Ms Martha Nghambi, the Country Director for Global Peace Foundation Tanzania (GPFTZ), addressing a press conference in Dar es Salaam during the official launch of the peaceful awareness national campaign named “Amani Kwanza” on Monday, August 31, 2015. On the right is Reverend Thomas Ngoda, Director for the Inter Religious Council for Peace in Tanzania (IRCPT) and left is GPFTZ Administration Officer, Ms Hilda Ngaja.
Director for the Inter Religious Council for Peace in Tanzania (IRCPT), Reverend Thomas Ngoda, speaking during the press conference. Others in the picture are GPFTZ Administration Officer, Ms Hilda Ngaja, and GPFTZ Country Director, Martha Nghambi.
GPFTZ Country Director, Martha Nghambi (right), addressing a press conference in Dar es Salaam on Monday, August 31, 2015. On the left is GPFTZ’s Projects and Youth Officer, Mr Dixon Kamala.
Global Peace Foundation Tanzania (GPFTZ) Country Director, Martha Nghambi (left) and Director for the Inter Religious Council for Peace in Tanzania (IRCPT), Rev. Thomas Goda, showing a flyer with peace awareness message.
Members of the press at the conference.
GPFTZ Administration Officer, Hilda Ngaja (left) and Ambassador of Peace for GPF, Dr. Ulimwengu, showing a flyer with peace awareness message.
By Daniel Mbega
Dare es Salaam, Tanzania
Monday, August 31, 2015: Tanzanians have been urged
to observe peace through common spiritual aspirations, principles, values and the
universal truth during the upcoming general election.
The call
was made today during the official launch of a peaceful awareness national campaign named “Amani Kwanza” by the Global Peace
Foundation Tanzania (GPFTZ) with its partner, Inter Religious Council for Peace
in Tanzania (IRCPT).
Speaking during the launch in Dar es
Salaam, GPFTZ’s Country Director Ms Martha Nghambi, said the campaign seeks to inspire and encourage all Tanzanians
towards a peaceful participation at the upcoming General election on 25th
October 2015.
“This campaign is not intending
to support or oppose any candidate, and has no political affiliations and it
works on the slogan “KURA YANGU UZALENDO WANGU, AMANI YA NCHI YANGU NI JUKUMU
LANGU” (My vote my patriotism, my country’s peace my role),” she said.
Tanzania
had recently become one of the few African countries that had continued to
mobilise other countries to maintain peace.
According
to her, the campaign – which will be promoted on all media outlets (mainstream
and online) – is designed to promote and influence peace throughout the country,
with particular focus on women and youths because they are the majority of voters
and are also the most vulnerable groups in the event of election upheavals.
Ms
Nghambi added: “The campaign aims to make women and youths good ambassadors in maintaining
and promoting peace during the election season as well as to curb unnecessary events
and actions that have potential to interrupt peace in Tanzania.”
IRCPT
director, Rev. Thomas Goda, said everyone has the responsibility to maintain
peace in the country especially towards this year’s general elections.
“African
region has witnessed an alarming rise of intra-state and interstate conflicts
in recent decades, most of them caused by politics especially pre and post
elections. These conflicts have taken a huge toll in terms of human lives lost,
the suffering of refugees and internally displaced people, and the destruction
of the social fabric, physical infrastructure, and natural resources, we need
join hands to protect peace,” he was quoted as saying.
GPFTZ
is the Tanzanian Chapter of Global Peace Foundation (GPF), an international non-sectarian,
non-partisan and nonprofit making organization with its headquarters in Washington
DC which promotes an innovative and values-based approach to peace building that
is guided by the vision of One Family under God.
GPF
engages and organizes a global network of public and private sector partners who
develop community, national, and regional peace building models as the foundation
for ethical and cohesive societies.
GPF’s
records of effectiveness are seen in hot spots in Africa, Asia and other parts of
the world.
The peace campaign
launch comes hardly two months before the general elections and one month since
the 21st Global Peace Leadership Conference took place in Zanzibar that
attracted eight former African presidents, top government, religious and
business leaders, entrepreneurs, women and youth leaders and other influential
public figures from over 20 countries.
The
conference, held at the Melia Hotel in the Spice Island from July 21-25, 2015, was
aimed at promoting peace, security and sustainable development in East Africa.
The
four-day conference was attended by former Zambia President Rupiah Banda and
former presidents Amani Abeid Karume (Zanzibar), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria),
GirmaWolde- Giorgis (Ethiopia) and James Mancham (Seychelles) as well as former
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Amoro Odinga.
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