Category: kisedet

Gruppo Tanzania Onlus welcomed at Kisedet

The Covid-19 pandemics made travelling impossible for quite a long time, thus after a few years Gruppo Tanzania Onlus landed in Dodoma last month to visit our organization. Mauro del Pino (president) and Giulia de Paolis (vicepresident) together with KISEDET NGO’s staff coordinated future steps necessary to continue the shared path of cooperation started in 1998 when Giovanna Moretti (KISEDET …

A new hope for Meja

Ally Mussa AKA Meja is 24 years old, he lives in Chadulu street, Tambukareli ward in Dodoma City. The youngster had stayed at Shukurani Children home from 2011 to 2018. While he was staying at the centre, he was enrolled at Chamwino primary school from 2011 to 2015. Once completed primary education, he was enrolled at St. Gabriel Technical School …

Murders of street kids

Here we are again, narrating the brutal murder of two street kids. Last time we had debuted by using the same sentence: “here we are again?”How long do we have to write this sentence for? When will “unknown people” or the enraged crowd stop murdering street kids?Toma, 18 years old, killed in Dar es Salaam a month ago. Mwarabu, 17, …

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 …

A stereotype to destroy

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. …