THANKS TO THE WORKAID IN ENGLAND.
The Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is very proud to announce that we have received a donated workshop tools from our Workaid partner in England for our “CCDO Youth Vocational Training Center” along Nduli village within Iringa Municipality of Iringa Region in Tanzania. Among the received workshop tools from the Workaid are carpentry, motor mechanics, plumbing, and sewing and knitting machines for vulnerable youth living under employment and poverty income.
The Center will be training the disadvantaged adult youth by promoting the role of young people and girls in poverty reduction on how to tackle poverty together. This is because, poverty reduction is not only about meeting our basic needs, it’s also about participation, influence and power. Young people are seldom recognized as a resource in decision-making processes. Instead, young people are systematically excluded from important arenas of decision-making and development processes. As a result, their perspectives are often absent in policymaking.
At the same time, many youth organisations remain drastically under-resourced and ill-equipped to participate in development processes and efforts. In particular this affects their participation in policy making and processes relating to Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). The steps involved in the PRSP process are complex. They include undertaking research and poverty diagnostics, prioritizing and costing programmes, as well as keeping track budgets. The issues become even more complex when youth organisations want to highlight special needs within their group and require tools, for instance gender-based analysis to address the poverty of young women. Even with the right skills and abilities to discuss, analyze and improve PRSPs, young people do not have sufficient opportunities to influence and affect PRSP processes on their own. Youth organisations require support, particularly at national and local levels, in order to strengthen and put forward their ideas for poverty reduction. Furthermore, the ideas and experiences of young people are crucial in order to achieve efficiency.
Therefore, in this partnership the CCDO- Children Care Development Organization will help to provide expertise of what a youth perspective is and why it is essential in all efforts to fight poverty through training more youth on motor mechanics, welding, carpentry, sewing and knitting, plumbing and electricity income generating skills for their future employability opportunities creation and poverty alleviation strategies. Other training that will be emphasized in this program will include professional English training in business and management, business English and Letter writing, Secretarial Duties, profitable business and trading, computers in business and management including French languages.
CCDO will provide a deeper understanding of why it is important that we as young people are integrated and become visible as actors in global development. CCDO will create a behavioural communication by placing young people at the centre of what we do in order to move more rapidly and more effectively towards eliminating poverty and achieving the results agreed on in the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the current sustainable development goals (SDGs).
This is because young people should be given the chance to be actors of change and not only be a target for development. It affects the quality and relevance of international poverty reduction, since, the issues young people face today, such as unemployment, lack of schooling and exposure to violence represent enormous social costs to society at all levels. Yet young people have little or no voice in shaping the current strategies for development. When young people are actors and resources in poverty reduction it leads to better results. If young people are the targetgroup of a project this should imbue all parts of the project’s phases, from planning to final evaluation.
However, Young people have the right to participate, influence and have power over issues that affect our lives. It’s about young people having the same rights as the rest of the population, sincedemocracy assumes that individuals are equally important. We emphasize that young people and adults should have a mutual influence in our society, irrespective of, for instance, ethnic background and geographical origin. Democracy loses its strength and legitimacy in a society that consistently excludes groups of people. The goal is to effectively build strategies for young people; it is essential to bring our perspectives and participation into the process at all levels – globally, nationally and locally.
On behalf of the CCDO management we thank a lot for the received donated workshop tools for our Workaid in England for our disadvantaged youth in Tanzania living without having a job in street. This project will help to refrain our youth from criminal activities to better serving their nations in ethical consideration.
We say thank a lot to the Workaid in England for their giving to us. Their support to us makes it happen.
