Monday, March 26, 2012

Mustapha handling a laptop


CHICKEN RISING& MY COMPUTER SKILLS.
Dear friends, to day I would like to share with you about chicken rising project development and my computer skills.
CHICKEN RISING DEVELOPMENT.
In June last year, I received grant from U.S department of states which was about $930 which was specifically funded for chicken rising project. I did all of the building of chickens home, and I bought 30 chickens and started production, to day I have 80 chickens which means the project has increased for200%. Also chicken rising project has born into another project which is women cloth making project. Where by 5 mothers are leaning how to use sewing machine to make clothes, the I established this program specifically to improve the skills of women so that they can use them to earn income which can help them to buy their children's education, as well as the nutritious food for their family and help to address the problem of Ignorance and Malnutrition in our community, also the project will reduce too much dependence of women to their husbands, and abolish women oppression by their husbands and create gender balance in our society. Since this time I already bought 1 sewing machine for the project, and registration of the group at the village level  completed, The women has started to learn how to make the clothes, Our focus is to open Bank account for the group and learn how to save and invest, also we are focusing to register new group member in every beginning of the each new year so that we can reach and inspire as many women as we can. I am facing with challenges like 1. Lack of enough time to spend with my group members, because of schooling, this makes as to have very limited time to meet and discuss issues related to our project, 2. Also lack of sources to generate more funds so that we can buy enough sewing machines and pays for training so that we can provide that skills to many women and even opening the same project to the villages around our village so that we can impact a large area.
MY COMPUTER SKILLS.
My trip to USA is an adventure, it created contacts, my host family they are now my life time friends.
chicken enjoying meal.
Before I went to USA my computer knowledge it was like zero, just heard about computer, but my trip to USA forced me to learn about computer as it was very important for almost everything. Like E-mail, I did not know how to use E-mail as touching computer was a dream to me. My host family gave me a laptop, I learnt how to open E-mail account, and now I can communicate with every one via E-mail. My Blog could not be there if I did not have this opportunity to travel to USA, and the knowledge is now going up, as a result I know how to create blog for my self and others as well as opening E-mail accounts for my friends in school and make them get connected and go parallel with the world of science and technology.
I would like to have something like computer project, that computers should be easily available at special or subsidized price for secondary schools students across the country, and also all secondary schools in Tanzania each should be equipped with computer and projector, and since the country had fibre optic for internet connection, then the shortage of teachers could be reduced as one teacher could be able to teach many schools in Tanzania. I am sure the problem of addressing shortage of science teachers will be a past history.
Mustapha with a Laptop.
All these vision came from USA trip, that exposed me to many things, and if someone does not know how to use modern technology then development will also be a dream. It is like living in different world.