MamboViewPoint is owned by social entrepreneurs Marion Neidt and Herman Erdtsieck. They travelled through many continents, cooperated with various development agencies and saw very many development projects. In the end they felt unhappy with the often very poor or even counterproductive results of many aid projects and all the money that went to expensive overhead, offices and 4x4 cars. All previous experiences resulted in a plan for a new approach. The basic idea was to create a permanent socio-economic stable base in a poor area and to start regional development from there. In our vision development is not based on unconditional aid but should be achieved by empowering people, building capacities, giving them ideas and information, knowledge, expertise and support them in obtaining tools. As our current experience learns it sometimes only needs a little push to enable people to pull themselves out of poverty. There are some important features...

Like in all places around the world, in Mambo and the surrounding villages there are many children who want to study after their primary school. However there is a difference... Some are not able to go to the secondary school because their parents can't afford to pay it. Some bright kids can't study on the university because they can't afford it. MamboViewPoint tries to connect young and bright students with sponsors from abroad.     The Kids are selected on forehand.  MamboViewPoint controls if the money really is spent for the study and if the results are good.  School fees will be paid direct to the schools MamboViewPoint will take care for a regular report.  MamboViewPoint reports the progress to the donors.  Sponsoring possible on individual base with knowledge of all parties or anonymous.  Donors can have direct contact with the pupils and even visit them. In case of problems MamboViewPoint...

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Mambo school toilets - A report and guideline for building a school dry toilet by Herman Erdtsieck, Director, MamboViewPoint , Lushoto-Tanzania Mambo is a small village in the Usambara mountains in Tanzania. The Mambo Primary school has about 2000 pupils who are visiting the school in 2 shifts because of a lack of teachers and class rooms. Like many schools around, sanitary was not well provided and something had to be done. Thanks to the Dutch school “Herman Gorter” in Zaandam the budget came available to build 2 new toilets, one for boys and one for girls. In this guide you will find the design and the practical implementation of the toilets. The design and supervision are done for free by the crew of MamboViewPoint eco lodge. Background A full documented background of building toilets can be found in “The Guide to Sanitation and Hygiene for Those Working in Developing...