Group of 2022/2023

In April of 2022 a new group of 19 young women joined the smart girl - smart life project. They already finished two workshops dealing with self awareness, finding their own skills and presenting themselves. These workshops were important to find the potentials of the participants and give them more self-confidence. In the following year they will receive more workshops together but also work in 5 different small groups with individual themes. Here they will prepare for a specific profession, exchange skills and knowledge and practice together. We chose this approach to meet everyone's individual character and needs. 
You can find the detailed steps of the program below.

Group of 2021

In 2021 our first group of 10 women started the smart girl - smart life project. They concluded several workshops on food processing, which the Star Foundation provided including transportations and meals. We are proud to present our own products on a local market. At the moment the remaining participants are producing and get educated in the business side of the market so they can take over all the parts of a food business in the future and become independ. During that process they are accompanied closley, step by step. You can find the detailed steps of the program below.

 
I. Trainings in entrepreneurship at Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO)

SIDO, is a parastatal established many years ago in a mission to plan, coordinate, promote and provide capacity development services to small industries. The project aims at providing a training to ten intended girls on food processing at SIDO at a reasonable cost hence these girls will have the ability to stand at their own ground and become self-reliant. The training program will be a fifteen-day duration and will be conducted in a random way. That is, there would be no specific time (7 to 15 days)for the beneficiaries to have the training but will be available during working hours and days. The plan is to change these girls lifestyle and see their future full of hopes and flourishes.
 
II. Workshop (smart chart side)

Workshop activities which will be having role model women who will be telling their stories and inspires the young girls. The purpose of using this workshop model is to make the awareness to these young girls to believe on themselves whereby the unexpected careers for women and other diverse of jobs. Important strategies for strengthening girls voice include creating spaces for public debate and platforms for girls’ dialogue, building girls confidence and rights awareness, facilitating the development of coalitions and alliances that can speak with a strong, united voice, and making strategic use of (or helping to develop) both modern and traditional forms of media. A principal challenge of social accountability initiatives is to ensure that the voices of poorer and more marginal groups are not drowned out or dominated by more powerful and vocal groups.

III. Exhibition and marketing

We will be conducting several exhibitions for their goods, a situation that will trigger their capabilities and attain markets for their products.
 
IV. Follow and training

We will keep on making follow up for these girls from the PHASE I AND PHASE II girls to make the transformation we wish to see on their lives.
The will be given several Business Development Services (BDS) to make them to be capable to win the market completion
 
V. Target Reach and Plan for Scale-up

Approximately 20 girls out of school girls with 14 to 25 will be reached with our program. Smart Girl Smart Life PHASE II will be for one year whereby we will have 2 intake of 20 girls in each Every year we will expand the coverage and reach more girls through employment generation to our small industrial established hence employment opportunity to girls out of school preference based on 14 to 25 out of school within and out of schools, married and single mothers of Nyamongoro ward of Ilemela District.
 
VI. Background on Proposed Workload

The SF has begun collaboration with the AFRICAN ROOTS .EV.DE with financial support to ST to supervise and attach young girls to SIDO training for 2weeks were girls acquired good knowledge of production of goods to include FOOD PROCESSING COURSE the intensive training was undertaken since 12th April,2021 to 23rd April,2021 wherein a number of 8 members were trained to conduct some production in Mwanza, there is a desire to create a small industrial which will help girls to produce their production which 1st will raise 
their income and automatically after these girls being stable economically will be free from violence which may occur to these young girls, since many of the girls fall in early marriages/ pregnancy will struggling to get money to run their life.