Steph Curry Visits Tanzania.


 

List of African countries by Human Development Index
Google Fusion Tables
 
Iconoclastes said:
He he he he! Acha nicheke...
Na vile akina MOTOCHINI, bongo-live et al hudai hawajawai kuona umaskini kama huu ulioko Kenya? Ona sasa Danganyika, mpaka inazua huruma kutoka kwa US celebs.
Geza Ulole naye hana jipya. Ni Turkana na Kibera kila mara!
Click to expand...


Umecheka umefurahia nini!!

Tanzania ipo ulumwengu wa tatu mpaka sasa

NGOJA TUCHEKI KENYA ILIOKO ULIMWENGU WA TATU




SHIRIKA la kupambana na funza hapa nchini—Ahadi Kenya—Jumatano limetangaza kuwa litasambaza viatu kwa wanafunzi milioni mbili hapa Kenya.

Mradi huo utazinduliwa mwezi ujao huku watakaonufaika wakiwa ni wanafunzi katika shule za msingi za umma.

Akiongea Jumatano mjini Murang’a, Mkurugenzi wa Shirika hilo Bw Stanley Kamau alisema tayari ameahidiwa viatu hivyo na wahisani mbalimbali wa hapa nchini na pia wa kutoka ng’ambo.

“Kwa vile asilimia 80 ya waathiriwa ni wale wa umri wa kwenda shuleni, watoto takriban 4 milioni wameathirika.

Tusipojitokeza kwa hali na
mali kupambana na hali hii, malengo ya masomo katika mpangilio wa milenia tunafaa tuyasahau kwa kuwa hatutayaafikia,” akasema.

Alisema hatua hiyo ni ya kuwahakikishia wanafunzi hao hali njema ya afya ili kuepukana na uvamizi wa funza ili wawe na umakinifu wa kusoma badala ya kuchukua wakati mwingi wakijikuna miwasho ya funza viungoni.

“Aidha, hata ikiwa watakaonufaika hawamo hatarini ya kuvamiwa na funza, ni wajibu wa kila Mkenya aliye na nia njema kwa maendeleo
kuwatunuku wasio na uwezo vifaa vya kuwainua kimaisha,” akasema.

Alisema kero la funza limekuwa jinamizi kubwa mashinani ya hapa nchini hasa mashuleni.

“Hili sio jinamizi ambalo limewakamba watu wa Murang’a pekee kama ilivyo dhana ya wengi. Ni kero la kitaifa ambalo hata linafaa
kutangazwa kama janga la kitaifa. Kila pembe ya nchi imeathirika,” akasema.

Alisema kwa sasa watu 5 milioni kote nchini wameathirika na janga hili.

Kuaga dunia

Alisema tayari watu 2.6 milioni wametibiwa kote nchini tangu mwaka wa 2007 huku wengine 300 kufikia Mei wakiripotiwa kuaga dunia
kufuatia uvamizi wa funza.
Bw Kamau alisema viatu hivyo vitasambazwa katika kila Kaunti ili kuwapatia afueni wahasiriwa wa janga hili.

Alipendekeza pia serikali itenge hazina ya wahasiriwa wa funza katika makadirio yake ya bajeti kupitia kwa Wizara ya Afya.

Alisema uvamizi wa wadudu hao kwa wanafunzi ni tisho kubwa la kuafikia malengo ya Milenia kuhusu masomo na pia Ruwaza ya Kiuchumi ya 2030.
 

Miaka 3 ilopita ndio alitembelea kambi ya wakimbizi Nyarugusu.
 
Octopizzo anaongelea Kibera African voices! Anasema anaona chocolate kile mahali hata ikinyesha..
 

If this tiny space can really contain up to a million pipo.....





(Yeah! Thats it! That is the entire Kibera, with the claimed 300,000 up to even 2.5 million!)


Hwo many pipo then live in a residential area like the ones below?







(Considering that just one residential block can contain up to 30 units, or house around 30 families per residential block)
 
SOS: Sold Out Slaves. Kenya's growing child prostitution crisis
Underage children can’t work legally in Kenya but many have to drop out of school because they can’t afford textbooks and school uniforms. Kids who have no one to care for them often end up in children’s homes where they are easy targets for abuse. At the same time, many NGOs, that are supposed to help children, are actually making money from the problem and doing nothing to solve it. In such dire conditions, a shocking number of children resort to prostitution to survive. They put their lives on the line every day as they are exposed to potential violence and life-threatening diseases.
SOS: Sold Out Slaves. Kenya's growing child prostitution crisis
 

At least kuna initiatives za kupambana na hilo tatizo. Tanzania mnajua ni wangapi wanaathirika? Kuna mikakati zipi za kupamabana na dhiki hili?
Yani nyinyi ni kuficha vichwa vyenyu ndani ya mchanga, hamtaki kuface reality. U too have the problem guys.
Acheni kutukebehi kabla ya nyinyi kufanya utafiti wenyu kwanza kubaini the extent of the problem in your country.


