Building on our Expertise

Preparing mortar for chimney installation

No mystery

Life here in Tanzania has a special transparency. There is no mystery about what people are doing to make their lives better.

Enterprising ideas, manual and mechanized labor, and all sorts of buying and selling are part of the people’s approach to the search for the extra they need.

We organize groups of women, alleviating pressing needs for clean water, smoke-free homes, and more. With these improvements, the people’s earnings go further, because other expenses are reduced, such as medical expenses.

We are very happy to be a direct source for increasing income opportunities for the Maasai.

RESTORE trainers and trainees gather

The RESTORE Project

For years, we’ve worked with ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency), who are active world-wide.

Together with colleagues in ADRA Germany, ADRA Tanzania has raised funds for our collaboration with them.

The new exciting development is that ADRA Germany is finding support from the German Government’s Ministry of Economic Development (BMZ). Together with them, and our fellow Tanzanian NGO, KAKUTE, we've embarked on the RESTORE Project.

It is a good partnership, as our goals and methods match the spirit and goals of their work. RESTORE is an acronym for “Renewable Energy for Sustainable Transformation of the Rural Economy.

They wish to build on our expertise and experience implementing life-improvement energy-related work in Tanzania. Our approach, combining stoves and solar, is a good fit for the aims of BMZ and ADRA Germany. The work of the ICSEE represents a step forward in renewable energy use and safety in rural Maasai communities.

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 A relationship evolved into a productive one directly between ICSEE Tanzania and ADRA Germany. It is that relationship that is the foundation of this new exciting project

Ambitious goals

Together, we’ve set ambitious goals, with confidence in our ability to achieve them.

We wish to improve the health of the people while increasing women’s freedom. These changes will enhance their ability to earn better and to thrive.

For the RESTORE project, we are selecting 320 vulnerable households in eight villages from Monduli and Babati Districts. At least 50 percent of the households are headed by women. 

Together with Village Leaders, we’ve begun the process of selecting the beneficiaries.

Increasing empowerment

This work involves even more empowerment than usual. As is our regular practice, teams of village women will install our smoke-removing chimney stoves. And in this project, ICSEE will also train a six-person team in each village to install a solar lighting system, of our design, in each of the homes.

The training of a team of three young men and three young women in each village for solar installation, mostly graduates of four years of secondary school, is an exciting challenge. 

Installing a simple home solar system, with solar panel, battery, controller, bulbs, and switches provides a rich immersion into science, technology, engineering, and benefits for the people.

 The training will provide the team members with an understanding of the roles of all the parts, and each trainee will develop the ability to evaluate their work and know how to identify a good job.

We hope some trainees will become maintenance experts as well. There will be no greater learning experience for us than being the trainers, as we will all learn in the process. 

Steps for success

Key elements of our approach to the RESTORE project

• Install the efficient ICSEE stoves and solar-electric lighting in each home

• Provide training and support to each group to establish savings and loan associations to help develop earning ability.(Drawing on our extensive experience with our women's groups with these valuable and empowering associations)

• Educate about renewable and efficient energy and the global conditions that make these actions important everywhere, and can be implemented in rural Africa

The project has a three-year duration.

We are truly thankful for this opportunity to collaborate with ADRA Germany and BMZ to benefit our people here in rural Tanzania .

Training for the stove installation starts NOW.

Thank you for being with us.

Improve lives

For a better life for rural Africans, and a cleaner environment for all

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