Registered Charity
No. 1072661

Covid-19

Covid 19 has taken its toll across the world this year. Action in Africa has been fortunate enough to secure funds from U.K. charitable trusts to help the community of Nyaishozi to best protect themselves from the disease. It has not been without its failings and there have been tragic deaths. However, with the help of the generous donations from Scott Bader, Heb Finn, the Oakdale Trust and local individual supporters, we have been able to provide the monies to enable:

2 local radio educational campaigns
Equipment for wash stations
The wholesale purchase of disinfectant, gloves, masks and hand sanitisers.

In his own words, Father Vitalis' report on the effects of Covid-19

NEGATIVE EFFECTS

The first COVID-19 case in Tanzania was reported on 16 March 2020 in Arusha a tourist –hub city in the Northern Zone, since then the case of Corona has been increasing. The effects of Corona has been so tense in our area. Here are some general and Particular effects for our people.

Mentally the Corona Pandemic affected our people very much all villagers were very much worried and mentally disturbed. No one trusted the other in the community so the people was very much unsettled. Also we couldn’t go to the Area of worshiping our God for couple of weeks. All media was broadcasting about Corona.
Economically we were also affected since this pandemic coursed people to stay at home for many days. We couldn’t go out for business activities and other incoming generating projects. Most of our people do get some money from business of the border, Because of lock down almost everything went off and people became poor. Also for people depending on Salaries especial government workers were affected economically. A good number of people lost their usual incomes when the government ordered the closure of schools, teachers at public schools were assured of the monthly salaries. For private sectors it was different story. As parents became unable to pay tuition the schools became unable to pay salaries.
Socially we were also affected because no social activities were allowed to be done. We were told to stay at home. As you in Africa everything is almost done with ceremonies so the ceremonies were prohibited. Some people in the village depend on these ceremony activities to earn some money or to be paid in kind. Also for kids to stay at home with their parents was not so easy especially for people with informal work. Also a good number of students left the school and there was a lot of earl peregrinates for students
Culturally we experienced new culture which we were not experienced especially during the funeral services. We used to moon for our departed relatives for days, due Corona pandemic we couldn’t get such moments. Also it was not easy to continue with our culture of Shaking hands, hugging each other and sit or stay together closely.

POSTIVE EFFECTS

People in Nyaishozi was able to tune on Radio station to hear information about Corona, because the Radio was used to educate people to prevent themselves from Covid 19
People was able to wash hands and use protective things such as Masks, wash hand use of sanitizers and keep distance in any social gatherings.
Because of lock down people could get enough time to stay with their families

Here are a collection of photographs which detail Covid 19 in Nyaishozi 2020.