The focus of community-based research lies in improving the evidence base for community-based programming. In 2009 a PeerCorps-led team in Dar es Salaam carried out an investigation into the patterns and risk factors for injuries among children and adolescents. A Continue reading Instructional videos from the 2009 Dar es Salaam injury workshop are now available – PeerCorps Trust Fund
An abstract presented in Wellington, New Zealand during the 11th Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (2012), highlighted the need for more attention to suicidal behaviors among young people in Tanzania. The results of the analyses, carried out by the PeerCorps Continue reading Suicidal behaviors among youth in Tanzania the focus of preliminary study
My name is RM, I was raised in Dar es Salaam and where my parents were employed in the public sectors. Currently I am working as social welfare officer at the Muhimbili National Hospital. I am responsible for observing and Continue reading An injury narrative – a personal story sheds light on the silent epidemic of injury in Tanzania
Injuries are one of the top three causes of death for people between the ages of 5 and 44 worldwide. More than 90% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to the millions of deaths that Continue reading Injuries are preventable – but often neglected in global health efforts
En el mes de marzo y abril del año 2012 se realizaron actividades como parte del proceso de dinamización del grupo juvenil “amigos por siempre”. Entre estas actividades se incluyó la discusión del tema del liderazgo como un estilo de Continue reading Actividades de la Corporación SEF dirigidas a los jóvenes – Colombia
This demonstration included local villagers and artisanal gold miners in Nzega, Tanzania who were displaced to make room for a large scale multi-national mining company. The demonstrators here were denied compensation because they were said to not have official mining Continue reading PeerCorps Trust Fund Director leads displaced artisanal miners in Nzega demonstration – Tanzania
Pieter de Vos, Community Development Practitioner and PhD Candidate in Anthropology presents “Visual Storytelling for Social Change” at the 13th Pecha Kucha night. – Video by Ryan Jackson
Since the 1980s, the poverty rate has grown in the United States, Britain, and Canada—a trend that corresponds to the shift away from Keynesian economic models towards a new fabric of relations between the state and civil society. This new Continue reading Social Inequities Compound Health Care Issues – Contributed by Pieter de Vos
In a dimly lit back room of Tanzania’s radio headquarters, there is a forgotten trove of FM-radio gold stored on deteriorating magnetic tape. Thousands of hours of Swahili muziki wa dansi (dance music), Afro-jazz and rhumba, Arabic taarab (sung Swahili Continue reading Reviving the Radio Tanzania Archives: Digital Preservation, Development, and Cultural Heritage – Contributed by Rebecca Corey
The PeerCorps Trust Fund (Tanzania) is very proud to learn of two of its former interns Ulugbek Bekmukhamedov (from Uzbekistan), and Andrea Dunlavy (from USA) who have begun to make their marks in public health and international development. Ulugbek was Continue reading Former Interns, now trailblazers in international health