Dear Board Members, Founder members, the KJRO Team, Partners, Volunteers and Friends of KJRO, Season’s Greetings from Kijana Jasiri -Resilience Organization. It has been another incredible and fruitful year.

Together, we have reached new heights of accomplishments. During the year, KJRO recruited three team members bringing in a new energy and ideas and most importantly facilitated the Director to focus on visionary and strategic areas of the entity. KJRO also invited a member to the board and her presence strengthened collaborations and overall governance capacity. The organization celebrated the mental health day with a unique group (bodaboda drivers) and during the Giving Tuesday – KJRO innovatively donated menstrual pads to more than 100 girls in Mabwepande ward.

I am a hero project with 20 children under group therapy sessions at Mzimuni primary school – graduated with skills and enhanced coping capacity. The incubation for enhanced learning project with VVF enabled KJRO to implement remarkable activities in Wazo and Mabwepande wards supporting more than 400 students. UVITA- a three year youth wellbeing research project with universities of Dar es Salaam and Sussex UK was launched mid of 2025. KJRO too, actively participated in key NGO forums (by the Government of Tanzania and other institutions). Also in a special way, KJRO was among few NGOs invited by EAPN, ASHOKA and REPOA to share experiences and to learn from others on social entrepreneurship ideas in the country.

Throughout this journey, KJRO Team and the management at large have been passionately committed and investing in the potential of young people – helping them to rewrite their stories. At the same time young people remained on the drivers’ seat and always came up with solutions that work for them and communities at large. KJRO received feedback from stakeholders that will enhance its growth in the coming years. In specific, I would like to thank the team members, board members, individual donors (local philanthropists including Founder members), partners, networks and coalitions, young people and all the stakeholders who have contributed to our success story of 2025. Whenever there is success there are also challenges, KJRO sometimes experienced hard times. Yet, with the support of the board and enhanced resilience within a team we managed to sail across.

Here we are celebrating a year with robust milestones! As we close the year, we pause with deep gratitude for everything we have achieved together in 2025. It has been a year of collective effort, shared courage, and meaningful progress and none of it would have been possible without you.

Marcelina Biro Director- Kijana Jasiri- Resilience Organization

Happy New Year 2026