Punch Hunger

A recap of the week that was...!

Looks like we’ve been gone forever from this site, we are not; here is a recap of the week that was

Thursday 16^th September:  24 hour camp

Yep we worked for twenty four straight hours, started at around 8:30 am, one of our cool facilitator knocks on every door announcing a 24hr camp and by 9:00am we are all set. All morning and part of the afternoon we worked in our campaign three groups: Research and Documentation, Communication and Events group. Tasks were as follows: first group framed the case story of the campaign and prepared for a field research. Group two was to deal with the communication aspect of the campaign, the message and the target and the last group was to come up with events for the campaign and particularly for a march to be held on Saturday .We were later to present this to a team of experts some big shots in NGO work in Tanzania at 5pm, after which we were to go back and take in their feedback and redo the task. We managed to cover at least 22 hours and energies were still high mission was accomplished.

Friday: Preparing for the UN march past

The march past was organized by a group called Global Call against Poverty, the goal was to push for the accelerated achievement of the MDGS, given that hunger tops the MDGs, this march provided a platform for us to present our campaign slogan, “Punch Hunger”.  We come up with T shirts, and two banners. One with slogan and was blank to have others write what their solution to hunger were.

Saturday… UN March Past

 We Joined the GCAP from UN Offices in Kinondoni, to Biafra grounds. It was a success. The Citizen newspaper wrote an article on us, and Nipashe had a picture of our blank banner.

We rested on Sunday, and Monday we had a debrief of the 24hr Camp, and UN march past, later in the afternoon we started preparing for a one week field research ( 25^th September to 2^nd October).  Tuesday we sent a team to survey the proposed sites for the research.  After that we agreed to going two districts: Rufiji and Kisarawe covering 11 villages in total. We will keep you posted on our visit, better still we try take you with us to Kisarawe, Rufiji and back to the platform.