TUSUMUKE Trains Zanzibarians On Poultry Farming, Aquaculture -

By
Valentine Oforo

THE
Dodoma-based excelling entrepreneurship group,
the TUSUMUKE Youth Entrepreneurship Group (TYEG) have imparted the
Zanzibarians with a high skills pertaining to Poultry farming as well as
Aquaculture.

A
delegate of at least 28 people from Zanzibar (Pemba and Unguja), including two
Mayors from Zanzibar, as well as one Member of the Parliament (MP) landed in
Tanzania mainland with an eye to acquire the said vital entrepreneurship skills
from the said Dodoma-based entrepreneurship group.

The
visitors, sailed into the country under the umbrella of the Jumuiya Ya Rafiki Wa
Wanawake Na Watoto Zanzibar (RAWWAZA), led by their Chairperson, Tauhida Galoss
(MP).

Giving
an exclusive interview to this publication, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of the TUSUMUKE Youth Entrepreneurship Group (TYEG), Mr. Christopher Dioniz
said the Zanzibarians had prior filed application to come in Dodoma Capital
City in order to learn the said entrepreneurship skills from our side.

“Actually,
we were very delighted to receive request from such esteemed people from
Zanzibar who sough we have potential to train them on Poultry farming as well
as Aquaculture, and without mincing worlds, we accepted their request,” he
expressed.

Landed
in Dodoma Capita City, the visitors were received with a ‘patriotic welcome
heart’ before started to be trained on the areas of their interests.

“The
training took shape on November 11, 2023, whereby we trained them on various
areas including hatching of eggs, poultry feed production and construction of
chicken cages,” he informed.

Not only
that, but the CEO, Mr. Dioniz, expressed that in the side of Aquaculture, they
trained the visitors on how best to make fish ponds, how professional to
prepare water in the fish ponds before putting the fish fry, production of fish
feed as well as the different types of Aquaculture.

“Apart
from that, the visitors also got an opportunity to learn a lot about
horticulture during the timely one- day training that we offered to them” he
detailed.

And he
informed, the training’s summit saw a special event tailored for the
cerebration of the 3rd years of the President of Zanzibar, the colorful event
which was held at the Dodoma’s famous Esperanza.

As part
to cement the smooth learning cooperation between the two parties, Mr Dioniz
added that they have agreed that come next month of December, the group
(TUSUMUKE) will go into the Archipelago of Zanzibar to issue to more similar training to further groups.

“We’re
very happy because the core vision of TUSUMUKE is to assist the large groups of
people (especially the youth) to cheat the shackles of poverty through engaging
into profitable entrepreneurship projects, that why we’re freely offering such
trainings,” he expressed.