A TOTAL of 80 bicycles have been distributed by Family Planning Association of Tanzania (UMATI) to community based service providers in Mara and Simiyu Regions to make their work become easy.
Receiving the donations recently in Musoma town, Musoma District Council Medical Officer Dr Genchwele Makenge said the bicycles will help the community works penetrate into remote areas which have been impassible because of poor infrastructures.
Dr Makenge thanked UMATI for the initiative, saying that the bicycles will enable community health service providers to reach interior remote villages without difficulties with easy. Without elaborating further, Dr Makenge, said Mara Region has low figures of people using family planning methods.
“I would like to thank UMATI for supplementing government’s efforts aimed at improving family planning services in our region.
These are essential tools for enhancing health reproductive and family planning services as well as assisting at the right time,” he added. According to UMATI Project Coordinator Ms Linda Mwaga, the three-year project was being funded by Waterloo Foundation of UK.
She said the project was among other things designed to increase the use of family planning methods and avail information related to it to the targeted people in villages.
Speaking at the same occasion UMATI Western Zonal Manager Mr Nyagwegwe Wango said that they were determined to reach many people in remote areas with their activities through the community based service providers.
“These are important people and the bicycles we are giving them today are brand new and fit to make them become mobile in their villages “, Mr Wango said.
The districts which benefited from the project within UMATI was called ‘Integrating Family Planning Services into Outreach to work’ included Butiama, Musoma, Tarime and Bunda in Mara Region and Busega and Bariadi in Simiyu Region.
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