After school I got to go to a community meeting. In 2005 Tanzania revised their constitution
for the first time, however there was no input from the citizens. Apparently this has caused a lot of
frustrations so for 6 months government officials are traveling around the
country and hosting these meetings where they allow people to state what they
life and would like to see changed about the constitution. It was absolutely fascinating! It was such a
great was to get more insight into the Tanzanian mindset. Some of the big issues that came up were care
for the elderly, AIDS education, higher teacher and doctor salaries, are more
checks to the presidential power. There were
a lot of mixed feelings about whether or not Tanzania and Zanzibar should
remain one country and if they do remain together how much representation Zanzibar
should be given. The government will
take and compile all of this information and in 2014 they plan to release a
draft of a new constitution that will then be voted on by the public. People seem very passionate about the
opportunity to be a part of the change and it seems like and effective and
sincere way to bring it about.
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