Misingi is not starting any new construction projects, but has chosen to maintain and strengthen the bonds it has formed with local project partners. These include Endallah Primary School, Manusay Primary School, Endallah Secondary School, Afya (health post/maternity ward), and Maji (water project). A local committee with both project and community representation is being set up.
Health pillar
Endallah Health Post/Maternity Ward
2025: Maintenance of consultation room + repair of medicine cabinets
2024: Purchase of medication, laboratory and care materials, linen, clotheslines, drying racks, a printer, and bed lockers
Water Pillar:
2025: Emergency project: purchase of a new motor and pump for the borehole in Endallah
2024: Construction and connection of 900 meters of water pipes and distribution points to the Shangit subvillage
2024: Maintenance and repairs to the current water network
Education pillar:
Endallah Primary School
2025: Start-up library, maintenance of blackboards, purchase of tables, chairs + drum kit
2024: Install gutters, downpipes, and a tank to collect rainwater + purchase a photocopier
Manusay Subvillage Primary School
2025: Installation of solar panels
2024: Purchase and installation of solar panels
Endallah Secondary School
2025: Expansion of the rainwater collection system
2024:
June 2024, Near the nursery school in Engare Sero, Misingi is starting a project ‘Nairbogoso Primary School‘ to construct classrooms for the first and second grades. The Maasai community initiated this project so that these children no longer have to walk 16 kilometers round-trip to Engare Sero Primary School.
On Saturday, March 11, 2023, Misingi will finish the Afya project and officially open the new maternity ward. Many guests will be present, including residents of Endallah and neighboring villages, staff from the Endallah health post, the village council, church and medical boards, as well as Kwinten, Barbara, and Mieke. Assistant Bishop Deogratius Msanya will lead the celebration. Everyone will enjoy delicious food and speeches.
From November 2021 to June 2022, Misingi will coordinate the water project for Lake Natron Secondary School and the purchase of 640 textbooks and 24 school desks for Endallah Primary School, with financial support from Zuiderhuis & Endallah Cultural Tours.
From March to May of 2022, Misingi will facilitate the research phase of the BabyChecker project in Karatu District, led by Delft Imaging. Daan is leaving the ngo.
On January 4, 2019, a large delegation from Misingi will be present for the official handover of MAJI I and II to the community. The occasion will be celebrated with a project visit, dancing, and speeches. Jan and Marleen are leaving the nonprofit organization. Daan is joining the team. In July 2019, Misingi will launch the “Afya” project. By March 2023, Misingi aims to renovate the current dispensary in Endallah and build a new maternity ward. In the past, Misingi has already supported the dispensary.
The roofs of two classrooms at Manusay Primary School will be renovated at the beginning of 2016. In October 2016, the large-scale water project Maji will launch. The Maji project will require significant resources and effort until the beginning of 2019, with the ambitious goal of providing Endallah with a permanent water supply. The non-profit organization expects the project to cost 135.000 EUR.
The project in Masabeda cost the nonprofit organization 32.000 EUR and is being completed successfully. Misingi ngo is beginning to support the Khusumay women’s cooperative. The cooperative consists of 66 women who are known as the ‘pebble women’. They manually break large stones into pebbles. They sell the pebbles to local construction companies, providing the cooperative members with an income. This enables them to build independent lives.
Misingi is establishing a partnership between Thomas More University College and the Karatu Health Training Institute. Every year, Flemish nursing and midwifery students complete internships at Karatu Lutheran Hospital and neighboring health centers. Misingi will continue to facilitate these internships.
Kristof and Kathleen became active members of Misingi ngo, and together, they developed a vision and mission statement and outlined how the nonprofit organization functions. Ruud created a new website. Vincent will maintain it.
Jan and Marleen join the team after deciding to install a solar-powered water pump at Endallah. Mieke completes the team. In October 2014, the association transformed into Misingi ngo, and the Masabeda Solar Pump Project launched. Endallah Primary School also undergoes a thorough refurbishment, including painting and new windows.
Barbara, Steven, and Roger continue operating as an association and are joined by Vincent. Together, they establish Endallah sholarship fund and Engare Sero scholarship fund. They also build the Engare Sero nursery school and install hand water pumps.
Endallah ngo’s work is now truly complete. Mayor Petro Y. Saidi and John are traveling to Belgium to thank the nonprofit organization and its sponsors for their dedication over the years. Endallah ngo, whose goal was to build Endallah Secondary School, is dissolving, and most of its members are ‘retiring’. The project cost the organization a total of 300.000 EUR.
The school construction is almost complete, and it will be officially handed over to the community in the presence of the Belgian ambassador. The last mile is always the hardest.
Year after year, construction on the school continues apace. Building work in Tanzania is accompanied by intensive fundraising in Flanders. ‘Friends of Endallah’ becomes a fully-fledged nonprofit organization and is given its own project account with the King Baudouin Foundation. A school for 500 to 600 pupils was built from scratch in record time. It includes three laboratories, ten teachers’ houses, three dormitories, an administrative block, and a fully equipped computer classroom. The dining room has a kitchen and a storeroom. It is still the largest and tallest building in the area. In 2009, with the support of ‘De Kruin’ ngo, the Masabeda nursery school was built as well.
After John asked several travelers to help build a secondary school in Endallah, they joined forces and founded the association “Friends of Endallah.” Led by Luk Vanmol, the ad hoc coalition immediately started a project that would keep them busy for the next seven years: the construction of Endallah Secondary School.
Barbara and Steven end up in Endallah, a small village of 5,500 people on the edge of Lake Manyara National Park. They stay with John Lucian Mahu there. John occasionally welcomes Belgian guests. He owes this “honor” to the fact that he worked for many years as a mechanic at Father Bolle’s mission station in Schiplaken. Endallah is a village without electricity or running water. It is named after the mostly dry Endallah River that runs through it towards Lake Manyara. During this period, Barbara, Steven, and Roger all travel to Endallah several times. They carry out small projects there and explore the beautiful countryside.
Misingi became a nonprofit organization in October 2014 (Statuten). Since then, we have operated as “Misingi ngo.” However, the organization has a long history…