My name is Edna Melody Yonazi, born and raised in Tanzania. I’m currently in my 2nd year of University pursuing my Bachelor degree in Economics and Finance at the Institute of Accountancy Arusha. I am very passionate about helping and empowering others. Having to know people’s lives, educating them on different matters and turning frowns into smiles is what I love.
Recently, I’ve also be drawn to matters regarding monetary management and investment so I’ve started reading books, listening to podcast and YouTube videos concerning that matter and I have learnt a lot so far.
I’d like to say that my biggest achievement in life is Time Management. I was a procrastinator and I’d fall behind in many things that I’d do. I then realised that time mismanagement would be an obstacle to the goals I had so I decided that I’d use alarms in my phone to keep track of time and I’d push myself out of procrastination whenever I was about to. During this period, I learnt how to prioritize my things so that I can stay focused on my goals without time being an obstacle.
I am currently the class representative of my class and the lead class representative at the Institute. My role as a class representative is to build a strong bridge between the school administration and the students in order to ensure a good learning environment. Also, my role as the lead class representative is to represent the rest of the class representatives to the school administration and the students’ government. I have been able to facilitate good communication between both parties while maintaining a peaceful environment.
Out of my studies, I play the piano and sketch but I also enjoy spending time with my family. I also usually set time to my own personal development and for devotion. I am a member of the Ambassadors’ club at church which among other things deals with service to the community through various ways. I also recently joined the rotaract club.
Since I’m very passionate about volunteering, I have volunteered at the Upendo Children’s cancer ward at Muhimbili National Hospital and at an animal shelter, Every little thing, in Dar Es Salaam. In addition to that, Edna is a singer as well.
My personal goal is to be positive and to stay focused which will help to widen my learning scope and expose me to more experience that will be advantageous to my future. Staying resilient is another personal goal that I have since it’s important to acknowledge strain and know how to overcome it in the correct manner. My professional goal is to develop better skills in order to be a poignant economist and Investment analyst and through this comprehension, I would love to accredit young females and the society in general to invest in order to attain financial liberty which will pioneer positive change and create a momentum to encourage sustainable development. And by this, the world’s most critical problems will be solved.
But also I would love to be an advocate of Innovation and use of new technologies which will expand productivity throughout the country and channel a path to greater economic growth.

Halima S. Msofe is a coach, strategist, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist.
Currently, she is pursuing her BA in Project, Planning, Management and Community Development at the University of Dodoma. To date, she is the General secretary of the university and an active volunteer at SisiTanzania Organisation. Her passion to help girls who are deprived of their rights, coming from a harsh background herself; made her act on various initiatives to promotes girls rights through coaching and advocacy. For this she held various leadership positions at school and community level to bridge the gap of inequality.

Practicing Reformist-feminism she criticizes the individualistic and systematic, traditional and modern, conventions that discriminate against women. Thus, striving to present alternatives that improve women's situations, holding true that improvement within given structures is possible.Through employing the use of positive male characters to challenge those with discriminatory tendencies towards women. Halima foresees a happy ending for the societal subjugation of women.
Added to that, she is championing Adolescent and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (AYSRH). Halima believes that “When sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are realised, the impact on girls’ and women’s lives is significant, transformative and lasting.”

Born on 4th June 2002 in Arusha, Tanzania, Halima is the first of two children of Tanzanian parents Sheha Msuya and Said Msofe. Halima grew up to be fully aware of gender politics from her early childhood. In their culture, the male gender is dominant and preferred. While in school, the structure of the students Organisation only accomodated male students as head of departments and female as assistants only despite their varying leadership abilities. Some of the important requirements to promote girls education which included provision of quality toilet and wash facilities at school and affordable sanitary products where not taken seriously. As a result, Halima witnessed a large number of friends dropping out of school and turning to victims of early pregnancy. This watershed experience in her life encouraged her to stop being apologetic for her femininity.

Through her coaching, Halima has reached hundreds of girls providing them with awareness on their rights to promote gender equality, health and education to all. She deeply believes in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better. As a passion she possesses, Halima plans on planning more projects that will provide coaching and mentorship services to the society to promote gender equality and human rights at large.

