06 February 2015

Soma Kwanza Harakati Michungwani children club @ Nafasi exhibition

 Children posing at the exhibition


        Survival for the fittest? Maisha ni mapambano ?
       Were they given the flowers when they were alive too? Je walimpa maua akiwa hai pia?
 Children enjoying the chap chap activity. Watoto wakifurahia utengenezaji wa vibonzo
 Very very busy.
Uwajibikaji

 Mermaids are they for real?
 Je nguva wapo kweli?
 Strange creatures.
  Viumbe vya ajabu vipo?
 Beautiful music
.  Performance
 Mmmmh?

It was a great day! Art Exhibition @ Nafasi Art space on 31st Jan, 2015

09 January 2015

Code:milabe Christmas Party - Thank you to my customers and friends!


As the day began, chatting and getting to know each other
 More customers and friends joined in
 It got more and more enjoyable as Vitalis Maembe started entertaining us with his guitar and music. Much love to you Vitalis !

 Awww each moment was special as each friend joined in and the music continued.

Thank you so much Vitalis,  your a great entertainer and Activist.

Special thank you to my husband and cousins for all your support on the day. BLESS YOU!

15 December 2014

Christmass Party @ Code:milabe

Karibuni wote @ Code:milabe on Saturday 20th Dec. 2014. from 4pm

There will be a small party to thank God for the year and wish each other the best in the coming New Year.
Come and enjoy our massive SALE and also enjoy drinks, snacks, and recite of poems from Tanzanian youth.

Much Love!













“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein

Ooooh how i have missed my blog,

Lakini nilikuwa busy kufanya uhamasishaji wa usomaji wa vitabu kwa watoto kwenye jamii zetu.
Kupenda kusoma ndio silaha kubwa ya maendeleo ya Taifa letu Tanznia. Kupenda kusoma ndio mwanzo wa kuondoa ujinga na umasikini katika jamii yetu. Ukipenda kusoma na kuchambua vitabu na maandiko kamwe hautadanganyika. Na utajua unako kwenda na nini la kufanya.




'Soma Kwanza Harakati Michungwani' Children club. My project under Soma Agency

04 September 2014

JOAN RIVERS PASSING

04221313221, 10038812. APRIL 22, 2013 FILE PHOTO.
JOAN RIVERS WITH HER DAUGHTER MELISSA

Joan passes after suffering from cardiac arrest..... will be missed


In April 2014, Mo Rocca of "CBS Sunday Morning" asked Rivers how she felt about dying -- and not in the stand-up sense.

"How do you think actual death will compare to dying on stage?" Rocca asked.

"I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage," Rivers said. "If you do it right, you can go looking good and maybe with a little quip -- 'I loved everybody.'"

Rivers always wanted the last word -- sometimes profane, often offensive, but always meant to make you laugh.

16 May 2014

WANAHARAKATI TANZANIA WATOA SUPPORT KWA WENZAO NIGERIA



Wanaharakati wakishirikiana na wanafunzi wakike Tanzania kutoa support kwa ajili ya kudai wanafunzi wenzao Nigeria kurudishwa kwenye familia zao. Maandamano hayo ya amani yakifuatiwa na majadiliano yalifanyika katika viwanja vya Mtandao wa Kijinsia TGNP - 15/5/2014.

WANAHARAKATI NGAZI YA JAMII WAKITOA TAMKO JUU YA BUDGET YA NCHI 2014/15





Je Budget mpya ina mnufaisha nani zaidi, ni wananchi wote kwa ujumla au ni baadhii tu? Na wanaoumia zaidi ni wakina nani katika jamii yetu kama kuna mapngufu yeyote katika budget hii? Je imeandaliwa kweli katika mlengo wa kuleta maendeleo katika jamii yetu na kunafaisha makundi yote katika jamii? Wanawake, wanaume, vijana, watoto, walemavu nk?

10 May 2014

NIGERIA SCHOOL GIRLS ABDUCTION











































































































Michelle Obama with sign "#BringBackOurGirls"
Where are the girls?

The abducted girls from the town of Chibok are thought to be held in the Sambisa forest, a remote and inaccessible area of country.

 It has been reported that the forest is dense and impenetrable, but this is misleading.



  Who are the girls?

While the number of girls kidnapped has not been finally settled, the identities of some 180 were released by a Christian activist. These names have not been confirmed. Fifty-three have managed to escape.




















































































































Mothers of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists gather to receive information from officials on 5 May 2014

 Southern Borno state is home to many Christian communities and it is thought the majority of the girls who have been taken are Christians.

But there are also Muslim girls among the abducted.
These divisions might not mean much to the people of Chibok, a small community where everyone knows everyone, and families are made up both Christians and Muslims.

 A picture taken from a video distributed to some Nigerian journalists and obtained by AFP on 5 March 2013 showing Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau (C) flanked by six armed and hooded fighters in an undisclosed place
  
Why did Boko Haram abduct the girls?

The group condemns those who have been educated in the "Western" system, and is against the education of women.

A screengrab taken on 24 March 2014 from a video obtained by AFP showing Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau

Boko Haram Leader - Abubakar Shekau
  
Why was Nigeria so slow to do anything?
Nigerians have become inured to daily tales of horror that come out of the north and politicians are not exempt from this.

Many people in Nigeria feel a sense of desperate fatalism about the conflict; for days it seemed the kidnapping was just another event in a campaign of violence that rumbles on without a clear solution.















































































A woman attends a demonstration calling on the government to increase efforts to rescue more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls in Lagos, Nigeria - Monday 5 May 2014


Source: BBC NEWS

20 February 2014

Child Sex Trafficking

MDG : Child's handprint on a window
 Burundi's child sex slaves include girls from poor rural backgrounds and those brought up in middle-class families in the capital. Photograph: Imagestopshop/Alamy


Pamela comes from an affluent family and was doing well in one of Bujumbura's best-performing high schools – until two years ago, when she became a sex slave.

She recalls befriending a group of girls when she was 14, who at first proposed she join them when they went out. The trips led to dates with older men who would pick up the bill, initially without asking for anything in return.

One night she was taken to a house in Kiriri, a smart residential district in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, where she was held for three months under the supervision of men in police uniform.

"When a client came, if you didn't want to go with him they would slap you and whip the soles of your feet," Pamela says, her voice trembling. She was freed in a police raid after her mother reported her missing.
"Such places exist in every part of town. You just have to open your eyes to see them," says Florence Boivin-Roumestan, who leads Justice and Equity, a Canadian NGO that has exposed the vast scale of sex trafficking in the small central African nation.
"After months of investigations, we're seeing that human trafficking and sex trafficking in particular exists in Burundi on a scale no one would have imagined."

Victims include girls from poor rural backgrounds and those brought up in middle-class families in the capital.
In a months-long investigation, Justice and Equity found that young girls were being recruited across the country and either forced into prostitution or sold abroad. "You find girls of nine or 10, but most of them are in the 13, 14, 15 age range," Boivin-Roumestan says.

The trafficking takes different forms. In Bujumbura, it is girls from well-off families who are targeted in the best schools. Fellow pupils of both sexes are recruited by pimps to play the role of intermediaries. They gradually gain the confidence of the victims, who eventually end up in brothels.

Keza, who comes from a poor district in the capital, says she was locked up and used as a sex slave by a senior intelligence officer for several months when she was 15. "He threatened me and he threatened my parents," she says, adding that she no longer wishes to see her family after the ordeal.
"I filed a formal complaint against him and he received several summons, but he has never shown up. The case has gone nowhere."




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