ZINDUKA Vocational Training Center Students:

ZINDUKA Vocational Training Center Students:

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To respond to this community need, in 2011 Project Zawadi’s local partner organization, Zinduka Development Forum, opened the fully modern Zinduka Vocational Training Center (VTC) with significant financial support from Project Zawadi. This facility, in the final stages of receiving certification from the Tanzanian Government’s Vocational and Educational, is the community’s first high-quality vocational training center for local students. Currently providing course options in the areas of carpentry and needlework, the VTC will add welding to this list in 2013. It also houses the first ever computer lab and provides introductory computer skills training to students and local residents. It is a fully modern facility with a theory classroom, carpentry workshop, sewing room, library space, computer lab, secure materials storage area, teacher office, and staff and student toilets. It is supplied with electricity and running water and has the advantage of allowing students to remain in their local community while furthering their education. Zinduka Vocational Training Center - dormitory will be built three blocks away providing easy access for the students.

GARDENING PROGRAM:

Zinduka also have established a gardening program for twelve small scale gardeners around Nyamuswa and Makongoro villages. Volunteer students from Buffalo USA raised funds to buy kick start pumps which they supplied them to these gardeners. This program is successfully working well but the other problem is getting vegetable pesticides as well as manures. This program needed to be expanded to more villages if funds will be presently available. Zinduka is seeking for a donation oUS$ 5000 to open a farming pesticide store in Nyamuswa, where farmers can be able to get easily but also closely.  Also the program established the tree planting in Nyamuswa area. This program needed to be expanded to more villages if funds will be presently available