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2013 In Review: Tanzania’s Loliondo Land Dispute Is Far From Over
Crossing the dusty plains, draped in red and black cloth with a stick in hand to control unruly cattle, Maasai men continue to leave the village in search of jobs, while women are left to fight for their land. A dispute between the Maasai and the Tanzanian government is being led by village women. With…
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Tanzanian Women In Action For Development
ARUSHA, Tanzania – When a six-year-old girl named Salma, accompanied by her grandmother, entered Maria Mushi’s office in Arusha claiming she hadn’t been payed for work as a housemaid, this 55-year-old sprang into action. Mushi listened to Salma’s case and decided to help the child, especially since she dislikes child labour. Salma and her grandmother had asked women…
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A Visit to the Cemetery of Polish War Refugees in Tengeru
I stepped off the dala-dala mini-bus along the highway and immediately felt the intensity of the blazing mid-day sun. It’s not ideal to do any strenuous activity in the afternoon in Tanzania, but today I was on the hunt for something a little unusual, a cemetery. A Canadian friend of mine living in Nairobi, Kenya was in Arusha…
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‘Fahari Yangu’: The Pride of Agricultural Radio in Tanzania
ARUSHA, Tanzania – A large, yellow, wind-up, solar radio crackles as farmer Esther Mbwana tunes it into her favourite radio station. “I love the Fahari Yangu farmer program. I listen every week,” she says as she spins the dial and stops on 105.7 FM, Arusha’s Radio 5. Mbwana is a 48-year-old mother of three from Poli village, located…
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Almost 20 Years On – International Justice Still Fails Rwandans
KIGALI , Nov 26 2013 (IPS) – “There is a saying that all Rwandans believe in. You can’t forgive if you forget, but when you remember, you know what harmed you and you can forgive and move forward,” Honore Gatera tells IPS as he walks through the grounds of the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda’s…
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Q & A on the growth of slums with Tanzanian urbanist Alphonce Kyessi
Alphonce G. Kyessi is a researcher and consultant in the field of human settlements planning, development and management. He is currently employed as an associate research professor at the Institute of Human Settlements Studies at Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam. His areas of research include housing, urban poverty, public transport, urban agriculture and urban environmental planning and management.…
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The slum series – Welcome to Arusha
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Driving from Arusha’s Impala roundabout to the suburb of Njiro, a relic of a railway cuts across the road, almost acting as a demarcation line between extreme wealth and extreme poverty in this city. On one side of the tracks is the P.P.F. housing estate, a gated community where many of Arusha’s…
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#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 report: #PippiHouse, a place for #abused girls in #Tanzania
Pippi House is Tanzania’s only safe house for abused and homeless girls. Founded in 2011 by Aristides Nshange, Pippi House in Arusha is a family-run home for 18 Tanzanian girls, ranging in age from 13 to 22. The mission of Nshange and Pippi House is to improve the lives of at-risk girls in Tanzania by…
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RightsMedia report: @MJ93fm Empowering girls with education in Tanzania
A feature story by Mambo Jambo Radio 93.0 FM Arusha’s Rotlinde Achimpota. Airing Aug. 22, 2013 on MJ FM’s Matukio ya siku program. Shukuru means to give thanks in the Swahili language. The organization’s pilot project is run in a village near Moshi, Tanzania teaching girls how to raise and care for chickens to finance their…
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