{"id":2195,"date":"2015-01-01T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2025-01-11T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T17:10:24","slug":"founding-of-tanzania-trans-initiative-tti-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/founding-of-tanzania-trans-initiative-tti-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 \u2014 Founding of\u00a0Tanzania Trans Initiative (TTI), Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tanzania Trans Initiative (TTI) <\/em><\/strong><\/a>was founded by the now Executive Director, Mwamba Nyanda, as a <\/a>non-governmental organisation (NGO)\u00a0in Tanzania in 2015.\u00a0The organisation is a platform for the trans community working together with people who are gender non-conforming. TTI works with these groups as well as with health practitioners, law enforcement officers and policy makers, providing knowledge and a foundation for empathy and understanding for the needs of TTI’s constituency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to TTI’s founder, Mwamba Nyanda,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Throughout the years we have managed to serve, reach out and impact our constituency through different strategies, e.g.
\u2022 Through capacity building, where we provide knowledge and tools for Trans persons to develop their Human rights work.
\u2022 Movement building, working g intersectional with other organisation like women’s organisation to share feminist experiences and strategy to win has a collective.
\u2022 Use of Creative Arts, to better tell our own stories, heal has queer person and shape our own future. This helps us to dive in our creative side and share it with the world around us e.g. Music that sends messages and heals peoples heart around us.
\u2022 Sports, this tool created liberation for young diverse women seeking equality and freedom of expression, it helped trans persons in times of anti-rights movements, and escape from violent community.
\u2022 All this provided us with strategies to go about our Advocacy on human right Issues.
\u2022 Working intersectional and in the regional level has amplify our work and kept us on the map and face of the community, with challenges along the way, shaped our formation and demanded our work to strive harder for the Trans community.”<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TTI envisions a transformed Tanzanian society where Young ITGNC persons have access to good health, education, equal opportunities in all sectors, enjoy gender equality and do not face any form of violence and discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TTI is a group of feminist, trans who aim to address the multiple and intersecting oppressions faced by its beneficiaries through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n