Enhancing Economic Opportunities For Underprivileged Youth From Low-Income Families Through The Soap Making Project on Nyasaka Street, Ilemela Municipal, Mwanza.

Mollel, Neema Abraham (2023) Enhancing Economic Opportunities For Underprivileged Youth From Low-Income Families Through The Soap Making Project on Nyasaka Street, Ilemela Municipal, Mwanza. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This project has resulted from the Participatory Needs Assessment which was done in Nyasaka village, Ilemela District, to identify the needs of Nyasaka Youth Group and the project which they can implement as a way to deal with the identified need. The study findings note that the community is experiencing income poverty to the extremely of failing to accommodate for their daily basic needs. As a solution to the problem, the community decided to start soap making project. The group members and stakeholders contributed money to make a starting capital. Various literatures have shown that effort to combat poverty and room provided by various policies have not been able to pull many Tanzanians especially rural youth out of income poverty. Through working with the host organization and other stakeholders, the community formed and registered a group namely Nyasaka youth group, opened a bank account, and has started producing and selling soap. Daily monitoring of the project activities as conducted by using participatory methods including the participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Beneficiary Assessment (BA). The project promises to be sustainable because the community has shown commitment to work with other stakeholders in implementing the project. The advanced recommendations in order to nurture the group all production activities in order to maximize profit. It is further recommended that other groups of similar nature can emulate the same path to improve their income and reduce household poverty. Keywords: Economic, Youth, Income, Soap.

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