Widows benefit from TASAF grants

The Alliance for a Green Revolution (Agra) yesterday announced that it will issue $4.25 million (about Sh7 billion) grants.

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260173 families benefit from TASAF programmes
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At least 260,173 families have benefited from the third phase of the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) by March this year, the National Assembly was told yesterday. The Minister of State for Public Relations and Coordination, Mary Nagu said here that the ...

>The Tanzania Social Action Trust Fund (Tasaf) has strongly urged district councils to ensure that only the people living below the poverty line benefit from the ongoing implementation of the third phase of the programme.

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TASAF phase three to benefit 1.2 million vulnerable households in Mara Region
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TARIME Member of Parliament Mr Nyambari Nyangwine has urged officials here to ensure that implementation of Tanzania Action Social Trust Fund (TASAF) phase three benefits most vulnerable families. The MP said it will be unfair to list people with good ...

I'm helping widows in Tanzania have a better life - through knitting
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“I thought it would be really depressing, but it was the best travelling I've ever done.” Celina Comninos has enjoyed several stints of globe-trotting, but it was a trip to Tanzania five years ago which changed her life. She stayed with the family of the man who set ...

Dodoma widows get iftar food donations
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THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Community here has supported 80 widows at Viwandani wards in Dodoma Municipality with foodstuffs for iftar. The Community's Central Zone Sheikh, Bashart ur Rehman Butt said that the donation, which comprises foods such as rice ...

Widows fight over husband's burial place
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THE dispute involving the burial of a body that was exhumed on court orders took an interesting twist as widows of the deceased testified in court, each claiming the right to bury their loved one. Before Resident Magistrate Munga Sabuni, one of the widows, ...

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Widows' Eviction Highlights Need To Abolish Tanzania's Discriminatory Laws
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(Newsroom America) -- Tanzania is being urged to take steps to revise or repeal laws, customs and practices that discriminate against women following the case of two widows who were prevented from inheriting their late husbands' property and were left ...
Widows’ eviction highlights Tanzania’s discriminatory laws: UN expertsindiablooms
UN rights experts urge Tanzania to prevent discrimination...

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Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish Tanzania's discriminatory laws, UN ...
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Delegates attend a meeting of the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Photo: Jean-Marc Ferré (file). Print. 1 April 2015 – Tanzania should take steps to revise or repeal laws, customs and practices that ...
Widows' eviction highlights need to abolish or amend Tanzania's discriminatory ...StarAfrica.com

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