Unite Food Program (UFP) provides small-scale farmers across Tanzania with a secure market for their crops at fair market prices as well as healthy, tasty, and affordable staple food options for the Tanzanian people.
Since UFP’s inception in 2021, the team has purchased nearly 2,500 TONS of maize. In 2023, UFP began fortifying its maize flour by installing a SANKU dossier on the mill through which essential micronutrients are infused into the flour. In 2024, maize and rice production jumped from an average of 50 tons a month to 100 tons a month further penetrating the market across Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, and — in December — UFP added cassava flour to the product line. This year, the goal is to continue to penetrate new markets and increase sales to 150 tons monthly. This team is on fire!
Unite Food Program’s Stock Manager Hosiana Thomas and her daughter Happiness with Unite Food Program’s new cassava flour, December 2024.
While Unite Food Program is now providing full-time employment to six, part-time employment to three, and performance-based employment to seven, it also serves as a professional training ground for our ~100 Unite Scholars. The Unite Scholars are invited to engage in various level training workshops at Unite Food Program through which they learn all the details of entrepreneurship and really what it takes to envision, launch, operate, sustain, and grow a successful, thriving business. The Unite Scholars are also welcomed to engage in paid internships at UFP during which they are taught the day-ins and day-outs of procurement, production, operations, sales, marketing, stock management, accounting, compliance, and more. Our Unite Scholars intern at UFP HQ in Dar es Salaam as well as at the UFP office in Zanzibar and the outpost in Sumbawanga.
Unite University-level Scholars at UFP HQ during a 2024 training event.