The Youth Empowerment and Mindset Change Organisation (YEMCO) is a Non-Governmental Organisation founded in 2015. The organisation focuses on empowerment and mindset change of the youth, women and persons with disabilities in order to support themselves in various development programmes and opportunities. To achieve its objective, the organisation provides education and awareness through conduction of numerous trainings and motivation talks to youth, women and People with Disabilities.

YEMCO collaborates with various community development programmes essentially those focusing on youth, women and People with Disabilities. Since its inception in 2015, YEMCO has managed to establish 60 village community banks (VICOBA) in Dar es salaam. The 60 VICOBAs are managed and led by YEMCO and the youth themselves. YEMCO also provides 10 training sessions each month to young people focusing on entrepreneurship skills, life and leadership skills. The organisation, further, has been conducting various programs by, self-funding, through membership fees and other voluntary contribution, and has vision to grow and reach to more people.

Fashion with a good cause aims to empower Youth with Disabilities (YWDs), young women and single mothers through provision of a safe space, education and awareness about their rights. To achieve these, the project aims to provide vocational training in fashion design and art and basic education. The project also envisions, to close the gender gap in different levels of decision-making, ownership and control of key assets such as employment and finance. It further hopes to improve opportunities/create more and better jobs for YWDs, young women and single mothers as well as increase their capacity to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.

This project is part of an Empowerment Accelerator pilot grant in Tanzania. These grants are for previous Empowerment grantees that would like to deepen and/or continue their empowerment journey.