The CEO of the Institute of Social Welfare, Dr. Joyce Nyoni, has said that they will visit bodaboda drivers in their villages, to ensure that education about anti-violence is successful.

Dr. Nyoni said this today, during the opening of training for leaders of bodaboda drivers in Kinondoni District in Dar es Salaam, as a step towards World Social Welfare Day on March 21.

He has said that they need to ensure that acts of cruelty end, as a child can be subjected to cruelty when he is young and destroy his relationship with life when he grows up.

He said that cruelty has psychological effects, where it appears that the wound heals but the psychological effects do not heal, especially if he has not received appropriate care in time.

"We pray as a part of the society due to your work you meet many people you carry daughters, children even though they say children are the nation of tomorrow we say it is the nation of today that how you raise them today is what you shape the next generation.

"Today you are a young man, you are strong, tomorrow you become an adult, what do you want the next generation to be like in the future, we see that you have a great contribution to ensure that the society flourishes equally," he said.

He has told the leaders of the bodaboda drivers that they are building capacity for them when they go to their workplaces, to build capacity for others.

"Yesterday the President said that we should condemn cruel acts as a nation in general, we see that we have a part to do, I ask you after this to become ambassadors, there are many acts that we do and we do not know if it is cruelty, for example, when a sister passes by, people whistle, it is cruelty, he will lose confidence," he said.