User:Andrew Mhagama

Andrew Gideon Mhagama(Born on 06 July 1984) is a Tanzanian rural development activist working on areas of Rural Development research, Child Protection, and Environmental Stewardship. He has worked with a number of development and relief organisations ranging from national NGOs, Bilateral Organisations, and International Organisations including the European Committee for Training and Agriculture (CEFA), USAID sub-granting We Care Project, and World Vision. Born in Tanganyika to Gideon Mhagama(1933-2012), line to the chiefs of Pangwa tribe (said to be subjects of the Ngoni speaking migrants from the southern parts of Africa), Andrew has lived and worked almost all over Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania) with small and marginalized communities. Andrew received his lower education in the year 2006 at Tabora Boys School, a special school attended by many other top niche politicians and other top figures in the country and neighboring states. He then followed a degree specializing in rural development from Sokoine University of Agriculture in the year 2009. After the brief academic journey, he worked in the fields training with farmers in Arusha, Mbeya, Morogoro, Iringa, and Rukwa regions. He has realised transformations also in community services ranging from home based care to the sick, vulnerable children and elderly. Lately, he is engaging in programming roles in World Vision Tanzania. Of other few or many things, Andrew is a protagonist of revolutionaly change, an environmental activist, a freelance researcher in the area of natural resources,sustainable agriculture and rural development.