Manka, is a young woman whom life has put to the test more than once but, thanks to the help of KISEDET she managed to redeem herself and find her independence!’
Category: Tanzania
UNIVERSAL CIVIL SERVICES: Davide, Agnese, Elisa, Simone arrived in Dodoma
The adventure of the new SCU begins!
Chigongwe girls’house at the long-term shelter
Following the collaboration which has continued since 2015, we made another request to Agata Smeralda and once again they came to our aid.
Another way to Travel
With this email we would like to thank you for our safari and also give you feedback on our experience.
Peter: successful story
PE’s story is a good story. It is one of many happy ending stories concerning Kisedet’s beneficiaries and today we are telling you more about him.
UNIVERSAL CIVIL SERVICE: Sofia, Giorgia, Chiara e Veronica are back to Italy
A month ago, the first civil lawyers returned to Italy, after eleven months spent in Tanzania at KISEDET; here are their testimonies.
Modern slaves
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 …
Goodbye Father Onesimo Wissi
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 …
Swahili language
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 …