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TANZANIA

Tanzania, with an extension of 945.000 km2 that includes the Zanzibar Archipelago, is the largest country in South-oriental Africa. Tanzania shares borders with Kenya and Uganda to the north, with Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, with Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south, and with the Indian Ocean to the east.

Tanzania had a population of 37.445.392 people in the year 2006 and keeping in mind the high mortality because of the HIV-AIDS virus. A forth of the population lives in the cities and life expectancy is 42 years.

THE PROBLEM

Tanzania, in spite of being one of the most beautiful and wild countries in Africa, carries the burden of a hard reality:

Poverty and disease cripples the population, especially in rural areas and in the city outskirts, whereby slowing the development of the country.
The AIDS virus is nowadays one of the greatest threats for the Tanzanian population.

CHILDREN AND CHALLENGED PEOPLE ARE THOSE AMONG MOST AFFECTED



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