Wanafunzi wa tanzania walio Ujerumani wahaha

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics),

University of Dar es Salaam,

P. O. Box 35052, Dar es Salaam

Deputy Principal Academics,

DUCE,

P.O. Box 2329 Dar es Salaam.

Email: dpacademic@duce.ac.tz

The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics),

University of Dodoma,

P.O Box 259, Dodoma,

dvc-arc@udom.ac.tz

The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics),

Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA),

P.O. Box 3000, Morogoro, Tanzania

Email: dvc@suanet.ac.tz

MZUMBE,

Prof. Josephat S. Itika

P.O. Box 1,

Mzumbe

Tel.255 023 260 4381/3/4

Fax 255 (0) 23 260 4257

E-mail: dvc@mzumbe.ac.tz, jsitika@mzumbe.ac.tz

ZANZIBAR,

The Deputy Vice Chancellor,

The State University of Zanzibar,

P.O. Box 146,

Zanzibar.

Tel: +255 24 223 0724

Fax: +255 24 223 3337

E-mail: dvc@suza.ac.tz

MUHIMBILI (MUHAS)

Vice Chancellor

P.O. Box 65001, Dar es Salaam,

E-mail: vc@muhas.ac.tz

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics),

Ardhi University,

P. O. Box 35176, Dar es Salaam

Dear Sir/Madam,

RE: OVERDELAY OF OUR MONTHLY ALLOWANCES FROM TCU/MOEVT

Kindly refer to the above heading.

We are the employees of the University of Dar es Salaam, DUCE, Dodoma, Sokoine, Mzumbe,

Zanzibar and the Open University of Tanzania pursuing doctorate degrees in Germany under co-

sponsorship of Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (through Tanzania Commission

for Universities) and German Academic Exchange Programme (MOEVT-DAAD). The

scholarship contract stipulates that DAAD pays 20% of our stipend and MOEVT pays the

remaining 80%. DAAD transfers the amount into our personal bank accounts every beginning of

the month; and MOEVT in three months instalments.

We write to bring to your attention the challenges; we as scholars under this cooperation

agreement are encountering on the implementation of the contract terms, with hope that you will

assist us in communicating our problems to the relevant authorities. The distance between us and

the authorities at home makes it impossible for us to make a close follow up of the matter.

There have been recurring delays in disbursing the stipend from TCU into our accounts despite

having discussed the problem several times with the responsible coordinators (TCU). Please

note that, the first instance occurred in September 2010, when our three months instalment for

October 2010 to December 2010 was delayed up to 15th October 2010; and another delay for

June 2011 to September 2011 instalment which was affected as late as 12th June 2011.

We would like to bring to your attention that we have not yet received the three months stipend

instalment from MOEVT for January 2012 - March 2012, which was supposed to be disbursed

into our bank accounts by the end of December 2011. We have communicated with both

MOEVT through TCU and DAAD concerning this problem though we have not received any

comprehensive response so far. In our previous discussions over the delays, TCU promised

that the delay would never happen again: and hence, that it has now recurred suggests that the

sustainable solution is not yet realized.

As we are writing this letter, we are facing hardship and embarrassment of living without money

to meet our basic needs such as food and inability to meet our basic monthly bills. As a result,

landlords have already started taking measures against our rent defaults, and such measures do

not exclude possibilities of eviction. As we are now in winter season, eviction could be fatal. As

you might be aware, some of us are accompanied by their families and are now in the middle

of January without any financial security for their lives. Moreover, others have been given

deadlines by their landlords to pay their bills; failure to comply would lead to the calling of debt

collectors.

We therefore kindly ask you to help us solve this problem; as we are confident that you are in a

position to do so and therefore enable us to concentrate better on our studies.

We remain sincerely,

TCU-DAAD scholars

cc. Tanzania Commission for Universities

P. O Box 6562, Dar es Salaam.