By John Nzira | Executive Director
Hello Twende Family,
It is with great excitement that I present good news from our Makerspace where magic has been happening. Since the breakout of COVID-19, our creativity trainer Chris has been busy designing and developing different technologies to slow the spread on the virus where he invited local artisans to help him as he developed the hand washing technology. The foot-operated handwashing technology emerged as the most successful technology. At Twende, we call them tippy taps.
The process involved recruiting 5 local artisans who were trained to make and fabricate the tippy-taps which in turn turned out to be excellent and easy to use.
We planned to distribute 130, tippy taps to public places in Arusha which include, orphanages, hospitals and market places. There has been a slight change in the plan and we have included underserved communities like non-profit community centres and public schools that can't afford the technologies in the market.
With your contribution thus far, we have the capacity to make twenty tippy taps and so far we have made ten of them and we have donated four. The communities that have benefited are Faraja Center, a young women development organisation that serves more than 73 students, members of staff and visitors, Themi Health centre in Njiro, Arusha, a local health centre that serves the Njiro Community.
We have identified Moivaro orphanage, Kiserian Primary School, NJiro Secondary School and Moivaro health centres as our next beneficiaries in this program. We are hoping this to be done in the next two weeks.
Dear Twende Supporter, it is through your help that we have been able to have this achievement that once seemed hard to attain. I commend your support thus far and I am thankful that you have chosen to walk this path with us. Please keep on walking with us as we make a life-changing impact in our community.
One last thing—sharing our project with your friends and family helps us spread the word about our work and continue to grow our community of supporters like you. If you’re willing to share the story of our work with your network, we’d be incredibly grateful. Watch this space as we will be bringing more project and progress. You can find all this on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and our Website
From Twende with love,
Nzira and the team.
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