Mkinga Stop Poverty League

The Mkinga Stop Poverty Cup. YPM has continued to support Football League at Mkinga district in Tanga region. The competition involved youth based teams with the aim to Stop Poverty and and to Empower Young People through Sports. Speaking to the football funs and and players, Mr. Peter Jally who is the YPM Program Manager insisted the importance of promoting peace in the community through sports. He also emphasized that, young girls are facing the challenge of early pregnancy which hinder their achievement in academic arena and hence school drop out. The Program Manager Argued parents and guardians to cooperate with government, organisation(s) and people with good faith to rescue young girls. He also added that the organisation is ready and has already started to rise awareness to the community and ready to cooperate with government to make sure the challenge is being tackled . Also, the government officials who attended the Cup finals in the first round had spoken the importance of Stopping Poverty, Earl Marriage and Early Pregnancy which are the messages brought by YPM during the competition. After the end of the game there were gifts given to the first and second winners.