Inside This Issue
1 From Youth Platforms
2 Next Majukwaa
3 Leadership program
4 Training Centre
5 Upcoming events
6 Youth opportunities
7 Partner news/stories
8 Story from auntie Sadaka
From the Youth Platforms to a Youth SACCOS!
Tanzania Youth Coalition (TYC) has been mobilizing young people to engage with Local Government at local levels. This mobilization has gone parallel with the establishment of the famous District Youth Platforms Kiswahili titled “Majukwaa ya Vijana”. The platforms act as arena of youth and LGA leaders to discuss local development agenda and youth challenges and opportunities. Youth in Masasi District have been mobilized and are taking action! This is manifested by the formation of a Youth led SACCOS to cater for youth accessibility to financing. This venture is coming after sensitization carried out by TYC and Ministry of Youth with the support of ILO
Majukwaa ya Vijana yanayofuata ni September/October 2009
The next “Jukwaas” is going to cover the sixteen (16) districts in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. TYC is planning to rich-out a total number of 1600 youth having 100 youth per district within the existing and functioning District Youth Platforms. September/October is a key month as the Planning cycle of the LGAs starts with the obstacle and opportunity for development (O&OD) process at village levels. TYC with the Youth Platforms intends to influence this very stage by having youth voices heard at policy making bodies within the LGAs.
Youth in Masasi District have been mobilized and are taking action!
TYC Training centre yamfikia kijana wa mia saba
TYC youth training centre entails a program targeting youth in equipping them with different skills and competencies. It offers different short courses on financial management, entrepreneurship, life skills, citizen journalism, project management and computer skills. The program is to run for a period of three years and it is to reach out to 5000 youth. Since its first inception in September 2008 the program has reached out to 700 youth in Dar es Salaam. The program anticipates reaching out to other areas in Tanzania and Zanzibar in the near future.
ONGOING EVENTS
TRAININGS
1. Entrepreneurship: youth are trained on the difference between an entrepreneur and a business person, characteristics of an entrepreneur, how to start a business and running of the business, how to handle customers and how to prepare a business plan. By this time youth are busy at the youth centre being trained. If you are interested its time now to apply for the up coming courses.
2. Citizen Journalism: youth are trained on news writing, interview skill, photo editing and blogs. It’s your time now to receive training. TYC is working hard for you and it welcomes you at any time!!!Asiye na mwana aeleke jiwe! Visit our centre for more information.
TYC Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP)
YLTP is a new initiative within TYC aimed at equipping youth with different skills and competencies in a package within a period of three months. The training will expand young people’s ability to live a happy, fulfilling, useful and purposeful life through increasing personal power, energy and focus as well as leadership, teamwork and communication skills. The program is to run from 2009-2012 starting this September-November 2009. The target beneficiary is youth from the districts public platforms (majukwaa) and member organizations. The TYC YLTP is going to cover a total number of 2496 male and female youth in the Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.
PARTNERS NEWS /STORIES
SAVANNAH THEATRE GROUP
Savannah theatre is a youth group focusing in raising awareness in the community through the use of arts (drama, poems, songs and group discussion). SAVANNA invites all youth as it carries out sensitization campaigns on HIV/AIDS prevention and condom use. Let’s stand together and fight HIV/AIDS.
FULOTA is a non governmental organization focusing on raising awareness to the community on HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy and environmental conservation. Fulota is currently carrying out sensitization campaigns on environmental conservation under the theme “shiriki nasi tushiriki kutunza mazingira” in primary and secondary schools, health and police centers. All are invited.
OPEN MIND TANZANIA
Open mind Tanzania informs all youth that it is conducting a special program on how to write a viable business concept/business plan. This is to enhance one’s skills to participate in the national business plan competition which is going to take place in mid-September, 2009. All are invited.
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES
CONFERENCE
AIDS 2010
THEME: GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV
Start Date: 1 December 2009- End: February 2010
Registration: open to all
Living and Transport expenses: participant covers for all expenses but one can apply for scholarship
Host country: Vienna, Austria
For more information and registration visit this website: http//:www.aids2010.org
SCHOLARSHIP
FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIP
Scholarship available: Sonoma state University
Application: open to undergraduate and students wishing to join Sonoma University
Requirements: minimum GPA OF 3.0 ON A 4.0 Scale
For more information visit this website: Http://www.sonoma.edu/scholarship
EDITORIAL
EDITOR: Ndulamo Mwaikasu: Information officer
For more news about TYC visit our website or visit our office in Kijitonyama located in Msikitini Street. The article can also be found online at www.tyctz.org.
Contributions and comments are welcome. We would like to hear from you. Email us at enews@tyctz.org
STORY
Aunt Sadaka
Do you believe that Your Success Depends on How Others Back You Up.
Hi friends!
It’s a long time since we discussed about why It Pays to be nice to people, today I want to share with you that your happiness is dependent on how you as an individual can go about trying to gain the love, respect and backing of your family, your friends and your associates.
Our personalities are echoes of our contacts with other people. In practical sense, our day to day emotional stature is molded and shaped not by our hands but by the words and actions of others for or against us.
In my own experience, I have learned repeatedly that it is a sound, practical philosophy to remember that, it is much easier to get along with everyone than it is to get along with only one or two! Not until I learned to bow to other fellow, to adjust to idiosyncrasies, to mould my temperament, to block an argument and to cultivate in its place understanding and agreement, then I can make my destiny more favorable.
I wish you Ramadhan Mubarak.
Any comments write to me, sadaka03@hotmail.com
