Punch Hunger

2010-12-11T14:10:00.000+03:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36n7OBpG3M&playnext=1&list=QL

Global Change Is now on the move

2010-12-07T20:37:00.000+03:00

Hello every one...be expectant of the progress of global change...guys are in the field and every one will be posted soon

Does biofuel really benefit Tanzania?

2010-10-27T16:28:00.000+03:00

The global demand for biofuels has risen over the last decade. The demand driven by oil prices rising and therefore a need for greater energy security has caused a shift in paradigm. The search for alternative sources to supplement the uncertainty is now the main focus. The result of this uncertainty has triggered the investment on alternative sources of energy such as biofuels. This has prompted huge land grabbing in Africa, the scramble is on the rise. In Tanzania for example, four million hectares of land has been requested for biofuel production and this is likely to pose a real threat to food security.

The Global Change Course Students of 2010 (Action aid Tanzania) made a field research in the Kisarawe and Rufiji districts where a huge chunk of land has been grabbed by biofuel investors for producing biofuel. The Global Change group held future workshops where people were given an opportunity to state the problems they might face. The personal stories we did with the farmers and some of the investors were conducted in order to get a clearer picture of the situation. The group also stayed and spent nights with the local households (host families) in Nyamwage village (Rufiji), where the group got an opportunity to visit biofuel investors both in the Kisarawe and Rufiji districts. Here we talked to Sun biofuel, Safe production Ltd and African Green Oils Ltd.

The process of land acquisition was not clear and the villagers were not involved in land acquisition process. The government officials (TIC, Disstrict Officers, and some members of the Parliament) trick the villagers to make imprecise decision to let go off their land. The land that is the only source of income for the farmers.

During the land acquisition process, villagers were not aware of their land rights, the value of the land or the future consequences. One farmer told us during our dialogue meetings “Tulikariribishwa Kwenye mkutano uliojaa maneno matamu na kila ahadi nzuri,WalituTulikariribishwa Kwenye mkutano uliojaa maneno matamu na kila ahadi nzuri,Walituandalia chakula kizuri sana ambacho baadhi yetu hatukuwahi kula Na wakatupa na andalia chakula kizuri sana ambacho baadhi yetu hatukuwahi kula Na wakatupa na napesa kila mmoja shs 1000”. The effects of biofuels investments to the livelihoods of the poor people in rural areas has reached immediate and underlying negative impacts ranging from economical, social, environmental and cultural.

Insufficient attention is being paid to the lack of actions on social protection and nutrition for the poorest. The food security and nutrition of the poor which was already compromised by the world food crisis is now severely jeopardized, which is characterized by high food prices that leads the poor to limit their food consumption.

The communities have been displaced from the areas where they were cultivating and some of them have been forced to vacate their farms and land. Before cultivating the already existing crops and trees were not compensated at all.

There are so many conflicts between the communities and biofuel companies, rising from denied access to water points located in the project area formerly used by the communities. Some were destroyed during the clearing of the land for project activities especially the wells in the villages of Kisarawe district.

The establishment of the plantations has had a high environmental impact, ranging from deforestation and water depletion. The local people can no longer obtain a large number of building products and resources from the forest which appeared as a result of plantations. However the most serious negative environmental impact of the biofuel production in particularly the indirect land use as more carbon emissions will be released as forests and pristine land is converted from cropland to biofuel production. The appropriation of farmers land by biofuel companies is causing problems for the local people, because they do not have formal ownership of land and hereby the community members can not precisely know how their tomorrow will be. This is because the land they are settled on is being claimed by biofuel investors and the land is leased in the hands of the investors for 99 year.

Even worse the people’s cultural aspects were undermined as they were denied access to their ancestral burial grounds. In some cases, graves were demolished as the land was given to investors and this was evidenced in Nyamwage village in the Rufiji district.

Unfavorable working conditions are also some of the consequences that we have seen from the biofuel production. Long working hours from 6:00am-6:30pm where people are underpaid (2500shs per day). Lunch and breakfast is also not provided. There is no job contract, no protective jeers like gambtosh and people are denied of payment in case of any complaint.

The land including natural resources such as forests has been providing a safety net for the victims of social changes, displacement, unemployment and lost opportunities in the urban areas. This loss has increased the vulnerability of the communities so they do not have control over their lives.

According to our research findings, the biofuel companies have not been able to live up to the promises they made. Local people are facing serious consequences such as waiting for schools, hospitals, roads, wells, boreholes and community centers as they were promised by the investment companies during land acquisition.

In a nutshell, the farmers must be educated on the matters regarding land issues. The framework must be clear. There must be a clear definition of what marginal land is and which land is available for investment. During our research this was not clear to any of the involving parties. As one of the investors said “The land we got was no man’s”. If we have to be sincere, fertile land was allocated to biofuels investors in disguise of the so called marginal land, something which is contrary to Tanzania Biofuel Task force guidelines. The parties concerned in the allocation of land to biofuels investments, should think about the poor people who’s land is their only resource and avoid situations were native people might become evicted from their ancestral lands in future, and the land of which their great grand fathers fought for under MAJI-MAJI rebellion.

In summary, the biofuel investment in northern Tanzania can be summarized into two words, oppressive and exploitation of the Tanzanian peoples land. That is why there should be a policy of biofuel investments in Tanzania that ensures food security.

Unless we choose to try,we are certain to fail

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My greatest lesson at the platform has been on the promise of change, the power of dreams and optimism. We didn't always agree on things and on how to go about doing things but some how,some how we managed to remain true to our vision, punching hunger and freeing the hungry Billion.

We have been here for three months and this week we have our mega event, which will be a Press Release titled: Ensure food Security: Stop Bio-fuel Investment without a policy, which you are all invited, will try see how we can have it online to involve those who have been following us from without Tanzania.

So did we achieve anything? I think we did...we earnestly believed we could do something about hunger and we went out to do something about it, might have been too little to create change but it is enough that we tried.

