Help street children in Tanzania
They are between 12 and 17 years old and they are the new slaves. No longer deported to the Americas, but slaves in their own houses, enslaved by their own people. Girls, often illiterate or who had to leave school for some reasons, come from poor families who have decided to send them to work for some wealthy family, in …
Onesimo Wissi was Vicar General in Dodoma Diocese as well as my very first link with Tanzania. I was in Italy when I received a text message saying he had passed away, even today I still can not realize this has happened. I met him for the first time in Calcinate (BG) in March 1996 and soon in July we travelled …
Will Swahili language survive? When I first arrived to Tanzania, inside the majority of the villages, their inhabitants were not used to speak the official language of the Country, Kiswahili (universally known as Swahili) but only Kigogo, a dialect spoken in Dodoma region specifically. More than 25 years passed from then and today things have drastically changed: many Tanzanian people …
Frequently we have to answer some questions from our donors, often curious about Tanzania, our work and how we manage to gather the economic resources needed to sustain the project. Today we want to answer to one recurring question: “Do Tanzanians support you?” The answer is “Of course, they do” Every month KISEDET receives food, environmental and personal hygiene products. …
Volunteers? Interns? Employees? Nothing of the sort, instead “civil servants”. You probably already know the staff working in KISEDET, generous and trustworthy people who have been collaborating with the organization for several years, to often fill the gaps left by governmental institutions. They are colleagues, sometimes the very same kids we helped with their studies in the past years and …
I arrived in Tanzania for the first time in 1996 and immediately met this charismatic figure who was the village chief. I soon realized that he was not only the village chief, but also the charismatic leader of an entire community. Not only young people had a reverential respect for him. I was taken under his wing, and sometimes I …