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Bakwata to implement US financed project
2006-11-01 09:06:16
By Felix Andrew
In an efforts to conserve ecosystem around coastal areas in Tanzania, for the first time, the American government has launched an environmental education project, worth half a million US dollars to cover five regions including Zanzibar and eleven districts in the mainland.
The project, which is funded by the USAID, will be implemented through the Roots and Shoots of Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in collaboration with the Muslim Council of Tanzania (Bakwata) and will be covered in Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Mtwara, Lindi and Coast regions.
US ambassador to Tanzania, Michael Retzer said yesterday in Dar es Salaam that the two-year project will engage and empower both primary schools and madrassa students.
”The Roots and Shoots project will demonstrate the power of combining environmental education and services learning into a youth focused theme, youth driven programme that seeks to address coastal and marine issues on Tanzania’s mainland and Islands,” he said.
The envoy said with the help of Bakwata and JGI, the Roots and Shoots programme will target 12, 650 primary school students and 12, 650 madrassa students.
About 440 teachers from both schools will be trained on coastal and marine ecosystem issues among other things.
Chief sheikh Mufti Shaban Issa Simba said environment is life which needed to be handled with care.
Mufti Simba said Bakwata would use the opportunity to educate Muslims and other Tanzanians on the role of keeping the environment safe.
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