALLENGES

Though DGFT is working hand in hand with Volunteers from overseas to reach our goals but the

organization face various challenges, some of the challenges are as follow;

1. Lack of community commitment in the programs. The demand is very high among the community

members but when they get supported they careless about the support i.e some households were

supplied with avocado tree seedling but they fail to take care of the trees.

2. Financial problem is another crucial challenge, the organization sometimes fails to conduct training

workshops, conducting research, sometimes fails to complete evaluation studies to our projects and

bad enough failing to startup new development projects.

Lack of organization car, the organization activities is mostly setup on remote areas of which roads

in those areas are tough. this is a huge challenge to our organization since sometimes we fail deliver

services as it is required and sometimes totally unable to reach the communities really in need.

5. CONCLUSION

While it has been a tough years of operations, DGFT has noted a lot of success, most being

declared by the community members themselves. The achievement was made through the

support of the government of the United Republic of Tanzania, and peoples (tourists and

volunteers) from America, Europe, and Asia. Special thanks to the Embassy of the Federal

Germany in Tanzania due their great support to our SRH project.

We are still thriving to support our community and Tanzania country to continuing being the

better place for everyone to live. By doing so we are encouraging more partners, friends, and

volunteers to join our development initiatives to help us reach our goals of alleviating poverty

among our community.

6. RECOMMENDATION

The evaluation suggests the following recommendations based on the findings of the

assessment.



Duluti Green Foundation Trust is encouraged to investigate, through research and process

monitoring, the reasons why there was a community commitment in programs, despite the

knowledge and support gained.



Participation of youths, especially females in decision-making in all aspects affecting their

lives (at household, village, wards, district, region and national level) must be encouraged.

This can be the tool in fighting the GBV.



The SRH project was noted to be highly effective in raising awareness and increasing

knowledge on SRH, GBV, HIV and AIDS issues among adolescents and community in general.

It should be replicated in other areas with some adjustments, which should include

adopting cost effective ways of delivering the same products at a lesser cost, and widens its

reach. The participants recommended to reach out other groups such as police and judges

since their mostly involved in child pregnancy and GBV cases were a lot of cases loses the

evidence in the court. Also there are areas in Arumeru including those of Maasai community

that the situation is very worse and it real needs such a support.



To ensure continuation of training in the supported areas, there is need to put in place a

very strong system that enables trained young people and other community groups to

effectively transfer similar skills to their peers and community in general, like putting in

place regular follow up among the trained groups.

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The organization has to strength its sources of income so as to make the organization goal

achievable.