tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72749520991191388302024-03-22T10:18:39.333-07:00TAWOMA—Tanzania Women Miners AssociationTAWOMA is the heart of networking among all women miners regarding areas of minerals and mining in looking for Investors, Marketing in the country and oversea, and Trading in general.Tawomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805519311723796182noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274952099119138830.post-63658951068001046842011-08-09T22:47:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:01:20.685-07:00MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF TAWOMA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">- Attending and participating in various national, and international trade fairs, workshops, training conferences, involvement in Government delegations, etc. for example, the delegation of President Benjamin Mkapa to Sweden and the USA in 2002</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- TAWOMA has lobbied and succeeded, in securing primary prospecting licenses, and prospecting rights for its members, from the Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- TAWOMA has initiated workshops to facilitate mining communities at grassroots level, for poverty alleviation, and/or eradication, and raising HIV/AIDS awareness in society. In this respect TAWOMA members have been facilitated in HIV/AIDS peer education.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- TAWOMA in collaboration with other Institutions, has facilitated training skills, as well as education to its members, especially group development and recruitment, basic organizational development for its members, introduction to mineral identification and gemology, poverty analysis and reduction, environmental and technological sensitization, including child labour elimination.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- Identification of market links, for gemstones, to foreign markets. For example, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Kenya</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region>, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- TAWOMA, was chosen as a model Association, and participated in a ten day Trade Finance Clinic, facilitated by the World Bank Washington in July 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">- Participated in the Dar Es Salaam International Trade Fair, Exhibition Stockholm Sweden, Xiamen China and USA, Italy, United Kingdom, Dubai and are participating every year at Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TAWOMA, since 2004, has been lobbying for recognition of a Miners day to the government and TAWOMA is staging the lobbying platform on every 5<sup>th</sup> May, of each year for the purpose.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TAWOMA through our members are creating favourable environment for relationships BETWEEN SMALL AND LARGE-SCALE MINERS.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Some of our members have attended several seminars, courses training on:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">i)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Entrepreneurship<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ii)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Identification of Minerals<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">iii)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Health<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">iv)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Environment<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">v)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Use of mercury<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">vi)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Management<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Trainings were organized by Ministry of Minerals, SEAMIC, UNIDO, SIDO, World Bank, SME Competitive Facility, IFC and DFID.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">d)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Women Miners have participated in various International Meetings e.g. China, USA, Kenya, Madagascar , Mongolia, Philipin ,and Mozambique.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">e)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We have formed different Entrepreneurship Groups as well as SACCOS which are very active in helping Women Miners eg. Mirerani.</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">f)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TAWOMA is a founder member Association of Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC) which is mobilizing all women entrepreneurs all over the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">g)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TAWOMA is the heart of networking among all women miners regarding areas of minerals and mining in looking for Investors, Marketing in the country and oversea, and Trading in general.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">The principal organ of the Association is the Annual General Meeting. The Management Committee, supervised by the Executive Council, comprising representatives from all mining areas, where TAWOMA has members, does the day-to-day running of the Association. The Association is also facilitated by Zonal Coordinators at Zonal mines offices.</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><a href="http://tawoma.blogspot.com/"><<Home>></a></b></span></div></div></div>Tawomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805519311723796182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274952099119138830.post-1917082052946063372011-08-09T22:43:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:13:19.292-07:00AFFILIATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">TAWOMA is affiliated to Organisations, such as the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA), Tanzania Private Sector Foundation, and the Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce.</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TAWOMA collaborates with the Southern and East African Minerals Centre <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> (SEAMIC),University of Dar Es Salaam Geology Department, Tanzania Chamber of Miners, to mention but a few.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><a href="http://tawoma.blogspot.com/"><<Home>></a></b></span></div></div></div>Tawomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805519311723796182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274952099119138830.post-46349005831142523972011-08-09T22:41:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:04:29.070-07:00MEMBERSHIP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">Membership of the Association is open to Women of mature age, who are involved in small-scale mining, including other related activities. Members of TAWOMA include youth groups in rural areas.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2070389692"><<Home</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><b><a href="http://tawoma.blogspot.com/">>></a></b></span></div></div></div>Tawomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805519311723796182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274952099119138830.post-42878783620668404682011-08-09T22:38:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:15:01.727-07:00VISION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">To have in existence, a mining sector, where gender imbalances do not exist, and access to resources for sustainable development of mining, have no limits.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><b><a href="http://tawoma.blogspot.com/"><<Mission>></a></b></span></div></div>Tawomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805519311723796182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274952099119138830.post-15295350466173041012011-08-09T22:32:00.000-07:002011-08-09T23:16:53.747-07:00MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSOCIATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">The main objective of the Association is to address problems of disorganized mining, including mining related activities, economic hardships, poverty alleviation, and prevention of diseases affecting <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Tanzania</st1:country-region></st1:place> society in general, and Women Miners and children in particular.</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Much has been done by the Association, in terms of organizing Women Miners, and educating them on the hazards of indiscriminate mining, and its effect to the environment. But, it has become apparent that Women Miners, need to be empowered, through economic means as well. TAWOMA members, are engaged in small scale mining of gemstones, gold, diamonds, and industrial mineral in Tanga, Morogoro, Dodoma, Singida, Shinyanga, Mbeya, Manyara, Arusha, Ruvuma, Lindi, Musoma, Karagwe, and Mwanza.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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