+255 714 968 236 KiyaviloMsekwa is in Arusha, Tanzania and went inside Kenya to report on the situation for us.

+255 755 237 679 Josephat Ndibalema in Dar es salaam,Tanzania.I'm translating news regarding the situation in Kenya in Kiswahili http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakielimurafiki

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:53:03 UTC Hamimu Byabato: My name is Hamimu Byabato,From Tanzania and a member of Uyoga .Now i'm working on music project and we had composing song of peacefor our neighbour fellow Kenyans; I hope could be in touch to tell every our progress in it.

Tanzania is in East Africa bordering the Indian Ocean betweeen Kenya and Mozambique..Tanzanians are not happy at all for what is happening in Kenya.The situation in Kenya speaks loud and clear that when people are doing something with their imotions very high,then it is only logical that fearness should prevail.But when the thuggery and idiotism prevails then the worst to happen.

We are now told that more than 600 people have died since violence started and more thousands have been displaced from their home.

Uyoga members are thinking on how to help Kenyans,William Wambura and Josephat Ndibalema are organising the collection of materials like second hand clothes and other things which might be highly needed to help those in refugee camps in Tanzania,Uganda and Kenya.

More news are highly needed to keep us updated.

Items that we are able to provide

-Clothes (used ones)

-Utensil (like cups,spoons,plates)

Also still in need of more information regarding what might be helpful we hear that there is a shortage of food what about clothes,bedsheets etc Clothes are very important for protecting them during the night when there is cold weather.

Mode of Collecting Items;

It is very easy to organise in collaboration with other people around,we are meeting people in churhes,mosques and schools to ask them for assistance.We really expect to gains more response.Also we are also buying second hand clothes at avery low prices but most of these clothes are of low glad but good for wearing.

The type of assistance we ask is to transport those items (paying transportation cost) to respective places after we have nough information on the need of these items.Kenyans like Ken,James of Nafsiafrica and Samuel Kongere can help us know where those items are mostly neeed.

This will also be discussed in the ongoing chat helping Kenyans,we need more ideas to this

I also told KennedyOwino of Pamela McLean's (UK) ideas of songs of peace http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/message/876 and that we're involving our Tanzanian participants. I have sent her contribution to the Uyoga association there so they could help more. Josephat Ndibalema and William Wambura +255 762 437 54 have been translating news and letters into Kiswahili http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hakielimurafiki/ and Abinel Emanuel chatted with us about his deepest value in life: Educate and change young people's lives through music. So we're asking us all to think about this. Thank you, Meadowlea (USA). Also, Kiyavilo Msekwa of Arusha, Tanzania today visited the border to learn about the refugees and will go again tomorrow. And Davis Weddi works for a radio station in Uganda so I wonder if he might be able to help with encouraging musical expression here. Guilhem Buzenet offered to help and I hope he might share his video skills!

WilliamWambura, January 8, 2008: Andrius,due to our previous cahtt on the idea of composing a song for Kenyans,the song is arleady made,and amworking on how to share it,we can record it on the tape recorder and send it through postar mail,or we can buy here USB PC&BUILT-IN-FM RADIO,which is an IC recorder,its easy to record and share with you by sending it as ineternate audio.I have been to computer parties supply today,it costs 330,000Tsh,and in that way its very easy to share even with Nafsi Africa.We can also record the song to a proffesional music producer here in Dar es salaam by 150USD,and that takes less than three days.From this point we can look foward to Nafsi Africa with their video production,if this is ok with you,we can have a chatt to explain the contents of the music with its translation. Another kind of help we are doing for tghe time being is to collect clthoses,shoes,utensils and other many needed staff am doing this by going to numbers of churches and houses,from UYOGA's members,am i hope to buy some new second hand clothes which we can find them cheaply 1USD we can buy two clothes,if you are interested you can observe the ability to suport my idea,we have now to be in touch woth james and get his fellow's contact from Arusha so that the shipment is met,we get challenges here becouse people are very reluctant,but on our side its ok becouse we get enough time to explain Kenyan stuation tol.ocal people,so they get direct news from my blog,the shipment is the only big challenges we are facing. with love and regard,William

Tanzanian Football

This photo is taken from Milward's Millenium Ride. Motorcyclicst Simon Milward passed away in 2005.

We can make such footballs for Kenyan refugees and we can also teach how to make them.

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• LatestNewsFromKenya=Hamimu Byabato of Uyoga is creating a song of peace for Kenya. Uyoga has collected clothes for KiyaviloMsekwa to deliver to Kenyan refugees. They have also created a peace song which they need to record.

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