Periods don't end when pandemics start. Menstrual hygiene continues to be an important issue for girls all over the world due to the negative impacts it can have on their lives. It can be a stressful time for many girls having to think about pain (period cramps), lack of facilities, unsupportive environments, social norms, and much more.
May 28, 2020
Raleigh Tanzania is delivering an innovative youth-led Social Accountability Campaign in 30 communities. The campaign aims to empower young people, women and people living with disabilities to engage in monitoring development projects being delivered in their communities. It will also support them to increase awareness about the progress and sustainability of projects in their area, access information about their communities and promote integrity and increased transparency within the community through the Community Integrity Building Model. Here Amina, a Campaign Coordinator from Bahi district, gives her perspective on taking part in the campaign and working with community members.
May 22, 2020
We want to celebrate the amazing contribution of Raleigh host families in all the communities where we deliver our projects. Without them, we simply couldn’t do it.
May 15, 2020
Climate change will continue to be one of the world’s greatest threats if action is not taken. As the global population grows, deforestation increases and pressure on our natural resources build. What needs to be done to save the planet from climate change? We must satisfy our needs in ways which maintains the natural environment for the future.
April 20, 2020
Subira is a volunteer from Ngerengere, Morogoro who is empowering other young people to become active citizens. As a Community Monitor on Raleigh Tanzania’s SAY project, she monitors development projects in her own community to ensure they are effective and impactful for the benefit of everyone living there.
April 17, 2020
Safe water and sanitation is a global human right, but there are still many places where this is not accessible. Raleigh Tanzania has been working in partnership with RB to empower household babbas – fathers – to become champions of water and sanitation who can lead their communities toward healthier hygiene practices. Rayner, a babbas in the rural community of Sole, shares more about his role on the project.
March 19, 2020
Ensuring gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This International Women's Day, we celebrate Aska, a female entrepreneur who is a pioneer and role model for other women in her community in rural Tanzania.
March 6, 2020
’Now I understand the approach of social monitoring, I can work with my village leaders and other stakeholders to maintain projects in our community’’
- Bakhresa Salim Salim, Community Monitor in Lukole village – Mpwapwa district.
My name is Angel Beno, I am 24 years old, and I work for Raleigh Tanzania as a skills-based volunteer project officer. I joined livelihood project in 2015 a programme that is designed to educate and fund young people, so they can establish and develop their own businesses by utilising what they have and how to best use it. Luckily this project was introduced in my village (Lulasi village), and since this project is delivered freely, I decided to join and be one of the entrepreneurs. After finishing all the training, I succeeded on getting the funding, however, I turned it down, so I can also be a volunteer and share what I have learnt with other young people.
December 23, 2019
Raleigh Tanzania implements a Social Accountability through Youth (SAY) project in Morogoro, Dodoma and Iringa regions,Tanzania in partnership with Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) that operates its sustainable charcoal project in Mbamba village, Kilosa district. TFCG aims at establishing commercially viable chains for legal and sustainably produced charcoal. In supporting young people in Tanzania to bring about change within their communities Raleigh Tanzania has recruited and trained young local volunteers as community monitors, and so is the case in Mbamba village.
December 18, 2019
