Today, the SYWSO Team joins the global community in honoring mothers, sisters, daughters, She-EOs, and the countless incredible women and girls shaping our world. You are valued. You are powerful. You belong in every space. Let’s continue uplifting, supporting, and empowering women—not just today, but every day. Together, we create a future where every woman thrives. Happy International Women’s Day! ✨.
The Smile Youth and Women Support Organization (SYWSO), which is dedicated to assisting children and women living in difficult conditions, visited Selela village in Monduli District, Arusha Region. The purpose of the visit was to understand the challenges faced by children living in difficult conditions, particularly in education. During a discussion with the organization's director, Omega Mlay, the children expressed that their major challenges include a lack of school supplies such as books, notebooks, pens, pencils, school uniforms, and shoes.
Smile Youth Women Supports recognizes the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of marginalised communities that derive from their economic and social structures and their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories, and philosophies especially their rights to their lands, territories, and resources .
Omega has promised to help children with disabilities by looking for various philanthropists and friends in the country and abroad so that the children can get an education like other children. "Also l will be looking for funds that will enable us to provide capacity bulding for community in this District against stigmatization and violence against children with disabilities" ..
Many children with physical disabilities for them and others being stigmatized. Some of the children's parents, talking to the leaders of the Smile youth and women support organization who went to give them supports, explained that despite their children asked to go school, they have been locking them in their homes, so they asked various philanthropists to come forward to help them.
Through this visit, the aim was not only to give but to inspire resilience and self-reliance within the communities. The smiles of children as they received books to ignite their dreams and the gratitude of families as they received food and clothes are testaments to the profound impact such efforts can have...
