Msichana Initiative
Msichana Initiative
Broader Sectors
- Education - Sani/Wisdom
- Human Rights - Idajo/Justice,
- Youth - Sani/Wisdom
Demographic Focus
- Women and Girls
Cohort: 01
- East Africa
- Tanzania
Msichana Initiative advocates for a girl’s rights to education — without discrimination. They inspire young girls to shape their own futures and to speak up against the gendered socio-economic norms that impede their personal development. Through empowerment, advocacy, and strategic policy reform, the initiative envisions a Tanzanian society where the rights of girls are safeguarded and continually advanced.
Partner Impact
Leadership Highlight
Rebeca Gyumi
Rebeca Gyumi is a Founder & Executive Director at Msichana Initiative, a local NGO which aims to empower a girl child through education, and address key challenges which limit girl’s right to education. She has worked for over 8 years with Femina, a youth focused organisation as a TV personality and youth advocate.
A lawyer by profession, Rebeca pursued and won a landmark case on child marriages, through the petition she filed at the High Court of Tanzania to challenge the Tanzania Marriage Act, 1971 which allowed girls as young as 14 to get married. The decision which raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 for both boys and girls.
Rebeca has vast experience working on youth engagement and advocacy. She has been at the forefront of advocating for various youth issues through the organizations she has been a member of and through her individual initiatives as a volunteer and ambassador.
When we are empowering young girls to obtain education we are not only promoting gender equality in communities but we are changing narratives and transforming norms and beliefs that limit girls from unleashing their potential through education.
