TEENAGE LIFE PROGRAMME
Teenage Life is a programme that spreads education and information to young people about how to deal with teen and youth problems. The project primarily focuses on the Millennium Development Goals, on culture as well as on the issues of prostitution, rape, drug abuse, drunkenness and robberies, which are believed to play a significant role in the spread of HIV/AIDS. In order to maximize the message, it includes in particular the use of media.
Leonard Boniface, who founded the Teenage Life programme in July 2000, is a journalist, an Oxfam International Youth Partnership Action Partner and a member of the World Youth Citizens Network.
THE MOBILE YOUTH CONTAINER BUS CENTER
The Mobile Youth Container Bus Centre is a project that aims on raising awareness among youth. by providing them periodically with a a library, an internet café, a kiosk and an office for consultation and small meetings. This bus will be mobile from one place to another, opening its doors to many youth who will finally get the opportunity to research important information which they do not currently have access to in rural and urban areas. The Mobile Youth Centre will be based out of Dar Es Salaam city and in the Shinyanga region of Tanzania.
Most of the young people in the country do currently not have access to educational material. Many live with superstitions and folklore regarding the contraction and spread of HIV/AIDS. The Millennium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS information continues to be unknown to a large number of Tanzanian youths. Without the understanding and education regarding this critical concern, many will continue to spread the disease, and continue to die.
The initiative of this project facilitates access for many more people and would have a far greater impact. The bus will provide information on MDGs, general information through library and internet café and the office will deal also with HIV/AIDS as well as other issues the society is facing. The kiosk in the bus could, additionally provide various goods which are in demand.
The youth will be benefited with the Mobile Center since the information will be provided to them in their domestic areas, and they can get access to the internet for a fraction of the cost to build a stationary center. This project will affect the entire community, as the epidemic also does. The project will focus mainly on males and females in the age of 15 to 35. Areas of the greatest need can be identified through the country as the project evolves. Hopefully, the project will even attractsome volunteers from other countries to come and work on it. Actually, internatioal exchange did already have an impact on the form of the project since it was presented as a workshop by Leonard Boniface at the “Student Days One World 2005” in Germany..
So far, the project has developed by getting some computers and some other important equipments like printers and a photocopier as well as the area where it will be situated. In order to reach the target and start services , the project still has to raise about US$22,000. We are therefore still looking for sponsors who would like to support the initiative. The project is really important to be implemented, given the impressions one has by travelling around Tanzania, constantly facing the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis and the lack of information and knowledge.
CONTACT
Teenage Life Programme
Website: www.teenagelife.4t.com
Project Director
Leonard Boniface: LBM2015@Gmail.com
Project Coordinators
Christina Mbonya: cmbonya@hotmail.com
Richard Magumba: rbm2002@yahoo.com
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