Hunger is a global problem though causes are myriad, one thing comes out clearly we have a faulty food system. Food is an essential commodity which the Agri Business world has chosen to commercialize and treat as a luxurious commodity which only a few can afford, for petes sake their is so much food in the world and its mind boggling to imagine human beings die of hunger when they live amongst fellow human beings, and at a time when the world can produce more than it can consume.

In his book," The grapes of Wrath": John Steinbeck writes I don't aim to starve to death before i kill the man who is starving me to death. We are not asking you to shot the government we are asking you to join us in telling the government that we won't allow them to starve us by allowing biofuel investments without policies that ensures we and our children are food secure. unless we all try this we are certain to fail and worse starve.

PRESS RELEASE

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Ensure Food Security: Stop giving land for biofuel investment without a policy

Dar es Salaam, Friday the 29^th of October 2010

Today Tanzania is not benefiting anything from the biofuel investment and the consequences are huge. Biofuel production has the potential to cause food insecurity if situation is left as it is, as land, water and labor is being used for biofuel rather than food production. The government of Tanzania is heavily supporting the production of biofuels without having policies in place that ensures food security and the people affected by the biofuel industry.

To make food a right and first priority in Tanzania,
the FOOD right FIGHTERS from the international Activista network are inviting all Tanzanians to join the Punch Hunger campaign and call attention to this very important message to the government:

Stop allocating land for biofuel production without a policy that ensures food security and that is implimented.

Venue/ Mahali: Tanzania Scouts Association

Time/ Muda: 2-6 pm/ 8-12pm

Major Events:

- Performances by artists like Hardmad, Malfred, Eriakim, Rage
and FIDQ (not confirmed) etc.

- Competitions in games, dance and music

- Exhibitions from different NGO’s

- The FOOD right FIGHTERS launch their new song
“Punch Hunger” produced together with FIDQ

One billion people are hungry in the world and according to the ActionAid report (Implications of biofuel production on food security in Tanzania), more than 36% of the Tanzanian population lives for less than a dollar a day and 60 % are food insecure in rural areas. That makes Tanzanians some of the hungriest people in the world.

We need a policy to make the government, the ministries and the investors own up to their responsibilities towards the people. If we do not stand together now against this problem food insecurity will only increase in the future and no one will be put accountable. Food insecurity is a political manmade problem, and therefore mankind can change it. Together we can change this!!

Note: Already Wednesday the 26^th of October we will have a minor event leading up to the big event on Friday. It is a basketball tournament which will be at the Gym Khana Basketball Grounds at Ocean rd. from 4pm to 6pm. It is an open event where everybody is free to join.

Je, Huu si Unyang’anyi wa Ardhi?

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Utafiti tulioufanya 26-27 september2010 katika uwekezaji wa mazao ya nishati hai (Bio-fuel) unaofanywa kwenye ardhi yenye rutuba katika wilaya ya Kisarawe,kata za Marumbo na Kibuta, vijiji vya Marumbo, Muhaga, Palaka na Mtakayo umebaini kuwa wanavijiji walinyang’anywa ardhi yao na kupewa mwekezaji wa mazao ya nishati hai. Inasikitisha kuona mkulima aliyelima shamba na kupanda mazao ya kudumu kama vile miembe,mikorosho na minazi na ambapo ardhi ndio mtaji wake wa kuzalisha chakula akinyang’anywa.
Pamoja na kuwa na sheria ya ardhi ya vijiji no 5 ya mwaka 1999 inayotambua mwakijiji yeyote alie kalia ardhi na kuitumia kuwa anamiliki ardhi hiyo kihalali bado kuna uporaji wa ardhi unaofanywa na maafisa wa ardhi wa wilaya.
Kwa mujibu wa sheria ya ardhi ya vijiji, halmashauri ya kijiji ina uwezo wa kujadili maombi yaliyowasilishwa ndani ya siku tisini na kutoa majibu. Lakini cha kushangaza wanakijiji hawakupata fursa ya kumjadili mwekezaji huyo wala hakuna barua ya maombi ya mwekezaji, isipokuwa habari walizopata wanakijiji ni kuwa wanachotakiwa kufanya ni kuandika muhtasari wa kukubali kumpa mwekezaji.
Wakitoa ushuhuda jinsi ardhi yao ilivyoporwa wanakijiji wa muhaga walisema afisa ardhi alifika kijijini hapo na bila kutupa muda wa kumjadili mwekezaji alituambia mnachotakiwa kufanya ni kuandika muktasari wa mkutano wa kijiji kwani kampuni hiyo inayotaka ardhi ni kwa manufaa ya taifa na hatukutakiwa kuchelewesha kuandika muhtasari huo kwani vijiji vya jirani walishapeleka muhtasari zao wilayani. Kwa vile mbunge wetu nae alikuwepo na ndio kioo cha jamii tulikubali kumpa mwekezaji huyo ardhi. Bila ya kuwepo kwa mkataba wowote wala fidia ya ardhi iliyochukuliwa na mwekezaji hoyo mpaka sasa hatujui ukubwa wa eneo alilochukua mwekezaji kwani wakati mwekezaji anapimiwa eneo sisi hatukushirikishwa kazi hiyo imefanywa na maafisa ardhi wapimaji. Mwekezaji alishatuambia ni marufuku kuingia kuokota kuni kwenye eneo tulilompa .
Inahuzunisha kusikia mtu mwenye dhamana ya kuwasaidia wanakijiji katika mambo ya ardhi akitumia kutoelewa kwa wanakijiji kama njia ya kuwanyang’anya ardhi yao yenye rutuba kwa manufaa ya kampuni za kutoka nje ya nchi.
Ardhi ni mtaji wa kwanza muhimu kwa mtu masikini kujikwamua kiuchumi na kuondokana na umasikini na njaa na kama mtaji huo atanyang’anywa basi ni dhahiri kuwa kutakuwepo na uongezeka la umasikini na njaa na kushindwa kufikia malengo ya millennia namba moja la kupunguza umasikini na njaa ifikapo mwaka 2015. Zuia uporaji wa ardhi saidia wazalishaji wadogo.

"Adding melody to our campaign!!"

