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An Initiative that empowers Tanzanian girls who are school dropouts to be eco-entrepreneurs and climate guardians.
Around 5,500 girls drop out of school per year in Tanzania. A recent World Bank study estimates that the “limited educational opportunities for girls,and barriers to completing 12 years of education, costing countries between US$15 trillion and $30 trillion in lost lifetime productivity and earnings.” This has increased poverty in many households, communities, and countries, especially Tanzania.
Green Craft Academy is a Woman@Dior 2023 Winning Project, with an International partnership with Dior and UNESCO that seeks to empower Tanzanian girls who are school dropouts to learn vocational skills on how to make local products using eco-friendly practices and reduce the carbon footprint. Our focus is recycling plastics into art, bricks, and bags; upcycling clothes, sustainable agriculture, making renewable cooking stoves, and net-zero carbon charcoal.
The girls we support come from economically challenged backgrounds where most of them are school dropouts vulnerable to becoming domestic workers or even forced to get married to earn income. The Green Craft Academy is unconditionally supporting girls to envision a new future by learning practical vocational skills and turning them into business enterprises through entrepreneurship.
She is the African Union CIEFFA Champion for girls’ and women’s education in climate action. Happy is a multi award-winning former Vice President of Students’ Government at the University of Dar es salaam leading more than 30,000 students.
She is passionate about women empowerment, climate action, education and innovation. She is a Women@Dior mentee and an Ambassador of Alliance Francaise in Dar es salaam. Happy has championed for women’s rights in several platforms including TEDx, Norwegian Council for Africa, Oxfam, UNESCO and ActionAid. She was named as one of the TOP 100 inspiring young women in Tanzania.
Guncha is Y-PEER International Coordinator. she guides focal points in charge of Y-PEER national networks from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Arab states. At UNRCCA Preventive Diplomacy Academy, she is focal point for young students from Afghanistan. She graduated from International University For Humanities and Development in Turkmenistan.
In University she led the university students council, which is the first of its kind among Turkmen High Educational establishments. Her interests are climate change , gender equality, sexual reproductive health and rights and also peace building.
Commited on issues of gender equality and social justice, laureate of the Institut de l’engagement. Volunteer for neighborhood associations, AFEV, Laboratoire de l’égalité where she participated in the elaboration of a pact for gender equality towards the candidates of the French presidential election of 2022, Indian recycles in India, vice-president of the collectif Olympe, among others.
She also created a startup on smart city. With a degree in sociology and a master in management from emlyon business school, she is pasionnate about African and Indian cultures.