Tanzania
In January 2012 two 40ft shipping containers were sent to Tanzania with the shoes to be provided to individuals and people working in micro-enterprise. In September 2013 the third 40ft shipping container will be shipped to Tanzania.

In Tanzania and world-wide good health is critical for development at an individual level, community level and country level, yet with high levels of monetary poverty health in Tanzania is compromised daily which impedes future development and traps people in a debilitating cycle of poverty and poor health.

Shoes help to improve health and opportunities in schooling and employment.

One public health threat in Tanzania which is preventable, yet often overlooked or neglected is tungiasis, which is commonly known as a ‘jigger’ or sand flea. Jiggers live in the dirt and burrow into the skin (human or animal) and can cause severe local inflammation, auto-amputation of digits, loss of nails, formation of fissures and ulcers, gangrene and walking difficulties with secondary infections such as tetanus. In addition to the social impact of jiggers, in Tanzania’s neighbours, Kenya and Uganda, jiggers are also responsible for a high fatality rate. While the feet are the most common region of the body to experience jiggers, other areas of the body including hands, elbows, neck, buttocks and the genital region can be affected.

Treatment of jiggers involves surgical extraction of the flea under sterile conditions by a skilled professional. However, during my time volunteering in rural Kenya I witnessed a number of school children being ‘treated’ for jiggers – they had their feet cut with a razor, with the same razor used on the feet of multiple children, leading to the possible further spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases and increased opportunity for bacterial infection through the new open wounds which were left uncovered.

For the rural poor homes and schools often have dirt floors, running water and hygiene options are not available or accessible and the funds to purchase shoes non-existent. The jigger is therefore a parasite inflicted predominantly on the poor and families with dirt floor homes are the most vulnerable.

The prevention of jiggers is a challenge for those most vulnerable in Tanzania. With 88.5 per cent of Tanzanians surviving on less than US$1.25 per day prevention methods including improving housing, such as cementing floors, improving hygiene and purchasing shoes and socks are not available options.

While there are many avenues for supporting people in developing countries including in Tanzania The Butterfly Movement is focused on giving people a hand up through the provision of shoes.

Thank you for your support and for providing hope to people in need.

Warm regards,
Dalice

Some fast facts on Tanzania

  • High levels of preventable diseases, including malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS and tungiasis or ‘jigger’.
  • Low life expectancy rate at just 52 years.
  • Tanzania has one of the highest rates of extreme poverty on the world scale. In 2007 the population of Tanzania was 40.4 million people of which 88.5 per cent were surviving on less than US$1.25 per day and 96.6 per cent on less than US$2 per day.
  • Despite a decrease in the percentage of people living in poverty since 2001 the absolute number of people living in poverty increased by an estimated 1.3 million people.
  • On a local level in Tanzania the jigger is referred to as inzyogo, which means ‘the disease of the dirty people’
  • In Tanzania only 2 per cent of the poorest 40 per cent of students reach secondary school following the exam, and education levels impact earning capacity and opportunity by up to 181 per cent, therefore being healthy to attend school is critical.
  • The key assets of rural families in Tanzania are their own labour and education, both of which are compromised through poor health.
 
the poverty in kenya is gut wrenching! For some us who conduct some business occasionally in kenya, tunawafam na uchaf wenu. How does a 80 yr old jaluo woman share a plastic defacating bag with other members of her family.#kiberajournals. Heard that at story moja festival last yr in nrb
 
kilam said:
Nitajie shida ambazo zipo Tanzania na hazipo Kenya.
Click to expand...



 
kilam said:
Kenya: Leaders Plead for Help As Hunger Forces Families Flee to Uganda
http://allafrica.com/stories/201606200444.html

Malnutrition a threat to Kenya's growth
Click to expand...

Tanzania: Hunger, Malnutrition Kill 200 Children in Ngorongoro

December 21 2012
Press Release, 21 december 2012

Released by pastoralists civil society organizations on state of hunger and starvation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)

We, CSOs representing the interests of pastoralists in Tanzania are deeply disturbed by widely circulating news that people have died of hunger and a face a multiplicity of other hunger related complications in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It is reported that children and adults have died of hunger and malnutrition in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the last few years. While the exact number of children and adults who have died has not been ascertained for lack of a systematic survey, it is irrefutable that indeed people have died of hunger in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. According to authoritative information from Endulen Catholic Hospital, 14 children were admitted at the Hospital in November 2012 on the grounds of acute malnutrition. In May 2011, a deadly outbreak of Measles hit the whole of the conservation Area affecting some 1,000 children. The Government denied the death of 200 children reported by village authorities, reducing the number to only 19. No independent survey was taken to establish the exact number of deaths. In any case, these children would not have died if they were not suffering from malnutrition.

