MAGUFULI AZIDI KUCHANJA MBUGA KAMPENI ZAKE ZAINGIA MKOA WA IRINGA

Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli akiwahutubia wakazi wa Mafinga kwenye mkutano wa kampeni za CCM uliofanyika viwanja vya Wambi Mafinga ambapo aliwaambia wakazi hao wasihadaike na maneno ya kisiasa yanayotolewa na vyama vingine kuwa nchii hii haijapiga hatua wakati maendeleo yanaonekana wazi na nchi inazidi kusonga mbele.

Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli akisisitiza jambo wakati akihutubia wakazi wa Mafinga kwenye mkutano wa kampeni za CCM.

Mgombea ubunge wa Jimbo la Mafinga Cosato Chumi akihutubia wakazi wa mji huo wakati wa mkutano wa kampeni ambapo Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli alihutubia pia.

Mgombea Ubunge wa Jimbo la Mafinga Cosato Chumi akisisitiza jambo wakati wa mkutano wa kampeni za CCM ambao ulihutubiwa pia na mgombea wa Urais kupitia CCM Dk. John Pombe Magufuli pamoja na Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Wazazi na Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu ya CCM Taifa alhaji Abdala Bulembo.

Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli akionyesha kadi ya aliyekuwa kada wa Chadema Mafinga Gift Sikauka Mwachang'a aliyerudi CCM kwenye mkutano wa hadhara wa kampeni uliofanyika kwenye viwanja vya Wambi.

Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli akimvisha kofia ya CCM aliyekuwa kada wa Chadema Mafinga Gift Sikauka Mwachang'a aliyerudi CCM kwenye mkutano wa hadhara wa kampeni uliofanyika kwenye viwanja vya Wambi.

Gift Sikauka Mwachang'a akitangaza rasmi kukihama chama cha Chadema na kujiunga na Chama Cha Mapinduzi kwenye mkutano wa kampeni za CCM mbele ya mgombea urais kupitia CCM Dk. John Pombe Magufuli.

Mafinga Gift Sikauka Mwachang'a akitangaza rasmi kuhama Chadema na kujiunga na Chama Cha Mapinduzi kwenye mkutano wa kampeni za CCM mbele ya mgombea urais kupitia CCM Dk. John Pombe Magufuli.

Mgombea wa Urais kupitia Chama Cha Mapinduzi Dk. John Pombe Magufuli akizungumza mbele ya walemavu wa kusikia na kuona ambapo aliwakabidhi ilani ya uchaguzi ambayo imewazungumzia na kutaka wapewe msaada wa kuelimishwa masuala mbali mbali yalioandikwa kwenye ilani.

Mgombea Ubunge wa Jimbo la Mufindi Kusini Ndugu Mahmoud Mgimwa akipiga push up mbele ya wakazi wa Mafinga waliojitokeza kwa wingi kwenye mkutano wa kampeni wa kumnadi mgombea wa urais kupitia CCM Dk. John Pombe Magufuli.

Endometriosis: the hidden suffering of millions of women revealed

 

Primary care doctors often do not know what endometriosis is and large numbers of women are under-treated or badly treated for the disease. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Sarah Boseley, Jessica Glenza and Helen Davidson

The hidden toll and extraordinary neglect of a disease that affects an estimated 176 million women around the globe, causing many to suffer a life of pain and debilitation and sometimes infertility, is revealed by the Guardian.

One woman in 10 of reproductive age has endometriosis, it is estimated, and yet often their primary care doctors do not know what it is and the specialists to whom they are sent are ill-informed.

Vast numbers of women are under-treated or badly treated. It can take years to get a diagnosis and during that time women may suffer severe pain and are unable to work, socialise or maintain a sexual relationship.

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The disease does not always have symptoms and may be the cause of half of all unexplained infertility.

Endometriosis has existed in the twilight for centuries because of society’s reluctance to discuss what was euphemistically known for so long as “women’s troubles”. 

It occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the womb is found elsewhere – most commonly in the abdomen, ovaries, in the recto-vaginal septum, bladder and bowel. That tissue behaves like the lining of the womb, bleeding every month, and can cause cause severe and chronic pain . Women tell of such acute pain that they pass out.

