{"id":2522,"date":"2025-08-04T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amref.org\/tanzania\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:55:23","slug":"impacting-the-community-health-through-recycling-around-37-tons-of-wastes-collected-daily-a-testimony-from-hamisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amref.org\/tanzania\/2025\/08\/04\/impacting-the-community-health-through-recycling-around-37-tons-of-wastes-collected-daily-a-testimony-from-hamisa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cImpacting the Community Health through Recycling around 37 Tons of wastes collected daily &#8221; A testimony from Hamisa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-70067e070d3a0d718c2c0b217e4c7f5d\">\u201cImpacting the Community Health through Recycling around 37 Tons of wastes collected daily &#8221; A testimony from Hamisa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamisa William is an Environment Health Officer at Vingunguti Ward at Ilala District. Hamisa Testifies that \u201cVingunguti is an area with huge number of residents. It is estimated to have<strong> ( 110,000).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to this population the outbreak of diseases had previously been taking place at a speedy turn. Implementation of Taka ni Mali project has resulted to commendable changes which also impacted the health of the community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have started to note that, the daily collection of wastes has been around<strong> 37 tons <\/strong>and the outbreak of diseases has declined despite the big population in this specific area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The groups that have been trained by the project are now making two to three trips of waste collection per week hence the project interventions has had a massive impact to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taka Ni Mali project demonstrated how community driven efforts can create lasting impact. It reduced cholera cases by 80% from 2017 to 2019 and empowered <strong>145<\/strong> women and youth, increasing employment by <strong>60%.<\/strong> Income for these groups grew by <strong>198%,<\/strong> and over <strong>60,000<\/strong> people were directly reached through awareness campaigns. The project also strengthened partnerships between local authorities and waste entrepreneurs. These successes were made possible with support from Madrid City Council and implemented by Amref Tanzania partnership with the Tanzanian Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImpacting the Community Health through Recycling around 37 Tons of wastes collected daily &#8221; A testimony from Hamisa Hamisa William is an Environment Health Officer at Vingunguti Ward at Ilala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[32,267,176],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amref.org\/tanzania\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-04-at-14.29.33.png","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.6.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amref.org\/tanzania\/2025\/08\/04\/impacting-the-community-health-through-recycling-around-37-tons-of-wastes-collected-daily-a-testimony-from-hamisa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cImpacting the Community Health through Recycling around 37 Tons of wastes collected daily &quot; 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