The fact that this is happening in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a place of global renown and significance is even more disturbing and scandalously embarrassing. Ngorongoro Conservation Area is known across borders for its unmatched scenic beauty, spectacular wildlife and its historical, archaeological and paleontological significance. It is in recognition of its outstanding characteristics that the area was inscribed twice to the Heritage Convention as a World Heritage Site (in 1979 and 2010) as well as Man and Biosphere Reserve in 1981.

It is also to disturbing to witness hunger happening in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a land of premier tourist destination bringing unmatched revenue to the Nation. In the fiscal year ending June 2012, NCAA earned over US$ 50 million (roughly TSh54 billion) from gate entrance fees alone, every tourist entering NCA must pay $50 per day. However, NCAA gave a mere TSh1.5 billion (less than 3%) to the Pastoral Council, a local body representing the interests of local communities in the affairs on the conservation area. This money, although minimal, is not reaching the intended beneficiaries, the communities in times of crises due to bureaucratic procurement hurdles. The Government scandalously failed to timely distribute 3,600 tons of maize from the National Grain Reserve at TSh 315 million that was paid from the allocation to the Pastoral Council in August 2012. If this food was distributed in time, the present hunger catastrophe could have been greatly averted. It is unacceptable and utterly embarrassing that people should die of hunger in the land of plenty with enough resources at disposal.


How Could Hunger possibly happen in a World Heritage Site?

The ongoing hunger situation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area is part of a complex situation facing communities who are facing increasing exclusion in what primarily does now appear to be an exclusive wildlife sanctuary. When Ngorongoro Conservation Area was created in 1959, human development was guaranteed to co-exist along wildlife conservation and tourism. The interest of pastoralists was given greater significance by the Government of the time but as time went on, tourism and conservation seem to have dominated the agenda in Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The local community has lost large sections of its ancestral land in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area since the1950s. Increasingly, there are more Maasai-no-go-areas like the Craters and most of the Highlands. Alienation of land and a battery of restrictions on grazing resources deny pastoralists the flexibility to access scarce, scattered and seasonably varying resources in the conservation area. When this is combined with climate change, occasional livestock deaths and reducing and unpredictable precipitation patterns, the pastoral economy is facing severe stress and therefore leading to vulnerability and food insecurity. It is now more than seven long months since harsh drought hit the Ngorongoro Division crashing cattle prices from between TSh300,000 and TSh700,000 to between TSh50,000 and TSh300,000. On the other hand the maize prices rocketed from Tsh.54,000 to TSh 81,000 per 100kg bag. Very few families can cope with the surging prices. A huge majority of the estimated 70,000 residence of the area are facing acute hunger and starvation.

Food security and human rights violations are unfortunately also linked to the international significance that has been attached to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The present hunger situation can, in the immediate be attributed to a harsh and hurriedly made decision by the Government in 2009 to re-impose the ban on cultivation without coming with an alternative means of livelihood and food security for the local community in the Conservation Area. International conservation actors such as UNESCO and IUCN cannot deny culpability in the present hunger situation since they are known to have pressurized the Government to re-impose the ban on cultivation owing to a perceived deterioration of the integrity of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area as World Heritage Site. This mounting pressure is also taking place at a time when UNESCO is further pressurizing the Government to undertake a carrying capacity of the NCA owing to an onerously made conclusion that the present livestock and human population is surpassing the carrying capacity of the area.

From the foregoing, it appears that the present hunger situation in Ngorongoro at the moment is only a glimpse of a multiplicity of factors that combine to deprive the community secure livelihood, human rights and food security. Given the complex nature of the situation, an urgent and well-coordinated response of different actors is needed. This should ideally go beyond the present hunger-situation. It is in view of this complexity that we give the following recommendations.
 
kilam said:
Ngoja nikuache uendelee kujidanganya kuwa Kenya ni nchi tajiri.
Click to expand...

Hauna la kupinga.....wewe unajua lipi kuwashinda UN na AfDB na IMF na WFP?
Mimi nimewanukuu tu, sio kujidanganya.

Kama hizo zote ni porojo, tupe ukweli wako, accompanied with proofs, sio zile porojo za vijiweni!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…