Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia story: A safe home for abused Tanzanian girls

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Welcome to Pippi House. Karibu sana. Please feel at home. This is Tanzania’s only safe house for abused and homeless girls, founded in 2011 by Aristides Nshange. After spending five years establishing a place for street kids in Arusha, Watoto Foundation, Nshange felt it was an unjust policy to only allow boys into…

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  • #RightsMedia story: Tackling youth development in Tanzania

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — As a boy growing up in Tanzania, Juma Kittyler never gave the game of rugby much thought. In fact, he didn’t quite understand the sport until his teenage years. Most African youth grow up playing soccer, or football as it’s known across the continent. At 19, Kittyler was asked to play a…

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  • #RightsMedia story: St Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Every Monday morning as the sun rises, 8-year-old Kelvin Mushi wakes up and puts on his neatly-pressed powder blue dress shirt along with his navy blue sweater and pants, the iconic uniform at The School of St Jude, Arusha’s most sought-after educational institution. The Tanzanian boy slings on his backpack and walks…

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  • #RightsMedia story: A loving hand for disadvantaged Tanzanian kids

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — “I thought Africa was a country,” says a 16-year-old girl as she slathers a wall with cement. “Are you serious?” another girl asks. “Did you think Tanzania was a city, or something?” Obviously the teen never gave Africa much thought before arriving in Arusha to work as a volunteer on a project…

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  • #RightsMedia story: Obama and democracy in Tanzania, the next chapter

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Once a beacon of stability in a region of turmoil, Tanzania is an emerging economy with serious democratic flaws. On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to the East African nation, many Tanzanians are left wondering how American investment will benefit the country. According to the White House, Obama came…

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  • #RightsMedia story: Tanzania’s soccer academy for streetkids

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Emanuel Saakai is a 28-year-old Masai born in Ngorongoro, Tanzania, near the world famous wildlife crater. At age two, his mother moved him to Ngaramtoni, a poor village on the outskirts of Arusha nestled alongside Mount Meru. As a boy he would play soccer in the dusty streets from dawn to dusk.…

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  • #RightsMedia story: Tanzanian youth rising

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Despite statements made by the Tanzanian government to discredit the opposition and blame unemployed “idle youths” or “rioters” for actions taken against the state, the governing CCM party’s public relations campaign seems doomed to fail. The CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) party, or Party of the Revolution, has been at the head of government…

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  • A modern day Mother Teresa: Tanzania’s Sister Martha

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Meet Martha Mganga. She’s a 50-year-old Tanzanian woman with albinism. She’s not afraid to use the term “albino” when referring to herself and others living with this condition. Albinism is defined as a rare, non-contagious, genetically-inherited condition occurring in both genders regardless of ethnicity, in all countries of the world. As the first…

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  • 2013 World #PressFreedom Day in #Tanzania

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Every May 3, journalists, activists and media organizations in developing countries around the world acknowledge the importance of World Press Freedom Day. This year, 2013, marks the 20th anniversary celebrating the fundamental principles of press freedom. Most don’t celebrate it publicly, or even give reporters the day off work. But deep down…

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  • Tears from Teshie – Accra, Ghana’s coastal crisis

    ACCRA, Ghana — The rape of a 13-year-old girl by a group of three young men from her own village was one of the first reported cases in 2013. Outside of LEKMA hospital in Accra, near the coastal fishing village of Teshie, the grandmother of the young rape victim puts a handkerchief over her face…

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