Tech & Tales
A youth meetup where teenagers dig into technology, creativity, and enterprise while hearing real stories from people building their own path.
Nurturing
Tomorrow’s Leaders
We equip young Tanzanians with leadership, digital, and enterprise skills, then stay beside them long after the certificate.
Be the reason a child dreams bigger
50+
Scholarships awarded to students who’d have stopped at Form Four.
Join 1,000 people building a better Tanzania.
Join the community
Give a young person the mic
75+
Graduates placed into real jobs and apprenticeships.
One child.
One mentor.
One idea.
Can change everything.
Our founding belief
Youth-led.
Tanzania-rooted.
01 / Who we are
We don’t hand out futures. We help build them.
NuGenNext Initiative is a youth empowerment group based in Dar es Salaam, created to help teenagers build real-world skills for life, work, and leadership. Through events, camps, and hands-on workshops, we give young people space to learn coding, business, financial literacy, public speaking, teamwork, and leadership.
Talent is spread evenly across Tanzania. Opportunity is not. Our whole job is to close that gap, one mentor, one workshop, one placement at a time.
- Founded in
- Dar es Salaam
- Focus
- Teenagers
- Model
- Mentor-led
- Cost to youth
- Always free
Proudly supported by
02 / Impact
Numbers we can put names to.
Every figure below is a young Tanzanian who walked in with a question and walked out with a plan.
500+
Youth impacted
across Tanzania
50+
Scholarships awarded
fully funded
75+
Job placements
and counting
12
Partner organisations
walking with us
Every hand up is a future we haven’t met yet.
03 / Programmes
Four ways in.
One way forward.
Events, camps, classes, and meetups are all free to join, all in Dar es Salaam, and all ending with something you can show an employer, not just a handshake.
Youth Summit
A gathering where young people share ideas, meet mentors, and dig into the challenges their own community is facing.
Skill Classes
Hands-on training in digital skills, money management, communication, leadership, and getting career-ready.
Camps & Workshops
Interactive sessions where teams solve real problems, build confidence, and create practical projects worth showing off.
04 / How we work
Programmes end.
Relationships don’t.
01
We meet youth where they are
Recruitment runs through schools, community groups, and word of mouth, not application portals that assume a laptop and stable internet.
02
We teach skills that pay
Every programme ends in something tangible: a portfolio, a business plan, a certificate an employer recognises.
03
We stay after the programme ends
Alumni keep their mentor, join the network, and get first call on placements. The relationship is the point.
05 / The promise
What you’ll leave with.
Not a hand-out and not a hand-shake. Something you can point at, use, and build on.
Come in knowing how to use a phone. Leave knowing how to build the thing that runs on it.
A room full of people your age with ideas, plus mentors who take them seriously enough to argue back.
Work in a team, solve something real, and walk out with a project you'd show anyone.
06 / Where we work
Rooted in Dar es Salaam. Reaching across Tanzania.
Our home is Dar, but our cohorts run wherever young people need them, from coastal schools to inland community halls in Mwanza and beyond.
07 / Team
The people behind the mission.
Sharon Commino
Sets the direction of every cohort and keeps NuGenNext answerable to the young people it exists for.
Joan Commino
Helped start NuGenNext and shapes how each programme is built with its participants rather than for them.
Grace Kubhoja
Looks after the money and the people, so every shilling reaches a cohort and every volunteer is supported.
Daniel Ruben
Makes sure every programme is reachable, so no young person is left out by how a room, a tool, or a session is designed.
Empower a young Tanzanian to reach the life they can already picture.
Volunteer an hour. Mentor a cohort. Fund a scholarship. Every route ends in the same place: a young person with options.