Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)

The Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) has embarked on a campaign to provide education to its clients on the importance of getting a quality mark issued by the institution.

TBS took advantage of the Women's Economic Empowerment Forum exhibition to provide education to the participants of the exhibition on the importance of the mark.

Speaking to women entrepreneurs who participated in the exhibition in Dar es Salaam, TBS quality control officer, Christopher Magafu said that the exhibition has been a good opportunity for the organization to provide education to entrepreneurs, where many do not have the education to get a quality score.

"Thus with our participation, we believe this education will make it easier for their small ideas to become big," said Magafu.

He said that the government has made it easier for entrepreneurs to verify the quality of their products for free, where every year it sets aside a special amount to help small and medium entrepreneurs so that they can fulfill their dream of being able to get a quality mark.

"Through that SIDO identity, an entrepreneur can make an application through the system available on our organization's website, if they log in they will see the login section and send their application without any problem," he said.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mussa Azan Zungu, urged women not to stop grabbing opportunities on the interest-free loans that are expected to start being issued soon.

He said the loans were initially suspended and are expected to return soon with a special procedure, while emphasizing women not to leave the opportunity.

"The loans that were removed will return soon in a special procedure, so I would like to emphasize to women not to stop using this opportunity, because the loans do not have an age limit for women", said Zungu.

He also asked the Ilala District Commissioner, Edward Mpogolo and the Director of the Dar es Salaam City Council, Jomaary Satura, to work on addressing the tendency by some city militia who harass entrepreneurs, especially women.