Household investment in clean and safe energy agenda given priority
Governmental and nongovernmental institutions and Barrick Gold Corporation have joined forces to mark 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The agenda was to prioritise household investment in clean and safe energy to reduce the sufferings of women who are the victims of gender-based violence.
Barick's part of the staff members
Those governmental and nongovernmental institutions included the Police Force, district councils, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), Life Care Foundation (LCF), Jadra, Hope for Girls and Women (HGWT), Bowmans Tanzania Limited and Taifa Gas.
A team of executives from those institutions with various professions has already started through this activism providing legal and gender training and mobilisation of the use of clean and safe energy at family level and the distribution of gas cylinders in the districts of Tarime, Kahama and Msalala.
Asia Hussein (standing) chairperson of Geita Woman Miners Association (GEWOMA) addresses a meeting. Mgusu, Geita region.
The issue of clean cooking energy is a crucial agenda in the country and across the world and President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been the staunch promoter of this agenda in Africa since November 2022 and the government's goal is to ensure 80 per cent of Tanzanians use clean cooking energy by 2034.
Speaking on this year's celebration of activism against gender-based violence, Barrick Gold Corporation Communications Manager Georgia Mutagaywa said he was happy to see that this year they collaborated with the government and private institutions and companies to provide education about activism against gender-based violence to bring about positive change in society.
She said every stakeholder had a role to play in activism against gender-based violence and in reducing the stress of women struggling to look for firewood for cooking. He said the event provided women with an opportunity to get education about activism against gender-based violence and learn the use of clean and safe energy. "It is our responsibility to support the government to ensure we revolutionise this household gas subsector to eliminate environmental degradation caused by the use of charcoal and firewood which contributes to carbon dioxide emission which pollutes air and causes negative climate change effects.”
Stakeholders participating in the activism said they were happy to join their colleagues and use their professions to bring about positive change in society through the celebration of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence in the country by reaching out to the grassroots.
Speaking during the launch of the celebration, Tarime District Commission Maj Edward Flowin Gowele hailed nongovernmental institutions and companies that had joined forces and participated in supporting the government's efforts in activism against gender-based violence in the country, including girls’ female genital mutilation (FGM) and Tarime District was notorious for it.
For his part, Community Policing Officer in Tarime Rorya Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Jumanne Mkwama appealed to traditional elders to stop getting involved in cases of gender-based violence, instead he urged them to cooperate with government agencies to fight against human rights violations. He also congratulated all stakeholders for participating in activism against gender-based violence.
In 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, various stakeholders will collaborate to hold discussions and meetings to educate members of the community about the effects of gender-based violence, the importance of using clean energy, other topics and some gas cylinders and khanga with the message of activism against gender-based violence will be distributed to women.
Ends
Post a Comment