TANDALE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER 2020

Type: Youth - Country: Tanzania. - Brief description and main aims : Tandale community centre is a non-governmental organization inside Tandale hospital. Its objective is to help young people who live in the Manzese area, the biggest slum in Tanzania. The organization has four programs: • Advocacy program, where youths are provided with sexual reproductive health education and counselling. The program hosts professional doctors who give individual consultation; • Okoakitaa progam, that helps young members of the community to be at the forefront of the development of the area; • Youth forum program, that runs twice a month. Its main focus is discussing with youths about what are the major issues they are facing and offering them a place where to deliver their thoughts; • Peer-to-peer education program, which offers door-to-door counselling. The project started in 2003 but it was registered as an NGO in 2008. It has been running programs in partnership with Amref to teach sexual reproductive health to young people in Tanzania. -- Main Activities : Tandale’s mission is to put local youth at the forefront of change and to make them understand their responsibility towards the development of their community. The centre hosts 25 local volunteers who work at the project at different times. Most of the staff doesn’t speak English. Tandale receives small funds from the government, which help the centre to run their door-to-door campaign. -- Volunteer task x