8 Reasons Why People Drink Soda & 16 Reasons To Give Up Soda Drinking

Most of us drink soda. Some drink more than others. And probably many regular soda drinkers are aware that soft drinks are bad for the health. At the same time, United States ranks first among countries in soft drink consumption.

I think we need to know more about this drink that we love so much. And so here are 8 reasons why we drink soda:

1It's Very Tasty!

The taste could be one thing that gets us addicted to drinking soda, it is delicious. In fact, it is so good, that many people drink it with every meal!

2It's Everywhere!

Even if you wanted to drink something else, you would be hard-pressed to find it as prominently displayed in vending machines, at fast-food chains, and supermarket checkouts. You might not realize how ubiquitous Coke, Pepsi, and the like are in our society until you try to stop drinking soda.

3Convenience, "Grab-n-Go"!

The most addictive thing about soda is the convenience. If you want something quick or are in a hurry, it is so easy to grab and convenient to drink.

4Promotion and Advertising

Soft drinks are heavily consumed in part because companies promote them vigorously - Billions of dollars are spend on advertising sodas - and market them everywhere - in stores, restaurants, gas stations, museums, and even schools.

5Soda Habit

For some people, drinking several sodas a day is a force of habit. You know drinking soda is a habit when you find yourself going to the grocery store at 10 p.m. because your refrigerator is tapped out.

6It Is Cheap

Soda may be pretty inexpensive when compared with fruit juice and milk. With combo meals, a large soda is only an extra dollar, and you get fries!

7Thirst

Often people drink soda to quench the thirst. However, this is probably the worst time to drink soda, because when you are very thirsty or dehydrated you have low levels of saliva. And saliva helps to neutralize acids (soda is the most acidic beverage you can buy) and wash your teeth clean.

8Caffeine Addiction

Many soft drinks contain caffeine and caffeine is mildly addictive. This fact is part of the reason soda is such a hard habit to break. If you're addicted to the caffeine in soda, you're really having two habits - the soda habit and the caffeine habit.

16 Reasons To Stop Drinking Soda

These were reasons why we drink soda and here are 16 powerful reasons to give up soda drinking.

Do you know the extent to which drinking carbonated, caffeinated, sugared, or artificially sweetened beverages harms your body? Giving up soft drinks can be one of the best things you can do to improve your health.

1Soda Is Useless.

First of all, there are no nutritionally beneficial components in soft drinks. Soft drinks mostly consist of filtered water and refined sugars. Yet the average American drinks about 57 gallons of soft drinks each year.

2Weight Gain & Obesity

Many people either forget or don't realize how many extra calories they consume in what they drink. Drinking a single 330 ml can a day of sugary drinks translates to more than 1lb of weight gain every month.

Several scientific studies have provided experimental evidence that soft drinks are directly related to weight gain. The relationship between soft drink consumption and body weight is so strong that researchers2 calculate that for each additional soda consumed, the risk of obesity increases 1.6 times.

According to the results of high quality study3 reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages helped reduce body mass index in the heaviest teenagers.

3Diabetes

This is a consequence of #2. Anything that promotes weight gain increases the risk of diabetes. Drinking soda not only contributes to making people fat, but it also stresses the body's ability to process sugar5. Some scientists now suspect that the sweet stuff may help explain why the number of Americans with type 2 diabetes has tripled from 6.6 million in 1980 to 20.8 million today.

Rapidly absorbed carbohydrates like high fructose corn syrup put more strain on insulin-producing cells than other foods. When sugar enters the bloodstream quickly, the pancreas has to secrete large amounts of insulin for the body to process it. Some scientists believe that the unceasing demands that a soda habit places on the pancreas may ultimately leave it unable to keep up with the body's need for insulin. Also, insulin itself becomes less effective at processing sugar; both conditions contribute to the risk of developing diabetes.

