Each year, around one million young people enter the job market in Tanzania, yet their access to formal employment is incredibly limited. Young people face a range of challenges from accessing capital to skills mismatch, resulting in high unemployment rates. Women and girls face additional challenges as one in three girls are married before 18, …
Story of Happy Balisidya, a 28 year-old feminist from Tanzania in her fight against Gender-based Violence.
Dorice Ahmed Mkiva is 27-year-old feminist leader and youth accountability advocate from Tanzania. She is passionate about working with young people to ensure their meaningful participation in community-led change.
Hawa, 23, is from Iringa, a town in central Tanzania. She grew up with two brothers, two sisters and a single mother who is now retired and subsistence farms for a living.
On learning about the challenges people living with disabilities face in her community, Anastazia decided to pursue a Bachelors of Education in Special Needs at the University of Dodoma.
Meet Paulina Paulina Joseph, a 16-year-old girl from a village called Mtitaa, in central Tanzania, has been working hard to eradicate gender-based violence in her community. Paulina, who lives with her mother and two siblings, is in her third year of secondary school. Growing up she saw women and girls in her community held back …
Tanzania youth are making a sustainable living through the honey business. Meet Adam Jeremiah (31) from Singida Tanzania. Adam with other 8 young people decided to start a bee farm to produce honey. They named their youth network Kuku farm group (4 women, 5 men). They have been working on honey production for over 5 …
As we celebrate this year’s International Youth Day, we find ourselves living in a new era of incredible resilience. Young people everywhere have been showing their resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting not just themselves but their communities too. These four stories of young people from the UK, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and …
