Pwani Youth Network Recently organized Mikindani Photography for Peace Competition.The Competition that brought together youth from Several villages within Mikindani saw more than 200 youths participate in photography moment to promote peace.The youths came from Ganahola ,Staff,Kwa Mwanzia,Sunset and Kwa Ngombe amongs other,This event soo one of the youth crew crowned Champion in the first round after a social media campaign to push for peace through the reaction facebook on the picture they took during the shot.
Jagaban as they are Famously know who are they? ;We are a group of young people who started living as neighbours and even had childhood moments playing together.
So how many are you and are you from the same village? we started with a 10 in number people but currently we come more than that from different villages in Mikindani.
What about the composition of the team? ;We are currently an all boys team but we have a team of young models joining our crew .
The team shared how they have been taken through a one week shuga workshop through the Pwani Youth Network empowerment center and also some of them boost of being in the modelling and Art teams.
The team will soon benefit through a mentor ship program for being youth champion for peace in the area before ,during and after election.
The organization promised to organize such event in every 3 months to help promote peace and counter Violent and Extremism in the area by offering platform for the youths to promote the skills they have.The organization shall have several training for all the youth who have participated in the competition.
