WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT TANZANIA
By Daniela Bajan – Art in Tanzania internship As is well known, gender is a constructed concept. In sociology, there is a distinction between sex and gender. Sex are the biological characteristics that societies use to assign people into the category of either male or female. On the other hand, we have gender, which is […]
Lack of Clean Drinking Water in Tanzanian Schools
Introduction School is important not only for it provides a place for children to study but also to inculcate values that benefit the rest of their lives. Nevertheless, In 2016, Schools in Tanzania, only 38% had an adequate number of latrines, 20% had water supply facilities, and less than 10% had functioning handwashing facilities. The […]
Volunteer Interview – Karmen
Karmen from Australia, age 36 who has an infectious laugh, loves travelling, meeting new people and shopping, has been volunteering at Al Qawiyyi School and Zanzibar Youth Alliance. What have kind of activities have you been doing as a volunteer? I have been assisting the teacher in different classes each week such as nursery, form […]
Sober House Art
When wandering through the alleys and byways of Stone Town, every once in a while you’ll come up to a little square, a little breathing space. It’s at one of these that I am to meet Kasim Nyuni and Saleh, the driving forces behind an upcoming art gallery…
Kilimanjaro
It had been in my mind and it was my dream almost one year. Then suddenly one day in August 2013, I realized that Kilimanjaro can be true for me. Previous night I could not even sleep, I almost itched in anticipation…
Pupils from One School in Dar es Salaam receive donations through AIT
Pupils from One school of Tegeta in Dar es Salaam are a happy lot following the completion of a modern sanitation block at the school.
The toilets were constructed with funds from a volunteer at Art In Tanzania who saw the need for the school to have clean sanitation facilities…
Very Own Shop
Three months ago the house of Art in Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam opened its own fair-trade shop…