To meet all basic community needs, NEWG projects are centered within the core main sectors that touches people's daily life; The sectors includes Health (mainly Malaria,HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis), Agriculture, Environment & Climatic change, Education, Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights. All our projects comes from these core main sectors.

PROJECT 1: FARM ORGANICALLY, EAT FRESH, SAVE HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM

Organic Farming Concept!

Is the production system in which avoids or largely exclude the use of synthetically compounded fertilisers, pesticides, growth regulator and livestock feed additives. To the maximum extent organic farming system relies upon crop rotations, crop residues, animal manures, legumes, green manure, off-farm organic wastes and aspects of biological pest control insects, pest weeds etc. Organic farming methods are widely used in underdeveloped and developing countries, largely because of economics and a lack of chemicals. Organic farming ensures food safety complying with necessary rules during production, processing, storage and delivering stage in order to provide health and precise food production.

MAIN IMPORTANCES OF ORGANIC FARMING

1. HEALTH: Strong health as natural methods are applied during production, no application of artificial chemicals hence the products are healthier. This reduces the risks of diseases like Cancer

2. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY: Harmful chemicals are not used rather an alternative of green fertilisers enhances natural resources hence minimal soil, air and water pollution being producded.

3. TO ANIMALS: Those who depends on meat are sure as no use of antibiotics in meat production reducing the risks of antibiotics resistance

Why organic farming?

NEWG has identified organic farming as beneficial to most of the poor small scale farmers in terms of Health and environment being the major leading factors. Our preliminary survey through identification, visits and interviews, almost 85% of poor local farmers do not know the basics of organic farming neither the importances of it to their environment and health as well. Apart from unawareness in organic farming, the poor small scale farmers do not know the effects caused by non organic farming to their Health in long term and environment as well.

NEWG STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE ORGANIC FARMING.

1. Visit to identify small scale farmers in Moshi rural, Mwanga, Rombo and Hai districts in Kilimanjaro region
2. Training through seminars and workshops to let the farmers understand the basics of organic agriculture and the organic farming standards
3. Identify resources that will help farmers in transition to organic farming. Example tecnological resources, guiding manuals and all other sources helpful in organic farming
4. Understand soils and ways to improve them, as soil is the heart of organic farming system. Example in soils with good drainage, good level of fertility and organic matter, adequate pH, biological health, high legume content and with less weed and pest pressure are excellent assets
5. Identify the crops or livestock suited for farmers situation
6. Design good crop rotation
7. Emphasis on farmers willingness to conduct own-farm trials
8. Emphasis on farmers ability to keep good farming records
9. Introduction of NEWG organic farm as a guide and motivation to organic farming methods.

 PROJECT 2: FIGHT MALARIA SAVE LIFE

What is Malaria?

The word Malaria is an Italian word where by "Mala" means bad and aria meaning "air" discovered in 19th centuary. Therefore Malaria is a blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted from human to human by a female mosquito called Anopheles.

Why Malaria?

In Tanzania Malaria is a leading cause of Mortality rate especially to children under the age of five (5) years. Malaria also affects other groups at large and causes mortality as well, ranking number one to both inpatients and outpatients. The social economic impact of Malaria is so high that it contributes high to poverty and underdevelopment. The ministry of Health strategies to alleviate Malaria faces a lot of challenges including inadequate human resources, financial and material resources, insufficient suport in the health care system capable of providing quality health services, lack of an effective disease surveillance system and insufficient health education. Hence, the government needs suport from other parties Non Governmental Organizations being in front line.

Apart from all other chronic diseases, NEWG has identified Malaria as a threatening disease to the economy of Tanzania. The disease has direct costs during illness comprising of medicines, prescription drugs, transport and accomodation. The indirect costs being loss of value of production because of the illness to a large group of people and equal time lost from work multiplied by the wage rate. The amount of time lost to work is the sum of the number of days lost to illness by these reporting malaria/fever and the hours any adult spent accompanying ill individuals seeking treatment. Thus, NEWG efforts are targeted in fighting Malaria especially to the rural areas where most of the people are poor and the social services are insufficient compared to urban areas.

NEWG STRATEGIES FOR MALARIA CONTROL

1. Emphasis on frequently clean up of sorounding environments to avoid mosquito breedings. This will be practically initiated by NEWG staffs to include relevant residents and monitor its progress as well.
2. Emphasis on using Malaria treated mosquito nets and insectcides. This will include free supply of mosquito nets to the poor who do not afford purchasing previleges given to the pregnant mothers and poor families with high number of people.
3. Malaria intermittent treatment in pregnant mothers. This may include financial suport where necessary.
4. Education through workshops and seminars on how Malaria is spread, measures to avoid the spread and the effects to our society and Nationalwide.
5. Emphasis on the use of recommended antimalaria drugs. This will include financial aid for purchasing the medicines to the poor.