Who we are?
Hakizetu Tanzania, Previously known as Hakizetu Young Women and Girls' Rights Organization, is a Non-Governmental Organization registered in Tanzania with the Certificate of Incorporation No.83767 of 8th June 2011. Hakizetu is a Swahili word, which literally means ‘Our rights’ in English. Hakizetu was founded by 5 persons; 2 men and 3 women who felt compelled to undertake and implement the goal and objectives under the core values of the organization towards positive action to enhance the youths, young women and girls’ voices to access their universal human rights to equity, equality, justice and safety.
Hakizetu Tanzania, Previously known as Hakizetu Young Women and Girls' Rights Organization, is a Non-Governmental Organization registered in Tanzania with the Certificate of Incorporation No.83767 of 8th June 2011. Hakizetu is a Swahili word, which literally means ‘Our rights’ in English. Hakizetu was founded by 5 persons; 2 men and 3 women who felt compelled to undertake and implement the goal and objectives under the core values of the organization towards positive action to enhance the youths, young women and girls’ voices to access their universal human rights to equity, equality, justice and safety.
Our Mission
To build capacities and motivate the community,
sensitize policy makers and functionaries and promote activities and programs
of the national and international declaration on gender equality for the
prevention of early pregnancies and marriages in Tanzania
Our Goal
Hakizetu’s overall goal is to contribute to the
personal safety, health and social protection of young women and girls towards
the prevention of early pregnancies and marriages in Tanzania.
Our Vision
A justice society where human rights and voice
of the voiceless young women and girls are heard supported and advocated at
local, national and international arenas.
Our Purpose
To promote and strengthen the voices of the
young women and girls’ voices so as to enable them to access their universal
human rights for enhanced equity, justice and safety resulting into the
long-term prevention of early marriages and pregnancies through strategic
capacity building, community mobilization, policy advocacy and paralegal
programs.
Our
Commitments
We are committed to conduct programs that aim
to build capacities and raise awareness of community members and other
stakeholders including policy makers to be better organized, strengthened and
able to take actions to prevent, mitigate violence against women (VAW), early
pregnancy and marriage. By provision of literacy sessions based on human
rights; gender based violence, young women’s leadership skills, as well as
various youth development programs to deepen self esteem and confidence among
youth.
Our Currently Innovative Areas
Our Currently Innovative Areas
Vocation Skills Training
We empower economically,
survivors of child marriage and teenage pregnancy through One year vocation
training regarding on beneficiaries talents, We have been providing garment
designing and making skills, decoration,
entrepreneurship training, marketing skills, business management, petty
trade Starting capital and 3 years mentorship for poverty reduction. Our beneficiaries have been pressed on well
established institutions for the training and designing.
Some of survivors of child marriage and
teenage pregnancy during intensive training on garment making and Designing at
Vocation Education and Training Authority (2016)
Table
Banking
Table-banking
is a group funding strategy where youth group meet once every week, place their
savings, loan repayments and other contributions on the table then borrow
immediately either as long term or short term loans. The Youth use the money
borrowed as capital for their livelihood projects, including petty business. Since
Hakizetu is working with vulnerable group of youth who cannot access formal
financial services like loans, the primary objective of table banking is to
bring financial services to the vulnerable groups of youth in society, so that
they can eradicate poverty and become financially stable. It is unique because
it is based upon group guarantee and household collateral. The system is
founded on the principal that credit should be offered as human rights.
Table Banking Session (2016)
One of the Beneficiaries of Table Banking
Talent Promotion and
search
The
Talent Search Program identifies and assists individuals from vulnerable groups
especially survivors of drug abuse and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds who
have the potential to succeed in higher education, music, Acting, Arts and
designing. The program encourages them to be more creative and on how to
add values in their work, also connecting them with customers and people who
can support them. Talent Search also work
direct with youth who are jobless and who spend a lot of time at
Vijiweni a
Swahili name which means the place where jobless stay. 
Talents Search Events
Increasing
Value on Agricultural product (Agricultural
Sector)
Agriculture is main part of Tanzania's economy. As
of 2016 Tanzania has over 44 million hectares of arable land with only 33% of
this amount being cultivated. More than 80% of the poor population lives in
rural areas and almost all of them are involved in the farming sector. Land is
a vital asset in ensuring food security and among the main food crops in
Tanzania is maize, sorghum, millet, rice, wheat, beans, cassava, potatoes and
banana. Also vegetable and some cash crops like coffee, cotton, tobacco, tea
and cashew nuts.
Many
who are involving on agriculture are youth. Hakizetu is empowering small farmers (Youth)
on adding values of agricultural product and market research. Hakizetu believes
that good product start from early stage to final stage (to the final consumer).
Hakizetu is empowering on to be certified organic. One may not use chemical
fertilizers or any other sorts of chemical treatments: fungicides,
insecticides, herbicides, etc.
In
practice, this means that only “organically approved” sources of fertilizer or
other pesticide treatments are allowed. Generally, the difference to human
health and often in terms of environmental concern between conventional
synthetic formulas and the “organic” alternatives is negligible if anything. In
some cases, the organic alternatives are actually worse than the conventional.
Also we encourage on growing crops which increase land fertility and changing
the type of crops per season.
Hakizetu
empowers farmers of best ways of growing and even package of agricultural
product in adding value. The reason is to empower many youth to get profit
which will make them to love agriculture instead on thinking is a punishment.
We are embracing innovation and creativity in everything we do.
Coffee plantation in
Kagera grow without chemical
