Youth Alliance For Safer Cities

13/03/2024

Super Excited to be part of this year's House of Arts Association Festival. Let's meet in Mbare at Stodart Grounds on the 15th of March 2023 where there shall lots of Entertainment from many artists, one stop shop for SRHR and psychosocial support services, exhibition by various service providers as we aim to raise awareness on drug and substance abuse, mental health issues and promote youth Climate action.

11/10/2023

Youth Alliance For Safer Cities today joins the rest of the world in celebrating the International Day of the Girl Child. As young women we were delighted to participate in a round table conversation hosted by Plan International Zimbabwe. Young women from diverse organisations including House of Arts Association Youth Ensemble Mbilez24, Entertainment Media Association, amongst others were part of this round table conversation. The young women raised pertinent issues around girls activism, accountability and resourcing to a wide audience of international donors.

We remain committed to supporting the work of girls and young women living in urban communities of Zimbabwe. Happy

11/04/2023

Today, Youth Alliance for Safer Cities, in collaboration with young people in Epworth under the Safe and Inclusive Cities project petitioned the Epworth Local Board (ELB) over the By-laws they published in a newspaper for enactment.

These young people are part of the project's participants who received various trainings from Youth Alliance For Safer Cities which include advocacy, leadership, social accountability, and emotional intelligence, among others, to prepare them to be active participants of their communities. The petition included proposals for the 46 bylaws that ELB published.

The Mayor of Epworth Local Board happily accepted the petition. These bylaws are critical for the transformation of the Epworth Local Board into a Town Council.

Plan International Zimbabwe
Yet Trust
Yellow world
Zizo Motion Pictures
House of Arts Association
PaHukama National Youth Oryxes Foundation
Generation Unlimited
Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation

23/03/2023

Today we wish a Happy Birthday to our Head of Programs Casper Chigama. We are grateful as a team for your leadership. We are where were are because of your openmindness, doing our job doesn't feel like doing a job because you turned the workspace into our home. You listen to the craziest of our ideas and bring out the creativity in the team.

As you age we pray for more and more wisdom to be bestowed on you. Enjoy your birthday, hope in a way that is more than we enjoy your stewardship.

We are the team that always loud that our leader doesn't catch feelings but catches flights, yah but this one time he caught feelings, thus this birthday is a different one because that's his first in marriage.

We love you!!! Happy Birthday Casper Caespidor Chigama Kana takura zveAge ratove drama iyoyo.

09/03/2023

Youth Alliance For Safer Cities in partnership with House of Arts Association and Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation hosted a Disaster Risk Response awareness campaign in Hatcliffe. The event was supported by City Health Department, Zimbabwe Republic Police, Ministry of Women's Affairs, Community Development and Small to Medium Enterprises, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, ZNPP+ and many more.

The event was characterized with Roadshow, dialogues and presentations on disasters that are prominent in the society which include typhoid, drug abuse, flash floods and cholera amongst other issues. Several recommendations came out of dialogues which will become building blocks for advocacy and social accountability process for the young people in Hatcliffe.

Sports, board games, video games, and artist performances were among the other activities on the agenda for the day.

Safe and Inclusive Cities

08/03/2023

Today, Youth Alliance For Safer Cities participated in International Women's Day Celebrations at an event hosted by House of Arts Association and Tag Rugby Trust Zimbabwe . The theme for the event was "Praise the woman who inspires other people."

One of the main speakers was Casper Chigama, House of Arts Association Director and Programs Manager for YASC. He spoke about knowing one's value and using it to navigate the hurdles of the music industry.

Tineruvimbo Matambanadzo a wellness consultant, stressed the importance of self-care and what can be done as coping mechanisms for mental health.

Tatenda Churu, the director of YASC spoke about women in leadership and how they should create opportunities and complement each other rather than be in competition.

The MC for the event was Yemurai Ngoma, a disability rights activist and Programs Manager at Mukundi Foundation.

The event was coupled with various artistic expressions, from music to poetry, by marvelous women. The event concluded with tag rugby being played by participants of the event.

We wish all Women across the globe

25/11/2022

Today Youth Alliance for Safer Cities joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women. We are excited to participate in this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence.

15/11/2022

Centre for International Learning & Leadership paid us a wonderful visit today. It was beneficial to reflect on the work we are doing as well as the 'Time for Tea' concept in terms of how it has improved our advocacy and how we can expand on it. It was great to meet the Director Andrew Hardley all the way from the United Kingdom together with Stanley the country representative discussing potential areas of cooperation and collaboration.

25/08/2022

Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation in partnership with ZNCWC, Youth Alliance for Safer Cities, SEPT and House of Arts hosted an inter ministerial and inter generational dialogue on drug and substance abuse in Hatcliffe. The dialogue was attended by youth associations, youths from the community, parents of the survivors of drug and substance abuse as well as the survivors. Also in attendance were ZRP Narcotics detectives, ZRP Victim Friendly Unit, City of Harare and City Health Department.

The dialogue aimed to inform service providers about the gaps in dealing with drug and substance abuse, including supply, treatment, and patient care, as well as reintegration of survivors into the community. The ZRP discussed how the community can intervene through early user dedication and informing police of supply bases. The discussion concluded that drug and substance abuse should be treated as an epidemic that requires societal intervention because its effects are felt at both the societal and family levels.

The dialogue arose in the context of a significant increase in admissions to the local clinic for psychiatric drug and substance abuse-related illnesses, as well as an increase in the number of suicides and deaths related to its abuse. The increased demand for drugs and substances has been attributed to COVID19-induced lockdowns, economic hardship, and a lack of recreational and skill centers, which has left many young people unemployed and/or idle.

When young people use drugs, their future is planned without them because they are unable to participate in issues that affect them. As an organization, we are committed to working with other stakeholders in advocating for the creation an enabling policy framework that addresses gaps in the supply of illicit drugs and substances, patient treatment and care, and reintegration of survivors into the community so that young people become active participants in all sectors and spheres of life.

House of Arts Association
Plan International Zimbabwe

20/08/2022

Today we had a very interactive training with Centre for International Learning & Leadership country representative Stanley Madzokore. Time for Tea is a non confrontational advocacy tool and approach that suits our programming that we gladly adopt and share with other youth-led organisations.

House of Arts Association

01/07/2022