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RESTLESS DEVELOPMENT VOLUNTEER PEER EDUCATORS WINDS UP

RESTLESS Development Tanzania’s Ruvuma Regional Programmes Office (RPO), an international charitable organization, formally known as Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW Tanzania), has winds its activities for 2009/2010 on 29th September,2010 after working in 15 wards of Ruvuma region delivering life serving education focusing on HIV/AIDS education, livelihood education to in and out of school youth. According to Ruvuma Region Programme Coordinator (PC), Alpha Mukama, the charitable organization has placed a total number of 33 volunteer peer educators (VPEs) in 3 districts of Mbinga, Namtumbo and Tunduru, to support the region on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Life Skills (LS) education and campaign.  Ruvuma RPO was launched this year in May by the then Swedish Ambassador to Tanzania Honorable Staffan Herrstorm. The launching of the programme in Ruvuma was a well come news to the regional government which is struggling to term schools girl’s pregnancies a...