Mboni ya Vijana Group (MVG)

Über uns

Mboni ya Vijana Group(MVG) is a youth run community run organisation based in Zeze village, near Kasulu, in western Tanzania near the Burundi border. Our name means “Eyes of the Youth” in Swahili. We were founded by Benedicto Hosea in 2012 to support the community in Zeze Village where he has lived all his life. We were registered as a Community Based Organisation in 2014.

Our mission is to mobilize and influence youth and the community in all processes of decision making and implementation of development projects to reduce income poverty and increase food security though resources available in the area without deterring the nature.

Our work
We support rural communities in extreme poverty adapt to climate change with sustainable farming, access to water, entrepreneurship, environmental conservation and peer education. Our projects develop the skills and resources for people to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty.
MVG understands well rural communities’ lives and challenges. Poor knowledge of how best to manage their environment is a key factor for poverty, food insecurity and environmental degradation. Better environmental education is integral to improving lives and the environment in villages like Zeze.
MVG has been established in Zeze Village since 2014, and was given land by the village in 2015. We have run training on climate change adaptation and tree planting, better agriculture, womens’ microfinance projects and constructed 27 hand drilled water bore holes.

Activities:
• We manage a very successful womens’ microfinance scheme serving 692 women with funding from Wabia foundation and a community honey project with 67 hives.
• We have trained 877 and subsidised 285 small farmers to run sustainable farming, which has greatly improved yields.
• We have completed 27 boreholes providing clean water, facilitated the big Zeze Community Safe Water Project serving above 9000 people.
• We have delivered training on growing Moringa, leading to its production on 13 farms.
• In 2015 we received funds for the construction of a village agricultural storage facility from Tanzania Development Trust.
• We have set up a tree nursery and distributed over 9800 seedlings to the community, and worked with many school and community groups on treeplanting.
• We also set up a welding workshop and train local youth on how to make furniture, window frames, rope pumps, and moulds to make fuel efficient stoves.
• We run entrepeneurship camps for local youth, and in January 2020 are starting adult literacy classes.
• Mapping for development: Putting Zeze on the map
• Bring Solar Light to 500 People in Zeze, Tanzania: This project will provide solar lights to subsistence farmers in Zeze village and beyond, enabling children to study after dark in a smokeless environment. Families will be able to spend the money they save on kerosene on more nutritious food for their children and to start small businesses as a route out of their current extreme poverty.

Benedicto Hosea is the Chairman and Founder of Mboni ya Vijana Group(MVG).

For other net participants we can offer overnight facilities. Also we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.