NANCY MAWOLE
DAUGHTERS of Mary Immaculate (DMI) Spring of Hope has awarded certificates and working tools to 79 girls who have completed a one-year training in various programs aimed at helping them to become financially independent.
The programs include tailoring, cosmetics and beauty, cooking, Information and Communications Technology (IT).
DMI is a center which helps girls who are victims of human trafficking by training them on various skills which could help them to earn income for living.
The girls are from various regions in the country including Kigoma, Tanga, Ruvuma, Dodoma, Simiyu, Rukwa, Njombe, Iringa, Singida, Mwanza, Dar es Salaam, Coast and Kilimanjaro.
The certificates were awarded by the wife of Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania Monalisa Shuvadarshini at the 12th graduation ceremony held over the weekend in Kibamba Dar es Salaam.
She said that the organization offers the learning programs within nine months to help them fulfill their potential.
She commended the graduates for acquiring the certificates and asked other stakeholders who defend for children’s rights to join forces in eradicating such acts.
‘’May Almighty God help you to succeed in your life so that you can be role models in your family and society in general,’’ she noted.
According to DMI’s Public Relations Officer Erick Kimashi,the organization was found in 1984 in India, and started working in Tanzania in 2003.
He said of 79 girls who graduated 23 were day scholars and the remaining were boarders.
He elaborated that in the field of tailoring program graduates were 15, cosmetics and beauty program 23, cooking program 13 and ICT had six graduates.
He has called on other development partners to collaborate with them in providing education to young girls so as to bring them a smile especially those facing human trafficking in some parts of the country.
On her part, one of the graduates Rahda Kassim from the Kilimanjaro Region said that she was promised by her aunt that she will travel to Dar es Salaam for studies but she did not fulfill the promise and instead she become a house girl.
‘’I thought I would travel to Dar es Salaam for studies but it was not so, my aunt made be a house girl and I decided to look for help from various people and I got one who brought me at this centre,’’ she said
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