Day: April 16, 2023

Management of N3 Wellness Hub, an online consultancy that specializes in nutritional and dietetics management has donated food items, toiletries, and an undisclosed amount to the House of Mercy Ophanage at Teiman, near Oyarifa as part of its charity project.

Mrs Dorcas Asante Afari Chief Executive Officer of the Hub said the donation was to complement the nutritional needs of the children of the orphanage and to ensure that they get the nutritional requirements for their healthy growth.

‘I feel obliged to assist the needy where possible and seeing these very young innocent children for the first time I visited them, I thought with my background as Nutritionist, I can prepare these locally made food items-soyabean powder, fortified tombrown and add few toiletries to support them.’

Mrs Asante Afari said N3 Wellness Hub, was committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment to empower individuals and communities to take control of their health and live their best lives through optimal nutrition and lifestyle choices.

Mrs Priscilla Terdeku, mother of the orphanage said the orphanage was established in 2010 and currently has 16 children ranging from one year to 14 years with different forms of ailments.

The children she said, were placed under their care by the Department of Social Welfare and the home depended on benevolent organisations and philanthropists for care and support.

She commended N3 Wellness for their generosity appealed for more support to enable them to enrol some of the children who have reached the school going age to schools.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The “Echos Cinématographiques” Association has launched the “Cinephilia” project with the support of the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT) and in partnership with HAKKA Distribution and Cinéfilms.

“Cinéphilia” is a capacity building programme in cultural mediation, audience mobilisation and project management, aimed at groups with projects to organise regular film screenings and wishing to develop their capacities in film mediation and film club animation. This programme aims to enable them to acquire technical and logistical skills as well as communication and management skills. To this end, a call for applications for training for screening collectives and film clubs has been launched, with a deadline of April 23, 2023.

Two participants from each selected collective will be supported to create or strengthen an entity dedicated to this activity.

The project aims to create or develop the capacities of six permanent structures across Tunisia offering independent cinema programming throughout the year. The beneficiary structures will have the opportunity to become part of a programming network.

An initial two-month phase will consist of meetings and theoretical and practical training lasting an estimated 40 hours over two months (May and June 2023), followed by a programme of internships and ongoing support over a period of two years, at the end of which each collective will have the opportunity to develop the tools needed to organise, promote and host independent film screenings on a regular basis throughout the year. Particular attention will be paid to sustainability through the search for a viable economic model and appropriate financial autonomy.

The ECHOS Cinématographiques association, which works to disseminate cinematographic culture and develop cinephilia, was created by a group of activists in the field of disseminating cinematographic culture who have been working for years to bring cinema closer to the public and to develop dissemination channels throughout Tunisia. With the aim of disseminating cinema as an art form and a means of expression, it has set itself the goal of creating, developing and contributing to the perpetuation of alternative cinematographic dissemination channels, associations, cultural actors, screening spaces and public structures working to disseminate cinema, in particular through the screening of films wherever possible, and also by encouraging film criticism, training in the professions of cinematographic dissemination and participation in the reform of the sector..

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hayat Ktat Guermazi, received the certificate of the inscription of “Harissa: knowledge, know-how, and culinary and social practices” on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO, during an official ceremony that took place Saturday evening (April 15) at the Centre of Arts, Culture, and Letters Ksar Said in Bardo.

The ceremony was attended by Minister of Education, Mohamed Ali Boughdiri, Director of the Regional Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for the Maghreb countries, Eric Falt, Ambassadors of the European Union, Marcus Cornaro, Italy, Fabrizio Saggio, from Germany, Pieter Bruegel, from the Netherlands, Josephine Barbara Frantezn, representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Khaled Shili and Director General of the Arab Organisation for Education, Culture and Science Alecso, Mourad Mahmoudi.

The meeting was an opportunity to shed light on Harissa as an identity element of the national culinary heritage which illustrates a set of knowledge, traditional know-how, and culinary and food practices, in addition to its specificities and diversity perceived in the richness of its preparation methods and its uses according to local and regional traditions contributing to anchor its heritage and social role. Prepared and consumed throughout Tunisia, harissa is perceived as a unifying element for the whole country.

The Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hayat ktat Guermazi, underlined the role of intangible cultural heritage in making civilisations known and in consolidating values and practices that reflect the human capacity for innovation and creativity, mentioning the efforts of the ministry through its various specialised services in the valorisation of important heritage elements, and the contribution to making them known outside local geographical borders.

The ceremony was also an opportunity to present the 20-year experience since the adoption of the UNESCO Convention in 2003 for the safeguarding of intangible heritage in addition to making known the Tunisian experience in the field of preservation of intangible cultural heritage. The ceremony was crowned by the presentation of the certificate of inscription of the Harissa in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the representatives of UNESCO.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Road fatalities rose to 301 from early January to April 13 up from 233 during the same period last year (+29%), the National Observatory of Road Safety said.

Figures show 1,302 road accidents occurred in the period from early January to April 13 against 1,556 during this same period last year, posting a 16% drop. The number of people who sustained injuries fell 14% to 1,861.

Recklessness and inattention were the major causes of accidents (41.7%) followed by speeding (15% and failure to give way (8%).

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

The weather on Sunday will be, sometimes densely cloudy over the north and center, with locally thundery rain on the northern coastal areas and clouds over the south.

The wind will be strong, reaching speeds of 60 km/h near the coast, and vigilance is required for shipping and fishing activities.

The sea will be very choppy to rough, according to the National Institute of Meteorology (INM).

A relative drop in temperatures is expected.

The maximum temperatures will range between 18 and 23 ºC in the north and center, will reach 16 ºC on the heights, will vary between 24 and 29 ºC in the rest of the regions and will reach 31 ºC in El Borma and Borj El Khadhra.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse