Poland in Tanzania

Every day, about 300 children from the Usambara Mountains region in Tanzania benefit from extra-curricular education facilities organized in rooms renovated and equipped thanks to Polish Aid. This year, thanks to the involvement of a local partner - A.D. Views Management Ltd. and funds donated as part of Polish development cooperation by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam, already around 300 girls and boys from the Lushoto district in the Usambara mountains in northern Tanzania attend specially organized rooms providing not only a safe place to play, but above all to learn.

Health protection is one of the priorities of Poland's development cooperation with African countries. That is why this year we continue to subsidize the project of the APOPO organization implemented in Tanzania, which consists in detecting tuberculosis with the help of the southern giant pouched rats.

Within the framework of Polish development cooperation, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam continues its commitment to educating Burundian youth. This year, thanks to funds provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Polish missionaries from the Congregation of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers organized three workshop sessions in the academic city of Gitega in Burundi, each of which was addressed to a group of 40 participants.

As part of the celebration of the Chopin Year, on November 24, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam organized, in cooperation with the Embassy of Germany, a piano concert performed by the outstanding Polish pianist Jan Krzysztof Broja.

On November 21, 2021, Rwanda received a donation of 300,000 vaccines against #COVID19 from Poland. The donation was received at the Kigali International Airport by representatives of Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Rwanda Charles Ngarambe.

During the festive reception on the occasion of the 103rd anniversary of regaining independence organized in the gardens of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam, Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski read a letter from Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk with wishes for the Polish diaspora in the world and recalled the history of regaining independence.

All Saints' Day was an occasion to commemorate Polish exiles from World War II in Tanzania. Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski together with a delegation from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage laid a wreath at the Tengeru cemetery, and other representatives of the Embassy visited the Kinondoni cemetery in Dar es Salaam.

As part of the European Film Festival, which joined forces with the International Film Festival in Zanzibar, on October 29, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam organized at the local French Institute the screening of the award-winning movie "Sweat".

On 25-26 October 2021, Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski accompanied Deputy Minister Marcin Przydacz during his visit to Kigali for the 2nd European Union-African Union Ministerial Meeting, as well as in a number of bilateral meetings.

New school furniture, mattresses as well as kitchen, laundry and playground equipment will soon serve the youngest children from Segerea, a district of Dar es Salaam, as well as the school personnel working in the kindergarten. The purchase of items from Polish Aid sources will allow the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family to soon open a new kindergarten building – Holy Family Day Care.