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Belgium-Tanzania association formed
2006-09-03 10:04:35
By Correspondent Michael Haonga
The newly elected President of the Belgium Alumni Association of Tanzania (BAAT), Professor Fredrick Mwanuzi of the University of Dar es Salaam, has vowed to ensure the newly formed association lives up to its aims and objectives to cement further existing friendly ties between the two countries.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Observer, Professor Mwanuzi said the association, which was inaugurated last week by Tanzania’s Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Professor Peter Msolla, has 15 objectives.
They include fostering humane fellowship amongst its members and other stakeholders and creating a platform for them to interact with a view to exchanging views on how to deploy and advance their knowledge for greater achievements in various fields.
In the same vein, the association is banked upon to help create, promote, uphold and maintain upright and respectable values of professional, academic, moral and social image of the members and the general public.
Members are also reminded on various cardinal roles as beneficiaries of education attained through Belgium/Tanzania co-operation and expected returns to the people of the two countries in frog-leaping towards greater social economic development.
The association has three categories of membership categorized as regular membership, associate membership and honorary membership.
The last category is confined to distinguished persons, bodies who do not have full membership apart from attending meetings of the association.
Inaugurating the association, Minister Msolla urged it to be a platform for those who studied in Belgium to meet twice or so a year to, among other things, exchange views and map strategies on how to advance and play positive roles development-wise.
Belgium and Tanzania co-operate in a number of socio-economic activities in agriculture, institutional capacity building and research.
Under capacity building, areas covered include ICT establishment and development, support to Sokoine National Agricultural Library, staff training to Master of Science and PhD levels, as well as upgrading the basic sciences Unit to the faculty of science.
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