Iyanna Foundation is a girls and women’s development organization established to address challenges girls and women are facing in their communities, challenges that have life-altering effects on their personal, family, and community future. Challenges such as teen pregnancies, lack of meaningful economic prospects, limited mentorship and apprenticeship opportunities. The program is targeted at underprivileged girls and women in communities in the Arusha region and Tanzania.
providing safety and economic opportunities to out-of-school girls in the community.
Community awareness on attitude towards sex and health education among teenagers and youths.
Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics subjects to young girls in the community.
*Mercy (not her real name) wanted to be a businesswoman after finishing her A level, she was inspired to this by an uncle who is a successful businessman in Arusha. ...