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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Aglina Myumbo Family in Tanzania

In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]

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April 17, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Virtual RCP Workshops Conducted in Tanzania During Pandemic

A cornerstone of the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) is the series of workshops with mothers who are RCP members, providing essential information on topics related to child development, health, nutrition, hygiene, and technologies. In the absence of volunteers on the ground in Tanzania, Global Volunteers has worked with Regis University in Colorado to facilitate […]

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April 13, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Welcoming the February & March RCP Newborns in Tanzania

What’s more fun than BABIES? In this series, we focus on the newest members of the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania — newborns. In this post, we welcome seven babies born in February and March 2021. Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition […]

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April 3, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Impact Stories Tanzania

Tanzanian Medical Student Rises Above Poverty With Volunteers’ Extra Help

In 2013, Lulu Kigola was among the best performers of the National Form Two examinations in Tanzania. In primary and secondary school, she was consistently earning top grades. But as the firstborn of four daughters in a poor farming village, her prospects of higher education were distant at best. With the help of a generous […]

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March 31, 2021/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Pelagia Kindole

International community development

Every month, Global Volunteers’ caregivers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania meet with families who wish to participate in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program. The goal of RCP is to eliminate childhood stunting in all five of the villages served: Ipalamwa, Makalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]

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March 29, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Development Impact Tanzania

Rainwater Harvesting System Multiplies Family’s Options

Just after the first of the year, Getrude Elly Kikoti and her husband Mwita Mtengela learned they and their children, Meckson, Gideon and Richard, would be the first in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania to receive a household rainwater harvesting system. This opportunity was made possible by a benefactor more than 8,000 miles away from […]

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March 22, 2021/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Happy Healthy Birthdays for These RCP Children in March 2021!

The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Read about 35 girls and boys who reached their first, second, third, and fourth birthdays in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones in […]

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March 21, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Aika Kiungo Family in Tanzania

International community development

In this series, families in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program in Tanzania explain how their participation improves their lives. Global Volunteers’ RCP Program engages short-term volunteers to help parents deliver essential services improving health, eradicating hunger, and enhancing cognition – with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and throughout […]

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March 17, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Welcome to the RCP Family – Newborn Photo Gallery – 2020

In 2020, Global Volunteers welcomed 57 babies to the Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) family. The RCP Program is a child-focused, parent-driven, family-centered, and community-led comprehensive approach that begins with pregnancy and continues through the 18th birthday. The program invests in children’s and mothers’ nutrition, health, and education, focusing on the first 1,000 days of life to […]

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March 15, 2021/0 Comments/by Sam Pinakoulaki
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcome to Lina Mhando

International community development

Every month, Global Volunteers’ caregivers in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania meet with families who wish to participate in the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Demonstration Program. The goal of RCP is to eliminate childhood stunting in all five of the villages served: Ipalamwa, Makalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]

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March 11, 2021/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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