Project Tanzania compilation
Division:
WRAL-TV
People:
Adele Arakawa, Charlie Gaddy, Denece Boyer, John Hudson, Kevin Duffus, Paul Pope, Waltye Rasulala
Program Types:
Ongoing News Coverage, WRAL Documentaries
Community Program Type:
Project Tanzania
Type:
Video
Many Africans were affected by the massive drought in the early 1980’s. In 1985, a group of dedicated people from the Raleigh/Durham area went on a fact-finding trip to find an area that wanted assistance in becoming more self-sufficient. The rural Shinyanga Region was selected and Project Tanzania was born.
WRAL-TV produced an hour-long documentary that introduced North Carolinians to the situation in Shinyanga and identified ways to help Tanzanians help themselves. This wasn’t another hand-out program, but a way to give these people a hand up to a better life.
This video is a sampling of news reports in 1985 and 1986 about the efforts to help the people in Tanzania.
WRAL-TV received the 1986 World Hunger Media Award for the documentary “Tanzani: A Need Beyond Hunger.”