Kipugira Village, along the Rufiji River, joined in partnership with us on Tuesday August 17th, 2021, when one by one the villagers signed their approval on a handful of dust-stained white sheets, granting the project three acres to develop our Dinner Club; most didn’t know how to sign their name,...

EastARM’s Dinner Club first began in Ngorongo Village, Rufiji, in 2020, as a type of pilot-project in preparation for launching this program to other villages along the Rufiji River. There is a property in this village, on which -in part- a church is built upon, and in 2018-19, we built a...

Kipo is an untouched land, where few ‘outsiders’ have been. The last census counted 1725 villagers in this community plus 466 children. It is a community of fishermen and farmers. On Saturday August 21st, 2021, with the whole village of Kipo gathered, the elders and local council granted three acres...

Mloka is the village at the heart of the Rufiji, deeper in the bush than any of the other nine that line the river and wilder in terms of its regular contact with the typical African beasts. With a population census of 3744 adults and 1010 children, this number has...