ABOUT US | BACKGROUND
WAYDS Organization Initially established in June 2017 and registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) known as TUKUTA operating in Shinyanga region. In September 2020, WAYDS attained registration as an NGO under the NGOs Act 24/2002 of Tanzania.
However, WAYDS exists with a passion to helping Women, Youth and, Children in-particularly to change their circumstances that inherited through access to education, information, and opportunities in underserved and marginalized communities in Tanzania.
— Our Mission
WAYDS Mission: To invest and promote initiatives that empower and support women, youth, and children on poverty and health risks alleviation in marginalized and underserved communities in Tanzania.
— Our Vision
WAYDS Vision: women, youth, and children are widely empowered and supported to thrive in alleviation of poverty and health risks in marginalized and underserved communities in Tanzania.
— Our Core Value
To ensure excellence in our approach, WAYDS Organization values the following:
- Determination and Diversity: WAYDS Decisions are fair, transparent, and puts women, youth, and children development and health interest first.
- Professional commitment: WAYDS upholds standards of professionalism across all roles, specializations and it guided by the basic available resources, evidence, and technical expertise, and continuously develop itself and innovatively respond to a changing communities .
- Integrity: WAYDS practice the advice we give to the community and we engage with everyone honestly and in good faith, we hold ourselves and others accountable for words and actions
- Collaboration: WAYDS engage with its colleagues and partners to strengthen impact at community level, and recognize and use the power of diversity to achieve more together.
- Responsibility: WAYDS courageously and selflessly defend everyone’s right to live with health and free from poverty, we show compassion for all human beings and promote sustainable approaches to development and health, as well as, we strive to make women, youth, and children in underserved and marginalized communities in Tanzania to feel safe, respected, treated fairly and duly recognized in their communities
WAYDS’ Principles
- To live its mission, WAYDS Organization will adopt the most effective leadership style and skills to ensure commitment to excellence and continuous improvement
- WAYDS Organization will utilize all its resources efficiently and effectively, including the full potential and creativity of its members. It will also continually monitor and evaluate its programs, services and processes in order to bring about improvements in protecting rights of women, youth and children in general.