Giving the book a new lease of life

Tanzania: Giving the Book a New Lease of Life
AllAfrica.com
The sound of voices mingles with a clapping of hands. At Pingo Primary, pupils, parents, invited guests and teachers join in song. It's the climax of a month-long reading competition that has brought together five schools from Bagamoyo District ...

Our central railway system is a sad testimony of just how much our country has stagnated or backtracked instead of making social and economic strides with the passage of time.

>In mid-December last year, I warned that “elite fiddling with terrorism [is] pushing democracy to the brink”.

>Seventy-two-year-old Walter Bgoya has a passion for conserving and protecting Dar es Salaam’s architectural heritage, which is now on the brink of being wiped out by greedy real estate developers.

This is the first part of a series of Azim Jamal’s articles on benefits of giving. Read on: It is only in the giving that we receive. If you want happiness, give happiness. If you want wealth, give wealth. If you want love, give love.

A place where entrepreneurs can turn their ideas into products, the BBC visits Namibia's "fabrication laboratory".

>Every woman has a group of friends that she calls her “girls”, these form her intimate circle of friends with whom she shares everything about her life. It could be a group of 3-4 friends whom you go way back or it could be that one woman whom you probably grew up with, studied with or who they have a history with. This woman is her diary, her best friend for life and sister from another mother.

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1-7 to highlight the vital role breastfeeding plays.  Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is one of the simplest, smartest and most cost-effective ways to support children to grow healthy and strong.

This year’s theme is, ‘Breastfeeding: a winning goal for life!’ which underscores the critical link between breastfeeding and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This linkage is...

Greetings, a group of more than 1000 humble good Samaritans have joined and opened a group on face book for blood donations for free in Dar.
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