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Former Kipawa residents: We have been abandoned
By Rose Mwalongo
5th March 2010
Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)
People moved to Pugu Chanika from Kipawa in Dar es Salaam to make way for the expansion of Julius Nyerere International Airport have no basic facilities such as water, education and health.
According to a Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) team which visited them on Tuesday, most were sleeping in temporary shelters, suffering the effects of the current rains.
Speaking to the LHRC team, one of the relocated residents, Hawa Rashid said their lives were a nightmare and they had been praying to God to keep sickness away due to lack of health services nearby.
"My two daughters delivered on the eve of the eviction and we were forced to take them to Amana, the only reliable hospital which is far from this area. We keep praying and hoping that no one falls sick," said Rashid.
She also complained that most schoolchildren were forced to remain at home as the schools which they had been attending were too far.
"We need to spend at least 1,400/- daily as fare per child to attend school. We cannot afford to pay the amount. Worse still, there are no buses coming to this area, making it necessary for children to walk more than six kilometres to where they can take a bus. This is a real crisis and we don't know how to resolve it," said Rashid.
Her statement was echoed by Mustafa Jaffari who blamed the TAA for demolishing their houses
By Rose Mwalongo
5th March 2010
Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)
People moved to Pugu Chanika from Kipawa in Dar es Salaam to make way for the expansion of Julius Nyerere International Airport have no basic facilities such as water, education and health.
According to a Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) team which visited them on Tuesday, most were sleeping in temporary shelters, suffering the effects of the current rains.
Speaking to the LHRC team, one of the relocated residents, Hawa Rashid said their lives were a nightmare and they had been praying to God to keep sickness away due to lack of health services nearby.
"My two daughters delivered on the eve of the eviction and we were forced to take them to Amana, the only reliable hospital which is far from this area. We keep praying and hoping that no one falls sick," said Rashid.
She also complained that most schoolchildren were forced to remain at home as the schools which they had been attending were too far.
"We need to spend at least 1,400/- daily as fare per child to attend school. We cannot afford to pay the amount. Worse still, there are no buses coming to this area, making it necessary for children to walk more than six kilometres to where they can take a bus. This is a real crisis and we don't know how to resolve it," said Rashid.
Her statement was echoed by Mustafa Jaffari who blamed the TAA for demolishing their houses
