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UN Kicks Off Repatriation Programme for Refugees in Tanzania

The United Nations refugee has launched a landmark two-year programme to bring an end to one of the world's oldest protracted refugee situations: the exile of some 218,000 people from neighbouring Burundi who fled their country in 1972 to Tanzania.

Cholera Resurfaces in Slum Areas

Municipal authorities have issued an alert message to residents of Arusha calling them to be aware of an outbreak of cholera which until last week has rendered 54 residents bed ridden in a cholera camp.

Tanzania gets Aids help

Germany has signed an €18m aid agreement with Tanzania, as part of its budget support and to help it in its fight against Aids.

The Taskbar

You've reached the Taskbar. A new addition to the site which displays all current and recently completed tasks.

Task: Fundraiser @ UNIS.
Status: Completed.
Notes: We are pleased to announce that we will be having our first official fundraiser for Tanzania Sanitation Project this Friday (March 14th, 2008) in the UNIS main lobby. The purpose is to not only to fundraise, but also spread awareness about the pressing issues concerning the Tanzania Sanitation Project. Brochures will be available around UNIS on Thursday and at our event booth on Friday. Stop by and help us promote the path to a cleaner community in Tanzania!

Task: Meeting with UNICEF representative, Peter Uannuaman.
Status: Completed.
Notes: A meeting was held with UNICEF representative, Peter, Thursday February 21, 2008 to present the plans for the Tanzania Sanitation Project. We have posted notes from the meeting which can be found on our forums here.

Task: New Affiliation System.
Status: Active.
Notes: We are in the process of contacting numerous waste management organizations for extra support in the tasks at hand (both in the development stages of the project as well as the actual implementation stages). We are pleased to announce that a few organizations based in Africa have expressed interest in the project. We are working on an affiliation system that will allow your organization to be placed on our site in form of a "personal profile page." This system is currently in alpha development and will soon be available. If you would like to affiliate yourself (or have already done so) and would like to have your page setup please contact Jordan, our technology administrator, at: jordan@tanzaniasanitation.org.

About Us

The Tanzania Sanitation Project is a non-profit mission aiming for a healthier, stronger, greener future for Tanzania. The project was established and is currently operated by several 10th grade students and faculty of the United Nations International School in Manhattan, New York City. Growing up with international backgrounds and being exposed to such a tremendous diversity of cultures, we are aware of the beautiful contributions, talents and gifts each and every country has to offer to our world. However, what this global knowledge also provides us with is information regarding the monstrous problems that drown our earth. We, as international students and as the future of our world, refuse to sit here and watch our home and its people be deprived of achieving their full capacity due to their weakening living conditions that impair their great potential. Our future is in our hands, and together we can make a difference.

Proper waste management is a necessity for today's civilization in order to maintain a healthy, sanitary life, yet countless third-world countries are deprived of this need. The improper management of wastes triggers severe environmental and health problems, with the consequences of poor waste management on human health and the environment becoming more noticeable each day. Our project aims to implement a waste management system in Tanzania, one country where improper waste management uncontrollably affects and burdens the population's daily lives. If we succeed in establishing a proper waste management system in one country, the opportunities for this and other countries to grow are limitless, and will serve as a pilot for other countries also enduring the brutalities of improper waste management.

Our aim to improve the living conditions of Tanzania through proper waste management may be remedy to only one of the countless problems facing our earth, yet it's the foundation to a beautiful beginning of what could lead to a healthier life for those in need.

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