Nurture
We start with the person, not the CV.
Before a skill can grow, a young person has to believe they're allowed to want it. That belief is the first thing we build, and the reason our alumni keep their mentor long after the cohort ends.
About NuGenNext
Nurture.
Inspire.
Lead.
Creating pathways for Tanzanian youth.
NuGenNext 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 practical skills coding, business, financial literacy, public speaking, teamwork, and leadership. The goal is simple: prepare today’s youth with the confidence, tools, and mindset they need to become tomorrow’s leaders.
Opportunity
should travel.
01 — What the words mean
Three verbs, in that order.
They aren’t a slogan. They’re the sequence every cohort actually moves through, and you can’t skip one.
Inspire
You cannot be what you have never seen.
So we put young Tanzanians in front of people who did it here, founders, engineers, organisers, and let them ask the awkward questions. Not a keynote. A conversation they get to interrupt.
Lead
Then we hand over the room.
Every cohort ends with participants running something real, a project, a pitch, a fix their community actually needed. Leading isn't taught in a slide. It's practised, in front of people, with a mentor beside you.
02 — Mission & vision
Why we exist, and where it goes.
Our mission
To create lasting impact by nurturing the next generation of changemakers.
We are dedicated to empowering Tanzanian youth through innovative education programmes, mentorship, and leadership development, focusing on the essential skills in technology, entrepreneurship, and creative arts that prepare young minds for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
Our vision
A Tanzania where a young person’s postcode never decides how far they get.
Talent already reaches every corner of this country. We want opportunity to travel just as far, until every young Tanzanian with an idea has a path to walk, a mentor to call, and a room that opens.
Founded in
Dar es Salaam
Focus
Teenagers
Model
Mentor-led programmes
Cost to youth
Always free
03 — What you’ll learn
Six skills.
All of them practical.
The things that quietly decide how far a teenager gets, and almost none of them are on a syllabus. You learn them here by doing them.
Coding
Come in knowing how to use a phone. Leave knowing how to build what runs on it.
Business
How an idea turns into something people will actually pay for.
Financial literacy
Earning, saving, budgeting, and keeping money once it arrives.
Public speaking
Say it so a room hears you, even when your voice is shaking.
Teamwork
Build something with people who do not think like you.
Leadership
Take the room when it is your turn to take it.
04 — What we run
Events, camps, and
everything between.
Four programmes, all free, all in Dar es Salaam. Tap through them, they’re different doors into the same room.
MeetupTech & Tales
The tech, and the people behind it, telling you how they actually got there.
Part workshop, part storytelling. Teenagers explore technology, creativity, and entrepreneurship, then hear from people building their own path, false starts and money problems included. Not a keynote. A conversation you get to interrupt.
- Get hands on with technology and the tools behind it
- Hear real stories from people building their own path
- Ask the awkward questions. That is the point
- Meet other teenagers who are into the same things
Next up
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Free, and always will be.
05 — What we hold to
Four things we
won’t trade.
Talent is everywhere
Opportunity isn't. Closing that gap is the entire job. There is no second agenda.
With, not for
Programmes are designed with the young people who take them. They tell us what's missing; we build it.
Proof over promises
Every cohort ends in something you can point at. A portfolio beats a certificate.
The relationship is the point
The programme ends. The mentor, the network, and the first call on placements don't.
06 — Who we work with
We don’t do this
on our own.
Schools open their rooms. Companies open their doors for site visits and placements. Funders cover the scholarships that keep a cohort free. Every logo here is a door a young Tanzanian walked through.
Partner with us
07 — The team
The people behind the mission.
Small team, long memory. Most of them still know the name of every young person in the first cohort.
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.
Nurture. Inspire. Lead. It takes all three, and it takes you.
Mentor a cohort, open a door at your company, or fund a scholarship. Every route ends in the same place: a young Tanzanian with options.