The lack of research and funding for a disease that affects so many women is “a major scandal”, said Lone Hummelshoj, who heads the World Endometriosis Research Foundation and the World Endometriosis Society.

“Endometriosis affects women in the prime of their life. It is not a lifestyle disease. It is not a disease you get later in life. It attacks teens, young women when they should be out being active, working, having children, having sex – 50% of them are struggling with sex because it is too painful,” she said.

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It has exacted a massive social cost in broken marriages and depression as well as being a huge economic burden, partly because of the large number of women who have to drop out of the workforce.

In the US, with 7.6 million women affected, the estimate was €70.9bn (£52.1bn, $80.4bn) a year; in the UK, which has 1.6 million sufferers, the cost was estimated in 2012 at €14.4bn (£10.6bn). In Australia, there may be 550,000 women affected, costing the economy A$6bn (£2.75bn).

The numbers are comparable to diabetes – and yet there is only a fraction of the awareness of the condition and help for those afflicted.

Far too many women are turned away by their doctors and told they must put up with the pain or even that they are imagining it. A Guardian online call-out to women for their stories got 600 responses in one day. A recurring theme was: “The doctors thought it was all in my head”.

Niki Dally, 33, in Wales, UK, has been suffering from endometriosis from the age of 11. She said even her mother thought she was making it up. “My mother thought I was a hypochondriac,” she said. 

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“One doctor said ‘it’s in your head, girl. You have got to deal with it.’” She was prescribed medication for her nausea and vomiting and told it was irritable bowel syndrome, cysts, a UTI, eating disorders and depression.

“Aged 14, the doctors thought it might be appendicitis and admitted her to hospital. It took 10 years to get the right diagnosis, but she now lives on a cocktail of strong painkillers and is still struggling to get the right treatment”.

In the US, Heather C Guidone who works at the Center for Endometriosis Care, Atlanta, Georgia, and has herself been through 22 operations for severe endometriosis, said women are still told periods are supposed to hurt and that it’s a woman’s lot in life to suffer. “All of those cliches that have surrounded menstruation since the dawn of time. [A woman tells the doctor] ‘I have this horrible life-altering pain, and these symptoms’, then the doctor will kind of pat her on the head and say take this pill. Then you’ve got this vicious cycle, and ultimately she stops telling people.”

“Every, every possible misdiagnosis is brought on some of these women before the correct diagnosis is made. And the traumatic assertions that you’re having pelvic pain because you have an STD – the whole thing is bizarre.

Endometriosis can be mild or so severe that it takes over a woman’s life. Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Dolly Parton and Anna Friel all have endometriosis. So does Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel and actors Susan Sarandon and Whoopi Goldberg. Marilyn Monroe is thought to have become addicted to the painkillers she took for endometriosis, which resulted in her death.

FacebookTwitterPinterest Susan Sarandon at the annual Blossom Ball, benefiting the Endometriosis Foundation of America. Photograph: Alamy

Experts say the disease is little known. “The people we have polled have never heard of it,” said Jane Hudson Jones, chief executive of the charity Endometriosis UK. “I have never come across anybody in the general public who knows about it. Yet it can be absolutely devastating.” Surveys of their own membership showed that 25% had felt suicidal because of it. “It can affect pretty much every area of your life – your work, career, income, relationships and fertility. And many are constantly in pain.”

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Carol Pearson, 43, had to give up the successful career she loved because she was too ill too often. “I hated losing my career,” she said. “I worked my socks off to get to university and become a chartered accountant. I was in a management position for many years and paying taxes. I worked for my company for 13 years and they did everything they could to keep me at work.” But after extensive surgeries to the bowel and bladder, which did not heal well, resulting in emergency trips to hospital in an ambulance on more than one occasion, everybody realised her career and her condition were incompatible.

Pearson had bad period pains from the age of 11 but adopted the stoicism of her feisty mother in the north-east of England and suffered in silence. It took 20 years to get a diagnosis. Studying English at Oxford University was tough. “I got together with my ex-husband at university and when we started to have sex, it was incredibly painful. I thought it was all in my head. I thought I need to get over this. I should have gone to get help but I was too embarrassed to see a GP,” she said. She did not go until she started to bleed a lot in her late 20s, by which time she had advanced disease.

