Mene Takaisin January 20265 – update #12 Tablets to our visually impaired students Visually impaired students at Themi Secondary School have received tablets that support their learning in many ways. With the tablets, students can listen to texts using screen reader and voice-over features, enlarge text, adjust contrast settings, and access digital learning materials in […]
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Mene Takaisin International Day of Persons with Disabilities – update #12 “Now I am seen as one of the others” –Finnish organisations promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in Tanzania A visually impaired student at Patandi Special School in Tengeru, 2025. Photo by Eva Forssén, FSE ry The International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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Mene Takaisin November, 2025 – update #11 SRHR -training in Arusha! We have now returned to Finland after a rewarding and meaningful trip to Arusha. Despite the wider political uncertainty, the situation felt more stable now with schools and stores being open as normal. As mentioned in our previous blog post, our main goal
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Mene Takaisin November, 2025 – update #10 Sex Education and Menstrual Hygiene Training in Arusha! What kind of sex education did you receive as a teenager? I have a vivid memory from middle school: our health education teacher, cheeks glowing red, demonstrated how to put a condom on a banana while the boys at
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Go Back August, 2025 – Update #9 Breaking Barriers through Digital Learning: Two New ICT Classrooms Open in Arusha August 2025 was a landmark month for inclusive education in Arusha, Tanzania. Finnish Special Education in Africa (FSE), with support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, officially inaugurated new ICT learning facilities at both
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Go Back FSE at World Village festival World Village Festival 24–25 May 2025 – Menstrual Hygiene to Arusha! Our association took part in the World Village Festival last weekend – an event that traditionally marks the beginning of summer in Helsinki, at least for me! For as long as I can remember, this festival
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Go Back March, 2025 – Update #8 Small stories from Arusha 8 About Educational Heroes and Other Memorable Moments There’s still more to tell about Tanzania, even though our mentor training on digital technology for teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing ended a week ago. My travel companion and I decided to stay
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Go Back March, 2025 – Update #7 Small stories from Arusha 7 Bittersweet and Uplifting Moments The final day of the two-week mentor training took place on Friday, March 21st. It had truly been an intensive crash course on the use of digital technology applications. Now, it’s up to the mentors to start using the
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Go Back March, 2025 – Update #6 Small stories from Arusha 6 Networking Rules! The second-to-last training day of the two-week FSEA mentoring course. Behind us are over one and a half weeks of intensive training, and it’s definitely been quite a workload for both participants and trainers. I myself am in a kind
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Go Back March, 2025 – Update #5 Small Stories from Arusha 5 I Became a Believer in Inclusion Today’s mentor training focused more on special education. The entire Arusha project has, for the past 12 years, been centered around special education, particularly on developing learning opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. In
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