Help street children in Tanzania
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, …
INFO Cooperazione The Italian community of International Cooperation 17th October 2022 It is not certainly the first time that the topic comes back among the workers of the sector, especially those who take care of raising funds in the world of private donors. Among the fundraisers there are different schools of thought and over the years there have been several …
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 …
The festivities will last until 2023 Article by Redazione Nigrizia.it 26/04/2022 Tanzania commemorates 100 years since the birth of Julius Nyerere. “Mwalimu” (teacher in Swahili) Julius Kambarge Nyerere (13th April 1922- 14th October 1999) is acknowledged by all Tanzanians as the father of the nation, would have celebrated 100 years last April 13th. “I invite all Tanzanians to get together …
Source: The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)By Rosemary MirondoPublished: 6/Aug/2021 Dar es Salaam. The question of dual citizenship remains a thorny subject in Tanzania. During an exclusive interview with Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL) yesterday, Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation minister Liberata Mulamula shed further light saying she was hopeful that by the end of 2021 the matter would take a …