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The
project will be implemented in all regions of Unguja and Pemba and in Dar es
Salaam, Morogoro by T-MARC, an independent, locally managed non-governmental
organization.
Dar es Salaam. The American international aid agency, USAID, has initiated a $10.6 million (Sh24bn) youth empowerment project that seeks to
offer vocational and life skills to thousands of Tanzanian young men and women.The four-year Kijana Nahodha (Young
Captain) project, which was launched yesterday in Zanzibar, would impart
Tanzanian youth with skills that enable them become effective agents of change
in their communities.
Zanzibar President Dr Hussein Ali
Mwinyi officiated the launch.
A statement released by the US
Embassy yesterday said the youth-focused USAID Kijana Nahodha project would
entail cross-cutting programmes on employment, education, agriculture,
governance, and health that are designed to build the capacity of the youth
aged between 15 and 25 years of age.
The capacity building undertaken
through the project will include increasing access and quality of the youth to
remedial skills and vocational training. It also entails improved awareness of
mental health services through in-person, peer-led and digital educational
tools, as well as strengthening clear channels of communication between youth
and local government to elevate youth’s voices in civic life, politics, and
policymaking.
The project will be implemented in
all regions of Unguja and Pemba and in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro by T-MARC, an
independent, locally managed non-governmental organization.
The US embassy further said in the
statement yesterday that the Kijana Nahodha project expects to empower
approximately 10,000 in Zanzibar and 35,000 in the two targeted mainland
regions. USAID Mission Director Kate Somvongsiri remarked: “Through the project
youth will receive new skills and appropriate knowledge to run a business.”
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