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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

2022 Allen Foundation, Inc. Grant Results

The Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Nutrition Education and Technology Project has helped improve the nutrition practices of 100 families living in poverty in the Ukwega ward, Tanzania. Over 860 families are currently enrolled in Global Volunteers’ RCP Program, which is a growing initiative that provides families with the necessary resources to improve their nutritional knowledge […]

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January 16, 2023/by Kalliopi Chaniotaki
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Village Families Promote New Dimensions of Mental Wellness in Tanzania

Since 2018, Global Volunteers staff and volunteers have assisted local people in the five villages of the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania in visualizing a model of optimal, community-wide mental wellness to integrate into the primary care system. Beginning in January 2023, a mental wellness assessment will help identify the primary conditions that block that vision. […]

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January 12, 2023/by Michele Gran
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Why I Give Tanzania

Why I Give: Helping Developing Communities Become Self-Sustaining

Hairston Foundation CEO Roosevelt Hairston and his daughter, Sophia, say Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) in Tanzania reflects their commitment to advance self-determination for rural Tanzanian communities. As team members, they witnessed the long-range vision of ending childhood stunting and improving families’ health and nutrition. Read on to learn about their personal and […]

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October 29, 2022/by Michele Gran
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Group Volunteering, Service-Learning Tanzania

Students Discover Power in Partnership

Global Volunteers’ Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program benefits from a range of carefully nurtured partnerships in the USA and Tanzania. Two such partners are the University of Central Missouri (UCM), which facilitates scholarships for 12 students each year to participate on one of our service programs, and Rise Against Hunger (RAH) which supplies the fortified […]

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October 19, 2022/by Michele Gran
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Family Volunteering, Ripple Effect Tanzania

Family Retraces Mother’s Footsteps in Tanzania

In 1996, Wichita retiree Barbara Pate joined her first Global Volunteers Service Program – headed for Tanzania. A blooming adventurer, and recently a widow, she chose the African country partially to satisfy her curiosity about the continent. She remembered it as a meaningful, enlightening experience, writing in her journal that she was surprised (and grateful) […]

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September 19, 2022/by Michele Gran
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Fatness Kikoti Family

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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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August 31, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Breastfeeding Workshop a Tenet of RCP Mothers Education

One of the mothers in Tanzania who is encouraged by Global Volunteers to breastfeed

Decades of evidence indicates that there is nothing better for a mother and her baby’s well-being than exclusive breastfeeding. But for several reasons, many parents make other choices, especially in struggling communities around the world. Global Volunteers promotes breastfeeding through the Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program in the Ukwega Ward of Tanzania as a way […]

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August 4, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

International Community Development Profile: Tobadina Kahemela Family

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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June 24, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Reaching Children’s Potential in Tanzania: Welcoming New Moms to the Program in May

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, Mkalanga, Lulindi, Ukwega, and Makungu. Specifically, families obtain the nutrition, health care, knowledge, technology, […]

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June 9, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Reaching Children's Potential Tanzania

Welcoming the April & May 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 three babies born in April and May 2022! Their moms joined the program to provide them a healthy start at life, and the nutrition […]

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June 7, 2022/by Maggie Bjorklund
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