We're really pleased that Umivita is doing so well. Here's their November update. December will follow soon.
UMIVITA provided advice for four (4) young deaf people live in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma Region to solve their employment and personal problems in their families wrote letters to 15 young deaf people seeking employments, business license and certificate of births.
Benefit: Advisory support helped three deaf people who wanted to neglect their employments due to what they said low salaries. Advice was that they should continue with their current employers until they get other good jobs. Writing letters had helped Mr. Bakari Ally to get a temporary business license to sell goods between Dar and Dodoma regions. Also has helped two deaf people to get a certificate of births from Government Agency.
Forum:
After last month interaction with other Disabled People Organization (DPOs) to formulate key agendas for Disabled Women Forum in order to ensure all the important issues related to deaf women were included, UMIVITA was among seven DPOs attended the five day forum organized by Action for Disabled Development (ADD) to discuss disabled women position in the country. At the end of the forum, the participants established a network for disabled women involved various women from various DPOs including UMIVITA.
Benefit: Participation on the forum has been able to make the voice of deaf women be heard on the matters of national importance; increased UMIVITA professional image and collaboration with other stakeholders with one of its staffs, Miss Tungi Mwanjala being elected into newly established disabled women network’s executive board.
Scientific Conference:
Chairperson attended the 28th Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting. The conference which held at the Corridor Spring Hotel in Arusha from Novembers 29th through December 1st was organised by the Tanzania Public Health Association (TPHA) which most of UMIVITA executives board members are its members.
Benefit:
The conference was very enriching and the knowledge acquired during the event is now being shared with other UMIVITA members. UMIVITA was also able to present a note on Impact of Global Climate Change on Disabled which promoted it among scientific stakeholders.
Evening classes
During five days stay in Arusha, UMIVITA Chairperson met with group of UMIVITA members based in Arusha town and Karatu district where he had evening discussions with them on how to become self reliant citizens who can contribute to social, economic and cultural life of the nation and about establishing a UMIVITA branch in the future.
Benefit: After questionnaires, 13 among 20 deaf young people attended four day evening event showed to full understand how they can be self reliant people and has got strategy on lobbying ana procedure for a loan from microfinance organizations based in the Arusha Region.
And other activities as may be done from time to time
EDUCATION PROGRESS REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 2010
Classroom activities:
As it was an end of the year where schools are expected to be closed for a long holiday, tests were focused on all standard five and six pupils prior to their annual examination in their respective special units.
Benefit: most of the pupils were well prepared to face annual examination at their respective schools due to the tough tests they were given by their evening classes’ teachers.
VETA enrollment
Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) Head Office accepted UMIVITA requests to secure dozen of deaf young people who completed standard seven this year a place at some of its training centers in Der es salaam, Iringa, Kagera and Zanzibar where UMIVITA is working on partnership with Zanzibar Association of the Deaf (ZAD).
UMIVITA submitted 62 numbers of deaf young deaf people from the regions.
Benefit: Due to a careful selection process, UMIVITA is expecting most of the recommended deaf young people would be selected to join for the VETA courses in various fields.
Meeting with deaf parents
During provision of hearing Aid to young deaf people at Buguruni School for the deaf, a project by Starkey Hearing Foundation of the USA, UMIVITA got an opportunity to describe its activities and had met with many parents with deaf children who later visited UMIVITA office.
Most of these deaf parents were seeking assistance for their children to further education including secondary schools.
Benefit: Advice provided by UMIVITA gave a light to the parents for future of their children. Some parents opted for private secondary schools including Kongowe Secondary School at the same time access evening classes. The meeting was also made our above selection exercise for young deaf people to join VETA be simple as one third of the submitted names were listed from these meetings.
Location, attendance and hour spent:
The evening classes’ was held at Temeke and Twiga units; average attendance was 54 pupils and hour spent was 15 per week.
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