Good work spreads

With all best wishes,

Twende!

Robert Lange

January 2026

An insider's view

As you know, the International Collaborate is successful in multiple sectors. These include health, home improvement, water access, women’s business development, education, and climate change adaptation demonstration.



What is our process? Once ideas for life improvement emerge, we begin work on design, engineering, and organizing. We collaborate with the people as they integrate Project technologies smoothly into their daily lives. Together, we work and learn, maintaining and improving on the ideas to achieve beneficial changes for the people and the environment. 

A guiding question

The Maasai people and the Project teams do not engage in a struggle for control. Instead, there is a guiding question for all parts of the Project:



“Is it really a good part of our lives now, and could we make it even better?”

Because our work does not depend on “the right answer” dictated from above, our Projects are also inviting to others. There are no authorities to push aside or any struggle for power.

There are no barriers to ownership for newcomers and no one demands that they must have our exact vision.

The RESTORE project

It is in this spirit that we are thrilled to celebrate the successful birth and growing success of the RESTORE project. 

About a year ago, we shared a story about RESTORE( (Renewable Energy for Sustainable Transformation of Rural Economy).

The Seventh Day Adventist development and relief agency (ADRA) has had Tanzanian programs for years. The German ADRA chapter recently raised money from the German government, creating a collaboration with ICSEE Tanzania and KAKUTE, a Tanzanian NGO that works in schools and other institutions with goals similar to ours.

RESTORE project goals

“RESTORE is an initiative aimed at improving access and use of renewable energy technologies in rural communities, while enhancing livelihoods through energy-efficient solutions, solar energy systems, and the promotion of social and economic entrepreneurship.”

Similar aims

While similar to the aims of the International Collaborative, RESTORE’s goals have their own flavor.

 RESTORE incorporates much of our program design, including stoves for homes, solar electricity for homes and settlements, and women organized for social and financial strength. 

The leaders and staff of ICSEE Tanzania are the implementers of the ICSEE part of the RESTORE collaboration, making for seamless communication and collaboration.  

New directions

Since we began solar electric service years ago, our staff has installed the solar systems and micro-grids. In the RESTORE project we are training youth to have the skills and knowledge to be the solar installers.  This is a good example of the differences and added dimension in this work.

RESTORE program developers have observed our success and the appropriateness of ICSEE technology and organizing. They see it as something to build on, and adapt, We've never believed that we have the one unique solution and it makes us happy to see our work serve new groups and new directions.

The ICSEE has good relationships with village and community leaders and district government people. RESTORE is involving them even more directly.

Through our joint leadership with RESTORE, we are using our core achievements in new ways, based on the criteria of the German Adventists and German government. 

RESTORE accomplishments

• RESTORE is increasing the numbers of homes with stoves, already several hundred, many in new villages. 

•  RESTORE established twenty new groups with collective banks, modelled after our women’s groups,

• RESTORE is improving the cooking equipment in schools, while initiating additional institutional improvements. 

• RESTORE has already trained 48 young people in solar installation and maintenance—with more in process.

We are very happy to see ICSEE ideas and commitment spread,. Resources are flowing in from new sources, continuing to build a better life and a better future. 

Thank you for your support.

Continuing to build

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

International Collaborative for Science, Education, and the Environment

Office of Programs and Development

30531 Abington Court

Laguna Niguel, CA  92677  USA

1-508-735-9176

www.internationalcollaborative.org