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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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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Amber Zanzibar]]></category>
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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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