Tanzania

During our visit to Denmark we told about Mama Hannah. She was a tailor and very competent. She told us briefly before going to Denmark that she wanted to start a small sowing school for young girls who had not finished their schooling yet.
 
Young girls who do not have a job often end as prostitutes or get into abuse. She has a great burden to help such young girls get an education as a seamstress.
 
During our stay in Denmark several agreed that was a good idea and we received money to buy sowing machines. As we returned to Tanzania we got in touch with Hannah and gave her money so she could buy sowing machines and a good overlocker. I, Tabitha went to inspect the sowing room. She has now taken two young girls under her wings to teach them to sow. The girls seem to be proud to take this sowing course. It gives them self-confidence and they can now develop and show their skills.
 

 
One of the girls is Adolphine of 15 years. She has been through 6th grade and is from a home with seven children. She is number four.
 
Her parents had divorced and the mother had to take care of the children. The oldest girl is now married and has a job. She gave her mother, Adolphina and her younger siblings permission to live at her place. Recently the mother remarried and now lives with her husband but left Adolphina and her younger siblings with the big sister. Adolphina is taking care of her younger siblings and cooking the food. While the little ones are in school Adolphina has time to learn to sow. She is happy and proud that she takes the sowing course.
 
The other girl is Upendo, which means “Loving”. She is 23 years old and a single mother of a one-year-old child. She has nine younger siblings and has completed 9th grade. But Upendo’s mother who is also a single mother was unable to help her on in school. The mother has not a steady job and she was fighting hard just to get food on the table. It meant that there was no money to let her continue at the school.
 
Instead, Upendo was sent to live with her grandparents to look after the goats. The grandfather wanted her married so he could get a pride price. She refused and fled to Arusha where she got a job as a maid in a family. The man of the house wanted sex with her but she refused so she had to run away again.
 
Then she met a young man and they decided to live together. When she got pregnant the man ran off. She is therefore alone with a one-year-old child. She is struggling as she cannot find a job. Mama Hannah has taken care of her and is teaching her to sow so that one day she will be able to sow for others and have her own little business.
 

 
We want to thank those of you so much, who supported this project so we got money to buy the sowing machines and was able to give Hannah the possibility to help young girls have a life of their own