supporting women micro-economic activity

• Creating friendly environment to encourage diversification of farm income with non-farm income generating activities.
• Support formation of informal savings and credit associations (SACAS) to improve women’s access to credit ·
• Provide training opportunities for males and females as a way of discouraging socio-cultural factors that discriminate against women ·
• Support and build capacity for managing group organizations to strengthen women’s rights and access to resources ·

• Institute significant policy changes and actions to establish, protect, and increase women’s rights (either individual or community based) to land and other resources ·
• Institute interventions that are more relevant to the needs of the community, specifically gender needs ·
•  Encourage low cost technologies appropriate to rural communities. · Focus and reinforce poverty reduction efforts on underlying and basic causes of poverty among women.

Hope 4 young girls have identified Ngorongoro, Longido and Loliondo district in Arusha region in Northern Tanzania as one of the leading in women and young girl’s gender violence discrimination, toppled of women’s right poor education and living in abject poverty.

H4YG is seeking support to educate, train as well supporting Ngorongoro,Longido,And Loliondo  women’s and young girls as well as their peers to understand how and in which ways they can live and control their welfare without being violated. Here training will be provided through indoors seminars in each district.

Formation of girl’s information Center through linking and learning strategy in 10 school, 5 primary schools and 5 secondary schools in each district of the project. Here girls could be reporting any gender violence they encounter and action could be taken immediately to solve the problem.

H4YG is seeking link and learning support in strengthening the households by empowering women and young girls through formation of micro-economic financial supportive groups that could be providing small loans and grants to women to uplift their social economic activities so as to reduce poverty, and gender discrimination.

• Introducing the project to the district officials, stakeholders and at the community concern.
• To form 2 women economic groups in each 3district.
• Provision of catalytic fund to 2 entrepreneurship women groups in 3 each district.
• Establish fully educational grants for 25 children from poor Maasai family and   for 25 girls from different ethnic background.

Activity I. Launching project in district headquarters.

Activity ii.Introducing project to stakeholders in town hall

        Activity I. Day one, organizing women to form their trust organization groups and choosing their leaders.

Activity ii. To make sure all 3 districts provides 2 women economic groups that could run themselves even after the completion of the project.

• Conducting indoors meeting to create awareness in raising sessions to women in 3 districts on the right to property, economic growth, inheritance, and non-violence human rights.

Activity i.Finding a social hall in each district.

Activity ii.Hiring speaker mike and other meeting facilities.

Activity iii. Conducting meeting.

• Formation of 6 Women economic groups in 3 district which having access to financial support and resources.
• Vulnerable and marginalized women from poor households from each 3 districts received technical and entrepreneurship fund to run their micro-economic activities.
• Household income increased and improved in targeted area of the project.
• Traditional and religious leaders to support and promotes women’s right in inheritance of land and engage and own productive economic activities.
• Increase numbers of poor and marginalized young girls and women to participate in mobile outdoors cultural dance shows to show up their cognitive understanding and improvement of their constructive economic activities.

Full time staff and volunteers.

passion and compassion.

Hope 4 Young Girls Tanzania since its inception have been involved in promoting character building of adolescent girls and young women, youth and sensitize communities about their fundamental rights. H4YGT has worked with Local NGO’s and International NGO’s to mention the few, UNFPA Tanzania, Mundo Cooperante in Madrid,U.S Embassy Tanzania, MIVA Netherland, Children Dignity Forum, TGNP, Repoa.

Hope 4 Young Girls is a network member of Tanzania Ending Child Marriage, Girls Not Brides London, The Girl Generation, Men Engage Africa etc.

In 2018, H4YG partnered with Mundo Cooper ante in Spain (Madrid) to implement Stop Child Marriage project within three district of coast regions (Mkuranga, Kisarawe and Bagamoyo) The aim of project was to develop the capacity of school adolescent boys and girls (“Empowerment of Adolescents girls” age of 11- 18) and community, through raising awareness on the impact of forced child marriage using traditional dance to 3000 people, training 150 girls and boys and provision of 120 bicycles to school children’s who are walking long distance to school.

In 2017, H4YG together with MIVA Netherland implemented Smart Study Easy learning project whereby it reached 100 students through the provision of bicycles to students who are walking long distance to school, aim was to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies and rapes during the walking and to improve school enrollment in additional to their school performance.

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