2010-10-25T15:32:00.001+03:00

Global change students making a song- its sounds like a joke right..! Yes we did it! OnThursday the 21^st of October we went to the studio to record the song we have been working on and it’s called “Punch hunger!!”

From the word go we have been doing case studys,research upon research and reports ,meetings(on Bio fuels in relation to Hunger in Tanzania)etc.. During our punch hunger campaign!

how about giving our campaign some melody!

To be honest there gazillions of people out there who don’t care about reports, newspaper articles etc because it can be boring..And we agree. Music on the other hand is easy to listen to! To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. Which is why we decided to do a song on hunger? So we can reach out to everyone! Because fighting hunger is a collective responsibility!!

In the near future the word hunger has to be like it never existed! There is enough food to feed every person in the world! You are part of this campaign to end hunger until its gone!!

We will upload our song immediately we are done working on it!

Lets make hunger HISTORY people!!

The World Food Day – bottom up approach?

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Saturday we attended the event to commemorate The World Food Day 2010 arranged by ActionAid Tanzania, Oxfam and Haki Ardhi.

It was a highly successful day!! We did the media stunt with the car, build together with volunteers from different organizations and university students around Tanzania, which was shown to all the participants including different media. The event shows and reflects how food security is compromised by foreign biofuel investments.

In addition to that was our spokespersons were interviewed by BBC News. In the afternoon we had a world premiere on a short documentary presenting our key finding from the fieldtrip to Kisarawe and Rufiji. The documentary was prepared with help from DC Studio (we hope to be able to share it with all of you here on the side very soon!).

Lastly but not least, we gave our speech (also posted on our blog) and presented a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food security with a golden FOOD right FIGHTER Future Award! The idea behind the Future Award was to approach the stakeholders who are involved in the process of making the policies on biofuel investment in a positive and humorous way. Our message was clear: the stakeholders hold the Tanzanian future in the hollow of their hands and therefor they should start acting today – not tomorrow!

It was a long day (especially for those of us who unfortunately don’t speak Swahili) but worth the wait. Our approach really worked out very well and we are now in contact with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food security and arranging a dialogue meeting where we will hand them a report with our main findings and discuss what should be done in shorter and longer perspectives to Punch Hunger in Tanzania.

All the way through the training on the Global Platform we have being talking a lot about how important to the do the campaign ‘bottom-up’ and go to the streets, raise awareness and inspire people to ‘be the change’ and become FOOD right FIGHTERS themselves.

The World Food Day was the day we took action! After the event inside the walls of the Blue Pearl Hotel we took the media stunt with the car to the streets and the people. Some of the Swahili speaking students from the Global Change course explained the event and we talked to people who walked by on the streets (see the media stunt on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkqDZ_9h-I&feature=player_embedded).

We experienced that, even though it is an upcoming issue in the media and newspapers like The Guardian and The Citizen have been writing about it, the ‘guy on the street’ did not know that the biofuel investments is a treat to food security in Tanzania.

But we cannot do this alone - and that is why we need YOU to take action!

Our next public event is already next week on Tuesday the 26^th of October and you are ALL invited. We really want you to participate in the event and help us create public debate about biofuels in relation to the food security – how biofuel investment without a policy that ensures food security will increase poverty and hunger the Tanzania. Time and venue is on the drawing board but we will hopefully be able to post it on the blog later today – and you are of course always very much welcome to write us an email: msglobalchange2010@gmail.com

The FOOD right FIGHTERS’ speech at the World Food Day the 16th of Oct. 2010

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We are all gathered here today at World food Day, to raise awareness of the global food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

We are 20 youth Activistas - known as the “FOOD right FIGHTERS” from Uganda, Kenya, Denmark, Zambia, Zimbabwe, The Gambia and Tanzania with one common goal - to Punch Hunger in Tanzania.

Approximately one billion people are hungry in the world. According to the ActionAid report on implications of biofuel production on food security in Tanzania more than 36% of the population lives for less than a dollar a day and 60 % are food insecure, most of them are living in rural areas. That makes Tanzania among the poorest counties in the world.

We have been looking at the causes of hunger here in Tanzania and one of the recent causes is biofuel investment. Through our research in Kisarawe and Rufiji, we have seen how this affects the people. We have seen how food security has been compromised by biofuel production as land, water and labor which should be used for food production is being used for biofuel. These findings are supported by the ActionAid report.

We have seen how TIC has allocated village land to biofuel investment and heard how investors promised the world to these people and yet almost nothing has happened. Still the farmers hope for a better future, where they get what they were promised - Schools for their children, water to survive, jobs for the youth and hospitals for the sick. Even in the rare cases where people do get jobs the conditions they work and live under are horrifying. They are based on seasonal contracts which mean no rights for the workers. We have cases where workdays are from 6 am to 6 pm every day of the week for a minimum wage of 3000tsh. Not only is this not enough money to feed their families, also, they have no possibility to provide medication or schooling for their children. This is not only depriving them of education but also against the labor law here in Tanzania that should ensure the wellbeing of the people.

The consequences of biofuel investment in Tanzania are huge. More and more land is being grabbed for biofuel production resulting, which has the potential for food insecurity if the situation is left as it is. This means that the farmers have less or no land for their own food production, and no money to buy the food they need.

The biofuel guideline has been under construction since 2006, and is now to be released. However they are not enforceable by law, and will not demand investors to own up to their responsibilities. That is way we say “No biofuel without a policy that is implemented and that ensure food security!”

You might think that this problem only affects the farmers in Tanzania, so why should you care?

The truth of the matter is that it does affect you. Tanzania’s future is on the line! Your future is on the line!

When the ministry of land through TIC allows the land to be taken from the farmers and given to biofuel companies, it becomes a threat to all Tanzanian people. Government has to prioritize food security and not only focus on investments that are not benefiting Tanzania. Right now the government’s main focus should therefore be to feed the people of Tanzania. Make it a right to have food on the table in every household!

Reality is that people are dying of hunger! The biofuels investments do not benefit Tanzania by bringing any local development. This is only the beginning. As reported in The Guardian dated 11 October, four million hectares of land is as I speak being requested for biofuel production without a policy! Four percent of your country’s land is in danger of being used for biofuel production. If we don’t stand together now against this problem: food insecurity will only increase in the future. Not only will you not have enough food for you and your family - your children will be deprived of the right to go to school, and the right to have a bright future.

Africa’s land, Labour and Water is been exploited to grow biofuels that benefits the western countries. Is it right that YOU are growing food for the western vehicles, when YOUR children are starving in your country?

That is why we are Food right Fighters, and you can be a Food right Fighter too. Together we can create great social change and make hunger history. So take action! Be a Food Right Fighter!
We have a collective responsibility to make sure that biofuel investments do not compromise food security. “No biofuel without a policy- ensure food security!”

We demand that the ministry of energy and minerals ensures that the national biofuel task force develop a policy and regulatory framework for biofuel investment that ensures food security!

We demand that the ministry of agriculture, though its representation in the task force, push for a policy that ensures food security!

We demand that the ministry of land and TIC, stop approving land for biofuel production, without a policy!

And we demand that the government stops delaying the process of policy formulation!

The government should start taking the responsibility for their own people. Start supporting the local small scale farmers and the local development instead of endangering the wellbeing of the Tanzanian people by favoring the investors. Food insecurity is a political manmade problem, and therefore mankind can change it. Together we can change this!!

This is the World Food Day!

This is the time for social change!

We now want to invite some very important people up on stage that we believe have the power to make the change that we want. We believe in you, and that you can be the best food right fighter there is. Would a representative from the ministry of energy and mineral, the ministry of agriculture and food security and the ministry of land to kindly join us on stage?

We would like to present you this future award, for the effort that you are going to make in meeting your demands J we believe that you want the best for Tanzania, and we recognize your intentions of formulation a policy and legislation that will guide biofuel investment in a sustainable manner. Therefore it needs to been effectively implemented.

We would also like a meeting with you, to discuss the way forward in dealing with this problem.

No biofuel without a policy!! Ensure food security!

Findings of field work Kisarawe and Rufiji

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How the land was acquired

· They were not involved in land acquisition process

· They did not know the underlying frameworks on land acquisition and land rights and they still not sure who to go for the compensations.

· The government officials fraud them to make imprecise decision to let go off their land

· They did not sign any contracts with the investor regarding their compensation.

· Some villagers said the land acquired was under cultivation while others said land was not under cultivation or any other use.

· Land was undervalued

Effect of the Biofuel Investment on the communities members

· Low wage for the people employed by the investors farmers

· Workers are being sacked constantly without pay!

· Over exploitation of farmers in the farmers since they work for long periods

· Workers working under difficult conditions since they have no protective gears

· Farmers lost farms in which they had previously used to grow mango, and cashew nuts and some for food production

· Natural forests were cut down and this is upsetting the climate patterns.

· Farmers lost their land and cannot collect fire wood and burn charcoal

· Investors never kept their promises

· Access to water is now limited as the water points were fenced off by the investors

· Farmers unable to expand their farming

What the community members want

They need their land back

· They need compensation

· They need pledged promises fulfilled (building schools, health centers and provision of clean water)

· Building relations between the investors and the farmers

· A network of the farmers

· Land to be distributed between the investors and the farmers

Investor’s side of the story

· They got land from TIC

· They paid for land (compensation for villagers) through the government, and so government pays the villagers on behalf of the investor

· They will provide social services for the villagers ranging from water, building schools and health centers, and ambulances.

· They will employ villagers to work for the farms

· Villagers are stealing their farm products e.g. (stolen maize worth 60,000,000 from the Turkish investor in Nyamwage village)

What are we working with here!

· The land given to investors by the government belong to the villagers

· The value of the land is incomparable with the compensation or any promises pledged to provides social services together with the investment made by the investors in the land as of now

· Land taken by the investors was not being used by the villagers for farming activities, but rather for harvesting charcoal, woods and firewood. In some cases, farming activities were conducted though in very small scale

· Villagers do not have capacity to develop the unused arable land for farming activities in large scale

· In an event the farming activities should be conducted in large scale, advanced implements must be used

· From villagers anecdote, there is a thirst using land for economic activities though in the same old ways as earlier (undisturbed ecosystem)

· There is no any economic activity that does not have side effect and so is the case for agro fuels.

· Agro fuels is as same as other non food crops such as sisal and cotton and all have their side effects

· The villagers were given undeserved status (object of charity) instead of domestic investor, basing on the fact that the land belongs to them.

What are we recommending!

That government should stop issuing more land for biofeuel investment until policies and regulatory frameworks are in place, such policies and regulations should ensure food security is assured and that the Tanzanians benefit from such investments.

What is our campaign about?

Food fight campaign, ensuring that food security is not threatened by biofuel investments.

Objective

Governments don’t allocate land for biofuel production without policies that ensure food security are in place.

Message

No biofuel investments without policies. Ensure food security

Target

Ministry of land

Ministry of energy and minerals

Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

And the government.

THE WORLD FOOD DAY

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World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It marks the date of the founding of FAO in 1945. The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity"

Therefore every year, on October 16^th the world commemorates this day. This year round, the global change Tanzania 2010, intends to attend this day at the Blue peal in Ubungo plaza on this coming Saturday under the umbrella of Action aid

Tanzania

. Unfortunately this is a closed event not open to the public but the media and different Tanzania government officials will be present.

The theme of the day will be “land grabbing”, this theme being very much in line with our campaign, we intend to take advantage of the day to present a speech about our findings from the field and our message. As global change, we are against land allocation for biofuels investment in Tanzania until there’s a policy in place. According to our research and findings, the biofuels production in Tanzania right now is a threat to food security. We are hoping to drive our message to our main targets of our campaign that are the Ministry of Energy and minerals, Ministry for Agriculture and food security and the Ministry for land.

We are also planning to build a car model which we plan to present that day as a demonstration of how maize is used for fuel production to move cars while people are starving with no food to eat.

