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Jobortunity: A Sustainable Way of Educating Young People in Tanzania
This is a guest article by Kamilla Hensema, one of the supporters of Jobortunity, the project of the 1% Club that is promoted by The NextWomen during the 24 hours campaign on December17, 2009.
The 1%Club 24 Hours Campaign takes place today, where 24 known Dutch bloggers, entrepreneurs, and others will call upon their network for 24 hours to fund 24 1%Club projects. The campaign starts December 16, 2009 7.00pm and ends December 17, 2009 7.00pm.
The NextWomen have chosen to support the following project: The Jobortunity Training Institute in Tanzania that trains vulnerable youth aged between 15 and 23 from the slums in Arusha to get a job and to keep it. Its about giving practical training through mentors. The project is set up by Kim Groeneweg and in her team are a lot of local people.
Jobortunity needs all the support it can get to start and build a top quality training institute! It needs €4.775,- in order to train 14 mentors to educate these young people, to buy 5 computers for the life skill program and to buy bikes. If you want to donate CLICK on JOBORTUNITY
In Jobortunity business professionals Mentor Young People in Tanzania. Why?
Kim Groeneweg, a Dutch trainer with broad experience in developing countries, is the initiator of the traininginstitute Jobortunity in Tanzania. After having trained farmers all over the world, she felt the need to settle down in Tanzania and to build up a training facility that would teach young people to think and act independently and become self reliant.
After two years of preparation in the Netherlands, Kim moved to Tanzania in August 2009. Jobortunity opened its doors and started training its first 40 students in October. These youngsters live in the slums of Arusha, Tanzania, and don’t have access to regular education to prepare themselves for a job. Mostly they don’t have parents or caretakers who would normally pass on the minimal skills to find a job and be self-reliant. That’s why it is important to get business professional to teach these teens.
Girls need Help with Education in Tanzania
Especially for girls it is still hard in Tanzania to educate themselves properly. This means unfortunately that many girls are forced to earn their money on the streets in vulnerable situations. Jobortunity encourages girls to come and follow the training. Every semester at least 50% of the students are girls.
Soon the students will start their internship in the tourism industry. An industry that is in fact in need of an educated workforce!
Search for Money and Mentors
What these young students need now are good mentors to guide them through this experience of the internship. Jobortunity is assembling a group of enthusiastic and experienced professionals from the tourist branche (hotel-owners, hotel-managers, cooks, tourguides) to help and critically guide the students. They‘ll give them the examples they need as to find their own way towards a job and self-reliance.
Jobortunity seeks to build up a sustainable cooperation with these professionals by training them and improve their skills to work interactively with these students. So finally these young Tanzanians will have a professional around to show them their own possibilities! In the future Jobortunity shall become self-reliant too, by developing its own profit generating businesses.
Jobortunity has this training planned for 2010, but is still looking for some support to make it happen! Are you interested in supporting us? Check www.jobortunity.org
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