YAS IMPACT

EXISTING PROJECT/PROGRAMS:

• Partnering with ECHO East Africa Impact Center in eradication of Parthenium-Hytherriophorus (Swahili name Gugukaroti).  They also have farming in God’s way

• Partnering with Founder of the 400 Year Project Dr. Donald W. Mitchell from United states of America in Breakthrough and mindset change trainings to youth.  Conducted first one in September 2016.  Please visit the training YouTube link at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQtdJFSVJg and another one in January 2019 at the Institute of Accountancy Arusha; we reached 300 youth in Arusha. Please access the program launching and training over our YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTirUMwk3rQAPFxfKBkxt-w/videos  Trained 25 youth in King’ori village in July 2019. 

• Linking young Maasai girls with education support from Help for the Maasai NGO. Already linked two girls since 2018

• Partnering with Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) to establish a beekeeping project for youth bordering national parks, with the aim to safeguard the forest and wildlife in project is at the MoU stage.

• Partnering with Pathways Africa based in United States of America, providing sponsorship to vulnerable youth from destitute families, they sponsored six youth since 2020

• Partnering with Kidcare International from the United States of America, providing sponsorship to youth studying vocational education, to ensure hope and a sustainable future for vulnerable youth in rural and urban communities from Arusha region.  They have sponsored 70 youth in 2022.

• Partnering with Ujamaa Community Resource in Tanzania (UCRT) who are sponsoring youth from poor communities of Akie ethnic group.  They sponsored four youth in 2022.

• We are collaborating with Tanzania Agriculture and Horticultural Authority (TAHA) who are providing practical gardening skills and markets for youth while still in college, and in respective communities after graduation. This program started in 2022.  

• Collaborating with Pioneer for Women and Youth Transformation (PIWOYOT) in training and establishment of youth savings, while they are still at college and devising of plans to enable self-employment projects in respective communities when they graduate.