On December 17, 2010, Deo Baribwegure, director of KICORA, the Kigoma Community College by Radio, visited us. Kigoma is a port city on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania and has just over 100,000 inhabitants.
The city is an important transportation hub: both the terminus of the Tanganyika Railway and a sea route to Burundi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Incidentally, the passenger ship Liemba, once built at a shipyard in Lower Saxony, sails from there.
The rural population is poor, illiteracy is a major problem and there are few educational opportunities. KICORA, founded on the initiative of Baribwegure, a biologist, is trying to remedy the situation.
The aim is to reach people interested in education with correspondence courses via a radio station. There is currently a lack of a large transmission mast.
