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Solar Lamps Workshops – June 2010 In
June 2010, Agape Learning Center hosted two Solar Lamp Assembly
workshops. This was part of a program supported by the Danderyd Moshi
Group in Sweden to bring solar lighting to rural villages. The intention is that these initial solar lamp
units will be sold to the local community at a subsidised price by our
Swedish partners, while in Tanzania we are supposed to set up a micro
financing system where the farmers will repay in installments, the
money to be deposited in the SACCOS and later to be used for ordering
more lamps. Two full day workshops were held with participants from Chekereni, Fukeni, Agape and Ihushi. All the solar lamps were assembled and the participants were able to get hands-on experience of each stage of the assembly. The young Swedish tutors and the local tutors did an excellent job of organizing the event and demonstrating the techniques
Seminar Programs for Rural Women 2010
Agape
Learning Center has been involved for some time in support for women from rural
areas, and has organised another program of seminars in 2010 Rural women
are less privileged than their urban counterparts because of the geographical
locations and the limited resources available for tackle education in the
large rural communities. The program is aiming to bring
new skills to the rural areas. As part of this program, capacity building
seminars were run at the Center in May and July. These two week seminars
included sessions on jatropha plant farming, mushroom growing, economic
production of local chicken in poultry keeping, pig keeping, and how to live
with HIV/AIDS relatives at home (home-based-care). In the second week the women
studied business skills, such as entrepreneurship, setting up a small business,
salesmanship and bookkeeping. The seminars
were conducted by a number of well qualified specialists, including Mrs Elizabeth
Kimaro (a senior agricultural officer in the District Commissioner's office) Ms
Petronilla Tarimo (senior nurse at The Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center),
Mr. Richard Makari, graduated in Business of Commerce from The Nairobi
University and Mr. Jasper Kiwia, from Sokoine University. Hon. Mariam
Bakari Lusewa delivered papers on women rights in the marriage law and rights
to own land in the two land laws operating in Tanzania. She also covered topics
on man-domineering custom as illegal in the written laws, and rights of widows
to succeed in inheriting landed property gotten together during her marriage. Over ninety
women have benefited from these seminars in the period May - July 2010. These
have come from Mandaka-Mnono, Msandaka, Fukeni and Korini-Kusini, all villages
which are in Mbokomu Ward and Mahoma, Sango villages in Old Moshi Ward. For
more information about forthcoming seminars, please contact Agape Learning
Center
We
are grateful to all our sponsors – for helping our kindergarten children to get
an excellent start to their education, for supporting the solar lamps and many other projects. The
Moshi Group of The Swedish Church at Danderyd, paid the fees for these
kindergarten children.in 2009: Adella Maro, Albert Justin, Angela Jimmy, Calvin
Mangesho, Calvin Mrema, Daniel David Mashaka, Emanuel Joseph Francis, Gloria
Tarimo, Joshua Amani Tarimo and Victoria Joachim. Swedish
Church of Danderyd sponsored eleven orphans and poor kindergarten children in
the year 2008: Adella Maro, Albert Justin, Angela Jimmy, Angela Mangesho,
Calvin Mangesho, Calvin Mrema, Daniel D. Mashaka, Emanuel Joseph Francis,
Gladness Msakyi, Gloria Tarimo, Joshua Amani Tarimo, Theodora Francis, and
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