TANZANIA UNITED PROJECTS FOR THE DEAF
UMIVITA's women groups based in Dar es Salaam attended one week workshop on how to start and run small scale generation projects.
After enabling six deaf people get business rooms at Machinga Complex Building in Dar Es Salaam, UMIVITA in collaboration of other pressuring groups for Albinos, Blind and Mentally Disabled people formally presented complaints on the unequal distribution of business rooms where by Physically Impaired people got a large number of rooms set aside for disabled people in total.
The discussion on the issues is continuing.
Benefit: We are optimist these discussions will produce better results for making an additional number of deaf people with business place in the buildings where is far from City militants’ harassments and hence increase their income.
SOLVING DEAF ORPHAN PROBLEM AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
UMIVITA did community outreach among three families with deaf orphaned including Anthony Daudi who suffered so much from social exclusion, lack of education and exploitation due to his disability.
Apart of these outreach activities among three families organized during the weekends in order to look a right path for these isolated children, UMIVITA managed to find a vocational training place for Mr. Anthony.
Benefit: The initiatives will help their family to discover more about deafness and important of educating and caring them as well as enable deaf children themselves to consider ways to fulfill their potential and reach their goals. Also supporting vocational training for Mr. Anthony will empower and equip him for a better future.
EDUCATION PROGRESS REPORT
PREPARATION FOR NATIONAL EXAMS
In Classroom:
As standard seven students did their final national examination at the end of the month, before the event evening class’s staffs were focused to prepare children for such first important education events among these children.
Staffs did also make sure that children were not left with any portion of the curriculum unprepared, organize them the timetable in such a way so as to cover all subject thoroughly, deal with exam stress and concentration on the subjects.
HELPING TO ACCESS HIGH EDUCATION LOAN
UMIVITA helped Mr. Philemon Kisinini, a deaf student of Ruaha University in Iringa Region who also is UMIVITA’s chairperson for Iringa to access loan for its university tuition fees after dialogue with Higher Education Student's Loan Board in Dar es Salaam.
Mr. Kisinini’s failure to pay tuition fees denied him his first year examination results which prevented him to proceed to second year.
Benefit: This process enabled Mr Kisinini to access loan and hence his examination results were released.
SECURING A SECONDARY PLACE
UMIVITA helped Miss Amida Khamis move to Jangwani Girls Secondary School in Dar Es Salaam from Mtwara Technical Secondary School in Mtwara Region .
