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Building Businesses That Last: Training Tanzania’s Youth to Scale Their Businesses to New Heights
Across Tanzania, young people are bursting with ideas, and the entrepreneurial spirit is high. From tech innovators, artist’s and farmers to creatives turning talent and current gaps into income, their potential is powerful but too often...
Youth, Art, and Enterprise: A Two-Day Workshop Igniting Tanzania’s Creative Economy
Art has always been and will be central to African culture. The creative arts industry in Africa employs 5 million people. With the existing high youth unemployment rates, with East African unemployment standing at approximately...
Advancing Education Through Innovation: JMKF at the Forefront
Digital learning in Africa holds immense potential, but its development has been hindered by several challenges, including limited internet access, infrastructure deficits, and high costs of devices and connectivity. As of 2023, only 36% of Africa's population had...
Male Champions of Antenatal Care
Living 20 km away from Kizengi Dispensary, it was difficult for Vivian, a 26-year-old expectant mother, to attend antenatal care (ANC) during her previous pregnancies, resulting in home deliveries. However, on 17 March 2025, during her third pregnancy, she received...
Oral Health Referral
In her second pregnancy, 21-year-old Mwaju arrived at the Jamii Salama (Safe Communities) mobile antenatal care (ANC) outreach clinic in Igigwa Ward of Tabora Region for her fourth ANC visit on March 24, 2025. Unlike her previous pregnancy, she hadn’t missed a single...
Kijana Leo S2E5: Banana Waste to Wealth
In Tanzania, bananas aren’t just a staple food; they central to our cultural diet. In regions like Kagera, where about 95% of the population depends on bananas as a primary food source, per capita consumption reaches between 280 and 500 kilograms each year. While the...
Jamii Salama Project: Empowering Tabora’s Adolescent in the Fight Against Malaria
Malaria continues to be a significant public health concern, claiming an estimated one life every minute globally, with many deaths occurring in Africa. In Tanzania, the national malaria prevalence among children aged five years and under has decreased from 18% in...
Early Detection of Severe Anaemia Saves a Life
A 19-year-old first-time mother, Asia, arrived at the Jamii Salama (Safer Communities) mobile antenatal care (ANC) outreach site in her ninth month of pregnancy for her third ANC check-up. Though she appeared cheerful and strong, routine examinations revealed...
Strategic Collaboration to Empower Tanzania’s Young Entrepreneurs
In a visionary step toward advancing youth empowerment and economic inclusion in Tanzania, the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation (JMKF) has entered a strategic partnership with NEXLAW Advocates. This collaboration aims to provide critical legal education,...