Youth Speakup Team Monitoring at Saboba and Karaga Districts

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Hopin Academy and its partners; RUMNET, YEFL and Ghana Friends in Denmark have launched the Youth Speak UP project. The main goal of the project is to develop competencies of youth reporters to support active citizenship and engagement of young people in communities.







Sanatu Zambang journeyed with Youth Speakup team and its partners today 3rd November 2016, was fruitful and engaging. The first stop was at a community in the Karaga district, we met with the community journalist Alhassan Abdullah, he told the Hopin Academy team and its partners how effective and trans-formative the project has been.

‘’ for the last quarter of the project, we have been able to discuss four topics on radio, namely tax and taxation, peace before, during and after the elections, activities of Fulani headsmen and drug abuse. Thanks to the training they have received from the project partners. We have also been able to share some of these issues discussed on social media, thanks to Hopin Academy the topics we have discussed has gone be young our communities and we have seen massive change in our daily activities ‘’ -  Alhassan Abdullar

Alhassan Mohammed  Chirga, a community journalist at Tong community praised the project implementer s. Mohammed  Chirga added 
‘’ in my community, we have discussed sanitation, Fulani headsmen crisis, bush fires and the celebration of our youth center, and the response we get on radio is amazing ‘’

The team and journeyed to the district education office to meet up with Musah Abubakari Sadick. Young  Musah Abubakari Sadick told the team the discussion on radio has been a tremendous success and recalled how his community member approached to complain, about an agriculture extension agent, who took farmers money without doing his job, with the training he had from this project, 




Musah Abubakari Sadick said
 ‘’ I engage the district office and agriculture offices in the community and the extension agent was summoned and asked to refund the farmers money ‘’

The project focuses mainly on youth in some four deprived districts of Tamale, Northern Ghana; Kumbungu, Savelugu, Saboba and Karaga. The monitoring of the Youth Speak Up again, began yesterday, Novermber 1st,  were at Saboba . 







At a point during the journey to four implementing districts in the northern region, the monitoring team had to stop driving and continue with a bicycle to some communities. Community journalist, under the project have been trained on radio and new media communication skills, have built their capacity to persuade duty bearers to attend to issues of development.


The team will be visiting Kumbungu and Savelugu districts respectively and certainly more successfully and interesting revelations will be made by the community journalist and the residence. The monitoring team including the coordinator Clement Boateng, Maccarthy Mac-Gbathy, Abdul-Mumin Sofo Yumzaa, and a representative from Rumnet. 

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