Women who are lucky enough to have a primary care doctor who recognises the symptoms are referred to a gynaecologist. The only way to diagnose the disease is through a laparoscopy – keyhole surgery that allows the clinician to view the endometriosis.

FacebookTwitterPinterest Surgeons holding laparoscopy equipment in an operating theatre. Photograph: Rex Shutterstock

But most gynaecologists do not have the specialist training to remove the tissue they see, which in severe cases is often very difficult to access. It often involves the bowel or bladder, which are not parts of the body gynaecologists usually deal with. Organs can be fused together. Women tell of having hysterectomies and the wholesale removal of ovaries and parts of the bowel and bladder, and yet some diseased tissue remains stuck to nerves and the pain continues.

Yet even the most severe cases can do really well with specialist care, said Hummelshoj, who also runs a global information forum. “Some of them do very well with very good surgery, but unfortunately that surgery is as specialised as cancer surgery.” In fact, she said, cancer surgeons had told her it was more difficult. Women need access to specialist care, not just to a general gynaecologist. “We need to train these doctors to deal with endometriosis,” she said.

Geoff Reid in Australia, one of the leading experts, believes the disease may be getting more aggressive. “I have been dealing with endometriosis for 25 years. I just don’t believe that 20 to 25 years ago we were missing the sort of people that we see today,” he said. “I see young women in their early 20s with dreadful colorectal endometriosis and I can’t believe we were missing that. We may have to some extent, but it is my observation over the years that the disease is becoming worse. You see some of the most pitiful people with this disease – it’s awful. People who specialise in endometriosis certainly share that view.”

FacebookTwitterPinterest Geoff Reid in his surgery in Sydney, Australia: ‘It is my observation over the years that the disease is becoming worse.’ Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian

IVF has meant that women with endometriosis who want children have a good chance of having them. “When we were young we all had relatives who were childless and I’m sure that a lot of them actually had endometriosis-related infertility. Generally speaking we’ve overcome that these days,” said Reid.

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But a study in 2008 by the Belgian gynaecologist Thomas D’Hooghesuggested that endometriosis may be a huge factor in infertility. D’Hooghe’s team carried out laparoscopies on 221 infertile women who had no obvious symptoms. “These were women who regarded their period pain as being normal and 47% of them had endometriosis and 40% of those had stage three and four disease,” said Reid.

“I find that extraordinary. You can have women with really quite bad endometriosis who are essentially asymptomatic, which means putting a handle on the prevalence of endometriosis very difficult. 10% is the figure that is bandied around. What the true incidence is is really difficult to tell.”

Reid says it is really important that women facing surgery for endometriosis on their ovaries are warned of the danger it could affect their fertility, because it can cause their levels of a critical hormone called AMH to fall by between 50% and 70%. “Perhaps they should consider freezing some embryos or eggs,” he said. If asked, he said, “women almost universally want to do that.”

The care women can get varies massively around the world and within countries, and is often dependent on what they can afford. In the US, insurance companies pay the same amount for any endometriosis surgery, regardless of the method or extent of the disease or the specialisation of the doctor. 

“You could spend 30 minutes in the operation just burning and zapping and get paid the same amount if you did nine hours doing a meticulous surgery,” said Guidone. “Insurance is not the patient’s friend in this regard.”

That means insurance companies are likely to pay only for a local gynaecologist, who may be unable to unwilling to carry out extensive surgery. Nearly every specialist surgeon the Guardian spoke with had stopped accepting private insurance because of low reimbursement rates.

In the UK, a group of doctors who have become highly skilled in advanced keyhole surgical techniques have set up an accreditation process for hospitals where gynaecologists are treating endometriosis. So far, 45 centres have been accredited by the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy.

But patients and some doctors don’t know that high-quality keyhole surgery is available. “If you went up and down the country, you would find a very large number of women who aren’t getting access to this sort of surgery,” said Dominic Byrne, chair of the BSGE’s endometriosis centres and a consultant at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. “They are told they need an open hysterectomy and their ovaries removed to solve their pain. That would be the most common gynaecological answer to severe endometriosis.”

