Team Honk is about bloggers raising money and awareness for Comic Relief. To celebrate International Women’s Day #iwd2014, Tanya, Annie and Penny are in Tanzania finding out how donations to Sport Relief last year have created female entrepreneurs and #lastingchange for women, their families and communities and beyond – rippling out #lastingchange in Africa.
Their visit to Tanzania is just one of the places in the world where Sport Relief funding kicks off change, improving not just one person’s life, but giving people a leg up so their families and whole communities benefit from the ripple effect.
A small amount of money can be all that’s needed to help people in unimaginably tough situations turn their lives around. The Gatsby Trust provides training and mentoring to help women entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, in very challenging environments. You can read more here.
Meet Bertha
This is Bertha. She’s a food producer in Dar es Salaam who has received support from the Gatsby Trust. Bertha makes three different types of wine, garlic paste and a flour used to make porridge.
In addition to making products she is also now training other women to do the same. Bertha works from a processing plant that she built herself at the back of her property, with room dedicated to each part of her business.
How can you help?
If you have 5 minutes Please RT, share and support any updates you see with the #lastingchange hashtag.
Donate You can help create #lastingchange by sponsoring the #teamhonkrelay for Sport Relief.
Get involved Join up for your local Sport Relief event here.
Thank you for helping to create #lastingchange.
Thanks so much for helping to create lasting change Charly. I loved Bertha, so much energy and passion and although she looks serious here, so many cheeky smiles!