Commercialisation of Mosquito Repellent Made from Lemongrass by Students from Lindi
Latest Tanzania health news · Commercialisation of Mosquito Repellent Made from Lemon… explained · updated Aug 3, 2026 · health news · hospitals · public health
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- Founded in 2011, YST was established to inspire secondary school students to look beyond textbooks and examinations by applying science to challenges facing their communities.
- To date, 56 students have benefited from these scholarships, with many now working as engineers, medical doctors, pharmacists, biotechnologists and researchers across the country.
- This year’s competition has recorded its highest participation since the programme was launched, attracting 1,330 project submissions from 287 secondary schools across every region of Tanzania.
- DAR ES SALAAM: THE next breakthrough in agriculture, healthcare or environmental protection may not come from a multinational corporation or a university research centre, it could emerge from a Tanzanian secondary.
- His message is both simple and powerful, “The Tanzania we want to see in the next 20 or 30 years will not be built by today’s leaders alone but it will be built by the students who are sitting in our secondary school.