Sometimes women have had their healthy tubes and ovaries removed, only for the gynaecologist to reach the cervix and find the endometriosis is too complex for them to deal with, so the diseased tissue is left behind. “That in my opinion is the worst of all worlds. Those patients are quite hard to treat,” said Byrne.

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In the developing world, women may get no help at all. “There are a lot of countries that don’t even recognise its existence, especially the Middle Eastern countries,” said Reid. 

At the University of Oxford in the UK, researchers are investigating the entire human genome of women with the disease, comparing their genetic makeup with others who do not have it. It is known that about 50% of endometriosis is inherited.

“We need very large numbers of cases and controls, larger than we or any other centre could collect alone,” said Krina Zondervan, professor of reproductive and genomic epidemiology. That will have to involve collaboration. The Oxford team, led by Zondervan and consultant gynaecologist Prof Christian Becker, have been involved in putting together a global standardisation initiative, to ensure researchers around the world now collect compatible data.

But funding is short. Even in the US, less than $1 a year is spent in research per woman who suffers from the disease. In contrast to diabetes, which receives more than $1bn in funding each year from the National Institutes of Health, endometriosis research receives just $7m from the NIH each year. And that is down from $14m in 2011.

DStv YAJA NA CHANELI YA MAISHA MAGIC BONGO, KWA AJILI YA WATANZANIA

Mkurugenzi M-Net Kanda ya Afrika Magharibi, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu akifafanua jambo kwa waandishi wa habari (hawapo pichani) kutoka nchi za Afrika waliokusanyika kwenye jukwaa kubwa la kuonesha vitu mbalimbali vinavyoburudisha katika chaneli za DStv na GoTv kupitia MultiChoice hivi karibuni nchini Mauritius.

Mkurugenzi wa M-Net kwa nchi za Afrika Mashariki na SADC, Theo Erasmus akifurahi jambo kwenye mkutano na waandishi wa habari (hawapo pichani) kutoka nchi mbalimbali za Afrika.

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Moja ya makampuni yanayoongoza katika utoaji wa vipindi vya burudani barani Afrika M-Net imesema kwamba itazindua chaneli maalumu kwa ajiri ya wakazi wa Tanzania itakayojulikana kama maisha Magic Bongo.

MAISHA MAGIC BONGO itaruka hewani kupitia chaneli 160 ya DStv kuanzia Alhamisi ya Oktoba Mosi mwaka huu na itapatikana katika vifurushi vyote vya Access, Family, Compact, Compact Plus na Premium.

Imeelezwa kuwa ingawa mambo yametengenezwa mahsusi kwa ajili ya Watanzania mataifa jirani yaAfrika Mashariki ikiwamo Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia na DRC wanaweza kuona.

Uamuzi huo wa M-Net umefanyika wakati mchakato unaendelea wa kuboresha zaidi ulaji kwa wateja wake.

Hata hivyo wamesema kwamba MAISHA MAGIC EAST ambayo kwa sasa inaruka kupitia chaneli 158 itajiimarisha zaidi katika soko la Kenya huku ikiendelea na mara moja kwa wiki kwa ajili ya soko la Uganda ndani ya Luganda.

Pichani ni waandishi wa habari kutoka nchi mbalimbali za Afrika waliokusanyika kwenye jukwaa hilo lililoandaliwa na MultiChoice Africa hivi karibuni.

MAISHA MAGIC BONGO imelenga kuhudumia soko la Tanzania likionesha vipindi vya Kiswahili kwa ajili ya kutimiza pia lengo la taasisi la kuhudumia soko kwa kuangalia makundi.

Mkurugenzi wa M-Net kwa nchi za Afrika Mashariki na SADC, Theo Erasmus amesema ingawa kwa miaka mingi wamekuwa wakitoa vipindi vyenye lugha mchanganyiko kwa sasa wamepania kutoa vipindi kwa lugha ya eneo kutokana na soko kuruhusu.

“Tumefanya mabadiliko kwa nchi za Afrika Mashariki kwa siku za karibuni. Kasi ya mabadiliko hayo yanaonesha kujali kwetu. Na tutaangalia mafanikio katika MAISHA MAGIC BONGO, kuona uwezekano wa kuendelea kutengeneza chaneli zinazokidhi mahitaji Fulani.” Amesema Erasmus.

