Improved Income of Single Mothers through Established Vegetable Gardens in ParunguKasera Village, Mkinga District Council.

Malali, Elizabeth Dickson (2023) Improved Income of Single Mothers through Established Vegetable Gardens in ParunguKasera Village, Mkinga District Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This report covers two main parts. The Community Needs Assessment (CNA) and the Community Economic Development (CED) Project. The overall objective of CNA was to gather information used to identify community needs, resources and opportunities, and to develop intervention strategy to improve livelihood conditions of single mothers at ParunguKasera Village in Mkinga District. Specific objectives related to a community of single mothers in ParunguKasera village. They were to describe demographic features of single mothers; to determine livelihood conditions of single mothers; to identify needs of single mothers; and to identify and prioritize interventions for the needs. Qualitative research methodology was deployed. Data were collected through questionnaire, focus group discussions and interviews. The CNA findings indicated that single mothers faced socio-economic setbacks. They have burden of large families, inadequate skills, unreliable sources of income, and others which perpetuated income poverty. To that end an intervention was developed to redress the situation. The designed CED project had general objective to improve income of single mothers through established vegetable gardens at ParunguKasera village by October, 2023. Specific objectives were to build capacity of 10 single mothers by July 2023; to mobilize equipment and tools by August 2023; to grow vegetables in at least ⅛ acre of land per person by September 2023; and to sell vegetables of TZS 10,000 per person per day by October 2023. The project was full implemented. The outcome was to raise daily net income of a single mother from TZS 2000 to 5000. Keywords: Income, Single mothers, Vegetable gardens, Poverty.

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