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What is Teenage Life Programme;
Teenage Life is a programme that goes around
Tanzania spreading the word to the youth, about how to deal with problems that
are facing young people. The project warns the youth about prostitution, rape,
drug abuse, drunkenness and robbery, which are believed to play a significant
role in the spread of HIV/AIDS. As it promoting United Nations Millennium
Development Goals(MDGs),Culture and using the media in giving the information to
the youth.
The Teenage Life Program was born in July 2000 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The
founder of this project is Leonard Boniface (Lenny), though it later involved
Kolether Raymond after a thought of developing programs on radio and television
regarding HIV/AIDS issues for young people and it did not work out due to lack
of funding and later these two people volunteered in going in schools, public
places and in workshops and address on HIV/AIDS and it made another one Ediwn
Kileo the current Project Secretary and a lot of other young people to join the
programme and have about 20 alive members and over 500 interesting members and
more than five clubs countrywide. Since the year 2000 the programme have done a
lot of things including participating in various workshops, local and
international conferences such as World Youth Congress 2003 in Casablanca
Morocco, Red Cross AIDS Conference 2002 in Gaborone, Botswana, International
Youth Conference on Peace and Humanism, Kampala, Uganda, International Youth
Parliament 2004 in Sydney Australia and many numbers of the local meetings. Also
have done numbers of researches including the Impact of Mass Media in Combating
HIV/AIDS in Youth In Botswana Compared to Tanzania” and many activities by
corroboration with Dar Es Salaam School of Journalism(DSJ).
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