He is a Social Welfare Officer in the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, where he is involved especially with the rehabilitation of the disabled. He is the Executive Secretary of both the National Committee for the Disabled and the National Committee of the World Assembly on Aging. His recent activities have included undertaking a survey of rehabilitation facilities in Tanzania. Mr. Madai holds a Diploma in Social Work from the National Social Welfare Institute, Dar E Salaam (1976). In 1980 he was awarded the Joseph P. Kennedy fellowship in Mental Retardation and Public Policy, sponsored by the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation, which enabled him to study for six months at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.