Today 26 Feb. 2016 is my great pleasure day, women from my community are very strong even though 90% of them are illirate, after their 3 months struggle to ensure the system work upon those 2 police who arrested and brutaly tortured 2 Maasai men here in Sunya ward, today the OCID of our district visited one of the victims and met with the leaders of movement and committed to work with them till the end of the sad story. SWEAT who were there too and the women movement thanks and honor his visit.

Below photos are taken on 12th April 2016 at Asamato village one of the 6 villages forming Sunya ward and the home of the 2 tortured by police Maasai men, the meeting brought together women who are the hosts and men who invites to discuss the incident. Photo taken by SWEAT office.

THE LETTER IS IN SWAHILI PG 1&2 ON THE LEFT OF THE PAGE

IN RECENT DAY SINCE 30TH nOVEMBER 2015 sweat AND sUNYA mAASAI wOMEN mOVEMENT WERE CONDUCTING TRADITIOONAL MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE INCEDENT OF pOLICE IN THE WARD AREST 2 mAASAI YOUNG MEN AND TOTRUED AND TOOK MORE THAN 500,000TZS FROM THEM. WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AND DONE WAS 1. CONTACTING THE DISTRICT AREA COMMISSION ON 1ST DEC. 2015 AND REPORT THE INCIDENT TO HIM, 18TH JAN. REPORT AGAIN TO HIM AND HE INVITED A TEAM OF 4 WOMEN AND SWEAT COORDINATOR TO VISIT HIS OFFICE AND MEET WITH HIS DISTRICT SECURITY TEAM AND AFTER HAVING DISCUSSION HE AGREED WITH US AND ASKED US TO COME BACK TO HIS TEAM ON 22ND WITH THE TORTURED MEN SOMETHING WE DONE, AFTER HEARING FROM THE MEN HE OLDER THE DISTRICT POLICE COMMAND TO TOOK OUR TEAM OF 8 TO HIS OFFICE AND INTERROGATE THE INCIDENT AND THE TORTURED TO BE TAKE TO THE DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOR MORE TREATMENT AND DOCTORS REPORT, ALL THESE WAS DONE AND THE PF3 FORM WAS SHARED WITH HIS OFFICE. ON 4TH FEB. 2016 THROUGH THE SUPPORT FROM PINGOs FORUM OF ARUSHA THE MEDIA VISITED US AND DOCUMENT THE INCIDENT. ON 15TH mARCH 2016 SWEAT AND THE MAASAI WOMEN MOVEMENT AGREED TO WROTE AN INVITATION LETTER TO THE DC FOR HIM TO VISIT THE AREA AND HOLD PUBLIC MEETING SO THE COMMUNITY WILL GAVE HIM WHAT THEIY ARE SEEING US NOT WORKING ACCORDING TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE THEIR COMMUNITY DONE BY THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, APPOINTED AND ELECTED LEADERS. THE LETTER THAT WAS COPIED TO REGION COMMISSION,PM OFFICE AND DISTRICT MP, THE LETTER WAS HANDED TO HIM THE SAME DAY BUT UP TO NOW 10TH OF APRIL 2016 BE HAVE NOT VISITED.

NEED FOR MAASAI WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Maasai community is one of the pastoral communities living in Kiteto district. Women in the group are marginalised, discriminated and illterate, they are 85-90% the cares of the families and they are livestocks though they don't have right in ownerships of the family properties, they are exclude in decission making and not give priorties in education.

In recent years the community is trying to adapt changes, they are opting to cultivation, starting small bussines and a big number of young boys are running to towns for guards poor paid work. Women are selling tobacco and other arts work, they are opting on this shame because it is the only kind of a bussines they can run. Selling of milk is another bussines they are doing but they don' have reliable customers pending to the low price they are being given of Tshs.200 to 600 per liter of milk. (see attached picture of Maasai women sitting at Kibaya market place selling ugolo )

SWEAT is training to fundraise for a sum of USD25,000, for a one year project to support 10 Maasai groups in 5 village in Kiteto district. The aim of this project is to support each group with 1 unit of a mannual milk cream separator, by using these machine the groups will add value to their milk and generate reliable income through selling cream. Also the funding will be used to train them in income generating activities management.

SWEAT is request all interested in supporting them to contact us for partnerships.

CARE monitoring team visiting partners organizations in Kiteto.

Maasai women participation in project actvities. A one day dialogue to discuss conflict management between pastoralists and peasants in Kiteto distruct.(Funder, CARE International Tanzania)

In to weeks ago SWEAT had managed to rent it of postal box, so our new postal address will be

SWEAT Development Programme

P.O BOX 146,

KIBAYA KITETO email: sweatdp99@yahoo.com/sweatdp99@gmail.com

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