Through this fish farming project, last year I sold fish and managed to buy a motorcycle worth TZS 2.8 million and opened a shop worth TZS 1.3 million. This year, I’ve bought 16 beehives. This project has benefited us economically, environmentally, and socially – now we harvest fish twice a year and even support neighboring communities with food and education. When we started, we had only one pond. Today, we have 26 ponds managed by the group, and each member has their pond. After seeing the benefits, even people outside the group have started digging ponds – now we have a total of 39 ponds in the village and over 40,000 fingerlings. We secured a TZS 6 million loan from the district council, repaid it on time, and now we lend to other fish farmers at low interest rates – so they stop cutting down trees and start fish farming instead.
