maipac
Respect
Ringhts, Traditions and Culture.
About maipac
MEDIA AID FOR INDIGENOUS AND PASTORALIST COMMUNITY (MAIPAC) is an organization formed by a journalist to empower indigenous and pastoralist communities because they have suffered from historical injustices as a result of their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories, and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their rights to development in accordance with their own needs and interest.
MAIPAC recognizes the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous and pastoralist communities that derive from their economic and social structures and their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories, and philosophies especially their rights to their lands, territories, and resources.
MAIPAC Experience
MAIPAC giving out free copies of the book - Indigenous knowledge in preserving and conserving the environment.
The book was distributed to different districts and also in the Maasai communities whom collaborated in giving out of information on how they preserve their environment by traditional means.
MAIPAC giving out free copies of the book - Indigenous knowledge in preserving and conserving the environment.
The book was distributed to different schools in an effort to raise awareness on how the indigenous community of Wamaasai conserve and preserve their environment.
Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom house organization Tanzania.
Discussion on how to effectively use the Media in promoting indigenous rights. At an official visit to Media Aid for Indigenous and pastoralists community (MAIPAC).
September 16th- 29th 2022. MAIPAC Team with CESO under went training for Proposal writing, fundraising and monitoring and evaluation of projects.
August 2022 - Ongoing project funded by UNDP.
Documenting indigenous knowledge in forest, water and environment conservation, being done in Longido, Ngorongoro and Monduli
March 2020: MAIPAC collaborated with PINGOs Forum and conducted Media Awareness and Safety training for journalists in Arusha and Manyara Region. 150 journalists were reached and given safety gears.
November and December 2020: MAIPAC collaborated with Arusha Press Club through Union of Press Club Tanzania (UTPC) and conducted training on Pandemic Diseases and COVID-19 to journalists in Arusha and Manyara Region. Approximately, 100 journalists were reached.
September 1-5, 2021: MAIPAC collaborated with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and conducted three days of training on Mobilizing Media Fighting COVID-19 to journalists from Arusha, Manyara and Kilimanjaro.
January - December 2021: Gender Based Violence, this was conducted under MAIPAC own funding to fight against gender violence in Ngorongoro, Arusha and Monduli, where by we managed to restore land ownership rights to women.
November 28-December 3, 2021: MAIPAC collaborated with DefendDefenders East and Horn of Africa and conducted training on well-being and its components to build the capacity of journalists and human rights defenders in Tanzania as a way of ensuring sustainable protection and COVID-19 and important of vaccine.
February 2021- Fact Finding- Female students drop out during Covid- 19. This project was done in collaboration with MIMUTIE, in restoring female students to school who were married off during lockdown period of COVID-19.
November 2021-February 2022: Digital Literacy training for female university students. This was funded by Internews and MAIPAC conducting it in Makumira University, Sauti University, IAA University and TICD.