Salha Aziz

Salha Aziz is a social activist and visionary young lady in Leadership. She is the SDGs Champion and advocate on Adolescent girls and Young Womens rights to quality education and Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services. She has a passion on education and she is currently pursuing her Bachelor Degree of Arts with education (BAED) at Dar es salaam University College of Education (DUCE). She believes that when a young girl is empowered, a community is also empowered, thus, she is committed to be a change agent on empowering other young ladies like her through her professional career. She is the Executive Director for Binti Salha Foundation (BSF) that advocates for Adolescent Girls and Young Women's Right to Education(Basic & Non-Basic) and access friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health information and HIV prevention services.

She has been engaged and involved in various youth advocacy works focusing on Sustainable Development Goals and Sexual reproductive health and Rights since 2013 to date. She has been excelling her volunteerism spirit as a member of different youth organizations and platforms such as Youth of United Nations Association (YUNA), Tanzania Youth Vision Association (TYVA), and Youth Action Movement (YAM) under UMATI. In 2017 during Teaching Practice (Field), she organized a charity movement with Secondary School girls in rural Iringa to participate in community work by cleaning a health centre and create awareness among young girls focusing Sustainable development goals No.3, 4 &5.

Salha has a wide range of Leadership experiences. She has been an executive committee member of Youth of United Nations Association (YUNA- 2016/2018), Dar es Salaam YAM Chapters Regional Coordinator under UMATI and served as General Secretary for Ministry of Sports and Games at the Dar es salaam University College of Education (DUCE).

She considers herself as determined and motivated young lady who looks forward to build her capacity on working in a team and learn from others.

Outside of work, Salha enjoys chatting and connecting to new people. She also likes interacting on social media, mostly on Twitter where she has more than 3,000+ engaging Followers.