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Meeting,
Exhibition
of children's art
Saturday 16 June, 11 am - midnight Swahili: Tanzania ya Nyerere: Mafunzo ya maendeleo, umoja na amani
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Nyerere's Tanzania |
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Trinity United
Reformed Church, Buck Street, London NW1
Entrance to exhibition:
by donation
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On Soweto Day & the Day of the African Child
11 am-1 pm Exhibition of children's art The Work that Children Do Drawings, paintings, collage, sculpture, writings... from children in Butiama (Tanzania), Chattisgarh (India), Dublin & Galway (Ireland), Barcelona (Spain) & some London schools. The art will draw attention to how hard children must work to survive poverty, in Africa and India. Although most children in Britain do not have to work as hard, many live in poverty and many are carers. 175,000 children as young as five look after parents who are ill or have disabilities; others take care of younger children when their parents are out at work on top of schoolwork. Children's work, especially the work that girls do, is mostly hidden & unrecognised |
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2-5 pm Meeting
Nyerere's Tanzania
Republication in English & first publication in Spanish of In 1967, newly independent Tanzania led by President Julius Nyerere issued The Arusha Declaration, one of the great documents of the 20th century. It confronts the problems for economically poor countries developing economically while trying to remain independent of international capital. Beginning with the working life of the people, especially of women in the countryside who ‘work harder than anyone else’, it sets out an alternative strategy of Ujamaa or `African socialism': self-reliance, co-operation and preventing the corruption of the government and the ruling party. President Nyerere continued the struggle for African unity which President Nkrumah of Ghana had initiated. Despite poverty, Tanzania has uniquely succeeded in avoiding ethnic and other wars and dictatorships. As President Hugo Chávez announces Venezuela's withdrawal from the World Bank and the IMF in favour of an economic union of Third World countries, the principles of The Arusha Declaration are again on the agenda. |
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To celebrate the abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago,
8 pm till late Butiama is President Nyerere's village where the family still lives. All proceeds will go to the school there started by Mme Maria Nyerere, his widow. Some of the work of its pupils will be included in the exhibition.
BIN
(Kazuko Hohki, Andy Cox & Marvin Miller) |
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Global Women's
Strike
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