The Lenten journey demands of us an attentive ear, an empty heart, a docile will, a patient body, and at the rock-layer of all these, a fervent, compassionate and faithful soul. This is the ideal at the heart of the teaching of Christianity. But it is more especially demanded of us in this Lenten pilgrimage as we deeply meditate on the greatest accomplishment of our ‘becoming’.
Children should be taught that being disabled is not something to use against people and make them feel ashamed, less valued, or of no substantial contribution.
The children who this year 2023 are learning under trees are technically expected to globally compete with their peers in the job market in 18 years. Are we expecting them to run at the same pace as other children in the country and the world at large while they are left behind in all aspects of learning?
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Welcome to my website. I trust you are so excited, just as I am. Shimbo Pastory is my name, and I am a Tanzanian social development advocate, researcher and whistleblower who has been using the print media as an avenue for good societal cause.
With over 200 published articles on social issues featuring in reputable publications, my motivation remains to be the aspiration that Tanzanian and African societies advance in social justice, empowerment, inclusion, and emancipation of the people.
Globally, statistics show that 1.3 billion people still live in multidimensional poverty with almost half of them being children and youth. In Tanzania, numerous poverty reduction strategies seek to increase the quality of life such as access to education, clean water, sanitation, and health services.
Reducing food waste should be among the critical solutions to the food insecurity challenges. When we implement holistic solutions for greater resilience to food insecurity, food waste management should be among the core agendas.
Literacy in a widened understanding goes beyond the conventional, i.e. ‘reading and writing’ as the global dream incorporates the impartation of skills which help to nurture talents and also to foster measurable and functional participation in society.
At an early age, left-handed children can also be told of the successful and globally reputed left-handers.
Globally, as per research on the global prevalence of blindness and distant and near vision impairment which was published by iOVS Journal in 2020, out of the global population of 7.79 billion people in the year 2020, 41.9 million were visually impaired.
Most causes of these societal stresses or what we call ‘stressors’ are historical, systemic or structural. By this we mean they have roots or/and link with the history of the people, or are out of customary norms.