Juma is a poor fisherman who loves telling tales. Amina is the girl who loves to hear his stories. They long to be together, but Amina’s father, Ali, wants a better life for her. Ali finds this in Yustus, a rich but self‐serving young suitor.
Juma is a poor fisherman who loves telling tales. Amina is the girl who loves to hear his stories. They long to be together, but Amina’s father, Ali, wants a better life for her. Ali finds this in Yustus, a rich but self‐serving young suitor.
Annie Anopheles is a malaria-transmitting mosquito. She tries to befriend Kinara and his friend Maua by feeding them misinformation about malaria. PataPata, a radio program aimed at children in Tanzania, follows the adventures of Kinara, Maua and Annie Anopheles as they learn about malaria in
Aluminum-sheet structures visible from the road to Kilosa, Tanzania, appear to be agricultural storage sheds, but at closer range, the smoke and cacophony of sounds from kids playing and crying tell a different story. This is a small community—one of four allocated for flood victims.
Three young children – ages 2, 5 and 8 – from one family in Chegena village, Tanzania, fall ill at the same time. In this village, it is not uncommon to blame witchcraft for such a sad occurrence. The parents of these sick children believed
“Six years ago we used to record around 600 deaths due to malaria, and last year we only had 10 or 12 deaths,” said Mr. Abdullah S. Ali, Director of the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program during a recent visit with Congressional offices on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Matt Lynch, director of CCP’s Global Program on Malaria, addressed a crowd of 20,000 people on live television in Swahili at the national Mwenge celebration in Kigoma, Tanzania on October 14, 2010. The Mwenge is the Uhuru (freedom) torch which, since independence, is taken
Bed nets and mosquitoes are not often mentioned as sources of inspiration for fashion designers, but they featured prominently at this year’s Swahili Fashion Week. Swahili Fashion Week is an annual fashion extravaganza for designers from Swahili-speaking countries. It promotes the “Made in East Africa”
Chip Heath and Dan Heath, bestselling authors and consultants to CCP’s successful Fataki campaign in Tanzania, are the 2010 recipients of the Center for Communication Programs’ Gold Medallion. CCP will be honoring the Heath brothers for their outstanding contribution to CCP’s mission of saving lives and
The Center for Communication Programs conducted a Leadership in Strategic Health Communication workshop on October 19, 2010 for the senior management team of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania. Under the auspices of the STRADCOM and COMMIT projects, the workshop emphasized the
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