UNITE YOUTH AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Cultivating Connection, Camaraderie and Compassion in the time of COVID-19
The Unite Youth Ambassador Program
Unite’s mission is to educate, mentor, empower and prepare extraordinary Tanzania youth to become global change agents. We have now completed our first 6-week-long pilot program connecting college students in America to A-level students in Tanzania. The goal was to promote friendship, connection and collaboration, creativity and imagination, camaraderie and compassion, and academic and professional success. The project was a huge success. Read all about it HERE.
Why:
Unite’s A-level scholars program is designed to break the vicious cycle of poverty, oppression & wasted human potential by empowering uniquely talented-yet-impoverished youth across Tanzania with access to quality education, and -- through our engaged team of international advisors and mentors -- nurture their creative & independent thinking and the development of the personal and professional life skills necessary for them to achieve success as active, engaged & productive global citizens.
Tanzania has one of the the lowest secondary enrollment rates in Africa, with less than 3% of students enrolling in A-Levels (higher secondary, Form 5 and Form 6, or 11th and 12th grades). Of those who graduate Form 6 less than 1.2 of 1% will enroll in tertiary education.
Deliverables & Requirements:
Unite invites all youth ambassadors to attend an introductory zoom call with Unite’s leadership team to go over the outline of the program. We also ask all Ambassadors to sign a Letter of Agreement, which will include confidentiality, and a Media Release Form.
Unite Youth Ambassadors are paired with one to three Unite Scholars in Tanzania, based upon their academic and extracurricular interests and talents. Unite’s Program Director Lila Wells facilitates all communications via What’s App groups. Both she and Unite Mentor Joan Mnzava oversee all communications/chat groups.
The pilot program ran through June 30, 2020. Each week Youth Ambassadors committed to:
A least one face-to-face meeting with their scholar(s) (network permitting) either via Zoom or What’s App video.
At least one academic challenge per week with which they assist their scholar to support his/her learning.
At least one photo or video to post on our social media outlets. #unitetnz #unitetheworld #unite_scholars #uniteafricafoundation.
Working towards a final creative collaborative project that will be presented to the entire group in a zoom call (or series of zoom calls). This could be a video, photo project, song, musical piece, dance, short story, poem, skit, tik tok dance, etc. made together and performed side by side via technology -- or whatever! Dream BIG!