Training: The final word

The third and final training day was spent doing assignments, there were two, participants could either write about the newly discovered natural gas in Mtwara, its implication problems and its future effects for the people living in the area.

The second topic addressed the issue of 'Press Freedom' or maybe its absence in Tanzania and how it has been affecting the media and journalists in the country. Here feature stories targeting international audience was required.

Gathering details and supporting stories from a number of websites wasn't easy but summing them all up to come up with 'readable' feature proved to be much harder, still once caught the hang of it, everything became a breeze.

There wasn't much to dislike about the training because it was fun band eye raiser but in future more days may be required in order to provide ample time for discussions as well as relieving the constraint of packing everything within limited space.