Interestingly, women who consumed a lot of fruit juice--which is high in natural fructose--were not at increased risk of diabetes, leading researchers to speculate that naturally occurring sugars may have different metabolic effects than added sugars. They also speculate that vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals in fruit juices may have a protective effect against weight gain and diabetes, counterbalancing the adverse effects of sugar.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School4 analyzed data from the Nurses' Health Study II, a trial tracking the health of more than 51,000 women. None of the participants had diabetes at the onset of the study in 1991. Over the following 8 years, 741 women were diagnosed with the disease. Researchers found that women who drank one or more sugary drinks a day gained more weight and were 83% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who imbibed less than once a month.

4Weakened Bones And Risk Of Osteoporosis

Frequent consumption of soft drinks may also increase the risk of osteoporosis,6 especially in people who drink soft drinks instead of calcium-rich milk7. High soda consumption (particularly cola15) in children poses a significant risk factor for impaired calcification of growing bones.

In the 1950s, children drank 3 cups of milk for every 1 cup of sugary drinks. Today that ratio is reversed: 3 cups of sugary drinks for every cup of milk. Tellingly, osteoporosis is a major health threat for 44 million Americans. Most experts now say that the real culprit is soda's displacement of milk in the diet, though some scientists believe that the acidity of colas may be weakening bones by promoting the loss of calcium.

5Dental Caries And Erosion

Soda eats up and dissolves the tooth enamel8. Researches9 say that soft drinks are responsible for doubling or tripling the incidence of tooth decay.

The acidity can dissolve the mineral content of the enamel, making the teeth weaker, more sensitive, and more susceptible to decay. Soda's acidity makes it even worse for teeth than the solid sugar found in candy.

Dental experts continue to urge that people drink less soda pop, especially between meals, to prevent tooth decay and dental erosion.

6Kidney Damage

People who down sugary drinks don't feel as full as those who consume the same amount of calories in solid food.
This theory was born out by researchers at Purdue University who, in 2000, gave 15 volunteers 450 calories a day of either soda or jelly beans for a month and then switched them for the next month, while monitoring their total calories. The candy eaters compensated for the extra calories by eating less food and maintained their weight; during the soda phase, the volunteers ate more and gained.

There is good evidence that cola beverages can increase the risk of kidney problems, more so than non-cola sodas.

Researches clearly demonstrated that large quantities of cola result in enhanced kidney stone formation16-17. If you're wondering exactly how soft drinks cause kidney stones, it's because of their acidity and radical mineral imbalances. Your body must buffer the acidity of soft drinks with calcium from your own bones. As this calcium is eliminated through your urine, it slowly forms kidney stones.

In a study published in the journal Epidemiology14, the team compared the dietary habits of 465 people with chronic kidney disease and 467 healthy people. After controlling for various factors, the team found that drinking two or more colas a day (whether artificially sweetened or regular) was linked to a twofold risk of chronic kidney disease.

7Increased Blood Pressure

Experts have reasons to believe that overconsumption of fructose, particularly in the form of soft drinks, leads to an increase in blood pressure22.

8Likely To Cause Heartburn

Soft drink consumption is a strong predictor of heartburn20-21.

9Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factor

Soft drink consumption is a significant risk factor for developing of metabolic syndrome18, a combination of the symptoms such as high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance.

10Harmful Effects On Liver

There is evidence that consumption of too many soft drinks puts you under increased risk for liver cirrhosis similar to what chronic alcoholics have19.

11Impaired Digestive System

Soda, no matter who makes it, is the most acidic beverage you can buy, with a pH of about 2.51, about the same as vinegar, but the sugar content disguises the acidity. To put that into perspective, consider that battery acid has a pH of 1 and pure water has a pH level of 7.

Interesting fact: A pH below 4 or above 10 will kill most fish and very few animals can tolerate waters with a pH below 3 or above 11.

Why does that matter? Throughout the digestive system, that starts from the mouth and ends up at the anus only the stomach can resist an acidic environment up to pH 2.0. But before the acidity of soft drink reaches the stomach it passes through all the other organs involved in the digestive system thus causing an abnormal acidic environment. The linings of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus are highly sensitive to acids.

The phosphoric acid present in soft drink competes with the hydrochloric acid of the stomach and affects its functions. When the stomach becomes ineffective, food remains undigested causing indigestion, gassiness or bloating (swelling of stomach).

