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improving COMMUNITY INCOME IN RUKWA THROUGH COMMERCIAL CROPS

2/1/2024

 
​RC FROM RUKWA HON. MAKONGORO NYERERE LISTENING AS GCDE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DISCUSSES HOW TO TRANSFORM ECONOMY IN THE COUNTRY - NATIONAL AGRICULTURE EXHIBITION 88 MBEYA 2023

Employment / contract opportunity

6/25/2019

 
              OPPORTUNITY FOR CONDUCTING BASELINE SURVEY 

Advert Date: 25th June, 2019
 
Grace Community Development and Education is awarded by Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) to implement the project titled: -
 
ELIMINATE VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN, WOMEN AND TEENAGER PREGNANCIES IN NKASI DISTRICT
 
One of the activities is to conduct a baseline survey.
 
GCDE is hereby looking for the person who will be able to conduct a baseline survey and produce the report in the agreed time.
 
 Education of the intended person: 

  • Bachelor of Arts from a recognized institution
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong language capability in both Kiswahili and English
  
If you believe you are the ideal person we are looking for, submit your application letter describing why you are the right candidate for the published opportunity, attach your curriculum vitae and any other details and send it to : [email protected]  or by post/hand to:
 
Executive Director 
Grace Community Development and Education
Box 708 
Sumbawanga
 
*Women are strongly encouraged to apply for this opportunity*
 
Closing date for applications:  30th June, 2019 (only shortlisted applicants will be contacted)

kids in usa learning about kids in Tanzania

1/30/2019

 
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This little lady is excited for her country report on Tanzania today! Thank you Aunt Lynn Caraway, Uncle Mike Caraway and Luka for being willing to Skype with her during her presentation. □□

Posted by Brie Lucas on Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Thanks McKinley for choosing to share about Tanzania. At GCDE we work with lots of kids and their parents to help them in various ways as we share the love of Jesus with them. Thank you for being part of that and letting others know that Jesus cares about people all over the world.

New business classes in sumbawanga

4/4/2018

 
Please pray for the participants and for Martin Haule as he leads two new business training classes this week at Grace churches in Sumbawanga. Twenty eight members from the Eden church and 23 members from the Majengo church have signed up to learn more about Business As Mission and how to build your business in a sustainable and profitable way while bringing glory to God. 
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Martin Haule - GCDE Board Memeber and Business Trainer

Through this and other initiatives GCDE is working with community groups throughout western Tanzania to reduce poverty and improve quality of life while bringing glory to God.

Women's Day exhibition

3/8/2018

 
The Women’s Day Exhibition is happening right now in Sumbawanga, Tanzania. Grace Community Development & Education (GCDE) is one of the participants encouraging women in small business through a regional trade fair designed to let women know about opportunities for training and development. GCDE is displaying various products like peanut butter, liquid soaps, batiks, and healthy porridge mix. All of these products and others are part of GCDE’s “hands on” training program.

GCDE staff, board members, and university interns are at the booth to discuss various training opportunities, including Farming God’s Way and Business As Mission.
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Please pray for GCDE and the women and men they are in contact with at this time.
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GCDE Staff continuing to learn

12/18/2017

 
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The staff and interns at GCDE are committed to ongoing learning in order to provide better service to all stakeholders. Utilizing the Community Room at GCDE, members meet to discuss and plan for various training and events which benefit the community. GCDE also keeps a well stocked library where staff and community members can access many books, cd's and dvd's on a wide range of development and personal growth topics including agriculture, business, community health, environment and many others.

Farming God’s Way, Entrepreneurship, Business Essentials, Raising Local Chickens and a Bible for all the participants!

3/24/2017

 
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Batister Mbwana, GCDE’s Executive Director, reports that in the villages of Msia and Kisa in the Rukwa region, these trainings were well received and there is hope for a continuing relationship with the groups who hosted GCDE to provide these important local trainings. This was a special course that combined shortened versions of the different trainings along with the distribution of Bibles. Please pray for the participants as they take what they have learned and bring it back into their homes and families. 

