Here are my worries:
- In Tanzania,for every 4 among children below the age of 18, one is having a baby.
- In urban families especially Dar Es Salaam, girls constitutes the majority number of housemaids most of them imported from the rural areas. There wages is disgrace, averaging 30,000/= ( $25 a month). Of late, the goverment has failed to enforce her own approved minimum wages for housemaids, i.e 85,000/= a month, ( $70)
- 75% of women resides in rural areas where electricity supply is negligible. By average, only 11% of Tanzanian households enjoy this vital utility. This means a good number of these women including girls spend many hours fetching firewoods instead of studying.
- Most of the enlightened section of women resides in urban settings, though they're busy running NGO's advocating gender equality, they fail to cover rural areas where majority of the vulnerable section of the population ( women) resides.
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it should be noted to you mzee wa tija thus women dont share universal problems and thus it is very difficult for them to unite and struggle for their rights.
ReplyDeleteit sounds unsually?well relax and read about my comments,im just thinking out loud as Mziray does.
women in europe struggle for different things compared with african women.while african women struggle for equal rights to education,to own land,to inheriet..etc u name them,in europe they struggle to have single sex marriage,not to bear childrens,etc u know them.
in africa also women differ,taking tz as eg.a kashozi,kishimundi or tandahimba women struggles to have safe water,electricity,equal rights to education,issues of circumsion etc,but in town they struggle to get cheap electricity,cheap fuel because they drive cars,cheap cooking gas etc u name them.
also they differ in income, i dont think digne can go to pride borrow 50000thousands and term her self interpreneur,but others go to borrow 20,000.so these inequalities makes it hard for them to stugle and get development.
though in some cases they have successed but indeed i c the prob here.but at the end all african women share these two things.first marriage is an issue,an african women likes to get marriage and second getting a child.otherwise these are just my thoughts.kusiga here
To me dada wa kilokole i would comment mainly to the agenda as of the recent most of women empowerment compaigns are to be blamed by being sterio type women through thei whatever measure/initiative done as they focus mostly on capitalising women selfishness and infiriority to them why not engaging men and boys as a targeted group(in directly beneficiries) so as to meet the impact group(women) to avoid inequalities in their intervention/ i mean men should be an indirect group to meet direct group -women so as to make sustainable changes that will impact both for harmonious livelihood development. Eli Kitaly
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