Empowering rural Tanzania through health, education and economic development.

Empower Tanzania Inc (ETI) was established in 2008 to work together with rural Tanzanians to improve their quality of life. ETI is addressing issues such as health care, education, agriculture practices, markets for products, and increasing water supply and quality.  We believe these are underlying issues that hinder resiliency in the rural areas.

Solving rural development challenges requires working together with communities to create a vision and a long term commitment beyond the life of a project. ETI pursues this approach through all we do.
 
Who we are, what we do, and where we work.

Empower Tanzania Inc is a US based non-profit (501c3) working through our local Tanzanian affiliate, managed by nationals. We have unique community-to-community connections and our members have many years of economic development work in Tanzania and beyond, through a variety of other organizations. This brings rich and diverse relationships with partners who we work with.  

By working together with communities and local stakeholders to identify needs and find solutions, we believe that we can provide a lasting solution to economic development. We match communities in Tanzania with communities in the USA, a unique grass-roots approach to development. By applying a holistic and participatory approach, we help provide communities with the tools and know how to sustainably solve their own needs. Initial pilots provide a model for more wide-spread economic development in other parts of Tanzania. 

We have focused initially in the Kilimanjaro and Iringa regions. ETI's seeks to identify needs, apply expertise, best practices, and local connections and partnerships to solve complex community problems.

Below are some examples of our work.
 
Water is Life
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66% of Tanzanians have no access to clean water. "Maji ni Uhai" meaning 'water is life' indicates the critical need for quantity and quality of water. 

ETI is improving water supply and sanitation through a major water rehabilitation project bringing relief to 22,000 people in Hedaru. 4 more projects are in the development phase. 

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Hope for Orphans

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When parents die of AIDS, extended family steps in to care for the children that are left behind, but often, there is simply not enough money to both feed and educate them.  

The ETI Mwanga Orphan Project works to keep these children in school and help them find productive careers.  It is a project of hope.

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Care for the Dying

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1.4 million Tanzanians live with HIV/AIDS. Many who are dying receive little or no skilled help from their community or family.

ETI is providing skills and empowering communities to address the issue.  With the help of a US Government PEPFAR grant, ETI helps rural Tanzanians at a village level to care for their loved ones. 

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