General News

Dear Readers,

on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM), we are glad to invite our stakeholders to the Energy and Minerals Week, which will be held from 24th - 27th July, 2011 at Mnazi Mmoja Ground (Dar Es Salaam). Additionally, a final congregation will be held at Movenpick Hotel on 27th.

We are looking forward to see the TAREA-Community participating at his event! Especially our Coperate Members are duly invited to take part and demonstrate their technology and services. MEM will facilitate the availability of the space (Mnazi Mmoja Ground) and Corporate Member will be responsible for the rest of the logistic (tent e.t.c).

Non Corporate TAREA Members are also welcome to visit the energy technology demonstrations and participate in the Congregation.

The participation to demonstrate the service and Congregation is by registration. Please, register through TAREA Secretariat by 1st July, 2011 via eMail. The TAREA-Secretariat will submit the list to MEM Event Committee.

In case of a question, please, do not hesitate to contact us.

TAREA Secretariat

'The Community of Opportunities for Development' is an online platform, which brings some fresh air into the development sector. The page combines the possibilities to transact projects and tenders with elements of Facebook and LinkedIn, which provide state-of-art means of communication. Furthermore, the website offers the promotion of events and allows multi-layered connections between users.COM4DEV aims at NGOs and public institutions as well as private users. Also companies, which are linked to development issues, are warmly welcomed.

Since last week, TAREA is also proud member of the community. The 'Tanzania Private Sector Foundation" invited to us to a training session, conducted by ProInvest. The seminary was held at Mbezi Beach and gave us some detailed insights to the mechanisms of Com4Dev.

We are therefore inviting all stakeholders to also participate at com4dev.com and connect to us and other actors! The use is completely free of charge and a great opportunity to find interesting partners, projects or even donors. For more information, please use the links above or contact us directly.

Volunteer Service in Germany

TAREA, DTP and AK Arbeit & Leben are proud to annouce our new voluntary service! After the program was suspended last year due to financial issues, the German "Arbeitskreis Arbeit & Leben" now tenders 1-2 scholarships for a stay in Germany. We are very glad to get this opportunity and invite everyone to apply!

Starting in August, 1-2 Tanzanian volunteers will fly to Hamburg/ Germany in order to gain living and working experiences. The working place will be selected according to the applicants needs. The duration varies from three to eight months, depending on the working place and applicant itself. Our aim is to encourage intercultural exchange and to disseminate knowlegde abour renewable energy.

The application phase has now started and runs until 31st March 2011. For more information and the application form, see this page!

Since Solar Modules are mostly installed outside and have become a sign of profitability and sustainability, they are unfortunatelety sometimes subject to envy, theft and vandalism. Therefore, TAREA urges every owner of Solar-Systems to take care of the security! Nothing would be more bothering than losing a new SHS due to inappropriate mouting. Especially public institutions have been victim of thievery.

Since SHS are very valuable and keep their use over years, a tight and durable fixutre is a 'must-have' of every installation. Even though security concerns are widely known and every TAREA-Coperate Member / Technician is aware of it, we recommend to emphasize a safe attachment of the modules nevertheless. Furthermore, we would like to give you following hints to take along:

• Installing solar modules in places which are nor susceptible to theft
• Presence of security guards where Solar-Systems indispensable
• Designing mounting structure whereby solar module frames are inserted in the locked structure
• Use of special designed screws & fixture material like "Shear Bolts"

As usual, we are glad for comments and questions!