Chaneli mpya itakuwa na matangazo ya saa sita ambayo yatarejewa mara tatu kwa siku na inatarajiwa saa za vipindi kuongezeka zaidi.

Katika chaneli hiyo kutakuwa na kipindi cha saa moja cha muziki Mzooka, ambayo itakuwa mwishoni mwa wiki majira ya jioni na itakuwa kipindi cha miziki ya karibuni kutoka Tanzania. Kitakuwa ni kipindi cha wapenzi wa hip hop na Bongo.

Mkurugenzi M-Net Kanda ya Afrika Magharibi, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu (katikati) akiwa kwenye picha ya pamoja na Movie Stars wa nchini Nigeria, Rita Dominic na Desmond Elliot mara baada ya mkutano na waandishi wa habari.

Pia kutakuwa na michezo ya kuigiza ambayo ni tamthilia Talaaka itakayokuwa ikizungumzia masuala ya ndoa na talaka na kupeleka ujumbe kwanini kunakuwa na talaka. Pia kutakuwa na kipindi cha mapishi cha Jikoni na Marion. Kwenye kipindi hiki tutawaona masupastaa wa Tanzania wakipika chakula huku wakizungumzia mambo yao.

MAISHA MAGIC BONGO kutakuwa na sinema za Kiswahili kama Nusra iliyochezwa na Ashura Iddy, Ammar Ruweth, Riyama Ally na Zuberi Mohammed. Pia kutakuwa na sinema ya Hard Price iliyochezwa na akina Sabrina Tamim na Jacqueline Wolper .

Ikiwa imebaki mwezi mzima kabla ya MAISHA MAGIC BONGO kuingia katika runinga za watanzania kwa sasa angalia kipindi gani kipo hewani ukipendacho kupitia www.dstv.com.

Mkuu wa chaneli ya Maisha Magic, Margaret Mathore akisisitiza jambo kwa waandishi wa habari (hawapo pichani).

INAWEZEKANA KUPIGA VITA UMASKINI KWA USHIRIKIANO-UN

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez akizungumza wakati akizindua Malengo Endelevu 17 ya Maendeleo nchini (SDG’s) Tanzania katika shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko, katika hafla ambayo pia benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania ilishiriki na kugawa vitu mbalimbali kwa ajili ya wanafunzi wa shule hiyo. (Picha na Zainul Mzige wa Modewjiblog)

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Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez, amesema uondoaji umaskini nchini unawezekana kwa ushirikiano kati ya wadau mbalimbali wa maendeleo.

Kauli hiyo ameitoa mwishoni mwa wiki wakati akizindua Malengo Endelevu 17 ya Maendeleo nchini (SDG’s) Tanzania katika shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko, katika hafla ambayo pia benki ya Standard Chartered ilishiriki na kugawa vitu mbalimbali kwa ajili ya wanafunzi wa shule hiyo.

Katika hafla hiyo ambayo ilitengenezwa mahususi kuanzisha utekelezaji wa Malengo Endelevu (SDG’s) yakiwemo ya elimu, afya na mazingira Standard walipeleka miti 150 ya kupanda, kompyuta na pia kutumia muda kuangalia afya za wanafunzi.

Alisema katika kukabiliana na umaskini kwa kuangalia Maendeleo Endelevu hakuna kitu kigumu ukilinganisha na ugumu wa mwanafunzi asiyeona kujifunza kwa kupitia vitabu vya nukta nundu na asiyesikia kuwasiliana na mtu mwingine lakini pamoja na ugumu huo watoto hao wanaweza.

Alisema kwa ushirikiano wa wadau kama walivyofanya wao na benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania anaamini kwamba maendeleo yatafikiwa na Tanzania itafanikiwa kuzika umaskini ifikapo mwaka 2030.

