Greening Earth 1 project

Mseko village is located in the semi-arid area that is affected by devastating climate change and severe food insecurity. Greening Earth foundation (INGO) observed the situation in Mseko village with consternation. In December 2021 it established a project to create awareness among community members on ecological restoration and sustainable use of natural resources for the future generation.

The project concentrates on five strategic areas that are ecological restoration, improving living conditions and health, strengthening social cohesion, improving family income, and improving education. The main aim of the project is to combat increasing poverty, especially in rural poor communities by fighting the main sources of poverty in the community. It is quite gratifying that just within the first half year of project implementation the community has shown an exceptional high speed on the adoption and implementation of the practices promoted by the project. Walking through the village, one cannot help noticing the project results. The project target is to make its methodology to be adopted all over the country as it has shown good results within a short period. The methodology uses two motivational tools that are peer learning and competition

Budgeted households according to the data given by village council were 645 households. The data was according to the 2012 census. After registering the participating households in the village 957