During the COVID-19 pandemic help TEMBO providing essential support to the TEMBO-sponsored girls including textbooks and learning materials to help girls study at home and toiletries to stay healthy. For girls facing very difficult circumstances, TEMBO also provided emergency food packages.

In May 2020, more than 60 individuals – children, families, mothers and daughters – walked with a purpose – to support the Longido community during the Covid 19 crisis. Read more about this amazing fundraising campaign here.

In early July 2020, Tanzanian schools reopened and the girls could once again focus on their studies. While they promise to work hard and stay safe at school, they will need additional hygiene suppplies including soap, hand sanitizer and masks.

*** NEW VIDEO  filmed at the Longido District Learning Centre in July 2020 with the women in the tailoring program.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across Africa, TEMBO is still working to support the women and girls in Longido District. From March – early July 2020, the Longido District Learning Centre was closed. This posed great hardship on the women in the tailoring program as they could no longer sew to generate an income and buy food to feed their families.

Thanks to the support of TEMBO donors, TEMBO was able to provide emergency food packages for the women with the most recent delivery of food taking place in July 2020.

It is expected that the tailoring program will resume in August and the women are anxiously awaiting the opportunity to get back to their sewing tables.