The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Peter Nyanje
5 November 2009
Government efforts to assist pastoralist families in social services have started to pay off as several schools and dispensaries have been built in various areas and enabled herders to set up permanent settlements.
The minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in charge of Regional Administration and Local Governments, Ms Celina Kombani, told Parliament yesterday that after noting problems that the communities were facing, the Government came up with special plans to help them settle.
"On education, for instance, we have special arrangements whereby boarding schools are built in areas inhabited by and a good example of such a project is Yaeda Chini Secondary School in Manyara Region, which caters for girls," she said.
She further said that in the 2009/10 Budget, Arusha and Manyara regions, where the problem is prevalent, had been allocated Sh946 million for the running of boarding schools that enrolled children from pastoralist families.
Ms Kombani said Manyara Region, in collaboration with the Dutch aid organisation SNV and other stakeholders, had formed a taskforce to sensitise some communities on the need to change their way of living and settle in one place.
She said this would facilitate Government efforts to provide them with social services.
The minister said several regions had supported President Jakaya Kikwete's resolve to
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