Tanzania:Kagera Region Post Office commemorates World Post Day by giving back to the community

By  Mutayoba Arbogast,Bukoba,Tanzania Tanzania Post Corporation(TPC),in Kagera Region,has joined the Universal Postal Union(UPU) to commemorate the World Post Day 2022 on October 09 this year,under the theme,Post for the Planet' with a radio programme   88.5 Kasibante FM based in Bukoba municipality  to amplify their  services. Kagera Region Post Office manager,Joseph Mutatina explained some of their services as transporting Express Mail Service(EMS) for documents and merchandise,and laboratory  samples . Mutatina mentioned the ordinary service of transporting and receiving registers, parcels ,postcards and mails ,and 'Post at your door' service. That laboratory samples collected  from health centres by Ministry of Health countrywide, as well as samples from National Security and  Ministry of Industries and Trade,are transported by TPC to their destinations. The corporation also collaborates with National Examination Council of TanzanIa(NECTA) and Tanzania Loan Board,to  assist the students on online registration. The Regional manager was proud of producing a third winner of Letter Writing competition in Tanzania 2022,Warida Mohamed from Kashai secondary school who was in  the Dar es salaam headquarters, to receive her prize. The competition was  organized by Tanzania Post Corporation in collaboration with Universal Postal Union for the aim of raising awareness of the role post operators play in society and promote literacy among the children through the art of letter writing. To meet the 'Post for the Planet' theme,Post workers visited Ntoma orphanage,in Maruku,Bukoba rural for  charitable giving  including sugar, rice,flour, bars of soap etc The institution under Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania-NorthWest Diocese(ELCT-NWD),takes care of babies who lost  their mothers at birth,and those at 0 to two years of age,whose mothers have mental disabilities,and those abandoned by unknown mothers. Sr Penina Kaimukilwa,Headmistress of the orphanage  says that 1,290 children were attended since the orphanage was found 70 years ago,and that when a baby turns two years, is handled back to the family,and if a family is incapable of  delivering good parenting,the child is sent to Bethania care centre  in Kemondo township. Currently 33 children are attending, regardless of their religion, while it's capacity is30 children.