12Dehydration

Another problem with sodas is that they act as dehydrating diuretics. Both caffeine and sugar cause dehydration.

Caffeine is a diuretic and causes an increase in urine volume. High concentration of sugar is drawing off water because your kidneys try to expel the excess sugar out of the blood. When you drink a caffeinated soda to quench your thirst, you will actually become thirstier.

13High Caffeine Content

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the unnecessary caffeine. Soda drinks are a major source of caffeine in the American diet.

High doses of caffeine can cause irritability, restlessness, tension, insomnia, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal disturbance, excessive urination, irregular heartbeat and other side effects.

14Toxins - Aspartame

If you think diet soda is better think again. The poison in diet soda is an artificial sweetener aspartame. Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. It is used because it's about 200 times sweeter than table sugar.

Despite US FDA approval as a "safe" food additive, aspartame is one of the most dangerous substances added to foods. After you drink an aspartame-sweetened product, aspartame breaks down into its starting components: phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol (that further converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, which are known carcinogens.). There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption10-13.

15Possible Cell Damage Ability

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks recently amid evidence that they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative E211, known as sodium benzoate, found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.

Sodium benzoate occurs in small amounts naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks.

16There Are So Many Healthy Alternatives!

Soda replaces healthier drinks. By drinking soda, you cut the intake of fresh juices, milk, and even water and deprive yourself from essential vitamins and minerals.

• Water. Water is the best drink in the world.
• Tea. Any kind of tea - herbal, green or black - is rich in antioxidants, which were shown to protects the body form many health problems.
• 100% Juice. Fruit juice can be also useful for flavoring your water and teas.

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Mgomo wa madaktari:Serikali yakunjua makucha

Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda akizungumza jambo kwa mkazo hivi karibuni, Jana alitoa msimamo wa Serikali kuhusu mgomo wa Madaktari unaoendelea kushika kasi PINDA ASEMA WASIORIPOTI LEO HAWANA KAZI, MADAKTARI WA JWTZ KUTOA HUDUMA DAR, WENYEWE WATISHIA KWENDA MAHAKAMANI Waandishi Wetu BAADA ya madaktari kugomea ombi la Waziri wa Mkuu, Mizengo Pinda kukutana nao jana ili kusikiliza madai yao na kuwasihi wasitishe mgomo, Serikali imetishia kuwafukuza kazi wote watakaoshindwa kuripoti kazini leo huku ikiiagiza Wizara ya Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa, kupeleka madaktari wake katika hospitali za mikoa. Mbali ya hatua hiyo, Serikali pia imepiga marufuku mikusanyiko yote ya madaktari hao na kuliagiza Jeshi la Polisi kuwasambaratisha popote watakapoonekana hatua ambayo imepingwa na madaktari hao ambao nao jana wametoa tamko wakisema watakwenda mahakamani kupinga agizo hilo. Pinda alisema: “Katika hatua iliyofikiwa, Serikali imetambua kuwa madaktariwanaoongozwa na kamati ya mpito hawataki suluhu licha ya juhudi zote ambazo zimekuwa zikifanywa kuwaita ili kushughulikia madai yao. Kuanzia sasa Serikali inahimiza madaktari wote walio kwenye mgomo kuacha mara moja na kuripoti kazini ifikapo kesho asubuhi (leo), Januari 30, mwaka huu, ”alisema Waziri Mkuu na kuongeza: “Watakaoshindwa kutekeleza agizo hilo watakuwa wamepoteza ajira zao. Serikali imeshachukua tahadhari za kukabiliana na hali hiyo kwa kuagiza Wizara ya Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa kupeleka madaktari wake katika Hospitali za mkoa wa Dar es Salaam ili kusaidia wagonjwa walioko hospitalini.” Madaktari nchini walianza mgomo wao Januari 16, mwaka huu wakitoa madai mbalimbali, ikiwemo kutaka kuongezewa mishahara, posho na kupatiwa nyumba za kuishi. Januari 25, Pinda akizungumza na wahariri wa vyombo vya habari ofisini kwake aliwaangukia wanataaluma hao akisema alikuwa tayari kukutana nao wakati wowote lakini, madaktari hao waligoma na kutaka kiongozi huyo awafuate Ukumbi wa Starlight. Jana, Waziri Mkuu akiwa katika mchakato huo wa kutafuta suluhu ili kunusuru maisha ya wagonjwa katika hospitali zilizokumbwa na mgomo, aliwaalika kukutana nao katika Ukumbi wa Karimjee lakini licha ya kufika hapo akiwa na jopo la mawaziri pamoja na viongozi wengine waandamizi wa Serikali, madaktari hao hawakutokea. Waliokuwa wameambatana na Pinda tayari kwa mkutano huo ni Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, Waziri wa Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Dk Haji Mponda, Naibu wake Dk Lucy Nkya, Waziri Nchi, Ofisi ya Rais Menejimenti ya Utumishi wa Umma, Hawa Ghasia, Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Blandina Nyoni, Mganga Mkuu wa Serikali, Dk Deo Mtasiwa, na maofisa wengine waandamizi wa Serikali. Mgomo palepale Hata hivyo, licha ya onyo hilo la waziri mkuu madaktari hao jana jioni waliitisha kikao na kutoa msimamo kwamba mgomo wao uko palepale. Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari, Dk Stephen Ulimboka alisema leo hawatafanya mkusanyiko wowote kutii amri ya Waziri Mkuu lakini, akasema watakwenda mahakamani kutaka amri hiyo itenguliwe. Dk Ulimboka alisema kikatiba, Waziri Mkuu hana mamlaka ya kuzuia mikusanyiko halali ya wananchi hivyo, wataomba Mahakama itengue uamuzi huo huku akisisitiza kuwa mgomo wao uko palepale na kuwataka madaktari nchini kote kuendelea na msimamo huo wa pamoja. Pinda ageuka mbogo Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari baada ya kushindwa kukutana na madaktari hao jana, Pinda alisisitiza kwamba mgomo huo siyo halali kwa sababu haukufuata taratibu. Alisema walipaswa kutangaza mgogoro na Serikali na kisha, kutoa notisi ya siku 60 kabla ya kuanza kugoma. Katika kuhakikisha kuwa Serikali inawadhibiti madaktari hao, Pinda aliwaagiza watendaji wakuu wa Serikali, wakuu wa mikoa, wilaya na waganga wakuu wa mikoa na wilaya kutembelea hospitali zote kuona na kubaini madaktari wanaoendelea na kazi na wale waliogoma, ili hatua ya kusitisha ajira zao zichukuliwe. Akizungumzia sababu za madaktari hao kugoma kukutane naye, Pinda alisema walitoa sababu tatu ambazo walielekeza kwake kwa barua waliyomkabidhi katibu wake, mnamo saa 3:00 usiku wa juzi. Walimtaka awasubiri wenzao walioko mikoani wafike ili kushiriki mazungumzo,walitaka pia ofisi yake kujibu madai yao kwa maandishi ili waweze kuyajadili na kutaka Serikali itoe tamko la kutotoa adhabu ya aina yoyote kwao au mtumishi wa kada yoyote ya afya kutokana na mgogoro huo. Achambua madai Hata hivyo, pamoja na tamko hilo la kuwataka kurejea kazini mara moja, Serikali imebinisha hoja zao kadhaa isipokuwa mishahara ambazo zinaweza kujadiliwa na kupatiwa ufumbuzi. Pinda alisema mshahara unaopendekeza na madaktari hao wa Sh3.5 milioni kwa kila daktari anayeanza kazi ni mkubwa na hauwezi kulipwa kutokana na hali ya uchumi wa taifa kutoruhusu. Alisema hoja ambazo Serikali iko tayari kuzifanyia kazi ni posho za kulala kazini, kufanya kazi katika mazingira magumu, nyumba, usafiri, mikopo ya gari na bima ya afya. Katika mkutano huo, Waziri Mkuu alisema hayo yanaweza kujadiliwa na kupatiwa ufumbuzi huku akisisitiza kuwa viwango vya posho vilivyowekwa na madaktari hao ni vikubwa mno. Alisema Serikali imekubaliana na madai ya madaktari hao ya kuwarejesha katika Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili (MNH) madaktari bingwa, waliohamishwa na wizara katika kipindi cha mwaka juzi. Wizara iliwahamisha madaktari bingwa 61 kutoka MNH na kuwapangia vituo vingine hali iliyosababisha baadhi yao kugoma kuripoti katika vituo hivyo vipya... “Niliona dai hili nikashauri wizara iwarejeshe kwani sisi tunawahitaji waje kuwahudumia Watanzania.” Zitto: Posho zetu chanzo cha mgomo Mbunge wa Kigoma Kaskazini (Chadema), Zitto Kabwe alisema kuwa mgomo huo wa madaktari ni ujumbe kwa Spika, Makamishna wa Bunge na wabunge wenzake kuwa hoja ya posho za walizojiongezea ndiyo inayoleta matatizo hayo. Alisema kutokana na kujiongezea posho, hoja ya kwamba Serikali haina fedha inakosa nguvu kwa kuwa madaktari watahoji za kuwalipa wabunge zinatoka wapi? Muhimbili bado hali tete Mgomo huo wa madaktari unaoendelea nchi nzima umeendelea kuwatesa wagonjwa Muhimbili ambao wamekosa huduma kwa siku 10 sasa. Katika Taasisi ya mifupa (Moi) ya hospitali hiyo, baadhi huduma zilikuwa bado zimesitishwa. “Hapa nilipo ni siku ya 10 tangu nifike kwa matibabu. Nilitakiwa kufanyiwa upasuaji wa mguu lakini mpaka sasa sijamuona hata daktari mmoja,” alisema Zebedayo Mwanri aliyelazwa Moi na kuongeza: “Nimekuwa nikipewa dawa za kutuliza maumivu na wauguzi.” Msemaji Msaidizi wa Moi, Frank Sebastian alisema: “Huduma ambazo zimesitishwa kutolewa ni kwa wagonjwa wa nje ambao wanafika kwa ajili ya matibabu.” Alisema japo kuna mgomo wa madaktari lakini wao bado wanaendelea kutoa huduma nyingine za dharura. Habari hii imeandaliwa na Geofrey Nyang’oro, Boniface Meena Aidan Mhando, Keneth Goliama

