UN in deal to fight global poverty

Youth from higher learning institutions have launched a movement aimed at motivating positive change in rural areas where majority of Tanzanians reside.

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Can you help? Welling graduate needs funding to fight poverty in Zanzibar
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A Welling graduate will spend Christmas volunteering in Africa, as she joins the fight against poverty in Zanzibar. 22-year-old Tania Morton will fly to the Tanzanian city in December, and work there for three months. The development programme aims to ...

TASAF lays strategies to fight poverty in the Isles
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SOME families in Zanzibar are gradually getting out of poverty, thanks to programmes initiated by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) in the Isles. Some villagers in Mzuri-Makunduchi Village and South Unguja revealed the good news to the TASAF and ...

>Tanzania’s living in rural areas lack access to financial services for both agricultural and non-agricultural activities, a situation that depresses the rate of growth in the areas where over 75 per cent of the population lives.

TASAF launches projects to fight poverty in Kibaha
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TANZANIA Social Action Fund (TASAF) has introduced two income-generating projects in Kibaha District through savings and investments to cover all villages, it has been revealed. The project's coordinator, Mr Godson Harry, said here that already three ...

Ending poverty is one of 17 goals outlined by the UN to replace the Millennium Development Goals which expire this year, as Naomi Grimley explains.

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The Global Fight for Tanzania's Elephants
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A lone male elephant stands in the plains of the central Serengeti, September 6. Oscar Lopez for Newsweek. Filed Under: World, Elephants, Tanzania, elephant poaching, poaching. “If trends continue, Tanzania may not have any elephants left. It's going ...

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JK hails support, says fight must be global
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President Jakaya Kikwete displays vehicle ignition key after receiving it from Director of Germany's Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), Robert Muir (5th-R), at the handing over of 11 new vehicles at State House grounds in Dar es Salaam yesterday. The FZS ...
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