Neema Mgana Fighting AIDS in Tanzania
Neema Mgana is the Founder of an AIDS project in Tanzania and also Founder and Director of the African Regional Youth Initiative, an organization working with over two hundred youth and community-based organizations in Africa addressing social, economic and political justice.
She is the Co-Director of the International Council for Global Initiatives which provides cross-regional collaboration on youth, women, and community development projects. Neema completed studies in health sciences, international peace studies, and medical informatics. She later attained a Masters degree in international health and certificate in humanitarian assistance with research interests in health systems, public policy, community development, and youth empowerment.
Over the course of years, Neema has worked in a national hospital, public health agencies, taught at a university in Tanzania, and worked in international organizations located in Africa, Canada and the US. She is serving as the Community Representative on the Kabissa Board.
Neema Mgana was the youngest of 1000 women from around the world jointly nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2000, she co-founded an organization providing education, health and other services to over 200 children affected by HIV/AIDS in her native Tanzania. She then founded the African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI) while a first-year graduate student in 2003. ARYI presently works directly with over 300 community and youth organizations to jointly develop, implement, and evaluate community, national and regional strategies and programs focusing on development issues in Africa. In an effort to foster innovative thinking on international development, she co-founded the Forum for Global Action in 2006. A leading program within the Forum is on women’s leadership that is being implemented in Africa, Asia
About Kabissa:
Our Charter
As one of the key elements of a vibrant and prosperous world, civil society organizations working for positive social change must be supported and nurtured. Now, more than ever, the African civil society sector is in need of tools and resources that can support the important work of individual organizations, as well as strengthen the connections between organizations. New digital technologies, in particular the Internet, allow activists to access networks of knowledge, mutual support, and financial resources on a scale that otherwise would be next to impossible.
Kabissa, meaning complete in Kiswahili, believes that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are a revolutionary force in civil society.
Mission Kabissaís mission is to help African civil society organization put information and communication technologies to work for the benefit of the people they serve.
Vision Kabissaís vision is for a socially, economically, politically, and environmentally vibrant Africa, supported by a strong network of effective civil society organizations.
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