The global change

Tanzania

being the food right fighters and members of Activista, our objective is to also try to convince people that they can be the change that they want in terms of hunger alleviation by becoming food right fighters. We do not want to portray any negative image like being against the government.

As food right fighters we have the confidence in the

Tanzania

government that they can formulate a good biofuel policy that ensures food security. That is why as a way to show our confidence in the Government that day, we plan to present the three ministries with three future awards, them accepting the awards will be a promise to the Tanzanians that they will from now on punch hunger by producing the best policy that ensures Tanzania food security

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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.

Cultural Exchange

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In all our blog posts we have talked about our project, but in this post I would like to look in to who we are as a group and add on to the dimension on what we are actually gaining from this course. In our group we are 20 people from 7 different countries in the age between 20-31 years. We have both Christians and Muslims and of course different sub religions from these two. We also have people who are none religious. We go to school together and besides that we also all live together under the same roof, a lot of us even in the same room. We prepare dinner together, we watch TV together, we eat together - in short we do almost everything together. The result of all this is a lot of cultural exchange. We have had a lot of interesting conversations about religion, homosexuality, manners, traditions etc. I think that in the process of this course we learn a lot about each others cultures and I think through this we actually also learn a lot about our own culture. The reason for posting this blog is a thought I got from thinking about this cultural exchange, that maybe in social change a key word should be exchange, wether it is culture, knowledge or other aspects, because I think in learning about others we can learn more about our selves and our backgrounds and through this knowledge we can learn our strengths and weaknesses.

Our First Public Appearance

2010-09-14T22:23:00.005+03:00

Today we attended the press conference held by Action Aid Tanzania, to launch their HungerFREE Scorecard 2010 – Who’s really fighting hunger? The scorecard reveals that 20 out of 28 poor nationsare of track to halving hunger by 2015 whereof 12 are going backwards. Tanzania is ranked as number 15 out of 28, which only shows that much needs to be done still!

This was our first public appearance and engagement with the media. We presented ourselves and our slogan PUNCH HUNGER (Piga Vita Njaa!!) and had three of our group members interviewed by Radio Cloud FM Tanzania – SO COOL J

Also, we were asked by The Daily News to write an article on us and our campaign.

We are so motivated after this day and are looking even more forward to Saturday where we will join a procession to mark the UN summit in New York next week. We’ll keep you posted on the details…

A Global Change Event coming up

2010-09-13T22:56:00.000+03:00

On Thursday the 14th of September you have the chance the join us in action against hunger.
This day is going to be our first event as a social change group and therefore our first chance to tell our message – Punch Hunger!
On this special Thursday Action Aid Tanzania, Oxfam and a movement called GCAP (Global Call to Action Against Poverty) are coming together to present the HungerFree score card that will evaluates where the worlds countries are in the progress on fulfilling their commitments to end the global hunger.
This is our chance to let our message out in cooperation with them, to put pressure on the UN and its obligation to meet the Millennium Development Goal number 1– halving the hunger by 2015.
There will be a lot of different activities this day including our events, so join us!
Help us in the combat to fight hunger. This is a problem caused by people; therefore it will take people to chance it. Let your voice be heard!
So meet us at the UN building off Kinodoni Road at 10 o’clock.

Can we Punch Hunger??? - …Well not on our own!!!

2010-09-13T16:39:00.000+03:00

On Friday the 10^th of September we had a lecture by Rakesh Rajani, where we discussed our campaign objective and whether it is actually possible for us to reach our objective (an objective that we had decided on, only one hour before Mr. Rajanis arrival) regarding policies on biofuel investments that won’t compromise food security in Tanzania. He started out questioning our newly constructed objective by saying is it really going to make a difference for the people involved? Maybe working with policies and thereby working from the top down is not the way forward? Maybe we need to start on a ground level and see what qualities are actually already in the group of people that we are working with, which in our case are the small-scale farmers, and what can be used in combating their issues. Their being a key word, for that is what this is, it is their fight and we therefore need to make them involved and use their power. We need to see what is powerful in these people and connect with that. This can be exemplified in an exercise we did last week, where we in two groups had to plan a fictive party – the first group had to always say ‘yes, but…’ to all the suggestions given and the other group had to say ‘ yes, and…’ This led to a result where the first group didn’t manage to plan a party and the other one managed to plan several different ones. What we can learn from that is that if we build on the resources, which are already there, we can get further.

According to Mr. Rajani it is often the NGO’s agenda that decides the topic of a campaign, but the job of the NGO should instead be to listen to the people’s stories and not teach them about wrong and right. We are not the ones who should be heard, we are the ones that should make sure that the effected people are being heard. A quote from the lecture is: ‘Campaigns don’t change the world alone – people change the world!’ This means in order for us to make this campaign work we have to get the effected people involved. Now the question is, how are we going to do that??? This we don’t have the answer for yet, but hopefully we will be able to figure out a solution within the next couple of weeks.

One thing is for sure, Mr. Rajani encouraged us to be critical of our own campaign and our own role in this campaign, and this is a really important element in making a campaign, and something we really need to think about in the future. This is also a call for people here on the blog to comment on some of our posts, and be critical to what we write, because sometimes in the process of work you need to be pulled out of your mode and to have a wake up call.

The Role of policies in tackling hunger

2010-09-09T08:19:00.000+03:00

The big fat contradiction of having close to a billion people being hungry and an equal number being overweight is an irrefutable indicator that the causes of hunger are rarely natural causes but policies related. Policies touching on agricultural production play a very big role in escalating or addressing the problem of hunger.

I will give a classical example of the Structural Adjustment Program(SAPS)s imposed on developing countries in the 1980s spilling into 1990s,by the world bank and IMF, among the stipulation of this programs was to have governments in this country cut down on state expenditure and privatizations of parastatols .agriculture suffered most from this proviso-before then the government used to subsidize the cost of fertilizers, seeds and played a big role in helping the farmers market the products through the use of marketing boards- this created a genuine boast and Africa did not only feed its population but exported food to the rest of the world.

