EXCHANGE PROGRAM
PARTICIPATION LEVELS IN THE YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN TANZANIA AND MITOST HAMBURG, GERMANY.
WHO CARES ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE?
Living together in Tanzania and Germany for a better future – Youth Exchange Program.
The Tanzanian Youth Coalition (TYC) is a non-governmental organization aimed at ensuring that the voices of young people are heard on all policy platforms. Typically, we collaborate with youth groups and young adults aged between 15 and 35. TYC facilitates information dissemination, knowledge sharing, policy analysis, advocacy, and empowerment through its vision and goals.
Vision: To see Tanzanian youth empowered as change agents taking action for sustainable development.
Mission: To build capacity for youth, engage and inspire them about sustainable development, and ensure that youth voices are heard in decision-making platforms. TYC works in five thematic areas: 1) Youth Life and Employment, 2) Youth Leadership and Building Local Democracy, 3) Youth Health and Gender, 4) Youth Life and Environment, 5) International Collaboration and Exchange Programs for Sustainable Development.
The Tanzanian Youth Coalition, in collaboration with MitOst Hamburg, is organizing an educational exchange program focusing on youth under the theme: “WHO CARES ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE?” The exchange program will take place in Tanzania and Germany. The project will last for a period of two years from September 2023 to August/September 2024. Participants from Tanzania and Germany will spend three weeks living together in collaborating areas such as Dar es Salaam, Lushoto, and Zanzibar in 2023, and another three weeks in 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.
The aim of the exchange is to discuss and design topics that guide us towards defining how we live together as Germans and Tanzanians as an international group in a shared world, and also how to practically manage the way we live together. We will consider and understand Tanzanian and German ways of cohabiting that lead us to embrace our differences and agreements at the societal level and through our different cultures. We will also explore and trace the origins and reasons for current ways of cohabiting, incorporating questions about our history and ways of life. This experience will be documented over a two-year period in personal journals as “Stories,” which will be provided as part of the final educational exchange on how we live together.