MP3 Players cause hearing loss at an early Age

MP3 players cause hearing loss at an early age Loud music and long periods of listening wear the hearing down at an early age. A test showed that 45 out of 358 students at a prep school in the United States had significant hearing loss. The common denominator was that they all listened to MP3 players. Students at Harvest Preparatory Academy in Ohio probably consider turning the volume down after a test revealed that 12.5 percent of the entire student body had significant hearing loss.

"This is terrible. This means that there is speech these kids are unable to discern, that they're probably having a hard time listening in class", said Lin Hamill, a health care educator of Audibility Hearing Care, who conducted the test.

Youngsters being unable to hear teachers in a classroom is obviously a major problem. Additionally, straining to hear can cause fatigue and headaches, making it harder to concentrate.

These are serious consequences and as the youngsters grow older their hearing will only worsen due to the normal decay of sensory hair cells in the inner ear over time.
More and more sound
Hearing professionals and medical advisers have been warning against headphones and ear buds for years, but parents and kids have largely ignored the problem.

"The issue," pointed out Wayne Chiavacci, a local paediatrician, "is more urgent than ever as manufacturers keep coming out with new things for kids to stick in their ears."

Examples include hands-free solutions for telephones and the merger of phone and MP3player. Many young ears are loaded with sound most of the time.

