Making Health Care Services Friendly to Older People of Zanzibar project aims to advocate for change in health services to make them friendly to the elderly and People Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) of Zanzibar. Also, the project intends to raise awareness to government officials and other stakeholders on the importance of age-friendly services, empower and train older people on their rights and older citizen monitoring, to make them capable of monitoring health services and advocating for change. Also, build the capacity of health workers by training them on age-friendly services Beneficiaries’ Older people, PLWDs and Health Workers The grant applied to JUWAZA will support the implementation of Making Health Care Services Friendly to Older People of Zanzibar project. This project among other things will support the organization to build capacity of older people forums by training them on their rights, principles of age-friendly services and older citizen monitoring in health services. Sensitize and train health care workers on how to provide services to older people and people living with disabilities in a friendly way. Among the activities that will be implemented in this project include conducting one baseline survey to collect information on the current situation regarding access and friendliness of health services to the elderly and PLWDs, Advocate for rights and entitlements of the elderly including change in social services. Build capacity of the older people forums to make them capable of monitoring and advocating for change in health care services. Build capacity of health care workers Utilize media to prepare awareness campaign on rights and entitlements.

• The organisation has successfully forged relationships with high profile members of parliament who advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.  
• Two participants in the project contested in the local government election, in which one of the participants won. 
• 35 women with disabilities were mentored by the members of parliament and political leaders. 

• 30 Deaf women from Universities and Colleges were trained in entrepreneurship skills, leadership skills and democratic participation. The training opened the women’s minds to participate in various activities, including the general election. The training provided additional benefits to people with disabilities in social activities, development actives and political life. 
• Members of parliament mentored 15 Deaf women with disabilities on leadership, specifically on political leadership.   

In the future, JUVIHIMTU plans to scale up the project and support youth rightsholders to access financial resources through Village Community Banks (VICOBA) and entrepreneurship.