About Us
Youth Peacemakers (YPM) is a non-profit organization limited by guarantee with registration number 110507 of August 12th, 2014. The organization operates in the Tanga region, districts of Lushoto, Korogwe, Handeni, Tanga, and Mkinga. YPM has been awarded as the best NGO in 2022 within the whole of Lushoto District as per its impact, professional standards, and codes of conduct it applied.
YPM is a leading organization that values peace and justice for all. It intends to make all youths to be peacemakers in their day-to-day lives. It foresees communities where justice is upheld and equality prevails for the harmony and development of the world’s citizens. YPM’sOur Motto is to Stop Poverty. Poverty has been a great hurdle for the vast majority of the country. Through the programs that are run by YPM, it is envisaged to contribute to empowering and mobilizing to take part in determining their future through critical engagement in community development and thus stopping poverty.
Our Vision
A lead organization that fosters sustainable development for youth.
Our Mission
- To engage youth through empowerment and advocacy for sustainable development
The objective is to empower all young individuals to assume the role of peacemakers in their daily interactions. The vision anticipates communities characterized by the upholding of justice and the prevalence of equality, fostering harmony and the development of the people in Tanzania.
Widespread poverty has posed a significant obstacle for the majority of the country’s population. YPM envisions mitigating this challenge through its programs, aiming to contribute to the empowerment and mobilization of individuals. The goal is to enable active participation in shaping their future through meaningful engagement in community development, ultimately curbing the impact of poverty.
To manifest humanity through a genuine involvement of Youths physically, mentally and spiritually by promoting awareness towards God’s creation and their potentialities for self-reliance initiatives in development and culture, through empowerment, lobbying and advocacy.
The organization has the vision to fight poverty and contribute in the 2030 vision of Poverty free world. To achieve the goal it operates in line to the Tanzania vision 2025, the five years Developmental Strategy of Tanzania 2016-2021 and the Sustainable Development goals.
YPM focuses on providing knowledge, skills and empowerment to Youth, women and the community on issues of
Economic Justice: saving and credit groups; Small Investment Groups as previous known as PM-VICOBA, business incubation, entrepreneurship trainings, involvement in campaigns and advocacy for national resource equity and international economic justice movements. The YPM enables the poor to have TRUST that in- turn gives credibility to the poor of the poor to be able to take loan and address his/her economic challenges.
Democratic Citizenship: YPM focuses on Public Expenditure Tracking Systems- PETS, Youth Parliaments, Debate Clubs, Training on Subject to Citizen to college and Schools Youths as well as participation in implementation of United Nations Security Council-UNSEC 2250 and Campaigns on Education for a girl child. It is our belief that Peace is the outcome of Justice in any given society. To achieve that status, there is a need of citizen participation in planning, decision making and implementation of the agreed goals for community development.