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I'm here with is Mibaku Mollele from Tanzania.
Mibaku is a member of the Baha'i Community of Tanzania
and he's also a member of the Maasai tribe.
HE's attending the fifty-fifth session of
the United Nations Commission
on the status of women
and is representing CERIAN organization.
This year the commission is focusing on on girl's and women's access to
education, training, technology,
science, as well as employment
Thank you for joining us today Mibaku.
Now Mibaku, can you tell us
how you've helped women
in your community, in your village?
We make them to know they are right
of the community
and the right
of human being.
So,
I started
to collect the
widows in my village
and talk about
things. All of the problems,
and I recognized something that
their problem
big problem they face is they
don't know their rights.
So what I do for that, we give them the training of human being, pack of widows
and we have eighty groups
we have three village and we have three hundred widows.
so if half the widows we plan
two, ten widows to be the teachers of each village to be the teachers of widows in your community.
So, now other thing we do,
we decide with them
that what we can do
as a group
You know that to come up.
To develop
to do our helping each other
in their group.
They decide themselves
They sit down and
decide that what can they do
even for
little things we have.
They started the project of goat
They bought two goats and
now they keep the two goats
in order to have
the time when there is enough grass and water
So, those goats
they become fat and they sell again
to increase their project.
They sell those two goats
and they're sure the price where they bought this goat will become up
and we buy another goat to have three goats
and up like that the project will become big.
wonderful.
Now, do you think this has changed
the lives of the widows that you're working with? Yeah.
In what way? In what ways has it changed their lives? Has it made their lives better
since we you've started the project?
Their lives changed.
Since they started, or they’ve been in their group, they unite together.
They are different from before unit.
And now
at they have unit and
project.
Now they know their right somehow.
Because they couldn't go into practice this right because
they got in written
in class.
But they're going to practice in the community.
I’m sure that life for them will change.
Yeah, wonderful. It's really amazing.
So have the members of your village
has the way they look at widows changed since this project started?
Yeah, they have appreciated.
They really appreciate the way.
A good example is the day we divided the community of widows
who attend
human rights training.
We invite in each village
government leader in
in each village
community leaders
they been together with us the time that
we divide the certificate. They give widows
advice and they can encourage them go ahead
and they say
they can give them help
of ideas.
I don't know if it is test or not, I don't know.
But they appreciate the work and
everyone are so
that widows are doing good things and widows are happy
with what they do.
That's really amazing.
So, just in closing
thank you so much for all the amazing work that you are doing.
What inspired you caused you to do this
service in your community?
Now, in my home
i was with
the third born.
I have two brothers, my head brother and the second one and me.
So, my first brother passed away
and left a widow
I can say it again because she's seventeen
with one child.
So she is at the hand of us
So she was seventeen when he passed away?
Yeah, she is at the hand of us
and we don't know that what we can do
Myself I don't know because I was at school that time.
So i don't have anything.
I don't know how I can help her.
So, yes you feel those pain
of my brother and the widow he leave.
And I don't know what I can do even to start to help her.
So, in June of last year
we Feast in Uganda, and started a Baha'i project with Zarin
That lady from the UK
We went with his son
because we stayed his son at my home
and in my school. So we went to Feast
Baha'i project in Jinja,
Uganda.
As well we Feasted the Women of Purpose in Uganda
So that place was the place
that made me recognize that
to unite widows.
It is big.
It is important. To unite widows
you need to make them have deep things
in their life.
And they recognize a lot of things that 0:07:17.389,0:07:21.289 Widows can.
one person
can help widows
even to have voice in the community.
So, I go back home with two points.
Unite widows and
be like a bridge for widows to cross. That's amazing.
So i went there. That was my starting point.
Even though I was painful with my brother passing away and leaving a widow, but I don't
know how I can do
So, I went to Uganda,
I got that knowledge
from the Women of Purpose
and back home and started the project of widows.
That collect of widows.
Now, we are together and I know what we ...
Now the work has started, that's amazing. Thank you so much Mibaku,
I know you have to run to another meeting
but I really appreciate you taking the time. �