Bulawayo City Council (BCC) hosted a water crisis meeting which was held at the Council Chambers, City Hall. Youth for Innovation Trust (YIT) was represented by Thandolwenkosi Dube at the meeting various issues relating to the water crisis were discussed. Amongst the speakers at the meeting was His Worship The mayor of Bulawayo Solomon Mguni.… Continue reading BCC water Crisis meeting Update

Youth for Innovation Trust gathered female students from across different universities in and around Bulawayo in a conference held as part of the 16 days of Gender based violence 2019 to create and interrogate safe space for interaction. The conference was held under the theme “creating opportunities for young women’s innovative engagement in public spaces”.… Continue reading Promoting intersectionality key to combating cyber bullying.

As everyone is making noise about the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe vis-à-vis the youth bulge, members of Youth for Innovation Trust took to defining the roles of young people in the entire electoral cycle. In a dialogue session held during YIT’s Sunday Growth Talk, it was noted that beyond the definitions young people are already… Continue reading YIT hosts youth dialogue on the electoral cycle.

Social media is a powerful conduit used by billions of people across the world, it has transformed the landscape of communication. Gone are the days when smoke  or drum beats were used to convey a message with other people in a village, nowadays innovative, technological methods of communication have made work and life easy for… Continue reading Social media, a tool for emancipation

Technovation regional pitch competition 2018 run under the theme “Girls for Change” was hosted by Youth for Innovation Trust in collaboration with  Computer society, Techwomen Zimbabwe, and the Bulawayo City Council on the 5th of May 2018, at Small City hall in Bulawayo. This year’s competition saw girls from Bulawayo identifying problems affecting their communities… Continue reading “Girls for a Change” Launched in Bulawayo

Marriage is one of the most misunderstood subject in our modern day generation. It raises many questions which young people have over the time failed to answer. It is now viewed as something that the older generation viewed it in their own way and the present generation also view it in a different way. This… Continue reading Youth perceptions on marriage

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FYouthAhead%2Fvideos%2F1538238796186815%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Oral health is maintaining good health of the mouth in all aspects of our lives. This is a day commemorated worldwide and in 2018 it was run under the theme Say Ahh Think Mouth, Think Health. Oral health day is celebrated on the 20th of March. A healthy mouth and a healthy body go… Continue reading Youth Ahead celebrates World Oral Health Day

Culture and tradition has revolved over the past years and young people have adopted or viewed technology and innovation as the new culture and tradition. Where is the nexus between culture/tradition and innovation and technology? How do these link and what can be done by young people to fuse the old cultural methods with the… Continue reading Nexus of culture and technological innovations…

  Tokenism is a growing trend in the civil society where a small number of people from under-represented groups are invited in order to give the appearance of inclusiveness and they are usually accompanied by a token of appreciation which is a small gift in gratitude but can also be viewed as giving one incentives. … Continue reading Death of Activism – Tokenism and Tokens of Appreciation