By Staff Reporter, Dodoma
THE Tanzanians living with numerous impairements have applauded President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan for stepping up diverse inteventions towards improving their welfare, especially in economic empowerment.
The kudos have been showered to the Head of State at a special event tailored for the launching ceremony of the more than 9bn/- worth mining equipments of the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO) in Dodoma Capital City.
The event that took shape at Dodoma's famous Jakaya Kikwete Conference Center was graced by President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan.
Airing his brief remarks on behalf of the physical challenged citizens, the Director and Founder of the Foundation for Disability Hope (FDH), Mr Maiko Salali expressed that President Dr Samia has seeded a humanitarian seed which will always remain within the hearts of majority of the Tanzanians living with numerous forms of disabilities.
Giving a vivid example, Mr Salali said a successive move by the sixth phase government to reshuffle the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO) has triggered a major boost and a sigh of hope towards the disabled, particularly the albinos.
"The people with skin impairement are the big victims of enviromental degradation as excessive cutting down of trees have been exposing them to the direct effects of sunrays, the unfriendly situation which often places them in posible chance to suffer from skin cancer cases," he expressed.
To help overcoming the situation, he said STAMICO has innovated and so far embarked in the manufacturing of Rafiki Briquettes, the environmentally-friendly alternative charcoal which its producing process help to reduce cutting down of trees.
"Through introduction of the charcoal, most of the disabled people have managed to employ themselves in terms of becoming agents, or directly engaging into marketing of the useful sources of power,"he told the President.
Mr Salali urged the other Institutions from the public and private sector to emulate the good example demonstrated by STAMICO to include the disabled communities in their daily implementations.
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION FOR DISABILITY HOPE (FDH)
The Foundation for Disabilities Hope (FDH) is a Non Governmental Organization dealing with issues of Advocacy for the rights and equality of groups of people with disabilities, youth and children.
The institution was officially registered in 2019 and obtained National Registration under Act No. 00NGO/R/004. The FDH headquarters are based in Dodoma Capital City of Tanzania.
Foundation for disabilities hope organization came by the time when activists saw different challenges that people with disabilities faced in the society. The organization was founded by youth’s activists in 2016 where people with disabilities faced various challenges like killing of people with albinism, discriminated in education by parents, infrastructures were not favorable and others within the society. And these challenges were hardly solved within the society along with the unawareness of the society about disability and people with disability.
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