Miss Tabata Mwaka 2009 Everlyne Gamassa
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This year’s Miss Tabata beauty contest will be used as a campaign to fight Aids and HIV, the organisers, Bob Entertainment and Keen Arts, have said.The chairman of the organizing committee, Fred Ogot, who is also the Sports Editor of The Guardian on Sunday, said yesterday that they had reached into that decision after seeing the event was loved by many in the country.
“Members of the public do pay a lot of attention to beauty contests especially those organized by Miss Tanzania like Miss Tabata.
We have, therefore, come up with this theme knowing very well that our campaign will reach many people. We will make our campaigns reach to the needy people like orphanage centres and hospitals etc,” Ogot said.
He said that Miss Tabata was a crowd-pulling event which he believed would make members of the public be aware of the dangerous disease.
“We have arranged that our contestants do campaign into public places like offices, markets, mauls, shopping centers, stadiums and streets where people gather. We will also organize AIDS/HIV seminars.
We will also make campaign through banners, postures and fliers ” Ogot said, adding that the contestants would also make a three day trip to visit Mikumi National Park in Morogoro.
Miss Tabata will be held next month at Dar west Park Tabata.
More than 25 beauty queens are doing rehearsal at Dar West Park every day.
The event will be used to pick eight queens which will compete in the Miss Ilala before advancing to Vodacom Miss Tanzania and later Miss World 2010.
The reigning Vodacom Miss Tanzania second runner-up, Juliet William, came from Tabata
Some of the queen who are currently training ahead of the most prestigious event are Grace Johannes (18), Anna Mwakapala (18), Consolata Lukosi (20), Happy Emmanuel (20) and Ryhinna Jesse (21).
Others are Harriet Mulumba (20), Benardina Mwita (18), Dorine Deus (18), Light Mziray (20), Rose Sekwao (19), Bellynda Mselewa (20), Maria Joseph (18), Lilian Andrew (19), Alice Kidika (23), Grace Mzamiri (23), Joyce Joseph Sadiki (21), Agatha Kallala (20) and Rose Anthony (23).
The doors are still open for newcomers to join the team. Miss Tabata will be used to launch Miss Tanzania 2010. The reigning Tabata is Everlyne Gamassa.