Flowing from the SAPS, farmers were now producing at a higher cost and to add salts to the injury they had no one to help with the marketing instead they had to compete with private investors and influx of cheap imported foods, this meant agriculture was no longer profitable especially for the same scale farmers. The private investors did not quite fill the gap created when the government stopped subsidizing and investing in agriculture. the result of this were catastrophic-lower food production and over reliance on imported which is susceptible to global market variation. This problem caused by the SAPs has subsisted to the 21st Century and is one of the classical causes of hunger stories in Africa and most developing countries. It destroyed Africa´`s agriculture. Africa is not only unable to feed itself but now a net food importer.

Policies can also positively tackle hunger in a positive way. The 2006 Maputo Plan of Action required that African government allocate 10% of their national budget to Agriculture. Most are yet to live upto this but there are success stories of which Tanzania is one of them. It is not yet a 10% increase but there has been an increase to about 7% and this could may able explain the ``kilimo kwanza Intiative``.

Another example of how policies contribute to hunger is the recent attempt of the US and the EU to increase their use of Bio fuels, This attempt has increased demand for bio fuels and explains why investors are buying land en masses to plant crops used for biofuels production but who would blame them there are incentives in place that makes farming of those profitable. Entry of biofuels in the market would entail a competition of with food crops which threaten the food security which is already in jeopardy . By advocating for policies and laws governing the production of bio fuels we are simply asking that measures be put in place to ensure every arable agriculture is safeguarded for food crop farming and that biofuel farming does not take up all the valuable resources for farming of food. if this is left for the market forces then the prices of food crops would be very high and more people would not be in a position to afford sufficient food!

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Illustration by Ida and Signe - Students of the Global Change course in Tanzania

Fighting Hunger a Collective Responsibility!

2010-09-06T20:41:00.002+03:00

Over the years, we've been inundated with the statistics and the pictures of poverty around the world-so much so that many people in both the North and South have come to accept it as an unfortunate but unalterable state of affairs. The truth, however, is that things have changed in recent years. The world today is more prosperous than it ever has been. The technological advances we have seen in recent years have created encouraging new opportunities to improve economies and reduce hunger.
To think that 1.02billion people are hungry, when the world is more prosperous than it has ever been... has to be taken in with a pinch of salt. There is an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries.
To be honest it’s very easy to watch and even rely on the United Nations, government, or donors to deal with the hunger issue whilst we sit fold our arms and pretend everything is okay. Fighting hunger is a collective responsibility...The little contribution that you and I could make as individuals would definitely go along way...What if we embraced the bible theory were the people that had more than enough reached out to the poor.. For instance in the first centuries of Christianity the poor were fed, clothed, and sheltered at a personal sacrifice.
Fighting hunger is a collective responsibility... if every individual who earns a little extra income more than they need, takes interest and offers to feed/ sponsor one child in school, hunger will be history, and even within the poorest of nations this is possible because it is within these same countries that the gap between the rich and poor is wide. The tendency of waiting for external help to feed our hungry within a country must come to an end... The time to take responsibility is NOW!
The global change in Tanzania is working tirelessly to hold a successful campaign that will consequently contribute to PUNCHING HUNGER out of Tanzania; we are taking a step further by not only discussing challenges but taking responsibility to act off these challenges.

Thoughts by Nankonde Nakanyika.

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

2010-09-02T17:03:00.000+03:00

We the Global Change students continue to explore Tanzania in reference to fighting hunger. We have shown interest in the works of other organizations fighting the same cause. Such organizations includes among others the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) which we visited Tuesday afternoon.

The meeting was interesting and we really appreciate the works of such organizations and we are looking forward to be building relationships with a shared understanding, commitment and collaborative action. This will help us and give us having the courage as we are being equipped with resources and make us believe that our imaginations are realistic.

We are the David of today, fighting the very powerful giant hunger. We come with courage, and just like David, we are the young shepherd, to whom God has given courage to face the giant and our success comes with commitment and good relationships so as to achieve our goals.

Join us in the struggle as we continue our hunger fight to free the hungry billion through building good relationships!

- Thoughts from Bellah, a student of Global Change

PUNCH HUNGER

2010-09-02T02:38:00.002+03:00

Are biofuels worth the investments in the east Africa?

2010-09-02T00:11:00.000+03:00

As students of Global Change Course 2010 Tanzania and on behalf of our trainers we are so much touched by the issue of biofuels not only in Tanzania but in Africa as a whole, we all believe it’s a challenge to food security and hunger related issues.

As we are embarking on our second week as we are pushing on our course in order to go for our goal of saving the 800 million people still living in hunger despite the world politician’s radical statements to end poverty and hunger. As part of our campaigns, biofuels has become a topical issue in relation to food security and let’s take a case study of biofuels in northern part of

Tanzania

. the investment of jatrophain the northern Tanzania is a risky venture, according to my survey it came on my notice that the cost-benefit analysis reveals that farmers will only start earning money after yields of around 3,00o kilograms per hectare of jatropha seed, it has also revealed that fertile land in northern Tanzania has been sacrificed to grow the oil-rich jatropha and this still a rather risky and long term investment with insecure prospects and high opportunity costs, this is happening in many African countries as a huge chunks of fertile land are taken for the several biofuels sources being considered as the world searches for alternatives to fossil fuels. When energy prices soared in 2007, manycompanies, private investors, NGOs, farmers and national as well as local governments from developed and developing countries embarked on jatropha ventures, this is a thorn in the fresh and has negative implications especially in this when the world is facing three interconnected problems of poverty, hunger and climate. here in Tanzania, the viability of jatropha seed production is yet to be thoroughly assessed though there have been some investigations into its feasibility in east Africa but these has been largely based on assumptions of data from else where which are not neither applicable nor dependable in reality. It is quiet disappointing to note that despite of data, more than 10,000 small holder farmers in

Tanzania

are establishing jatropha plantations. the situation worsened by the fact that many farmers tend to intercrop jatropha with food crops on arable land thus reducing food production for little or no gain. this reminds me hedges in his book stuffed and starved where he talks about lack of farmers choice and he puts it very clear,” the majority of world’s farmers are suffering, some are selling off their land to become laborers on their family plots, some migrate to the cities or overseas, a few, too many resort to suicide” the same story will happen I predict. The current situation shows that jatropha cultivation is only profitable under certain conditions and unlike

Kelly to substantially increase employment the income in rural areas, this can be evinced in the management and harvesting of jatropha requires considerable labor in put of which local poor farmers can not afford. in a nutshell, it is very important to note that the poor farmers are going to be underpaid, loosing their suitable land, shifting from food production to jatropha,becoming squatters on their own land, because there is no policy framework, and the legal frame work is not clear as the farmers can not take part in the sell and compensation of their suitable land directly but only literature on papers full of empty promises, which will never happen until Jesus comes back, of which am not so sure.

