Mission Statement
To empower impoverished rural adolescent girls and young women aged between 10 to 30 years old in Tanzania with quality education, technology access, leadership mentorship, gender-equality, justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights awareness and sustainable livelihood skills, enabling them to lead change, advocate for gender equality and justice, and promote sexual and reproductive health and rights within their communities.
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Vision Statement
Creating a Tanzania where every rural girl and young woman is empowered, educated, and leading changes while shaping her life and building a just, inclusive future for all.
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Our Impact
Since its inception in 2020, SHEEO NGO Tanzania has been at the forefront of transforming the lives of rural adolescent girls and young women across Tanzania by advancing education, empowerment, and equality.
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Solidarity For Her Education And Empowerment Organisation
SHEEO is a grassroots young feminist non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental organization striving to help rural adolescents’ girls and young women thrive and become autonomous in rural Tanzania.
SHEEO was founded by a group of five young people from poor, rural families who survived different acts of Human rights violations when they were growing up. After their studies, they decided to come together and initiate this organisation to fight for the integral well-being of the impoverished rural adolescents’ girls and young women in Tanzania.
This organization was founded on April 11, 2020 and was called first Awakening Horn for Inclusive Rural Development - AHIRD until February 13, 2024 whereby during the Annual General meeting of 2023 held on that date, the members decided collectively to change this organization’s name and become “Solidarity for Her Education and Empowerment Organisation – SHEEO” purposely to make the organisation focusing solely on rural adolescents’ girls and young women due to its success in this area.
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What we do
Our Impact
Since its inception in 2020, SHEEO NGO Tanzania has been at the forefront of transforming the lives of rural adolescent girls and young women across Tanzania by advancing education, empowerment, and equality. Through our targeted interventions and community-led initiatives, SHEEO has made measurable strides toward bridging the gender gap and creating inclusive opportunities for impoverished rural adolescent girls and young women to thrive. The holistic model of SHEEO NGO not only uplifts individual girls and young women — it strengthens families, transforms communities, and drives systemic change. With sustained partnerships and support, SHEEO envisions a Tanzania where every girl and young-woman leads with confidence, learns without limits, and lives free from discrimination and violence.
SHEEO has supported a number of 176 impoverished rural adolescent girls in accessing quality primary and secondary education in Magu district, Mwanza region in Tanzania by covering all their educational needs including menstrual hygiene products and menstrual management awareness support. All of these girls succeeded in their studies as they were promoted to next levels. We managed to prevent school drop out for these poor, rural adolescent girls.
SHEEO has supported and empowered 100 impoverished rural abandoned teens and young-mothers in Magu district, Mwanza region in Tanzania to access vocational, entrepreneurship and business initiation skills training in order to help them start their income generation activities or getting employments. To date, 70% reporting increased income and 30% earned jobs in informal sectors. These programs directly contribute to reducing rural female unemployment, which keeping them trapped in poverty.
SHEEO has trained over 276 impoverished rural adolescent girls and young women on leadership, gender-equality and justice advocacy and fighting gender-based violence in Magu district, Mwanza region in Tanzania. Among trained participants, 85% reported increased knowledge of their rights, and 50% engaged in contesting leadership in their schools and succeeded to be leaders and have initiated school-based advocacy campaigns to combat gender-based violence, child marriage and teenage pregnancy.
SHEEO has reached 3,120 impoverished rural adolescent girls and boys in public secondary schools in Magu district to build their knowledge and agency on sexual and reproductive health and rights, increase their awareness on bodily autonomy. This initiative contributed to reduced school dropout, sexual violence and teens pregnancies’ rates in supported schools in Magu district, Mwanza region in Tanzania. Recognizing the critical role of allies, SHEEO has reached 218 key community development stakeholders through awareness campaigns promoting male engagement in girls’ education, gender equality, SRHR and bodily autonomy.
GLORIA OSWARD RWEGOSHORA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
SYLVIA KOKUMANYIKA RWEYEMAMU
PROJECTS TEAM LEADER
YANNICK WOLFFENSPERGER
IT AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION VOLUNTEER
