All students visited agreed to form one parmanent organization to help these kids and others with similar problems.
Change your dreams to reality!
Friday, 15 October 2010
Mzumbe Students- visit to orphans
Some of Mzumbe University students paid a visit to the orphan center near the university campus and formed groups which will be helping students with needs like clothes, stationeries for school, food etc, one group volonteered to pay for secondary school fees for one boy who is expecting to join secondary school early next year...
All students visited agreed to form one parmanent organization to help these kids and others with similar problems.
All students visited agreed to form one parmanent organization to help these kids and others with similar problems.
Monday, 5 July 2010
About Street Children article!
Hallow, the aim of publishing this thing is just to create awareness to people and the government ( the world) on how other people particularly these kids taste other side of life.
It's NEITHER A PROJECT NOR A THING FOR RAISING MONEY!!!
Pray for them if you believe in prayers!
Thanks for your e mails and comments on this and you are welcome to do that.
Stay blessed!
It's NEITHER A PROJECT NOR A THING FOR RAISING MONEY!!!
Pray for them if you believe in prayers!
Thanks for your e mails and comments on this and you are welcome to do that.
Stay blessed!
Sunday, 4 July 2010
Street Children in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Dodoma is the capital city of Tanzania where most government activities take place. Day by day, as the town grows, the number of businesses also increases.
Visitors and residents witness a large number of street children begging for money or food around the streets. Without doubt all these children are supposed to be at school, either at primary or secondary school level. As a result of this issue I decided to wander these streets and start talking to the children. As I was walking in town I met one 14 year old boy who told me his name was Masumbuko. I took time to have a short talk with him about his life.
He told me that he is begging for money so that he can get food for himself and his blind mother who lives at Kikuyu ( in Dodoma), but occasionally the whole family are on the streets begging for money. I asked him why he was on the streets and not going to school considering that primary education is free here. Masumbuko said, “I wish to, but I can’t go to school without uniform and books, and where will I eat? What about my mama?”
This heartbreaking story encouraged me to contact the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority(TFDA) people and I met a certian man called Mr. Mwingira. I asked him if they have any information about people who use glue to protect them from hunger and whether they have done any surveys as of yet. However I was told that they have not heard anything on the issue. Other sources inform me that using glue may cause lung, heart and brain problems, just like many other illegal drugs.
The majority of the children told me that they always sleep on the streets or market places, where it’s not safe for their health and very few sleep in their homes. That same day, during the night my friend and I started walking around streets to see where these kids sleep. While walking, at around 11pm we met 10 year old Baraka with his friends. Baraka promised to take us to where they always sleep but he told us that we have to wait until he finds some dinner. We bought him food and after eating his friend and he took us to the place where they sleep. It is outside a building and without doubt they suffer from cold. They told us that they have to wake up very early every morning, in order to leave before the owner of the building arrives.
I also encountered many street children who refused to tell me even their names. But it is not the case that all street children do not have a home or parents. Many are in the streets due to lack of parental care, where parents show no love for their children; other parents do not know whether their children attend school or not. Some have escaped and fled from their home because they were harassed, abused or ‘overworked’ by their step or real parents. Family breakups contribute a lot to this problem, where children feel they have no home with either parent, and so resort to living on the street.
Street life is very risky to these children as food, clothes, habitat and medical care is not adequate for any sort of healthy life. Everyone must open their eyes to this worldwide problem and treat the children in this situation as part of their community.
The government may provide free primary education, however in many cases this is useless as students cannot go to schools without school uniform, books and other requirements, which often costs more than the school fees which the government has eliminated.
Trust me, some of these children are extremely talented but what means of developing their talents do they have? A good government takes responsibility for its people and they are people also; simply to have concern is not enough. Who is taking responsibility for the street children? Something must be done to and we can all play our role in helping them.
Visitors and residents witness a large number of street children begging for money or food around the streets. Without doubt all these children are supposed to be at school, either at primary or secondary school level. As a result of this issue I decided to wander these streets and start talking to the children. As I was walking in town I met one 14 year old boy who told me his name was Masumbuko. I took time to have a short talk with him about his life.
