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A N N U A L ANNUALREPORT

About our

OrganisationPEN Tanzania is an acronym which stands for Priority in Entrepreneurship Network. PEN Tanzania is a registered Non- Government Organization which focuses its activities in building the capacities of children, youths and women.

Our organization vision; is to see a well-educated and a learning society

determined to improves the spheres of life.

Our Mission is to promote equity, quality and relevance of basic education and business knowledge to marginalized people as a way of fighting against

poverty and illiteracy.

In 2015, PEN Tanzania had its fair share of good and bad times that we faced in our journey. However, we are grateful for what we were able to accomplish from January to December, through the efforts that we put in our work and through different supporters. We are excited to share with you different experiences we encountered in 2015, as highlighted in this

report.

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Our Projects

Mobile computer labMainly intended to teach public primary school students on basic

computer knowledge, and how they can use this technology to

learn more about other lessons like Mathematics, English, nature

and so forth

She Inspire TanzaniaThis project is for inspiring teenage girls/boys, and youths from

the age of 18-35 years. We focus in raising their awareness and

capacity building activities in different areas such as self-awareness,

communication and presentation skills, HIV/AIDS awareness, Hygiene,

Menstrual and Reproductive health. We tailor these courses according

to age specific.

Youth Hub CentrePen Tanzania has established a youth hub center, where youths

come and learn different things. At the center we have a computer

lab, community library and run different life skills workshop such as

career choice, basic entrepreneurship skills (theories & practical), IT

training short courses in graphic and web design.

PEN Tanzania focuses in its 3 major projects that are being run by the organization, as explained below;

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OUR JORNEY IN 2015

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The Journey PEN Tanzania had a number of exciting activities; where by PEN Tanzania was able to win an

award from African Grant Makers Network Award (Philanthropy in Africa 2015), where we

were among the top 10 African best youth led organization in philanthropy project among

700 applicants, PEN Tanzania Director Mr. Sharnel Deo was selected to attend this exciting

workshop held in Arusha-Tanzania for the whole week.

In 2015, PEN Tanzania was also able to train computer basic skills through its mobile computer

lab project, a total number of 350 students in government primary schools. These children

were also taught on communication and presentation skills, as a way of empowering them

to communicate effectively when in class and with their peers in school. It was a great time

spending with these children, trying to help them and educate them on computer knowl-

edge, communication skills, but also sharing a few good ideas on different life’s issues,

whereby we learnt a lot of interesting things from them.

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As it is always said, work hard pays!! Kijitonyama primary school Headmaster after seeing

our passion and dedication to our activities, he donated a building to PEN Tanzania, where

it is still under renovation and collecting different equipment’s for the grand opening of

the Youth Hub Center in the near future. Also in April 2015, PEN Tanzania got friends from

Zanzibar who wanted us to open our office branch and work with us in Zanzibar Island,

hence we followed all the procedures and we now have PEN Tanzania branch in Zanzibar

working with youths in entrepreneurial activities.

PEN Tanzania had another huge milestone in its activities, whereby we got a tender of

training women who belong in SACCOS and VICOBA groups. This training was sponsored

by Kitunda Counselor from Ilala District, where we had an opportunity to train 2000 women

on entrepreneurship knowledge (August-September). The training encompassed different

subjects such as record keeping in business, marketing and branding strategies among

others. For us it was a way of raising funds to enable the implementation of mobile computer

lab in different schools.

Moreover, in September 2015, PEN Tanzania gave birth to a new exciting program known

as SHE Inspire Tanzania. It is a program that aims at inspiring teenage girls/boys, and youths

from the age of 18-35 years. We focus in raising their awareness and capacity building activi-

ties in different areas such as self-awareness, communication and presentation skills, HIV/

AIDS awareness, Hygiene, Menstrual and Reproductive health. Our first clients were the

young women in Zanzibar who invited us to train them on self-confidence and awareness

together with leadership skills. Upon our come back, we were also invited by Apps and

Girls, to train their young tech women on the matters of sexuality, HIV/AIDS and Menstrual

health and Hygiene. Both of the workshops we did were very successful and exciting to us

and our clients.

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Challenges We Faced in 2015Despite of the success stories we had in 2015, we also faced some challenges in

our way;

• Lackofenoughcomputerstotrainprimaryschoolchildrenonbasic

computer knowledge. Due to the increase in number of the children we train in

primary schools, we experienced shortage of computers/laptops which is a very

important tool in mobile computer lab project. This hindered our volunteers to

attend all the sessions allocated for computer lessons in identified schools.

• Electricityproblem;Intheschoolswhereweworkwith,theydonothave

a generator to support us when there is power cut off during computer lessons,

hence this contributed towards ineffective delivery of the program

• Lackofenoughcapital.Thisisamajorprobleminourorganization,since

a lot of activities that we do are funded from our own pockets, which sometimes

it is hard to implement everything that we have planned in our annual calendar

together with paying some allowance to our staffs and volunteers, who sacrifice

a lot of their time to make things happen in PEN Tanzania

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In as much as PEN Tanzania tries to do its

activities through own funds, yet we still

need huge support from friends and well-

wishers, angel Investors, and donor support

to achieve our desired goals in 2016. As it

is said, Unity is power, PEN Tanzania needs

anybody who is a development activists to

join us in volunteering their time, money,

materials, equipment’s and other resources

that we can use to empower our children,

youths and women in various sectors so

that we can join hands in fighting against

illiteracy and poverty in the country.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

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PEN Tanzania

Head Office

Kijitonyama Opp Kijitonyama Primary School

P.O.Box 31547 Dar es salaam,Tanzania

Mob:+255 713 990 882 / +255 766 151 547

Website: www.pentanzania.or.tz

Email: info@pentanzania.or.tz

Skype: pentanzania

Instagram: Pentanzania

PREPARED BY:

RUTH KALLONGA (GENERAL SECRETARY) &

SHARNEL DEO (DIRECTOR)