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 …
Ramlat is 27 years old and lives in Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. She is worried about her community. They are very vulnerable to the economic impacts of lockdown which are already threatening their livelihoods. But Ramlat has taken action and started making facemasks. Ramlat works on the marketing and helps with the design of …
“My community needs me, now is not the time to back off.” Karim is a 27 year old young leader from Tanzania. He got involved with Restless Development Tanzania in 2015 under our Kijana Wajibika (Youth Be Responsible) project which aimed to create space for Tanzanian citizens, particularly marginalized women and young people to engage …
“Girls in my area had no education about entrepreneurship or their reproductive health or where to go in case they were sexually harassed. Restless development has taught me and guided me on how to teach this to girls.” Neema leads a women’s group as part of Restless Development’s ‘Mabinti Tushike Hatamu (Mabinti)’ – ‘Girls! Let’s …