Africa-Press – Tanzania. CHILD Support Tanzania (CST) founder, Noelah Godfrey Msuya, has won a FrancoGerman Prize for Human Rights for her outstanding contribution that enabled disadvantaged and disabled children to receive education.
The award, according to the Germany’s Federal Foreign Office website, recognises the efforts of all those who work tirelessly every day to advance the causes of human rights and the rule of law.
Thus Ms Msuya and 14 others were announced by Germany Foreign Minister, Mr Annalena Baerbock and French Foreign Minister, Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian during the International Human Rights Day last Friday. The statement said Ms Msuya, a trained special education teacher and the founder and head of the NGO CST, was recognised for promoting the rights of children and women in Tanzania.
“She and her organisation are dedicated to enabling disadvantaged and disabled children to receive an education. She has founded women’s self-help groups and children’s rights clubs that have a total of 2,500 active members,” the statement said.
Ms Msuya, among four winners in Africa—one each from Nigeria, South Africa and Benin, said the prize is dedicated to the CST and she is indebted to work harder for the sake of unprivileged children and women. “Thank you [Germany and France] so much. God is good.
This is a huge debt for me and the whole CST team to work harder than before,” Ms Msuya told the ‘Daily News’, yesterday. The prize recognises those who have made outstanding contributions to the protection of human rights, campaigning for causes, including women’s rights in Afghanistan, the freedom of the press in South Africa and children who are born as a result of rape in wartime.
The Mbeya-based CST was established in 2008 as a national wide NGO, voluntary, and nonprofit making organisation. Under Ms Msuya’s leadership and expertise the organisation works hard to ensure children with disabilities or special needs receive all support services essential to enable them access quality education in an inclusive setting.
CST now works with more than 175 children in their inclusive early childhood assessment, learning and development centre inclusive school and enabled some 650 special needs children to be rolled in normal government primary schools and trained some 230 primary teachers in inclusive education in Mbeya.
The school dedicated to provide a nurturing environment for crucial early learning and development to the children with disabilities and the under privileged children in Tanzania.
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