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		<title>Building a new future for the women of Zanzibar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 50 percent of women in Sub-Saharan Africa still tethered to the land and struggling to make a living, a new development on Unguja Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is set to offer financial stability and an unusual career option. Khuluka Hamisi Haji, a 68-year-old grandmother, used to support her family, including her sight-afflicted husband, by selling home-cooked snacks in her village. “Some days I was successful but other days I sold nothing,” she shares. This precarious subsistence living came to an end when she began assisting a local mason with bricklaying and with her experience, landed a job at Pennyroyal Ltd’s Blue Amber Zanzibar, an extensive and long-term development set on over 400 hectares on the northeastern coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibari archipelago. Khuluka’s income is now steady, and she has inspired other women to move away from an erratic home industry income or working the land for little return. Khuluka has taken 27-year-old Aisha John Nyangiriki under her wing. The young woman is a single mother with two young children and as a construction worker, is now able to pay school fees and rent a house for them. &#160; “I read a recent Brookings Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Girl, on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across Africa, you hear about girls on the move.  Usually, it is stories of girls being trafficked, fleeing war, escaping child marriage.  Girls are rarely the storytellers. Rock Girl is changing that. Rock Girl is back on the road. From October 2 to 11, Rock Girl is taking 16 teenage girls on the second Rock Girl Road Trip, from Cape Town to the Kalahari Desert.  Just as Rock Girl did in June 2015, these girls will interview girls and women along the way, documenting their lives through radio and photography.  Over 1200 miles, they will be catapulted far from what they know as they sleep under the stars, track scorpions through the desert, and raft down rivers.  They will learn how to read maps, pitch a tent, and read the night skies. “These girls are modern day adventurers,” said India Baird, founder of Rock Girl, “and they are heroes, not only because they face gangsters each day, but because they care about other girls and can empathize with them about the common challenges they all face.” Upon their return, the girls will meet with the Minister of Justice, Michael Masutha, to brief him about what they have learned, sharing the stories of girls who have never been heard. This is a [...]]]></description>
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