WOHEEA dismantles systemic barriers through community-led, evidence-based interventions in agriculture, nutrition, and social rights across the Arusha region.
WOHEEA is a registered Tanzanian NGO based in Arusha. We equip women and girls with sustainable skills in health, nutrition, and economic self-determination — and we work alongside the communities we serve, never around them.
To empower women, especially in rural Tanzania, by tackling systemic barriers in economic development, health, WASH, and social rights through focused interventions, capacity building, advocacy, and partnerships that reflect the real-life experiences of women in communities.
A society where women and girls are self-reliant, financially stable, and actively contributing to socio-economic development — with access to the resources needed to lead a healthy, independent, and dignified life.
We address the interconnected challenges women face — combining nutrition and health education with economic skills and rights-based advocacy.
Education on balanced diets, food security, maternal & reproductive health, and school nutrition clubs that build lifelong habits.
Vocational training, savings & loan groups, and small business support that helps women build financial independence and resilience.
Workshops, school partnerships, and youth leadership programs — including FGM awareness and gender-equality advocacy.
Every WOHEEA programme is measured. Here's what our communities have built together.
Armed only with seeds and the nutritional literacy he'd gained at his school's Vegetables for All club, 12-year-old Kelvin Rajabu designed, built and managed a home garden of his own.
He laid the stone bed himself. He pulled water from the local well twice every day — morning and night. He grew spinach and bananas: nutrient-dense crops that now feed his family.
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An awareness campaign promoting vegetable and fruit consumption among school pupils and the broader Moivo and Kiutu ward communities.
School-based nutrition and vegetable farming. Students at Uraki and Kilimani primary schools learn proper preparation methods that retain nutrients.
A 53-school nutrition club model under the Amsterdam Initiative Against Malnutrition — reaching tens of thousands of beneficiaries.
WOHEEA collaborates with leading institutional and grassroots partners to scale evidence-based interventions across Tanzania.