Ndugu Mhariri 

Napenda kwa masikitiko makubwa nifikishe malalamiko yangu kwako.

Mimi ni mzazi wa binti mmoja ambaye ninaishi Mpanda Sumbawanga. 

Kipo chuo hapa Mbeya ni cha uuguzi kinaitwa FARAJA. Chuo hiki kipo kimeegeshwa katika majengo ya shule ya Arage mjini Mbeya. Tumetumia pesa nyingi kulipia watoto wetu lakini chuo hakieleweki si usajili wala uongozi, hakuna ofisi wala maabara. Watoto wamepangishwa vichochoroni wanahangaika wakati pesa tumelipa.

Hivi Serikali inafumbia macho vitu kama hivi, chuo cha afya kinakuwa namna hii, tunazalisha wauguzi wa aina gani?

Nimekuja Mbeya kuangalia maendeleo ya mtoto, najaribu kuuliza maisha na nini kinaendelea juu ya mustakabali wa mwanangu, najibiwa hovyo na uongozi naambiwa, "kashitaki popote". 

Mkuu wa chuo hicho ndugu ULIMBOKA MWAKILILI, hatendi haki kwa Taifa hili na taaluma ya uuguzi, hakuna Mwalimu mwenye sifa ya kufundisha uuguzi ukianzia na yeye mwenyewe. Wakati anatangaza Chuo hicho alituambia kila kitu kipo, sasa watoto wanahangaika hovyo.

Ninadai pesa yangu nimuhamishie mtoto sehemu nyingine kwa kuwa chuo hiki hakina uelekeo.

Serikali naomba ifunge chuo hiki na turudishiwe pesa zetu mara moja watoto wakasome mahali penye usajili wa kisheria na panapojali taaluma hii muhimu ya uuguzi.

Naomba ndugu mhariri utusaidie katika hili, tuyapeleke wapi malamiko haya haki itendeke.

Afya ni jambo nyeti haiwezekani watoto wetu wapate taaluma kama hii katika mazingira kama haya.

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Read statements from the May 21 press conference from NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock andNAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.

(Miami, Florida) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a resolution on May 19 supporting marriage equality. At a meeting of the 103-year old civil rights group’s board of directors, the organization voted to support marriage equality as a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law.

“The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” said Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP. “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.”

“Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people.” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP.

The NAACP has addressed civil rights with regard to marriage since Loving v. Virginia declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967. In recent years the NAACP has taken public positions against state and federal efforts to ban the rights and privileges for LGBT citizens, including strong opposition to Proposition 8 in California, the Defense of Marriage Act, and most recently, North Carolina’s Amendment 1, which changed the state constitution’s to prohibit same sex marriage.

Below is the text of the resolution passed by the NAACP board of directors:

The NAACP Constitution affirmatively states our objective to ensure the “political, educational, social and economic equality” of all people. Therefore, the NAACP has opposed and will continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens. We support marriage equality consistent with equal protection under the law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Further, we strongly affirm the religious freedoms of all people as protected by the First Amendment.

naacp.org
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Same-sex marriage in the USA is legal in 6 states and the District of Columbia, but 31 states have passed amendments to ban it.
Listen to the conversation/Read the transcript at: npr.org
 
 
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...nisikie mwenyewe kama huogopi... (picha: gazeti la Mwananchi)
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...basi niambie unawezaje, mi mwenzio moyo wangu una... (pichani ni Mnyika na Ng'humbi wakiwa Mahakamani siku ya hukumu)
 
 
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UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE – DAR ES SALAAM 
May 25, 2012
UNIC 2012/03/15

PRESS STATEMENT 

                                    THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON AFRICA DAY


Each year, Africa Day provides an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the peoples and governments of Africa and to reaffirm the support of the United Nations for their efforts to build a better future.

The United Nations commends Africa’s recent efforts to consolidate its peace and security architecture, and to reject unconstitutional changes of power.  We will continue to work with Africa in building durable peace, ending armed conflicts, boosting democracy, and promoting respect for fundamental human rights, especially the rights of women and youth.