Khadija Ussi is a medical student at Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. She serves as a director for the book club and inspiration committee for the Rotaract club of Kairuki. She is passionate about reading and believes that through reading, we are able to expand our minds beyond what we know.

She grew up loving books but was disappointed with having few people to share her passion with. In 2021, she decided to form a book club which sought to bring readers together . It started as 15 people and composed of close friends and classmates. In 2022, The Rotaract club of Kairuki in which she is a member of, approached her with the idea of starting a book club for the club.

The book club committee was formed and she became the director. It is now an open space for both passionate readers and new readers, where people can read and share opinions on various themes. Khadija is also keen about inspiring youths like her in unlocking their full potential. She organizes inspirational talks, under the Rotaract club, that seeks to expand skills and knowledge on various matters. She hopes to become a beacon of inspiration for youths to voice their opinions on different matters in the country.

Khadija Msumi is a student pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is passionate about female empowerment, mental health advocacy and personal and career development. She is the General Secretary of the University of Dar es Salaam Psychological Association (UDPA) and the president of Girl Up Bongo, a youth-led female empowerment club in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Through her experience with UDPA and Girl Up Bongo, Khadija has scaled up her leadership skills, learned the art of administration and advocacy, and has built connections with a few influential people in her community.

Outside her leadership roles, Khadija likes to write, visit new places, organise, declutter, and would eventually like to learn how to crochet. In the future, she envisions herself being a person of impact - whether that is through her application of Psychology in her community or by scaling up her female empowerment and mental health advocacy interests.

Marynas Frederick Duduye (Marynas Duduye). She is a final year medical student at Muhimbili University (Tanzania), a believer and passionate about volunteerism and community service for a change. She is an advocate for Mental Health and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) through various activities under medical students association(TAMSA)'s project which goes by the name TAMIDA and her girl group online movement with the name "Akilirecipe".

She is a freelance graphic designer and a photographer. She is also a part-time worker at a Helpline counseling Center (117 Afya Helpline - TAYOA) where she educates youth on all matters concerning health specifically HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention.

Mariam is a an eighteen years old young female born in mwanza-Tanzania. She’s a third child raised by both parents with three elder sisters.She went to Mzigu primary school and Holy family girls secondary school for her education.

Mariam is an activist and a second year medical student from the military college of medical sciences pursuing her diploma in clinical medicine. Growing up Mariam always wanted to take care of sick people due to personal experience from her mom’s & dad’s sickness and close relatives.

She has a good sense of leadership from the chores at home, how she speaks to people surrounding her, and how she performs in class. She also had held a tittle of being a leader in every school she attended having awards as best student in leadership.

Currently Mariam a prime minister and the assistant chairperson in the christian fellowship at the college she attends. She’s an appointed volunteer running the “Binti campaign” under UNICEF. She’s also a presenter in Daktari tv Mariam is among the selected applicants in Niongoze fellowship 2022 second cohort under doyenne organization.

She’s passionate about leadership, gender issues, education, environment, health and public speaking. She believes that sky is the only limit to make the world a better place for living.

Nyanzobe Makwaia is a Tanzanian student in her junior year at Ardhi University. She’s a lover of nature and the environment thus an activist for the zero plastic forum that aims at extincting the use of plastics in Tanzania. She is currently the second female Prime Minister of the 16th students’ government organization at her university, nonetheless, she has worked as a Prime Minister for the 15th government, a minister of Law Constitution and Good governance for the 14th students’ government and a member of Parliament for the Students' Representative Council since 2020 to current. As a Prime Minister, she deals with all government plans and finance management hence equally practicing her passion for planning, event planning and budget control.

Nyanzobe is the General Secretary and an active member of the Rotaract club of Kijiji because whatever we do needs to be true, fair, goodwilled and beneficial for all concerned. Nyanzobe is very busy but when she’s free, she’d spend her time with family and Netflix.

As a young adult struggling for economic freedom, Nyanzobe owns an online store for beauty accessories called 21_store.tz that she enjoys investing time in as well as playing with toddlers, being serene and listening to music. She sings sometimes and is talented with crafting mosaics. Most of this talent is used for personal recreation.

Nyanzobe is very ambitious and seeks to be fully independent. She wishes to head a gigantic and successful Non-governmental organization on Environmental Advocacy and activism. She also aspires to be a loving wife and the best mother to all kids. You might see these as heavy and unattainable goals but we take it one step at a time.