Tom, Ken & Dave's visit - GCDE dedication

2/15/2017

 
This report is taken from Rush Creek Bible Church's Missions Report
PictureMother and daughter at GCDE Building Dedication. Daughter benefited from cleft palette surgery four years ago.
Dave Velting, Ken Wieringa and Tom Thorburn met missionary Mike Caraway in Sumbawanga, Tanzania. The purpose of the visit was to gain insights about GCDE’s outreach and ministries and its impact on the people who have participated in one or more of its educational programs. We also had the opportunity to attend and participate in the dedication of the newly remodeled office building that GCDE owns and now calls home. We met with the GCDE Board of Directors to learn more about their vision for GCDE. The visits were very informative and gave us many insights about how GCDE has grown as a Christian non-profit organization in the past 10 years since its founding.

Some of the highlights of our visit:
Several hundred small business people have been trained in the past six years. They have put into practice many of the biblical values and principals woven into the good business practices taught by Mike Caraway and Martin Haule. We visited some of those who attended the trainings and were impressed with their Christian walk and the changes they’ve made in their businesses.
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PictureFarming God's Way Plot
Over 50 farmers have attended seminars on Farming God’s Way over the past two years. These seminars were lead by GCDE Board member Jelle Kipaka. Several demonstration plots were established during the growing season last year along with 6 farmers putting into practice the basic principles of Farming God’s Way. We visited several of those farm families and found that they had increased yields of their corn (maize) crops. Each of the families are planning to expand Farming God’s Way to larger parts of their corn when the planting and rainy season starts in October. The result of the increased yields means that each family increased the amount of food for their family and have the excess to sell for cash. We convey the thanks given by many to RCBC for their generous gift to support the ministry of Farming God’s Way.

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The dedication of the GCDE office building gave many people who had benefited from GCDE’s programs and ministries an opportunity to share their testimony and impact of the changes brought about in their lives. One such testimony was a mom whose daughter was born with a cleft palette. This child was not accepted by the community nor accepted by other children. Following the surgery which took place in Dar es Salaam this young lady is able to participate fully in school now without the humiliation that she experienced previously. Following her mother’s testimony at the dedication the daughter spoke briefly and brought tears to everyone’s eyes. Praise the Lord for those willing to speak out about their faith in Christ Jesus. There have been over 120 cleft and fistula patients who have benefited from this ministry thanks to Lynn Caraway for working with Tanzanians to get the program started several years ago.

In Mbeya we visited with another group of business persons who have gone through business training led by David Mbukwa. He participated in one of the very first classes taught by GCDE. He has taken the training to over 160 of his fellow business people in Mbeya. He is a strong Christian witness and is giving back to his community in several ways with his colleagues this past year. In working with his colleagues they’ve established a savings and loan club to help each other to strengthen their financial position to benefit their families and work in the community. We also had the opportunity to visit with many of the missionaries serving in the Sumbawanga area including Steve and Barbara Sherman, Ted and Kim Rabenold, Mark and Jodi Guilzon, Brook Seekins, Mike and Terese Benton, and Cory and Kim Hodgson. We were guests of Mike and Lynn Caraway in Mumba. We also spent time with Wayne and Sheryl Gasser in Dar. Each of them asked that RCBC family continue to pray for each of them and their families and the Lord’s work they are leading in Tanzania.
It was gratifying to see and visit with many of the people that have benefited from the work led by the GCDE staff and Board. May the Lord receive the praise for these ministries being led in His name.  Our heartfelt thanks to all who made our visit to Tanzania so informative and gratifying because of the Lord’s work they are leading.
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~ Dave, Ken and Tom
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Rotary Club Sumbawanga

1/27/2017

 
Recently Batister Mbwana and Wema Chambi from GCDE met with members of the Sumbawanga Rotary Club to provide information about Cleft Lip/Palate repairs. The members of the Rotary Club were eager to hear about the services provided to families in the Rukwa and Katavi regions in concert with CCBRT. In the future GCDE representatives will be sharing additional information on how local people can be part of the network of Ambassadors who help provide this life changing service to neighbors and friends thoughout the area. 
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What is gcde about?

8/15/2016

 
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Grace Community Development & Education is headquartered in Sumbawanga, Tanzania where we are involved in partnerships with people and organizations at the grass roots level. Together we identify real needs and work with local people to develop local resources with sustainable impact. We provide trainings in various subjects and venues to church, community, business and agricultural groups. We look for ways to establish empowering connections between individuals and groups from the west (more developed countries) with local people and groups in western Tanzania. Many of the local organizations we work with are Community Based Organizations (CBO’s), Faith Based Organizations (FBO’s), Non Government Organizations (NGO’s), and less formal groups of small business people and farmers in rural Tanzania.

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