Livestock Training Agency-Mabuki is another of the agricultural schools in Tanzania, which is a beneficiary of our Foundation’s project of development cooperation.

The next school involved in the Polish Aid project “The improvement of teaching and diagnostics of parasitic diseases in LITAs’ schools as a component of enhancing the standards of education of breeding livestock in Tanzania” implemented by Foundation Science for Development is LITA Mabuki (Mwanza). It is placed in the village of Mabuki, district Misungwi, region Mwanza. The distance to Mwanza is 64 km, but to Dar-es-Salaam about 1120 km. The landform is rather flat, the… landscape is dessert-like, and climate rather dry compare to Buhuri (Tanga). The LITA Mabuki (Mwanza) was established in 2012. Those are certificate courses of the animal health and production provided in there. Additionally 50 local farmers have been trained in the field of livestock husbandry. The are many investments in LITA Mabuki to provide the better conditions for the education of students. Some buildings were rehabilitated such as the new administration building (previously used as a kitchen and a dining hall) after the fire in 2012. Additionally the male students’ hostel and the new laboratory room were built in the year 2013. The development of the campus is continued. It is planned to construct new rooms for didactics and other facilities. There are different farm animals species reared in LITA Mabuki to fulfill needs for the students’ education. They keep cattle, poultry, goats and pigs. Those animals are the crosses of the local and chosen exotic breed. The LITA Mabuki as a local center for specialist training in the field of husbandry facing up to a lot of challenges. There is a necessity to employ more tutors, and constructions of new labs (rooms). It is also important to establish a library to provide access to scientific sources. There is also necessity to built and increase facilities for the animals. Rather small capacities limit the number of animals for training and productivity of the herds. The board struggles for better infrastructure such as water supply, farm machinery, transportation vehicles for students’ training in other out-side places. The rising parasitological laboratory is going to be a base for the practical training of students in other fields such as microbiology or pathology, but until now due to the lack of laboratory equipment more trainings were rather theoretical than practical. The Project is co-financed by the Polish development cooperation programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.