Something Like a ‘Dukuduku’ & a Hope for a Future Present

So I hear daily something like, if you educate a woman you have educated the community at large. Maybe it’s true or its application has been overrated bringing the communities to further struggles.

What about the ones who are educated and still on the streets cause that is the biggest issue in developing countries. Most have gone to schools, not to the extent it is in developed countries but the number of educated women in developing countries has increased over the years.

But then what does this mean? More employment opportunities? More labour force? Oh, tell me about that again because it’s not. Most women are still out there wondering the way I do.

Let me tell you something;

I am a woman. I was born in the countryside and schooled there. In high school just like any other girl with dreams wished and prayed to join the best and oldest university in the country, the University of Dar es Salaam (UD). Well, of course, I joined the university and that means I passed.

But the thing is, I heard go for teaching the government favours teachers for loans and other support. What I did not know was it was only applicable during Mwalimu’s era or at least to Mkapa’s era. After 2 years of having only 50% of the school fees paid, coming from a poor family thus having parents who were struggling farmers had to do everything to get myself the remaining part.

I taught tuition centres then the government made them illegal. I became a fruit seller walking under the sun the whole day finding customers and that’s how I finished school. Things are not as they seem always! Schooling was hard. I got myself a loan. There is no clear picture that I will be paying that loan soon. I am currently unemployed and the government can’t tell me to go employ myself…..I am a teacher, not a businessperson!

Something like Support

Well, I hear in the media, one became a superwoman by selling porridge in the city centre!!! Well, it’s the fact that she gets to pass her day-to-day life, and she might be her own kind of superwoman but the media don’t kid me for it’s more than that and I believe if her dream is not porridge there is more to see.

I hear another opened her décor company well don’t kid me by telling me, ‘Wanawake Tunaweza” while I don’t have the means to get my day-to-day life go in the interior part of the country.

Do you think I am writing to criticize?

Oh yes!

You are right!

What women in developing countries need apart from dreams and visions and abilities is exposure. That thing, going out there and seeing the world whether it’s the main city like Dar es Salaam or getting on a flight and seeing the sky, seeing the people and the world beyond the horizon still holding their dreams and visions intact, not swayed by the city issues.

If not the slogan might never work for everyone. I have seen women in this country, great women. But it’s like greatness runs in their families. You are likely to hear her dad was this, her mom was that she went here and there. And some were just born here and after 25 years of going around the world, they come back. How can we run the same?

I don’t expect us to be the same nor dare compare our abilities for we are different to start with.

I do want to thank the government for giving me a loan, I have finished school. But the employment system is not good enough, I can not secure a job, it’s my fourth year now trying.

And even if I were to get one, the salary would be so low for me to run my life and pay you back at the same time. My parents are still struggling village farmers and as a first born it is my responsibility to take care of them. So, going back to the farm was the only choice.

Can you help me with something?

Can you try to understand the system you created for the country to operate? And from there, find solutions for most citizens who are still poor, and illiterate but everything is cash in first, especially at hospitals and schools.

Initiate

And by the way, is that all you can do???

NB:

FOUND THIS TO BE ENLIGHTING. NOT SURE OF THE WRITER THOUGH. I FIND MOST OF MY WORK FOREIGN WITH TIME.

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