An Inclusive Video

We normally think of just some aspects of inclusion to people with special needs. The truth stands firm requiring us to include people with diverse needs in every aspect of their lives!

                                  This video is inclusive to people with Hearing Impairment!

DEREVA ASIYE NA MIKONO NCHINI CHINA AZUIWA KUENDESHA GARI

Polisi nchini China wamemkamata mtu asiyekuwa na mikono akiendesha gari. Bwana huyo Wo Guo (45) si tu kwamba hakuwa na leseni bali alikuwa akitumia mguu wake wa kulia kubadili gia huku mguu wa kushoto ukikanyaga mafuta na breki.

Msemaji wa polisi amesema: "Ni jambo la ajabu, lakini ni hatari sana kwake kuendesha gari." Polisi huyo amesema itakuwa vyema kama ataajiri dereva wa kumuendesha. Gari la bwana Wo linashikiliwa na polisi ili kumzuia asiendelee kuendesha.

Bwana WO akiendesha gari

Bwana WO akihojiwa na askari polisi

Ukichunguza kwa makini juu ya jambo hili utagundua kuwa watu wenye ulemavu wana uwezo wa kufanya mambo mengi, wana vipaji vingi, wanaweza kuthubutu; lakini ulinzi na uangalizi kupita kiasi (overprotection) kutoka kwenye jamii zao unarudisha nyuma uthubutu wao.

Picha na taarifa kutoka Metro na CEN.

Msaada wa Matibabu kwa mtoto Maimuna Yahaya

Mtoto Maimuna Yahaya (11) anayesoma shule ya msingi ya watoto wenye mahitaji maalum (wenye ulemavu) ya Irente Rainbow (Lushoto- Tanga) darasa la pili, anasumbuliwa na tatizo la mifupa na ukubwa wa kichwa tangu kuzaliwa kwake, tatizo lililompelekea kuwa na ulemavu wa viungo na mtindio wa ubongo.

Mama wa mtoto huyo, bi. Tunu Juma amesema amekuwa akimpeleka mwanae huyo Maimuna katika hospitali ya KCMC kwa muda wa miaka 11. Hali ya mtoto inaendelea kuimarika, anaweza kukaa na  anaweza kuongea. Bi. Tunu amekuwa akimpeleka mwanae huyu shule na kumsubiri hadi wamalizapo masomo ya siku na kumrejesha nyumbani kwa muda wa miaka miwili.

Bi. Tunu anasema kwa sasa hali yake ya kiuchumi si nzuri, anashindwa kumpeleka mwanae kuhudhuria matibabu KCMC, hivyo anaomba msaada wa kifedha kwa wasamalia wema ili mtoto wake aendelee na matibabu.

 

Maimuna Yahaya

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Who Can Real Serve Up People With Disabilities In Tanzania?

Tanzania is a big country, behind each stage of life there are strong stumbling blocks for social-economic and political affairs for people with disabilities. Where shall these impaired people go? How can they escape the iron life within their country? For how long shall they suffer from these blocks?

In Tanzania, particularly in public service, if one finds the available service for people with disability, then one assumes that, there was either once a disabled person worked at that particular place, or the one who served that particular office had close and immediate tasted the disgusting conditions of disability from the immediate important relatives, children, parents and other family members.

John F. Kennedy, former US President.

John F. Kennedy, the former US president, became aware with disability affairs when his own blood sister was found having cognitive disability; and from his immediate taste of disability, Kennedy made sure that all rehabilitation centers for disabled people in the country were in good conditions.

Frankline D. Roosevelt, former US President 

Frankline Delano Roosevelt, also the former US president, who was himself, had tasted the side effects of disability by being rejected to some extend and got little trust from his fellow Americans for his first term presidential election only because he had disability; tried his all efforts to make sure all people in the US have equal access to all matters related to human affairs including those with disabilities. Nowadays one finds intensive services for disabled people in America, all these services are the reflections of custodian classes who were once affected by the unbearable psychological and physical pains resulted from disability.

In Tanzania context, it is not bad wish, but surely, things will be on their right position if and only if one of the custodian classes will taste the psychological and even the physical pains of disability. For instance, the dormant and function-less official documents for people with disabilities will become powerful, functional and active ones when one of the responsible custodians will be of the group of disabled people in Tanzania.

I therefore, hereby advice the president of next term in Tanzania to consider people with disabilities by appointing some people with disabilities to be in the cabinet.

