Driving without speedometers affects our motoring

Speedometers are among the crucial elements in any vehicle, whether it goes on water, air or land.
Guesswork has proved to be incapable of giving appropriate guidance. Notwithstanding, the number of these ‘faulty’ vehicles I have seen in my commutes for a week now is scarily alarming. While others may see just vehicles moving, I see potential accidents that can bring about irreparable damages or even deaths.

How unemployment can impact education in the future

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on 4th April, 2022. According to the data produced by the International Labour Organization, youth unemployment in Tanzania stands at 11.5%. There is massive economic growth in the country. According to the Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) report of 2016 produced by the World … Read more

The need to teach children to support people with disabilities

Children should be taught that being disabled is not something to use against people and make them feel ashamed, less valued, or of no substantial contribution.

Are stories of children learning under trees still true?

The children who this year 2023 are learning under trees are technically expected to globally compete with their peers in the job market in 18 years. Are we expecting them to run at the same pace as other children in the country and the world at large while they are left behind in all aspects of learning?

Mob justice seems fair until it hits your kinsmen

The fact that there are incidences of mob justice communicates to us one of the following two things. First, it is either people do not know the law, or they do not know how to get help from the law, or second, the law enforcement agencies have disappointed people from time to time, and people have lost trust in the effectiveness of what they do.

Dar es Salaam and the legends of its all-round superiority

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. “It is wrong to make deplorable situations in Dar es Salaam, reflections of expected standards in other regions in the country. This is made evident by the fact that many regional jurisdictions have proved to be outstanding in … Read more

Complementarity of being informed, influenced in social action

Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper – Tanzania on January 10, 2023 “For the fact that the general citizenry is the beneficiary of social action in its multiple faces, there is great need of having the people made aware. This touches all aspects of socio-political and socioeconomic life of the Tanzanian … Read more

INTERVIEW | Against all odds: The Success Story of Tanzanian Hadija Jilala (PhD) who lives with a physical disability

Hadija Jilala (PhD) shares her life journey as a person with disability. She sees her success as a platform to help people with disabilities rise to their feet and live happily and productively. The pdf copy of this article is found underneath the page for perusal and download.

How ‘cameras in school buses’ proposal is received online

The fact that being trusted to undertake responsibilities without being watched has repeatedly proved not to work necessitates the need to bring in a way of ‘watching’ and keeping record of the movements of service providers who work directly with children in their respective facilities.

Need for educative child right respecting social policy

The World Children’s Day which is marked annually on 20th November, has been celebrated for the sixty-eighth time since its first observance, with a theme: ‘Inclusion for every child.’ In rthis analytic discourse we establish new ways to make inclusion more visible and practical as a social empowerment initiative.