How Students Become Innovators

How Students Become Innovators What if students could learn by solving real-world problems? What if they could create technologies that improve their lives and communities? That’s what Twende is all about! In this newsletter, we want to share with you some of the amazing success stories of our innovation clubs program, which we have been […]

Mwanza called, we answered!

Mwanza called, we answered! Our Jamii Tech Incubation Program was off the charts! Can you believe it? The last three months at Twende have been an absolute blast! We’ve been shaking things up, knocking on the lake’s doors (well, turns out there were no doors, just eager hands and open minds ready to soak up […]

Neema Mlawa

Neema Mlawa Once cereal grains like maize and rice have been harvested and threshed, they need to be winnowed to separate the grain from the chaff. In smaller farming communities across Tanzania, where poverty is common, farming work is done without the benefit of equipment. Traditional winnowing is a manual process, requiring farmers to gather […]

Joseph Taifa

Joseph Taifa A 2019 graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam, Joseph Sanga embodies the innovative spirit. After attending Twende’s Jamii Tech Program in 2019, Joseph founded his company, Taifa Innovative Solutions, and has been delivering innovations to help solve community problems ever since.  His innovations have a wide range of applicability, from a […]

Baltazar Twati

Baltazari Twati Baltazari Twati is an innovator and the creator of the Plastic Shredder, a groundbreaking solution to the challenge of plastic waste pollution. In 2020, he founded The Green Project Solution Tanzania, a company dedicated to environmental sustainability. Growing up surrounded by plastic waste, Baltazari was inspired to make a difference and conserve the […]