I’m on the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi, heading uphill, when my driver, Nuru, points out the drive-way leading to the house of Tanzania’s former prime minister and current presidential hopeful, Edward Lowassa. Not even five seconds after we…
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Media Literacy Talks for Tanzania’s Youth
Tagged with: Africa, arts & culture, Arusha, corruption, girls school, journalism, maasai, Mambo Jambo Radio, media development, media literacy, media4dev, MWEDO, Orkeeswa school, politics, poverty, tanzania, TGFT, walking tour, youth
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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…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, arusha city council, Babati, Chadema, child labour, GBV, Gender-based violence, human rights, International human rights day, Ngarenaro, paralegals, poverty, tanzania, Women in Action for Development, women's issues
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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…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, Arusha town, human rights, Impala roundabout, Njiro, Olorien, P.P.F., poverty, railway, slum series, slums, tanzania, Unga limited, Welcome to Arusha
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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…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, abuse, Aristides Nshange, Arusha, children's rights, education, Girls Foundation of Tanzania, Pippi Foundation for Girls, Pippi House, poverty, Tannzania, Watoto Foundation, women's rights
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Posted in Print
#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…
Tagged with: abused girls, Aristides Nshange, Arusha, Pippi Foundation for Girls, Pippi House, poverty, street kids, tanzania, Watoto Foundation
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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…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Arusha, education, Form Four examinations in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia, poverty, school, St Jude's, tanzania, The School of St Jude
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Posted in Print
#RightsMedia report @SchoolOfStJude; Fighting #poverty through #education
Gemma Sisia is an Australian who founded The School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania. Her work fighting poverty through education has turned this private, charity-funded school into one of East Africa’s most renowned educational institutions. St Jude is the patron…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, book, children, children's rights, education, Gemma Sisia, human rights, Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes, poverty, School of St Jude, St Jude's
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