He told me that he is begging for money so that he can get food for himself and his blind mother who lives at Kikuyu ( in Dodoma), but occasionally the whole family are on the streets begging for money. I asked him why he was on the streets and not going to school considering that primary education is free here. Masumbuko said, “I wish to, but I can’t go to school without uniform and books, and where will I eat? What about my mama?”
Masumbuko
The story of Masumbuko made me feel like I should find out about the lives of other street children. I met another boy who told me his name is Gideon (13). I discovered that he came to Dodoma with his mother who died shortly after; then he had no other option other than to go to the streets in search of money through begging. “My plan was to be a tailor when I get older” Gideon said.
Gideon
Dotto is another boy who told me that he came from Kilosa (a district in Morogoro region) to Dodoma expecting to get job, because he was persuaded by his friends, after facing many life difficulties in Morogoro. When I was talking to Dotto I noticed that he had a bottle full of a liquid which he was not drinking, but smelling. I was suspicious about why he was doing this and I was very surprised by what he told me: “In this bottle there is a type of glue used to mend shoes; I smell it because it reduces my hunger and I don’t starve as much, and most of the street children do the same thing.” Dotto said this while continuing to smell the liquid. Dotto told me that he is addicted to the substance, so has been struggling to stop using glue and when he uses it he feels high.
This heartbreaking story encouraged me to contact the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority(TFDA) people and I met a certian man called Mr. Mwingira. I asked him if they have any information about people who use glue to protect them from hunger and whether they have done any surveys as of yet. However I was told that they have not heard anything on the issue. Other sources inform me that using glue may cause lung, heart and brain problems, just like many other illegal drugs.
The majority of the children told me that they always sleep on the streets or market places, where it’s not safe for their health and very few sleep in their homes. That same day, during the night my friend and I started walking around streets to see where these kids sleep. While walking, at around 11pm we met 10 year old Baraka with his friends. Baraka promised to take us to where they always sleep but he told us that we have to wait until he finds some dinner. We bought him food and after eating his friend and he took us to the place where they sleep. It is outside a building and without doubt they suffer from cold. They told us that they have to wake up very early every morning, in order to leave before the owner of the building arrives.
Baraka(smiling) with his friends before sleeping.
I also encountered many street children who refused to tell me even their names. But it is not the case that all street children do not have a home or parents. Many are in the streets due to lack of parental care, where parents show no love for their children; other parents do not know whether their children attend school or not. Some have escaped and fled from their home because they were harassed, abused or ‘overworked’ by their step or real parents. Family breakups contribute a lot to this problem, where children feel they have no home with either parent, and so resort to living on the street.
Street life is very risky to these children as food, clothes, habitat and medical care is not adequate for any sort of healthy life. Everyone must open their eyes to this worldwide problem and treat the children in this situation as part of their community.
The government may provide free primary education, however in many cases this is useless as students cannot go to schools without school uniform, books and other requirements, which often costs more than the school fees which the government has eliminated.
Trust me, some of these children are extremely talented but what means of developing their talents do they have? A good government takes responsibility for its people and they are people also; simply to have concern is not enough. Who is taking responsibility for the street children? Something must be done to and we can all play our role in helping them.
END
Special thanks to everybody who has made this successful particularly these kids and you who is reading this!
-Kelvin-
Kelvin Mwita (knoxkay@gmail.com)
in collaboration with Ezekiel Kidundo.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Go Ghana Go!
Muntari, who has a history of clashes with the management of his national side, insists he is playing his part.
"We are on a fantastic adventure and we want to keep going to make all of Africa happy," Muntari said at Ghana's training camp on the outskirts of Sun City in northwestern South Africa.
"On a personal level I want to leave all the negative stuff behind me."
Muntari claimed reports of his clash with Rajevac had been exaggerated and he insisted that he had never objected to being left on the sidelines as Rajevac opted to start with French-based star Ayew, the son of Ghana legend Abedi Pele.
