Demolition of structures and urban agriculture lots on road reserves and harassment to smallholder farmers in road strips areas are common: Photos, January 2006 at Ubungo Darajani. Improving urban land governance with emphasis on integrating agriculture based livelihoods in spatial land use planning practise in Tanzania By Wakuru Magigi From Moshi (Tanzania) (2008) 200 pages (6MB) Abstract This study examines spatial land use planning and urban agriculture practises in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, … [Read more...]
Dance upon injustice
One child dies every three minutes because of armed conflict. Children should never be affected by war. Full stop. Want to help raise funds to support important work with children in worn torn areas across the globe? Fancy some of this? Then get yourself down to the exclusive War Child Summer Gala, Those Were The Days, Thursday, June 28th. Tickets are £155 each or £1400 for a table of 10. A bit pricey, but well worth it, and if you can't afford it yourself, please forward on the details … [Read more...]
Invisible Children
I came across this via this, though I'm not sure how I ended up there... It is a film about childen who are abducted from their homes to become soldiers in Uganda. Made me think Gloria (and Martin?) could try to do something similar for the girls at Maasai Education Discovery in Kenya. Afterall, the Maasai art's and crafts that the girls make in the MED's Arts Center (which Gloria will be helping to get up and running) look a lot more interesting and useful than the Invisible Children … [Read more...]