The quality education in the country has remained pathetic, despite having many schools, hence, drawing attention for its review, the Executive Director for E&D Readership Development Agency-Soma, Ms Demere Kitunga, one of the education activists says.
THERE is nothing more fulfilling than ending a year with the wedding of a son or a daughter. My twelve last months of the year 2011 ended with a defining note of a rare nature for, after raising one’s child for so many years and schooling them for scores of more years, not all parents have the chance or say, the luck of participating in the matrimonial ceremony of their child.
The majority of children who live in extreme difficulties live in the developing world. More than a million of them live in Tanzania. There are about 2.2 billion children in the world. At least 1.9 billion of them live in the developing world where the quality of life is bleak.
COMMERCIAL Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is a growing problem in most urban areas in Tanzania due to acute poverty, a research commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has shown.
AT seventy-one years of age Omari Amonde Abdallah is pleased that he can still take up his brush and paint. As one of the six founder members, together with the late Edward Tingatinga, of the Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society in the Oysterbay suburbs of Dar es Salaam city, he is happy can still earn a living in what he refers to as 'a totally free country'.
SELF-DETERMINATION has nothing to do with one’s line of work but rather depends on how an individual’s behavior is self-motivated. Self-determination sires success and success requires personal commitment and hard work. 
FOR two million women worldwide their bodies and dreams have been robbed by obstetric fistula. Every day, 273 women suffer this devastating and serious child birth injury and the vast majority of obstetric fistula victims are from sub-Saharan Africa.
NURSING Officer Pascal Kanyinyi at Tanga regional hospital made a shift from handling only able bodied patients and extended her care to People Living with Disabilities (PLDs). Before going for specialized training she found attending to PLDs at the hospital a great challenge.
BLUE Financial Services Tanzania (BFS) donated in kind, items worth more than 1.6m/- to HELP2Kids Orphanage in Dar es Salaam that supports 35 children last week.
DEBATE on the proposed new Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, is among issues that featured prominently in various forums during the year 2011.