Alisema kutiwa saini kwa Malengo Endelevu na viongozi wa nchi 190 kumeonesha wazi nia ya seriakli mbalimbali duniani kushughulikia umaskini na kuuzika kwa kutekeleza malengo hayo endelevu.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole akitoa salamu za Mkurugenzi wake ambapo benki hiyo imeahidi kushiriki kikamilifu katika kuhakikisha utekelezaji wa malengo mapya ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG's) yanafanikiwa nchini Tanzania. Kushoto ni Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez, Mtaalam wa Mahusiano na Mawasiliano wa Umoja wa Mataifa (UN) Tanzania Hoyce Temu (kulia) pamoja na Mkuu wa Mahusiano wa benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Juanita Mramba (wa pili kulia).

Naye Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole, alisema kwamba ni lengo la benki hiyo ni kurejesha faida kwa jamii kupitia miradi yake mbalimbali na kwamba kusaidia shule hiyo ya Uhuru mchanganyiko iliyoanzishwa 01-01-1921 awali ikiitwa Government African secondary school kabla ya kuhamishiwa Mzumbe Morogoro 01-01-1953 na kubadilishwa jina kuwa Kichwele African boys middle school ikiwa na madarasa ya V-VII, ni sehemu ya kurejesha faida kwa jamii.

Alisema ni lengo la benki hiyo kwa mwaka huu kuwezesha kupatikana kwa dola za Marekani milioni 5 kusaidia mambo mbalimbali ya watoto kwa mwaka huu kwa nchi za Afrika mashariki huku Tanzania pekee watoto milioni 10 wakifikiwa.

Benki hiyo yenye matawi Dar es salaam, Mwanza na Arusha katika miradi yake ya afya, vijana na elimu wamekusudia kushirikiana na Umoja wa Mataifa kutekeleza malengo mbalimbali endelevu ikiamini kwamba jamii ikiboreshwa itakuwa katika mfumo mzuri wa maendeleo na kupiga vita umaskini.

Malengo ya SDG’s yamepangwa kutekelezwa katika kipindi cha miaka 15.

Mwalimu Mkuu wa Shule ya msingi Uhuru mchangayiko, Anna Mshana akitoa risala fupi ya shule yake sambamba na changamoto zinazoikabili shule yake kwa ugeni huo kutoka Umoja wa Mataifa na Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania.

Mwalimu Mkuu wa shule hiyo Anna Mshana alisema shule hiyo ambayo ilianzisha kitengo cha wanafunzi wasioona 1962 na kubadilishwa kuwa Shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko mwaka 1964, inakabiliwa na changamoto mbalimbali.

Miongoni mwa matatizo ni miundombinu ya shule hiyo isiyokidhi mahitaji halisi, ukosefu wa ukuta, mashine za kufundishia watoto wasioona, upungufu wa mabweni, magodoro, vitanda na gari la kuwakimbiza hospitalini inapotokea dharura.

Alisema ingawa kuna taasisi hutoa msaada wa gari na matibabu kwa watoto mchana, lakini nyakati za usiku kukitokea dhararu inabidi shule igharamie ingawaje wakati mwingine hatuna fedha inakuwa ni changamoto kwetu.

Alisema Shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko yenye kutoa elimu jumuishi ina vitengo vya ufundi seremala (1975) wanafunzi wenye mahitaji maalumu ulemavu wa akili (1984) na viziwi na wasioona (Deafblidn) kilichoanzishwa mwaka 1994.

Wanafunzi ambao ni viziwi nao walipata fursa ya kuja kila kinachoendelea kutoka kwa mkalimani wao.

Mkuu wa Mahusiano wa benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Juanita Mramba akitangaza wanafunzi 17 ambao walishiriki shindano la kuhifadhi malengo mapya ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG's) wakati wa kukabidhi zawadi kwa wanafunzi hao wa shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez akikabidhi zawadi zilizotolewa na Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania kwa wanafunzi hao, sambamba na Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole akimkabidhi Mwalimu Mkuu wa Shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko, Anna Mshana (wa pili kushoto) moja kati ya kompyuta tano zilizolotolewa na Benki hiyo ikiwa ni kama ishara ya utekelezaji wa lengo namba nne “Quality Education” wakati wa uzinduzi wa Malengo mapya ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG’s) uliofanywa na Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania kwa kushirikiana na Umoja wa Mataifa katika shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko jijini Dar mwishoni mwa wiki. Kulia ni Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez na kushoto ni Mjumbe wa Bodi ya Shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko, Bw. Abubakar Mwambungu wakishuhudia tukio hilo.

