THE CURRENT ALARMING SITUATION OF NYANJA DIVISION.
Nyanja division is situated in the southern
part of Mara region (Musoma rural) Tanzania mainland, having 17 wards, 61
villages, 19 secondary schools, 28 dispensaries and one Health centre which has
been recently upgrated to a hospital
The recent needs assessment (NA) of Nyanja
division identified the following acute alarming situations:
Statement of the problem:
The
entire Nyanja division is severely confronted with the followings serious
social and economic problems such as:
· Inadequate teachers’ houses,
· lack of laboratories, libraries, and
congested class rooms (teachers student ratio:1:82),
· lack of girl’s hostels,
· Lack
of clean and safe water causing recurrent water borne diseases.
·
Rampant idleness, accelerating youth to be
indulging in alcohol consumption, drug abuse, leading to poverty and massive
Dependency Syndrome,
·
Severe undesirable
deforestation affecting the entire villages of Nyanja division
·
Trees in mountains and hills
have completely disappeared becoming desertification, decrease in biodiversity
and drought are the story of the day.
·
The entire community of Nyanja division is
encountered by life poverty and squalor resulting from decreased land
productivity and decreased fish production.
·
Wood fuel, construction materials, wildlife
habitats originally obtained from natural forest have now disappeared .In view
of the increasing population, these resources will continue to be subjected to
vagaries climate change and overgrazing.
·
Inadequate extension staff on environmental
conservation both from government and private sectors is significantly
attributed to this bleak situation.
Inadequate teaching and learning materials leading to
poor academic performance in the national examinations. In 2011, 2012 and 2013,
failure rates in the secondary schools Ordinary level national examination were
55% 66.20% and 42.72% respectively and in
2013 total of 1144 girls in 19 secondary schools registered for the Form
two national examination, only 965 set for the examination and 56% % failed the
examination) The high drop-out rate (17.52%) and poor academic performance
among girls is attributed to a myriad of problems girls face, including the
community’s generally negative perception of girl child education, early and
forced marriage, unwanted pregnancy, excessive domestic chores leaving limited
time and energy to study, security concerns, distance to school, lack of
uniforms and sanitary materials, lack of role models. To curb this serous
alarming situation an institution with appropriate plans and strategies in place
like NYANJA IRUDI is the appropriate NGO to tackle and
solve these problems