Kiranda: student global change 2010 Tanzania.

Hunger and the Climate Change

2010-08-31T18:46:00.002+03:00

During this week the big discussions we have had on the Global Change course, has rotated around how hunger and bio-fuels are connected. Because these subjects are so complicated, it is difficult for us to grasp it all. That is why we now are airing the perspectives that we have thought about it.

Is bio-fuel the way to solve the climate changes, or are bio-fuels the source of the hunger problem, therefore causing an equally as big a problem?

As we see it, it really depends on how the bio-fuel is produced and from what and where. On one side bio-fuel is causing the big hunger problem in Tanzania, which leads to many people in Tanzania are starving, because big international companies are grabbing the land from the local people, and using it to produce jatropha or sugarcanes to mention some crops. This means that a lot of the land in Tanzania is used to grow crops that can’t be used as food for the local people. Then where is the food going to come from, when it is too expensive to import food from other countries? What I have just described is also provoking the prices on food in Tanzania, which means that food prices are rising so that people can’t afford to buy the food they need to survive, when 58% of the population of Tanzania are living for under 1 dollar a day. So from this perspective bio-fuel in Tanzania is one of the root problems to hunger in Tanzania.

On the other hand, bio-fuel is also framed as a product to come about the climate changes on a global level. If we don’t try to do something about the climate changes in the world, the climate is also going to make it difficult or almost impossible to cultivate the land and thereby getting food for the starving people. So how to go around these problems, when it seems that one problem leads to the other?

As I mentioned in the beginning of this blog post, it is also a discussing of how, where and of what bio-fuels are produced. The situation in Tanzania, as we see it, is quite complicated, because the bio-fuel is being produced from non-eatable crops, and because the production of bio-fuels demands huge amounts of energy, which also contribute to the global warming.

So as you might have read from this post, this is still a debate that we are having and that is very importent for our future campaign.

We therefore call upon you to join in, and tell us what you think about this subject. Several minds think better the one!

Thoughts from Sara, a student at the Global Change course in Tanzania.

The Root causes of hunger

2010-08-30T08:33:00.000+03:00

Raj Patel begins his book "Stuffed and Starved" by highlighting a big contradiction that we are producing more food than ever,and that the number of hungry people which stand at about 800 million is outnumbered by the number of obese people. Now that i s one huge contradiction which points to a cosmos that has gone wrong and a breakdown of the food system.

This breakdown in the system calls for us to ask questions and delve deeper to find the root cause of the problem. We may probably may not be going to bed hungry but we are unable to buy quality food or are paying to much for the for it.

For the next couple of weeks and in the course of our camapign we shall be looking at the multi dimensional causes of hunger and its various manifestations and we invite you to join us. The key areas of focus will be the effect of structral adjustment program by the Bretton wood institution on agriculture and Biofuels in realations to food security!

PS* The week that was , was a fruitful for the Global changers at the platform in Tanzania and we had a chance to hear from the team at the Global platform in Nepal, and interact with Students from from a University in Dar es saalam ...there is always a sense of comfort in number and not forgetting the power in it.

Future Workshop

2010-08-28T23:40:00.001+03:00

During the week we have all been preparing future workshops for a group of young students, some of them newly graduated from the agricultural faculty at the University of Dar es Salaam. The purpose was to generate as many ideas as possible on how we can combat hunger! And today was the big day! It was a huge success :) Throughout the day we did a lot of brainstorming and had some very interesting and useful discussions so that in the end we actually managed to come up with brilliant ideas and solutions to how we can punch hunger. But what was equally as important for us global changers was that the participants were so willing to share their knowledge on what is going on and the situation here in Tanzania. Among others, we heard how people are not always aware on their rights and how land has been taken away from them and forced to move with only little resources to build a new existence. This is only an indication of that what we are doing is needed. These young people were so cool and we learned a lot from them. And just as cool, they liked what we are doing and would be happy to help us and join us! SO GREAT :) Because we will need these clever young people to shape our campaign and to reach our goal – thank you so much guys!!!

With all the great ideas we came up with in the future workshop today, we see that, as youth we are a very important resource that governments depend on for national development.

Let’s join hands in combating hunger in Africa!

READING THURSDAYS !

2010-08-27T17:23:00.002+03:00

Thursdays are clearly becoming our ritual for reading. ON 26TH AUGUST 2010, we read a text which is the introduction from Raj Patel’s “stuffed and starved”. As you may know by now our team is aiming at building a powerful campaign around having a hunger free world, it is therefore of extreme importance that we have as much information around this topic as we can. Hence, our focus today on this brilliant and exhaustively researched book called stuffed and starved.
Just to highlight a few salient points from his book, in his introduction, Raj Patel argues that
• Today, when we produce more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on earth are hungry!!
• Global hunger and obesity are symptoms of the same problem and, what’s more, the route to eradicating world hunger is also a way to prevent global epidemics of diabetes and heart disease and to address a host of environmental and social ills.
After reviewing this text we looked at the root causes to hunger in relation to the text and also relating our findings to situations in our countries.

Two major root causes discussed were that

1. What we are offered in stores is controlled by a few key players’ hence local farmers losing their markets.
2. Big corporations influence governments (World trade organisation), consumers (money), hence and interests of farmers are not protected
Conclusion: Raj Patel helps us deconstruct the long accepted folk wisdom that “the poor are hungry because they are lazy”

Facts about Tanzania

2010-08-25T11:14:00.001+03:00

These are some facts about Tanzania that we find interesting.

