Excellent Exam Results at the Hoja School Once Again!

A message from Oswin:

"Dear all

I am glad to inform you that our school Hoja secondary school has done very great again in academic performance.

Last year it was 6th out of 156 schools in Ruvuma Region.  All students passed their exams with the average of C.

This year again the results are out, Hoja secondary school is 5th out of 166 schools in Ruvuma region.  All students have passed their exams with very good grade of C.

This makes our school to be most wanted.  Till now we have received more than 230 applications of students who want to join at our school, but I hope only 40 to 50 will be accepted.

Asante Sana, I just wanted to share with you this great news!!"

WANTED! Swahili to English Translators

Hello all.

This is a video of someone who received a loan from us to start an Income Generation Project (IGP).


For Translation - Hoja IGP Tailor from Phil Hatchard on Vimeo.

There's just one problem with it. It's in Swahili. In fact, I have an awful lot of video footage from Tanzania that's yet to be translated. It turns out hunting down people to translate videos from Swahili into English is harder than I thought.

Update - Permaculture & Graduations

Hello all.  Welcome to another Hoja update.

Permaculture

Hoja has been looking into ways to help local farmers in Tanga ward work sustainably and Oswin has been telling us about some of the impact in his monthly reports:

NEGESO Rice Farm, Songea

Permaculture being the new thing to Songea community, but many people have proved that it is very important.  An IGP group NEGESO attended the course and have applied the knowledge in the rice growing.  They were doing this even before but they were using fertilizers.  But this year they have done it without using fertilizers, instead they have used composite manures, the results have been very positive.