SOCIETY has been asked not to stigmatize young people with harsh circumstances, many of whom were stuck in continuing their studies due to economic constraints.
The opinion was given yesterday by Psychologist Anastasia Nturu during a 15-day training for young people from difficult circumstances from three wards of Mufindi district who are beneficiaries of the Youth Agency Mufindi (YAM) project.
She said that these young people can become a great help to the community, so the community should not see them as nothing in their areas due to the poor economic situation they had before.
She said through the various trainings that are being given to the 100 young people of the YAM project and others who will continue to be given education, it is clear in their villages that there will be big changes through that group of young people.
Nturu said that most of the young people have been caused to have a difficult environment due to being separated from their parents or abandoned when they were children.
So, leading those young people to see themselves as nothing in society, which is not true.
Because always young people who come from difficult circumstances and rise up become a great help to society and have greater success.
In another step, Nturu called on the community, including men, to cooperate with their wives to raise children born with disabilities instead of abandoning them and leaving them to women alone.
She said that there has been a misconception among some men when their wives give birth to children with disabilities, they run away from the family and leave the responsibility of raising a child with a disability to women, which is not good because a child with a disability is a child like any other and should be given all rights, including the right to be valued by parents.
She said family happiness includes not discriminating against children and the family that runs away or hides a child with a disability should be strongly reprimanded because continuing to turn a blind eye to all those who stigmatize children with disabilities is increasing the magnitude of the problem of children with disabilities missing various opportunities, including education.
"Parents should withstand the challenges they encounter in the family, including raising children with disabilities by seeing the challenges of raising a child with disabilities as normal for him," she said that having a child with a disability is a mistake in the family but it is God's plans and a child with a disability has a great potential to be a help in the community around him and the Nation as a whole.
Thus she said through the training it is a great expectation to see more education continue to be provided so that children with disabilities in Mufindi district continue to be exposed to get various social opportunities.
YAM project manager Zilipa Mgeni said the project is being run in collaboration with the Mufindi district council government and they are grateful for the government by showing high cooperation with their project which generally has a great support for young people and children with disabilities in the Mufindi district, especially the Ihanu, Mdabulo and Luhunga wards where the project works in 16 villages of those wards.
"My team and I have seen that this project is helping because we have realized that there is a big change since we started identifying them because in the beginning they did not believe that they could do business, but after receiving training in psychology and entrepreneurship they themselves have admitted that they can do something," said Zilipa.
He also asked the government to provide more cooperation, especially by helping to obtain loans for people with disabilities to help people with disabilities start various developmental projects.
Speaking about the benefits of this training, the project manager of Youth Agency Mufindi (YAM) Zilipa said the aim of the training is to enable the group of parents and guardians who live with young people and children with disabilities to get education on how to raise a family without stigmatizing the children.
He said that the project will benefit more than 770 including 150 children with disabilities and that the YAM project is for four years from 2021/2024 and has been funded by the government of Finland under its Deaconess institution with the cooperation of the Tanzanian government under the district council of Mufindi and Foxes Community and Wild Life Conservation (FCWC).
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