HakiArdhi

2010-08-24T23:18:00.000+03:00

The Visit to HAKIARDHI

Today we went to the organization HAKIARDHI to learn more about biofuel and land rights in Tanzania. This we feel is important to share with you, so you also can increase your knowledge about why our campaign is important and what it is all about.

HAKIARDHI is a land rights research and resources institute. It is a nongovernmental and non profit sharing organization that was founded in 1994 to among other things, promote, advance, and advocate for the right to land and other resources of the majority small producers. HAKIARDHI has conducted researches in a wide range of areas, published a number of titles on land reforms and constantly advocates for a socially just and equitable access to ownership and control of land and other resources by Tanzania populace.

Mr. Myensi from the organization, told us, the students of Global Change Tanzania that his institution main interventions areas are:
Research, Publications and Researches:
- Make research on land acquisition, ownership, control and conduct rapid responds to solve land conflicts in many part of the country etc.
- Publication: Making publication on important statements made by people on land issues and printing calanders, leaf lets with messages on land issues etc.
- Documentation: Filed important documents on their intervention areas etc.
Public engagement and advocacy:
- They engage the public on land right trainings and many advocacy programmes with the government and the communities.

The discussion ended with question and answers session between us and the executive director for clearing the minds and droughts on the issues around land rights, acquisition, control, ownership and the coming of biofuels in Tanzania.

We were inspired by the work of HAKIARDHI and among other things we learn about, land ownership and control, the issues surrounding biofuels, laws on land in Tanzania. These motivate us to do more research in future on biofuels and land right in Tanzania to help us do our campaign and leadership course better.
We found the meeting very interesting and educative as we learn a lot from the discussion with Mr.Myensi, but we also gained the awareness about, that this is a very complicated subject. So many people are involved and so many things affect each other. That is why this education is so important for us to gain a greater understanding of the social problems in Tanzania.

Flash Mob

2010-08-24T22:43:00.003+03:00

The Flash Mob Presentation

First day in MS ActionAid’s Global Change course took a turn none of us had expected. We were introduced to each other and the teachers whom presented our first event. We were going to perform an African dance in the biggest market of Tanzania, Kariakoo, in half an hour. Before that we a dance instructor taught us how to perform in the biggest market in Tanzania called Kariakoo! Everyone was anxious and nervous for what where going to happen when the music started playing, but all of a sudden we were performing in front of more than one hundred people! The Tanzanians did not understand what was going on and more and more people came to see the performance – one of the local even joined in dancing! This was a good experience which broad us together as a team and taught us something about what we are capable of doing even with just very short time of preparation. Next time when we go to present a ‘flash mob’ we will suggest having a clearer message according to the problem in society we are fighting against in our campaign.

Kwa siku ya kwanza msactionaid imeweza kuanza warsha ya mabadiliko ya dunia kama wanafunzi tumeweza kujitambulisha na waalimu walitueleza kwamba tutaenda kucheza kwenye jukwaa katika soko la kariakoo. Kwa nusu saa tulikuwa na msanii wa kizazi kipya alietufundisha namna ya kucheza, kwa ujumla hakuna aliyejua nini kinaenda kufanyika. Na tulipofika mara wimbo ukaanza na ghafla tukaanza kucheza mbele ya watu zaidi ya mia moja watu hawakuelewa kilichokua kinaendelea lakini walivutiwa na namna tulinyocheza. Watu wengi walikuja kuangalia namna tunavyocheza na baadhi walivutiwa na kuungana na sisi kucheza hii inaonyesha namna walivyovutiwa na jukwaa. Tukio hilo lilikuwa zuri na limetujengea uwezo kama kikosi kazi na kutufundisha ushirikiano kwa mda mfupi, tunashauri kwa wakati mwingine tutakapoende kwenye jamii ni muhimu tuwe na ujumbe maalum unaohusu jamii husika.

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The flashmob at Kariakoo

First day in MS ActionAid’s Global Change course took a turn none of us had expected. We were introduced to each other and the teachers whom presented our first event. We were going to perform an African dance in the biggest market of Tanzania, Kariakoo, in half an hour. Before that we a dance instructor taught us how to perform an African dance in the biggest market in Tanzania called Kariakoo! Everyone was anxious and nervous for what where going to happen when the music started playing, but all of a sudden we were performing in front of more than one hundred people! The Tanzanians did not understand what was going on and more and more people came to see the performance – one of the local even joined in dancing! This was a good experience which broad us together as a team and taught us something about what we are capable of doing even with just very short time of preparation. Next time when we go to present a ‘flash mob’ we will suggest having a clearer message according to the problem in society we are fighting against in our campaign.

Kwa siku ya kwanza msactionaid imeweza kuanza warsha ya mabadiliko ya dunia kama wanafunzi tumeweza kujitambulisha na waalimu walitueleza kwamba tutaenda kucheza kwenye jukwaa katika soko la kariakoo. Kwa nusu saa tulikuwa na msanii wa kizazi kipya alietufundisha namna ya kucheza, kwa ujumla hakuna aliyejua nini kinaenda kufanyika. Na tulipofika mara wimbo ukaanza na ghafla tukaanza kucheza mbele ya watu zaidi ya mia moja watu hawakuelewa kilichokua kinaendelea lakini walivutiwa na namna tulinyocheza. Watu wengi walikuja kuangalia namna tunavyocheza na baadhi walivutiwa na kuungana na sisi kucheza hii inaonyesha namna walivyovutiwa na jukwaa. Tukio hilo lilikuwa zuri na limetujengea uwezo kama kikosi kazi na kutufundisha ushirikiano kwa mda mfupi, tunashauri kwa wakati mwingine tutakapoende kwenye jamii ni muhimu tuwe na ujumbe maalum unaohusu jamii husika.

Welcome

2010-08-21T15:14:00.003+03:00

Welcome to our blog!