"It depends on the coach," Muntari told AFP.
"The coach has to decide who will play. For me, the most important thing is the group. I give it all my support and that's it!"
Muntari, who was part of the Inter side that won this season's Champions League, said a pre-tournament hamstring injury had affected his chances of starting Ghana's opening matches, and played down his clash with Rajevac.
"I never got upset! Before the World Cup started I got injured. The manager spoke to me about it. He was concerned, he wanted me to heal well. He decides everything. He said I should be careful. I should take it easy."
Muntari's clash with Rajevac came in the aftermath of Ghana's group-stage draw with Australia and sources close to the squad said the country's biggest star would have been sent home if he had not made a public apology to the coach and his team-mates.
The midfielder vowed to never play for his country again after being sent home from the 2004 Olympics for being a bad influence - he reportedly smuggled a girlfriend into the team hotel.
After patching things up over that incident, he clashed with Ghana's football hierarchy again last November when he refused to play in a friendly against Angola.
That led to him being left out of the squad for the African Nations Cup two months later.
A depleted Ghana squad finished runners-up behind Egypt but Ayew took the chance that Muntari's antics had afforded him and performed well enough in Angola to displace his better-known compatriot from Rajevac's first-choice line-up.
"Sulley couldn't imagine that life might be possible without him," is how one member of Ghana's backroom staff described the attitude that has made Muntari, a Muslim in a squad dominated by devout Christians, something of an outsider in an otherwise tightly-knit group.
The sight of him snapping at a young team-mate who had the temerity to tap the mud off his studs next to him after a training session this week seemed to confirm that impression.
But all the diva behaviour will be quickly forgotten if Muntari can prove on Friday he is capable of being as big a star on the pitch as he seems to be in his own mind. - AFP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Let's share the fun!
1 . If time doesn't wait for you , don't worry! Just remove the damn battery from the clock and Enjoy life!
2 . Expecting the world to treat u fairly coz u r a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack u coz u r a vegetarian . Think about it .
3 . Beauty isn't measured by outer appearance and what clothes we wear , but what we are inside. So , try going out naked tomorrow and see the Admiration!
4 . Don't walk as if you rule the world , walk as if you don't care who rules the world!
That's called Attitude . Keep on rocking!
5 . Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did!!!
6 . He was a good man . He never smoked , drank had no affair . When he died , the insurance company refused the claim . They said , he who never lived , cannot die!
7 . A man threw his wife in a pond of Crocodiles . He's now being harassed by the Animal Rights Activists for being cruel to the Crocodiles!
8 . So many options for suicide:
Poison , sleeping pills , hanging , jumping from a building , lying on train tracks , but we chose Marriage , slow but sure!
9 . Only 20 percent boys have brains , rest has girlfriends!
10 . All desirable things in life are either illegal , banned , expensive or Married to someone else!
11 . 10% of road accidents are due to drunken driving . This makes it a logical statement that 90% of accidents are due to driving without drinking!
2 . Expecting the world to treat u fairly coz u r a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack u coz u r a vegetarian . Think about it .
3 . Beauty isn't measured by outer appearance and what clothes we wear , but what we are inside. So , try going out naked tomorrow and see the Admiration!
4 . Don't walk as if you rule the world , walk as if you don't care who rules the world!
That's called Attitude . Keep on rocking!
5 . Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did!!!
6 . He was a good man . He never smoked , drank had no affair . When he died , the insurance company refused the claim . They said , he who never lived , cannot die!
7 . A man threw his wife in a pond of Crocodiles . He's now being harassed by the Animal Rights Activists for being cruel to the Crocodiles!
8 . So many options for suicide:
Poison , sleeping pills , hanging , jumping from a building , lying on train tracks , but we chose Marriage , slow but sure!
9 . Only 20 percent boys have brains , rest has girlfriends!
10 . All desirable things in life are either illegal , banned , expensive or Married to someone else!
11 . 10% of road accidents are due to drunken driving . This makes it a logical statement that 90% of accidents are due to driving without drinking!
Thursday, 24 June 2010
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