Pilly Ndobeji is a fourth year medical student at the University of Dodoma, Tanzania. She is passionate about addressing maternal and child health challenges in her society,She is currently leading teams in the Uzazi salama Campaign which aims to improve safe delivery in Iringa region. The project involves donating delivery kits to pregnant women, training local healthcare workers on obstetric emergencies and providing maternal health education to the society. For the past one month she succeeded in collecting 25 delivery kits and she is currently organizing fundraising activities that will continue for the next five month (to January,2023).

Pilly is a secretary ministry of Gender and special needs at the University students’ Government, she took part in launching official Gender Desk at the University, creating a safer space for more than 20,000 students and 500 workers to report Gender based violence cases, She is also serving as an Assistant District Rotaract Representative overseeing three regions in Tanzania.Before that ,she was a Vice Chairperson Tanzania medical students’ Association (TAMSA) and Vice President for Rotaract club UDOM.

Pilly enjoys reading books and sharing knowledge with peers,She is aspiring to become a competent Medical Doctor and a public health specialist focusing on Maternal and child health, She dreams to start an Non Government Organization that will Globally address maternal and child health Challenges

In this world, Rebecca Muna is a 19 years old girl. She is a Tanzanian young visionary and confident lady but also she has purpose and works harder and smarter to achieve her goals.

She took her primary education studies at Diamond Primary School there after she studied her ordinary level education at Mchanganyiko Secondary School. Four years of studying at Mchanganyiko she had a role of being a responsible leader in UN Club as a General Secretary and later on as a Chairperson.
She was appointed as the Head of Health ministry at her school. As an emerging youth, this was a place where she recognized her space in the world and polished her potentials by daring to take action to bring positive impact to the society.

Currently, she is pursuing her career in Diplomacy at Center for Foreign Relations (CFR) and she is the acting Deputy Minister of Information and Communication.

Miss Muna is a Poetess, Singer, Founder of "MIMI NI NGUVU YA MSICHANA CHAMPAIGN" and Change Maker. She uses her inner talents to point out the challenges that face our society. Currently, this includes the issue of Gender Based Violence (GBV), early marriages and Climate Change. She only desires to inspire fellow young girls to climb courageously at the top of the mountains of their Dreams because it is Possible, with that she advocates actively the issues of Human Rights.

To bring positive impact in the community, this has been her interest, as an active young girl who aspires to take her space confidently not only for her good but for the best of our generations to come. She enjoys learning new things that mold her to become the best vision of herself.

Her goal is to be a patriotic leader who brings positive impact for the sustainable development in our nation.

Zainab Mlawa is currently enrolled as a third-year student at Muhimbili University, and she specializes in doctor of medicine.
She's passionate about helping other people achieve success and figuring out what fulfills them, this drives her to serve people through various positions throughout her school life as well as the community through different volunteering and outeach programs.

She tries to step up as a leader whenever possible, because it allows her to develop skills in communication, delegation, and managing multiple tasks and deadlines. From being a club leader to being a class monitor in her primary and secondary level she was able to land into other leadership positions such as a prefect. Currently being a chair person of a charity organization she enjoys leading and delegating, because through the organization she's able to help those in need and help the society at large.

Her greatest accomplishments is recently being able to organise a charity events through their newly launched organization with her friends who she prefers calling them her sisters in faith, they were able to donate a couple of necessities to the young children in need.
She loves to volunteer in various activities such as beach cleaning, community educating outreach programs and charity programs, where she believes to play her part in serving the people as it is a vital part in her grounds.

She really enjoys drawing. Being creative in her free time helps her feel more at ease and allows her to be more creative at work as well.
Her personal vision is to have a life of meaning for herself and others. It is important to me to live her life in a way that shows kindness, care, and concern for family and friends and even strangers. Earn respect for herself based on a recognition of her accomplishments and abilities, maintains a sense of appreciation of the beauty of nature, and a sense of humor.

Her professional vision is to be an impactful doctor and to be recognized internationally within her industry. She is also committed to growing as a leader and delivering value-added impacts to the society. As a leader she will live consciously and courageously, relate to others with love and compassion, and leave this world better for her contribution.