Speech of the late Father of the nation, J. K. Nyerere on18 Februari, 1974 addressed issues of disability. It was presented in Kiswahili as follows:-

"…Wasiojiweza wa nchi hii wanachohitaji sana ni nafasi ya kushiriki kwa ukamilifu na kwa usawa katika mambo ya nchi yao. Kulemaa miguu au mikono maana yake siyo kwamba mtu yule sasa ni mtu nusu. Maana yake tu ni kwamba yako mambo fulani kilema huyu hawezi kuyafanya; na kwa hiyo ziko kazi fulani hawezi kuzifanya, na matumaini fulani, ambayo hawezi kuwa nayo. Lakini yako mambo mengi mengine ambayo angeweza kufanya kama sisi tulio na viungo vyetu kamili tungemsaidia ayafanye. Vivyo hivyo kwa mtu aliye kipofu, au aliye kiziwi. Watu hao si wapumbavu, wala si magogo, eti kwa sababu tu ya vilema vyao. Wanahitaji msaada wetu kuwawezesha kuvishinda vipingamizi walivyo navyo, na kuwawezesha kuyafanya kwa ukamilifu yale mengine wanayoweza kuyafanya.”

Disability is NOT inability

A person may have abnormalities in any part of the body but perform daily life activities as other people do!

A woman who has no legs and arms is singing
emotionally during one of the daily functions

Let us think positively for paving the way to the positive attitudes about people with disabilities. It will help us much to see ABILITY beyond disability.

Maalim apinga Muungano wa serikali mbili

Makamu wa Kwanza wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad amesema chama chake cha CUF hakiko tayari kujadili mfumo wa Muungano wa serikali mbili kama inavyotetewa na wabunge wa CCM na Rais Jakaya Kikwete.

Amesema tayari amewaandikia barua Rais Kikwete na Rais wa Zanzibar, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein kuwaeleza juu ya msimamo huo.

Maalim Seif alitoa msimamo huo jana kwenye mkutano wa hadhara uliofanyika kwenye viwanja vya Kibandamaiti mjini Unguja.

Isitoshe, alisema CUF imebaini kuwa kuna njama za kufuta kipengele katika Katiba ya Zanzibar kinachosema; “Zanzibar ni nchi” na kwamba hiyo ni sawa na kutwanga maji kwenye kinu kwa kuwa Wazanzibari kamwe hawatakubali kufanya hivyo.

Maalim Seif alisema haikuwa mwafaka kwa Rais Kikwete kukosoa mapendekezo ya Rasimu ya Katiba yanayotaka mfumo wa Muungano kuwa wa serikali tatu.

Alisema Jaji Warioba aliweka kando itikadi yake ya CCM katika utendaji wake kwenye Tume ya Mabadiliko ya Katiba na kuja na uamuzi huo kwa vile ndiyo tiba ya kero za Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar.

“Mapendekezo yaliyowasilishwa na Jaji Warioba hayakuwa maoni yake, yale ni maoni ya wananchi, Tanganyika imevaa koti la Muungano, ametoa ushahidi wake ili kujenga mwafaka katika kuendeleza Muungano wenye mfumo wa serikali tatu,” alisema Maalim Seif.

Alisema Muungano wa serikali mbili hauvumiliki na kama kuna watu wanaendelea kuutetea mfumo huo, Zanzibar inaweza kutumia sheria yake ya kura ya maoni kuwauliza wananchi wanaotaka na wasiotaka jambo hilo.

“Nimemwandikia barua Rais Kikwete, nakala nimempelekea Rais wa Zanzibar Dk Ali Mohamed Shein, Tanzania Bara wanataka Zanzibar iondoe kifungu cha Katiba kinachosema Zanzibar ni nchi, jambo hilo halitapita...tutafanya kampeni wananchi walikatae,” alieleza Katibu Mkuu huyo wa CUF.

Alisema ni jambo la kusikitisha katika hotuba yake alijisahau kama ni mkuu wa nchi na analihutubia Bunge Maalumu badala yake akaegemea kuwa mwenyekiti wa CCM.

Alisema haikuwa sahihi kutoa vitisho na kutaja ikiwa Serikali ya Muungano chini ya Serikali tatu italegalega, jeshi litachukua madaraka ya nchi.

“Rafiki na ndugu yangu Kikwete, usifikiri huu ni wakati ule wa Julius Nyerere, akisema yeye hakuna wa kumpinga. Mambo yamebadilika, usijifanye ni Nyerere mpya, hakuna atakayekusikiliza na kubabaika,” alisisitiza Maalim Seif.

Alisema ikiwa viongozi wa Muungano wanajiandaa kutisha watu na kusababisha ghasia katika nchi, mahakama ya kimataifa ya makosa ya jinai ipo na watakaosababisha fujo na umwagaji wa damu watafikishwa mbele ya mikono ya sheria bila ya kujali nyadhifa na madaraka yao.

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