Kompyuta tano zilizotolewa na Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania kwa shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole (wa tatu kushoto), Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez (katikati), Mwalimu Mkuu wa Shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchangayiko, Anna Mshana (wa pili kushoto), Mjumbe wa bodi ya kamati ya Shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko, Abubakari Mwambungu (kushoto) pamoja na baadhi ya wafanyakazi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania katika picha ya pamoja huku wakiwa wameshikilia miche ya miti mbalimbali ikiwemo ya matunda ambapo zaidi ya miche 150 ya miti ilipandwa kuzunguka mazingira ya shule hiyo kulinda mazingira ikiwa ni ishara kwa vitendo ya utekelezaji wa lengo namba 13 "Climate Action" kati ya Malengo 17 mapya ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG’s) nchini Tanzania.

Pichani juu na chini baadhi ya wanafunzi na walimu wa shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko waliohudhuria uzinduzi huo.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole sambamba na Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez wakishiriki zoezi la upandaji miti kuzunguka maeneo ya shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko jijini Dar mwishoni mwa wiki.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez akishiriki zoezi la upandaji miti sambamba na baadhi ya wanafunzi wa shule Uhuru mchanganyiko.

Mwalimu Mkuu wa Shule ya Msingi Uhuru Mchangayiko, Anna Mshana akitoa maelezo kwa Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez (aliyeinama) na Mkuu wa Mahusiano wa benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Juanita Mramba (kulia) walipotembelea darasa la awali la watoto wenye ulemavu wa macho (upofu) katika shule hiyo. Nyuma ya Mwalimu Mkuu ni Mjumbe wa Kamati ya Shule ya Msingi Uhuru Mchangayiko, Abubakar Mwambungu.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez akicheza na mtoto Fatuma Haji wa darasa la awali katika shule hiyo ambaye ni mlemavu wa macho alipotembelea darasa hilo kabla ya kuzindua wa Malengo mapya ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG’s) hafla iliyoandaliwa na Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania kwa kushirikiana na Umoja wa Mataifa katika shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko jijini Dar mwishoni mwa wiki.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole, Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez, Mkuu wa Mahusiano wa benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Juanita Mramba pamoja na ujumbe wao katika nyuso za masikitiko walipotembelea darasa la watoto wenye ulamavu wa macho (vipofu) na matatizo ya kutosikia (viziwi) katika shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole, Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez, Mkuu wa Mahusiano wa benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Juanita Mramba na ujumbe wao katika picha ya pamoja na wanafunzi ambao ni walemavu wa macho ambao pia ni viziwi katika shule ya msingi Uhuru mchanganyiko.

Walimu wa darasa la watoto wenye ulemavu wa macho ambao ni viziwi wakicheza ngoma na wanafunzi wao.

Maana ya ulemavu wa macho na kuwa kiziwi.

Mkutubi wa maktaba ya shule ya Uhuru mchanganyiko, Masanja akitoa maelezo ya namna mashine za kukuzia maandishi kwa wale wanafunzi wenye uono hafifu katika shule hiyo kwa Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole (kushoto) na Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez walipotembelea maktaba hiyo.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez akipitia Katiba maalum kwa watu wenye ulemavu wa macho iliyopo kwenye maktaba ya shule hiyo. Kushoto kwake ni Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole.

Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez na Ujumbe wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania ulioongozwa na Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole wakitembelea mambweni ya wanafunzi katika shule ya msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko.

Mwakilishi wa Mkurugenzi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania, Charles Katongole, Mratibu Mkazi wa Mashirika ya Umoja wa Mataifa na Mwakilishi wa Shirika la Maendeleo (UNDP) nchini, Alvaro Rodriguez pamoja na baadhi ya wafanyakazi wa Benki ya Standard Chartered Tanzania katika picha ya pamoja na baadhi ya wanafunzi wa shule ya Msingi Uhuru Mchanganyiko.