Hohenzollernbruecke Bridge - The Bridge of Love

Thousands upon thousands of locked padlocks can be seen affixed to the fence across the unpronounceable Hohenzollernbruecke bridge in Cologne, Germany. The phenomenon called Love Locks (or Love Padlocks), which many believe to have originated from Italy, is a new kind of vandalism where lovebirds lock padlocks bearing their names against fences, gate, bridge or similar public place to symbolize their everlasting love. According to Wikipedia, Love padlocks have existed for quite some time, though there are no certain sources for their origin. In Europe, love padlocks started appearing in the early 2000s. In Rome, the ritual of affixing love padlocks to the bridge Ponte Milvio can be attributed to the book I Want You by Italian author Federico Moccia, who later made it into the film-adaptation Ho voglia di te. A similar bridge in Serbia exist, where the practice of love locks can be traced to before World War I. The story goes as that there was a local schoolmistress named Nada, from Vrnjacka Banja, who fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. After they committed to each other Relja went to war in Greece where he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu. As a consequence, Relja and Nada broke up their engagement. Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time she died as a result of her unfortunate love. As young girls from Vrnjacka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started writing down their names, together with the names of their loved ones, on padlocks and affixing them to the railings of the bridge where Nada and Relja used to meet. Love Locks are frowned upon by the local authorities and owners of various landmarks. Some years ago, Deutsche Bahn, the Hohenzollernbruecke bridge operator, threatened to have the locks removed from the bridge but in the end relented in the face of public opposition. Love locks are a growing phenomenon in cities across Europe. They have even appeared along the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island in Canada.

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PAC YATAKA SHERIA EWURA IBADILISHWE

PAC YATAKA SHERIA EWURA IBADILISHWE

KAMATI ya Bunge ya Hesabu za Mashirika ya Umma(PAC), imeagiza kwamba sheria inayoruhusu Mamlaka ya Nishati na Madini(EWURA) kulipa mishahara ya watumishi wa Baraza Ushauri na Watumaji la Nishati na Madini (EWURA CCC) ibadilishwe ili baraza hilo liweze kufanya kazi ipasavyo.

Hayo yalisemwa leo na Makamu Mwenyekiti wa PAC, Deo Filikunjombe wakati akizungumza na waandishi wa habari leo kwenye ofisi ndogo za Bunge jijini Dares Salaam kuhusu shughuli zilizofanywa na kamati yake , ambapo alisema baraza hilo hesabu zake zinakwenda vizuri.

“Baraza hili hesabu zake ni nzuri , lakini halifanyi kazi ipasavyo kwa kuwa halimtendei kazi ipasavyo liko pamoja na EWURA tumeagiza sheria ibadilishwe ili liweze kufanya kazi kwa kuzingatia pande zote,” alisema Filikunjombe.

Makamu Mwenyekiti huyo alishauri kuwa ni vyema mishahara hiyo ilipwe na wizara husika ili baraza hilo lifanye kazi bila kuegemea upande mmoja.

Akizungumzia kuhusu upandaji wa umeme kwa asilimia 40 alihojia upanda kwa sababu zipi je mlaji wa chini wamemsikiliza wanasemaje, hivyo alisema haitakuwa sahihi ikiwa hakusikilizwa.

Aliongeza kuwa baraza hilo pia linatakiwa kuacha kulipa malipo ya kila baada ya miaka mitano mtumishi anapostaafu badala yake yawe katika mfumo ya mifuko ya hifadhi ya jamii, ikiwemo kuwaingiza watumishi wake katika Mfuko wa Bima ya Afya ili kuepuka utumiaji wa risiti za malipo ya matibabu.

Alitaka baraza hilo kutumia fedha kulingana na bajeti yake.

Wakati huohuo Filikunjombe alisema kamati hiyo imemfukuza mwakilishi wa Shirika Hodhi la Mali za Umma (CHC) kwa kuwa ni mtendaji wa chini hawawezi kuzungumza naye hivyo wanamtaka Ofisa Mtendaji Mkuu.

Alisema mwakilishi aliyetumwa ni Ofisa Uhusiano ambayo ameitumwa na Kaimu Mkurugenzi.

