Dzuka Cholinga Youth Zambia (DCZ) is a youth led community-based Organization that brings together young people in different communities across Zambia for them to realize their rights and potential MISSION STATEMENT
To work together, in cooperation with the community, towards the development of a strong youth and community. PLEDGE
On my own, I promise to serve my community and I will always be there when called upon. OBJECTIVES
To raise awareness in the community on the importance of people driven governance and empower its local people to take part in various processes of governance. To promote positive sexual and reproductive health practices among young people in order to enhance good health and wellbeing. Creation of a society which has young people that are well informed and eager to contribute to the development of their communities. MOTTO
Strong and fit for my community
Areas of Operations
Governance
Teaching and mobilizing youth for them to stand for elective office, vote on merit, how best they can participant in an election through encouraging them to get national registration cards and vote’s cards, then how to hold their leaders accountable with the positions given and also encourage youths that want to take up leadership positions by educating them on how to be good leaders. Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are in particular important to young people because it is their right to have access to the correct information and services to positively influence their sexual health and future lives. Youths need to realize their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Is Key to Achieving Equality. We will Support Girls and boys To Access Quality Sexual Health Services and Eliminate Harmful Practices. Teenage pregnancy can rob girls of their potential by ceasing their education and giving them adult responsibilities. An estimated 800 adolescent girls give birth every year in this mandevu constituency. Empowerment
We are empowering the community through enabling the youth to increase control over their lives. By allowing them to be spatially connected, but share common interests, concerns or identities. Young people need to gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives. It is the process by which they will increase their assets and attributes and build capacities to gain access, partners, networks and/or a voice, in order to gain control. We are make sure they are empowered by others through skills sharing. Gender-based violence
GBV is a big problem and the numbers keep going up. An annual survey by the Victim Support Unit of the Zambia Police Service reveals that in 2016 the country recorded 18,540 cases of gender-based violence, more than the 18,088 cases recorded in the previous year. Which is not supposed to be the case. As a community-based organization, we are educating young men and women how they can avoid and report this kind of abuse in one of the areas we take seriously. Art
As we all know art is one of the most popular and powerful ways of getting information out there as Dzuke Cholinga Youth Zambia we use different types of art to educate, mobilize and inspire art poetry, drama, film, painting, music, literature, and dance. We are youth!
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