The Reaching Children’s Potential Program (RCP) is a child-focused, parent-driven, family-centered, and community-led comprehensive effort. It begins with pregnancy, and continues through the 18th birthday, with a focus on the first 1,000 days of life. In Tanzania, parents participating in RCP have successfully reduced childhood stunting by 57% through volunteers’ efforts.
In early 1986, Bishop Dr. Owdenberg Mdegella of ELCT invited Global Volunteers to bring volunteers to assist villagers in Pommern, Tanzania – the center of his Church’s development efforts. Since his retirement, Bishop Emeritus Mdegella remains a close friend and partner of Global Volunteers in rural Tanzania. His vision and support enabled us to launch […]
The Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) program of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Meet the boys and girls who celebrated their second birthdays in July, 2020 in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones. We celebrate them […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
In this series, Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program families in Tanzania explain how their involvement in this demonstration program is improving their lives. The RCP program engages short-term volunteers who help parents deliver essential services to improve Health, eradicate Hunger, and enhance Cognition with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and […]
The Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) program of the Ukwega Ward in central Tanzania measures its success by the growth and development of the children in the program. Meet these girls and boys who reached their first birthdays in June, 2020 in good health and on target to reach all their development milestones. We celebrate them […]
The next step in improving nutrition and decreasing stunting through the Tanzania Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) program launched with the sound of chickens clucking in their coop. Raising the birds by RCP families is a development and fundraising goal for Global Volunteers’ model chicken coop project. Melinda Gates, Co-chair and Trustee of the Bill and […]
In this series, Reaching Children’s Potential (RCP) Program families in Tanzania explain how their involvement in this demonstration program is improving their lives. The RCP program engages short-term volunteers who help parents deliver essential services to improve Health, eradicate Hunger, and enhance Cognition with the goal of eliminating child stunting in the Ukwega Ward and […]
Global Volunteers is currently tackling one threat to Tanzanian children that’s even more widespread than COVID-19: Stunting. Amid the pandemic and consequent economic crisis, we’re working to halt this devastating condition before it permanently impairs the children we serve in the Ukwega Ward. At this time, more than 40% of children in rural Tanzania face […]