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No 4 First Mutual Building, Corner 5th Street and Robert Mugabe, Gweru
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Monday to Friday: 8AM - 4PM
Saturday: 9AM - 4.30PM
Our story
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Due to poverty and high rate of unemployment, most youths have resorted to drug abuse, prostitution and
engaging in criminal activities. While commendable efforts have been made by the government, justice
system and police to stop drug abuse and reduce the crime rate, more and more youths continue to commit
crimes. The main reason for the fail back is that most of the youths have nothing to do and they are pressure
by their peers. The Young People’s Development Association of Zimbabwe Trust has been founded on the
background of that disheartening observation. The organization is a grouping of the country’s democratic
youths who feel that they need to make a change in the livelihood of the youths and with the assistance of
the government, help stop drug abuse, prostitution and other criminal activities.
The organisation aims to empower youth by creating a platform to formalise and incentivize their different
skills and talents, identify skilled and talented youths who lack funding and support them by providing
funding and opportunities to nurture their skills for their financial gain. By so doing, it will keep the
beneficiaries busy such that they will not have time to engage in criminal activities. Furthermore, the
organisation will offer professional training to beneficiaries in order for beneficiaries to sharpen their skills.
For the youths that are addicted to drugs, the organisation intends to rehabilitate them through rehabilitation
centres in Zimbabwe. The organisation is set up in such a way as to coordinate programs to generate its own
income and achieve self-clarity as to the aims and objectives of the organisation.
The organisation comprises of brilliant and patriotic youths. The Founders are Malvin K. Michael and
Charmaine T. Mnangagwa. Behind them are young individuals from different trades and professions who
share the passion of assisting the youths in creating self-employment and bettering their lives and are
prepared to take them through the journey of their life changing.
Company Values
Vision
To be the leading young people nurturing and development hub for economically active young entrepreneurs, skilled and unskilled Zimbabweans.
Mission
To increase young people inclusion in national socio-economic development and policy formulation, enhancing entrepreneurial skills, and access to opportunities through providing a favorable platform and a digital driven creativity and innovation solutions.
Core Values
- Empower
- Transparency
- Integrity
- Responsibility
- Honesty
- Creativity
- Innovation
Benefits of becoming a YPDAZ member
- Employment creation.
- Training.
- Mentorship.
- Arbitration with other young people’s governing body.
- Exhibition of business ideas.
- Promotion of innovative business start ups.
- Company registration assistance.
- Inclusion in devolution and socio-economic development.
- Participation in national development programs.
- Incubation hub for creative ideas.
- Eradication of poverty.
- Assistance in project and business funding.
Our Objectives
- To raise global consciousness regarding youth developmental needs and coordinate support for global programs of action for youth development.
- To develop and administer specialized and targeted appeals that advance youth development.
- To establish and administer relevant organs, programs, projects or subordinate organizations that enable the acceleration of youth development work.
- To support the establishment, growth and global positioning of specialized and targeted youth development organizations.
- To establish platforms to coordinate joint action by special interest groups in youth development.
- To develop and maintain an all stakeholder approach to addressing issues of common, general, regional and international youth interest and concern.
- To work for the total eradication of all forms of discrimination based on gender, sex, race, tribe, nationality, and religion, and education, physical or mental ability among the youth.
- Soliciting, receiving and accepting gifts and bequests of money and other assets donated to the trust for the purposes of advancing and financing its activities.
- Purchasing movable and immovable property in order to achieve the objectives of Trust as herein provided.
- Administering, managing and expending the money and properties belonging to the trust and to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the aforementioned objects or any of them.
- To employ persons, if deemed necessary by the Trust in full or part time service of the Trust upon such terms and conditions as the trust may think fit.
- To engage the services of Appellants, Patron(s), special councilors, ambassadors, advisors and consultants.
- To do all such things as may appear conducive to the attainment of the objects of the Trust.
- To empower the youth by affording them a platform to formalize and incentivize their different skills and or talent.
- To offer professional training to beneficiaries in order for them to sharpen their skills.
- To identify skilled and talented youth who lack funding and support them.
- To provide funding and opportunities to the youth so as to nurture their skills for their financial gain.
- To seek for donations from other stakeholders to provide the needed funding.
- To help the beneficiaries to reach their target market and to advertise their work on various social medial platforms.
- The beneficiaries of the organization shall be youths in disadvantaged communities. A youth shall be defined as any person aged between 13 (thirteen) years and 40 (forty) years.
- Identifying young people excluded from socio-economic development of Zimbabwe.
- Nurturing and creating responsible young people in various socio-economic development national agendas.
- Developing, creating a supportive platform and opportunities for young people to fully participate on socio-economic development.
YPDAZ PROJECTS
COLLABORATIVE EFFORT COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
The organization has created a community response guide to drug and substance abuse. The drug pandemic that has affected our country requires us to put up a collaborative effort in our community to put an end to drug and substance abuse among youths. YPDAZ has come up with a community collaborative model that outlines the roles and responsibilities of a community against drug and substance abuse.
This model includes the following:
- Awareness campaigns.
- Supporting affected families.
- Fostering a supportive environment.
- Collaborating with authorities.
- Mentorship programs.
- Community-based initiatives.
- Advocate for government and NGO support to address drug abuse in the community.
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PANGU PAKACHENA CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
This initiative aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy 1 (2020 – 2025). Recognizing the constitutional Mandate to uphold environmental fundamental rights and freedoms provided for in the section 73 of the constitution of Zimbabwe the “right to an environment that is not harmful to tier health and well being.”
Also this initiative encourages young entrepreneurs to participate, thereby creating valuable networking opportunities for them.
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