Tanzania Trans Initiative (TTI) was founded by the now Executive Director, Mwamba Nyanda, as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Tanzania in 2015. The 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
According to TTI’s founder, Mwamba Nyanda,
“Throughout the years we have managed to serve, reach out and impact our constituency through different strategies, e.g.
• Through capacity building, where we provide knowledge and tools for Trans persons to develop their Human rights work.
• Movement building, working g intersectional with other organisation like women’s organisation to share feminist experiences and strategy to win has a collective.
• 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.
• 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.
• All this provided us with strategies to go about our Advocacy on human right Issues.
• 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.”
Vision
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.
Mission
TTI is a group of feminist, trans who aim to address the multiple and intersecting oppressions faced by its beneficiaries through:
- Raising awareness on trans and women’s issues,
- Empowering young women and trans youth on leadership.
- Promoting gender justice and equality.
- Collaborating with government, law enforcement officers, policymakers, Civil Society Organizations and other Community Based Organisations to address health issues, drive social economic stability for achievement of sustainable development goals.
- Providing knowledge and a foundation for empathy and understanding of the needs of TTI’s constituency.
Goal
To ensure that ITGNC (intersex, trans and gender non-conforming) persons understand their human rights and how to fight for them for survival and for peaceful life without discrimination and that they are empowered and enabled to realize sustainable livelihood and are living in the country a peaceful life without discrimination and humiliation.
Contact
Email: artirism@gmail.com
+255 695 880 453
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