MAKAMU WA RAIS DKT BILAL AANZA ZIARA YA MKOA WA TANGA LEO, AKAGUA UKUTA WA KUZUIA MAJI YA BAHARI PANGANI

MAKAMU WA RAIS DKT BILAL AANZA ZIARA YA MKOA WA TANGA LEO, AKAGUA UKUTA WA KUZUIA MAJI YA BAHARI PANGANI

Makamu Wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akikata utepe kuzindua rasmi Jengo la Ofisi ya Idara ya Maji, lililopo Wilaya ya Pangani, wakati alipoanza ziara yake ya Mkoa wa Tanga leo, Januari 24, 2012. Kulia ni Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Tanga, Chiku Galawa (kushoto) ni Mkurugenzi wa Maji wa wilaya hiyo, Mohamed Hamis. Picha na Muhidin Sufiani-OMR

Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akisikiliza maelezo kuhusu ukuta huo unaozuia maji ya Bahari unaobomoka kutokana na mabadiliko ya Tabia nchi na kutishia amani ya wakazi wa maeneo hayo. Pangani Kivukoni. Picha na Muhidin Sufiani-OMR Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akiongozana na baadhi ya Viongozi wa Wilaya ya Pangani wakati akitoka kukagua ukuta wa kuzuia maji ya Bahari unaobomoka Pangani Kivukoni. Picha na Muhidin Sufiani-OMR

Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akiangalia ukuta unaozuia maji ya Bahari eneo la Pangani Kivukoni, unaozidi kubomoka kutokana na kujengwa miaka 100 iliyopita na kutishia amani kwa wakazi wa maeneo hayo. Makamu wa Rais ameanza ziara yake ya Mkoa wa Tanga leo Januari 24, 2012. Picha na Muhidin Sufiani-OMR

kipindi cha kijamii cha weekend specila cha wapo redio fm chatimiza miaka 5

kipindi cha kijamii cha weekend specila cha wapo redio fm chatimiza miaka 5

Baada ya shughuli nzima ya maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi cha Weekend Special,kinachorusha na redio ya Wapo FM,wageni waalikwa walipata picha ya pamoja kama ukumbusho muhimu kwao,nje ya jengo la mikutano la Taasisi ya Maendeleo ya Vijana (UVIKIUTA),iliopo Chamazi-Mbagala jijini Dar.

Keki tuliii safi kabisa.

Mmoja wa wageni kutoka meza kuu,Wakili wa Kujitegemea Bw. Emanuel Makene akikata keki kwa ajili ya kulishwa wageni waalikwa mbalimbali waliofika kwenye maadhimisho ya kipindi hicho ambacho kimekuwa kikipendwa na kusikilizwa sana wanajamii.

Mtangazaji wa Wapo FM,Dada Benedict Mrema akichombeza hapa na pale,huku muasisi wa kipindi cha Weekend Special,Antony Joseph akitaka kuwalisha wageni waalikwa keki iliondaliwa maalum kwa maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi hicho tangu kuanzishwa kwake.

Keki ikigaiwa kwa wageni waalikwa mbalimbali waliofika kwenye hafla hiyo.

Mmoja wa wasanii kutoka Taasisi ya Maendele ya Vijana (UVIKIUTA) akiwaburudisha wageni waalikwa

Mmoja wa vijana wajasiliamali akifafanua kuhusiana na matatizo mbalimbali wanavyokumbana nayo katika shughuli zao mbalimbali za kila siku za ujasiliamali.

Mtangazaji wa Wapo FM redip,Dada Ritha Chaula akisoma hotuba fupi kuhusiana na maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi cha Weekend Special,mbele ya meza kuu na wageni waalikwa mbalimbali waliofika.kipindi hicho hurushwa kila siku ya jumamosi kuanzia saa 8 mchana mpaka 11.30 jioni kikiwa na lengo la kuelimisha,na kuipasha jamii maovu yanayotendeka,namna ya kukabiliana nayo na kuyaepuka,sambamba na hayo kipindi hicho pia huibua na kutangaza matukio ya unyanyapaa,unyanyasaji wa kijinsia,ubakaji na ulawiti,kuwapa vijana elimu ya stadi ya maisha ili waweze kujitambu,kujiamini na kujiajiri katika kuyakabili maisha kiuchumi,kuibua migogoro ya ndoa,kupata elimu ya namna ya kutatua na kupata suluhisho la kudumu.