Africa is a dynamic continent undergoing fundamental transformation.  Even during the world economic crisis, Africa’s economies continued to expand, and growth forecasts remain positive.  However, the benefits are not reaching all Africans.  Poverty, hunger, and disparities in health, education, and participation in society, are preventing hundreds of millions of Africans from fully realizing their potential.  Greater effort is needed by all to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

The growing number of success stories across Africa indicates that broader social and economic progress is realistically attainable for most Africans.  I have personally seen the dividends of investing in women’s and children’s health and sustainable agriculture.  I have spent many hours with African leaders who are committed to peace, human rights, democracy and good governance.

The challenge is to extend these advances and ensure they reach all Africans, especially the continent’s poorest and most vulnerable people.  In particular, we must address the spectre of hunger – from the highly visible periodic food emergencies to the hidden disgrace of stunting that is affecting a new generation of African children. 

Many of these issues are on the table at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development next month in Brazil. Rio+20 is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to mould the future we want – a future where climate change and desertification are no longer threats; where devastating maternal and child mortality, and diseases such as TB and HIV/AIDS, are consigned to the past; where all people have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. 

From renewable energy to thriving oceans, from empowered women to productive partnerships between governments, civil society and business, Rio+20 is our chance to deliver for all, particularly Africa.  On this observance of Africa Day, as the world tries to forge a renewed global partnership for sustainable development, I pledge to work with Africa’s leaders and people to implement an agenda that addresses Africa’s needs – an agenda that will set the continent on the path to the future we all want: dynamic, equitable and sustainable growth that benefits all Africans.

 
 
They have gone to school. They have high profile jobs and are probably driving the latest cars. But behind the shiny curtains, educated women engage in cheating more than their less educated or uneducated counterparts, according to the newly-released results of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS).

The survey, conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) with the support of various development agencies.

Whereas 1.1% of uneducated women reported to have had sexual intercourse with two or more partners, the figure was 1.7% for women with primary education and 2% for those with secondary education and above.

Out of over 8,000 women interviewed, 182 women indicated that they had had more than one sexual partner during the previous months, with the highest number being in central region and east central (Busoga).

However, less than one third of them used a condom with the additional sexual partner. On average, most women interviewed had had two to three sexual partners in their lifetime. 

Contrary to the situation among women, educated men had fewer partners than their uneducated colleagues. However, men remained more promiscuous than women. The proportion of men with multiple sexual partners varied from 18% among men with secondary education or higher, 19% among those with primary education and 36% among the uneducated.

The bureau obtained the data by confidentially interviewing a sample of 8,674 women aged 15 - 49 countrywide, from June to December 2011. The respondents were carefully sampled to represent the situation in Uganda. They were asked various questions including their backgrounds and various health topics such as family planning, sexual behaviour, knowledge about HIV/AIDS, parenting matters and knowledge about tuberculosis.

Why would an educated woman have more sexual partners?

Read more: newvision.co.ug
 
 
Anna Mollel
Anna Mollel (photo: in2eastafrica.net)
Anna Mollel of Tanzania was Monday awarded a children's rights prize for her work to help thousands of Maasai children with disabilities to live a dignified life, organisers said.

A majority of the some 2.5 million children around the world who took part in the selection of this year's winner voted to give the 2012 World's Children's Prize to Mollel "for her over 20-year struggle for children with disabilities in poor rural areas in northern Tanzania," organisers said.

"Thanks to Anna and her organisation, Huduma ya Walemavu, thousands of children with disabilities have a chance to live a life with dignity. They get medical care, operations, physiotherapy, therapy, wheelchairs and other aids, the chance to go to school, safety, and love," they added in a statement.

In all, Mollel and her organisation have since 1990 helped some 12,500 children belonging to the semi-nomadic Masaai people, who live in Kenya and northern Tanzania, the prize jury said.

"These are children who would have been neglected, abandoned and could even have died if it hadn't been for Anna's struggle for their rights," it stressed.

Mollel and two runners-up will receive their awards, worth a total of $100,000 at the Gripsholm Castle, west of Stockholm, on Wednesday evening in the presence of Sweden's Queen Silvia and children from 15 countries.

The World's Children's Prize was founded in Sweden in 2000 and is today supported by around 58,000 schools with 27 million students from 107 countries. (AFP/The Local)

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click here to read more about the Story of Anna Mollel at worldschildrensprize.org
Anna Mollel with children
photo: worldschildrensprize.org
 
 

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