White Orange Youth
Final report 2014
Please the brief up-dates on what WOY achieved in the final quarter of 2014. In case you have any comment, question or you need more information regarding this report please don’t hesitate to call or write to whiteorangeyouth@gmail.com
In the fourth quarter of this year the White Orange Youth implements the following activities:
- White Orange Youth chosen as the consultant by Childreach Tanzania and Deaf Child world wide to conducting life skills training to the final year Deaf students in two Deaf institutions in Kilimanjaro. The training where conducted to Ghona vocation training center for Deaf and Msandaka Primary school for the Deaf. The total of 25 children reached.
The Purpose and Objective of the life skills training was to prepare final year deaf student for challenges and risks they are going to face back in the society, assist deaf students to explore and develop the skills necessary for successful living and learning, help to develop and transfer of life skills among deaf student leading to informed decision making pertaining to personal life matters, self-development, family, friends, and life-long learning and academic. Among the things that deaf student are trained on are: Entrepreneurship skills, Business ethics and Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
- White Orange Youth attended East African Youth governance festival in MS TCDC in Arusha USA-river. The festival gathered around two hundred young people from the east African member states. The themes that discussed for five days long were including: Governance and leadership, Entrepreneur ship and Arts and culture for diversity and development. The objective of this festival ware: .i. To enable young people appreciate and understand the underlying causes of injustice and weak governance in East Africa. Ii. To enable young people to recognize their vital role and potential in causing change to happen in society. Iii. To stimulate young people to identify opportunities for change and positive engagement through critical thinking and iv. To demonstrate possible changes by exposing young people to skills in public speaking, generating evidence, entrepreneurship, campaigning, using creative theatre, creative art and creative writing. The last day of the festival we divided in two teams. One team went to the head of East Africa community head quarter and presents the festival resolutions while the other teams marching toward to USA river town and make community aware of East African community integration and promoting individual commitment toward Stop HIV/AIDS by conducting voluntary HIV tests.
- WOY attended the Annual Civil Society Organization in Dar es Salaam that organized by the Foundation for Civil Society. The FCS introduced their new fund plan and strategies. Lots of NGOs shared their up- dates and recommendations.
- WOY attended East African Civil Society Organization forum in Afusha. The theme of the forum was “ Nafasi za AZAKI kukuza mtagamano wa Jumuia ya Afrika Mashariki. (the role of Civil Society Organization toward strengthening the Regional integration” Many topics were discussed include. What do Tanzanians really think about East African community? Ii. Integrating East African labor market: Addressing disparities in skills, fears and concerns on education system. Iii. The space of CSOs in East Africa community. Aspiration and reality. Iv. Linking small scale farmers and manufactures to East Africa market. What can we do differently? V. Making t EAC –one person, one Destiny a reality: the role of CSOs and media in enhancing citizens awareness and engagement in EAC agenda and vi. The moving forward: strategies to enhance visibility and voice of CSOs in Regional integration. This event last for two days.
- WOY have participated in the 2014 World AIDS day that held at main Moshi Bus terminal yard the event that organized by Moshi Municipal council. Also participated at the in an advocacy event for addressing the gender based violence special affect women and children. This event was coordinated by KWIEKO.
The foundation for Civil Society Conducted the monitoring and evaluation visit to White Orange Youth’s office and document success stories from projects that funded by them.