Poland in Tanzania

On February 6-8, 2024, President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda paid an official visit to Rwanda, during which, among others, talks took place with President Paul Kagame and the Polish-Rwandan Economic Round Table, as well as visits at the Luna Smelter tinworks and the Center for Blind Children in Kibeho.

Please be advised that the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam, including the consular section will be closed on Friday 9 February 2024.

The III edition of the Pamoja Zanzibar Festival took place on December 8-10, 2023, during which three concerts were organized by Radek Bond Bednarz, this year with the participation of the famous Tanzanian music family Zawose and the Malawian artist NyaGo, with the support of our Embassy.

This year, thanks to a Small Grant from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam, the Educational Institute for Blind Children in Kibeho, Rwanda, gained a new, safe space for children and teenagers with visual impairments, intended for games and sports. Such an access to a multi-functional sports ground will help eliminate various barriers that the children face in their everyday life.

Students of the secondary, vocational and technical schools, as well as employees of the Educational Center of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Segerea are already using computers purchased this year thanks to a project implemented jointly by the Center and the Polish Embassy in Dar es Salaam and financed by the Polish Aid.

As part of one of this year's development projects co-financed by the Polish Embassy in Dar es Salaam with Polish aid funds, a fruit drying manufacture is being built in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. The project supports vocational education for young women and is intended to create favorable conditions for them to acquire knowledge and new skills as well as to stimulate the development of local entrepreneurship by increasing their chances for employment.

Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski visited the sites of implementation of a development project, under which the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam has been supporting the activities of STEP, an NGO working for the peaceful coexistence of people and elephants in the Kilombero Valley and improving the entrepreneurship of local communities. What is new in this year's project is our support for the authorities of the Udzungwa Mountains National Park.

As part of the European Film Festival, which joined forces with the Zanzibar International Film Festival, screenings of movies from 10 European countries, including Poland and Ukraine, took place from November 3 to 23, 2023.

During the gala reception on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of regaining independence, organized in the gardens of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam, Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski presented the "Women of Independence" exhibition, and an international band of missionaries sang Polish songs. There were also traditional dishes prepared by us.

On November 1, 2023, Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski and consuls laid flowers on Polish graves at the Kinondoni cemetery in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Our Embassy takes care of 6 cemeteries with the graves of civilians accompanying Anders' Army who arrived in Tanganyika in 1942.