Wadau wakifautilia kongamano wakati likiendelea.

Baadhi ya Watangazaji wa Wapo Fm redio wakifuatilia mambo mbalimbali yaliyokuwa yakijiri ndani ya ukumbi,wakati kongamano la vijana likiendelea.Sho ni DadaRitha Chiwalo,Benedict Mrema na mdau wa Wapo FM.

Pichani kulia ni Dada Faines Mwakatobe kutoka Chuo Kikuu Huria cha jijini Dar akiwatafsiria baadhi ya Walemavu wa kutosikia,ambao pia wameshiriki katika Maadhimisho ya miaka mitano (5) ya kipindi cha Weekend Special kinachorushwa na redio Wapo FM, kila siku ya jumamosi.Maadhimisho hayo yalikwenda sambamba na kongamano la vijana ambalo lilijadili changamoto mbalimbali zinazowakumba vijana katika nyanja mbalimbali kama vile uchumi,ajira,elimu na mambo mengineyo.

Baadhi ya wadau wa kipindi cha Njia Panda cha Clouds FM ambao pia wameshiriki katika Maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi cha Weekend Special kinachorushwa na redio Wapo FM cha jijini Dar, kila siku ya jumamosi.

Wageni waalikwa mbalimbali wakifuatilia kwa makini mijadala iliyokuwa ikitolewa kwenye maadhimisho hayo yaliyofana kwa kiasi kikubwa.

Waimbaji wa muziki wa nyimbo za Injili kutoka kundi la Double E likitumbuiza katika maadhimisho hayo.

Mtangazaji wa kipindi cha Wikend Special kinachorushwa na redio ya Wapo FM, ambacho leo kinaadhimisha miaka 5 tangu kuanzishwa kwake, Bw. Antony (kulia), akiwatambulisha viongozi wa vikundi mbalimbali mbele ya wageni waalikwa (hawapo pichani) waliofika kwenye maadhimisho hayo yaliyofanyika leo kwenye viunga vya UVIKIUTA-Chamazi jijini.

Mwakilishi kutoka TYC, Bw. Nyakia Ally akizungumza machache mbele ya wageni waalikwa (ambao kwa asilimia kubwa ni vijana kutoka sehemu mbalimbali waliofika kwenye maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi cha Special Wikend kinachorushwa na redio ya Wapo FM, anayefuata ni Wakili wa Kujitegemea Bw. Emanuel Makene, Dr. Nassoro Ally Matuzya kutoka hospitali ya Mwanyanyamala, Mmoja wa wakilishi kutoka chuo kikuu UDSM, Bw. Edward Daniel na shoto ni Mwendesha kipindi cha Wikend Special Bw.Antony Joseph.

Kongamano likiendelea kwa umakini kabisa.

Mmoja wa wanaharakati vijana,Dr Nassoro Ally Matuzya kutoka hospitali ya Mwanyanyamala akifafanua jambo ikiwa ni sehemu ya kongamano la vijana la kuelimishana kuhusiana na mambo mbalimbali zikiwemo changamoto wanazokabiliana/kumbana nazo katika mfumo mzima wa maisha yao ya kila siku.

Mwimbaji wa nyimbo za Injili,Pius Senyagwa sambamba na wasanii wengine wakitumbuiza mbele ya wageni waalikwa kwenye maadhimisho hayo yaliyofana kwa kiasi kikubwa.

Makofi ya hapa na pale yalikuwepo kutoka kwa wageni waalikwa.

Baadhi ya vijana walioko kwenye Taasisi ya Maendeleo ya Vijana (UVIKIUTA),kutoka Mataifa mbalimbali wakifuatilia mijadala mbalimbali iliokuwa ikizungumzwa kwenye kongamano lililoendana sambamba na maadhimisho ya miaka 5 ya kipindi cha Weekend Special kinachorushwa na redio ya Wapo FM,jijini Dar,maadhimisho hayo yamefanyika kwenye viunga vya taasisi hiyo huko Chamazi-Mbagala jijini Dar.