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The new constructed green house for the Kishapu district’s youth program (Photo credit: Kisuma Mapunda/Oxfam)

Influencing Policy Makers to support women and youth

Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Employment, Youth and the Disabled) has been impressed with Oxfam in Tanzania's intervention in supporting youth in region of Kishapu. This was after the Deputy, visited the first green house for Mwanga...

Nashuru having received her heifer from Oxfam as part of the women's empowerment program. Photo: Bill Marwa / Oxfam

Heifers, changing lives of Maasai women

It is a rather cold day in the mountainous Enguserosambu village in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. Maasai women, all dressed up in their traditional colorful clothes, are waiting, some in excitement, some in disbelief. “It is going to be an emotional day,” says Nashuru, as she waits for her turn to...