Yeah Dears, im on a roll with posts today. Lol! Anyways, all about Tanzania!!!
So another adorable & inspiring lady is Nancy Sumari. She recently launched her own book called
" Nyota Yako" which basically means "your star" isnt that inspiring? just the title of the book itself brings in some positive and motivational force in you.
Anyways, so i thought i should share the news with you.
All of these activities are involved with how much you want something...the passion..the effort and most of all the faith you have to achieve it. So yeah, be a change people! Be good and be an inspiration to the next generation.
Pictures source: google image but ofcourse www.mamazuri.com is the real source
Nancy explains about "Nyota Yako"
Video credits: Shamim Mwasha
Nothing to do in relation to the Labour World- this is part of the rollercoaster in achieving the labour degree! xxx
Recently, as i was browsing on Haki Ngowi's web, i saw a post on april 10th 2013 on "ShuleDirect".
So this is how i came across these interesting news on the launch of "shuledirect" in Tanzania.
The "ShuleDirect" program is aimed to improve the education for secondary students in both private and public schools. www.shuledirect.co.tz is an interactive portal where secondary students can log in and have a 101 session with getting help from teachers. In addition, students can also do quizzes and submit them.
I'm happy to hear any secondary student can access this student portal free of charge.
However, i have a concern on the outreach of this program, the accessibility to those studying in public schools especially in the rural areas where there have limited resources. If it means all secondary government schools should all have internet access for the program to work effectively then that should be in place.
The ShuleDirect project is a good investment and i would not want to see a waste of such good effort put together by Faraja Kotta Nyalandu and others. i am concerned on public schools since the majority of secondary students in Tanzania go to government schools directly after primary school. I wish i found statistics to support my point view however there isnt any from recent data in the internet. so take it from me just like this..speaking as a Tanzanian that's the truth. In the exception of those who can afford private secondary schools in which i aint much concerned because the majority of these schools are stable to offer ShuleDirect program to their students. None the less, it means parents should push on this program so that their children can get more familiar to the program. When a child is idle then he or she can log onto shuledirect and solve a few questions :)
Anyways, that being said. i would like to say a big hongera to Faraja Kotta Nyalandu, the founder of shuledirect. Indeed she is inspiring.
pictures source: Haki Ngowi.
video: youtube put by Shamim Mwasha
Now Listen & Watch Faraja Kotta Nyalandu as she explains about ShuleDirect
Proud to see Tanzania rising! polepole tu, solutions to last years perfomance in final exams for secondary students zitapatikana tu!
We are now heading towards March as this being the last week in February 2013.
I had a one week reading break which was quite nice and seemed too short.
I'm now back to school to finish the other half of the semester.
School wise, I have another Op-ed assignment to finish. I will be giving my opinion on how the grievance and arbitration system is a very good way of dealing with problems at the workplace.
As i said this semester alot will be going on, as all my courses are based on "Labour relations".
As for last week, I learnt another important work aspect on "Behaviour Based Safety Programs" by Cathy Walker.
Workplace Behaviour is a very interesting topic to understand because you get to know:
Aspects like whether it is the employee to blame when incidents like injuries occur at the workplace
Employer's take on an incident?
Should Financial incentives at work be enhanced?
Whats good between internal responsibility system or external responsibility?
So such concepts are well covered by Cathy Walker concerning Behavior Based Safety Programs.
At most times when incidents happen, it is well known to be the employee's fault for being careless or a "village idiot" as referred by Robert Sass, the father of the three worker health and safety rights. Basically the theory assumes that workers are stupid and choose to make bad choices that could be prevented instead of hurting themselves.
Well, I could argue for the rest of my life but to pick a few :
The nature or kind of work matters
Employer's supervision is necessary
Proper working equipment
Proper training and enough knowledge
Unsafe acts--->unsafe working conditions
Such issues should be taken into consideration before pointing fingers to the employee as being the one at fault in workplace accidents.
With regard to financial incentives, organisations are rewarded for having less injuries. There has been criticism on organisations giving financial incentives to make them not report accidents which is why i asked earlier on should they be improved? is it necessary to have financial incentive?
Last but not least, health inspectors??? is it better for the organisation (internal responsibility) to have their own health and safety committee in the workplace instead of an external source like health inspectors having to monitor their working standards now and then?
Such cases are interesting to know as a worker you should know your right when to be safe.
