Tips to reduce waste and household garbage

>Our most important city is chocked stinking, with garbage strewn everywhere. It is a shame, for we shouldn’t allow it to be that way, given that the Haven of Peace (as Dar es Salaam is affectionately referred to) should personify the United Republic of Tanzania’s goodness! It should be exemplary in all aspects, including tidiness.

A group of adults chatting  in a residential neighbourhood create an impression of a happy lot; so do energetic children playing hide-and-seek. Behind the veneer are many sick people, victims of ailments like pneumonia and numerous other respiratory illnesses caused by emissions from charcoal and wood used in indoor cooking. Gradually, the erstwhile healthy people become critically ill, some of whom end up dying!

A Canadian team has come up with an ingenious solution for using an ordinary power drill safely in surgery - wrapping it in a sterile bag

Common household cleaners can trigger asthma in children  Daily SabahExposure to Cleaning Products May Compromise Infants' Lungs  MedscapeScented house-cleaning products may raise the risk of asthma in toddlers - Insider  INSIDEREarly exposure to cleaning products increases the risk of asthma among young children - The Jakarta Post  Jakarta PostExposure to cleaning products in first 3 months of life increases risk of childhood asthma  EurekAlertView Full coverage on Google...

Dar Man's Grand Innovation Solves Myriad Household Needs
AllAfrica.com
One thing that all the time stuns a good number of people living in and around Stop Over, Kimara Mwisho and Suka areas along Morogoro Road in Dar es Salaam Region, is how a middle aged man turned a motor cycle into a multipurpose machine solving ...

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University, foreign institution research on improvement of household life standards
IPPmedia
Mzumbe University and Tampere University in Finland have started working together on a research on how to improve life standards at household level in Tanzania. The varsity's Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof Josephat Itika said the collaboration aims at finding ...

What a colossal waste!
Daily News
The introduction to a Page One story in yesterday's edition of this newspaper; “They studied hard. They sat for their National Form Four Examinations with all hope. They scored well and qualified for advanced level education,” adequately summed up the ...

Readers tend to pay little attention to newspaper stories on development. And even when they do, it is only when the story is made juicy. At this point, when almost everyone in Tanzania seems to be mesmerised by the political drama ahead of the October election, we are likely to witness that kind of thing.

Ashraf Suleiman, a prominent cruiserweight boxer, has decided to turn his back on boxing for judo, hoping to leave a mark on the international stage.