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Our Goals
for 2025-26
​For 2025 and 2026, Tonga Teen Corners will focus on three objectives:
First, we will undertake our most ambitious project yet: the two very large, very dilapidated, and very remote sites described in our December 2025 communications. These will be our fourth and fifth sites. Our third site is very nearly finished and will bring a close to last year’s activities: at Mapatizya, where the renovation is now finished, the youth-friendly space will be fitted out and handed over to the community, and twenty selected peer educators will begin their training in February 2026, with the project covered by our 2025 donation.
Beginning March 2026, together with On Call Africa, and at the explicit request of the Ministry of Health, we will fund the youth-friendly spaces that form part of major renovations at the hugely oversubscribed Botoka and Mubuyu clinics in Chomo, from infrastructure and furnishings to youth engagement, training of community volunteers, project coordination and monitoring and evaluation, for a total of about 34,000 dollars for the two sites.
In line with our revised by-laws, we will also pursue our new educational objective, laid out in the December newsletter, which includes financing some training and special certificate learning and, in exceptional cases, university degrees for a few student leaders with exemplary records, beginning with our first sponsored student, Boyd Nyundu, now studying engineering at a university in Lusaka, and opening discussions with the director of Livingstone Hospital about a program we would fund for student nurses.
The Renovated Health Center at Simonga Outpost in 2025
Our work and wins since 2022
Chidi and Mapatizya, Simonga as the Model
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Chidi has been fully renovated as a model health center with a youth corner, better infrastructure and equipment, and trained community-based volunteers, then officially handed over to the community in July 2025. TTC funded the youth-friendly space for about 12,000 dollars.
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Mapatizya, an extremely remote clinic, underwent major renovation, including a youth-friendly space, maternity annex, sanitation, solar power and water; TTC funded the youth corner for about 10,000 dollars.
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Simonga becomes a “center of excellence” hosting medical and nursing students, with strengthened youth outreach and an expanded clinic team; it also benefits from a nearly doubling of personnel as renovations have elevated it from a "p“st" to a “center.”
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TTC rewrites its by-laws to include support for selected training and, in exceptional cases, university degrees for exemplary student leaders, and sponsors its first student, Boyd Nyundu, now studying business in Lusaka.
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Discussions begin with the director of Livingstone Teaching Hospital about a TTC-funded program for student nurses.
LtR: Young doctors from Livingstone Hospital visiting the Simonga Health Clinic that is now considered a model in the district; In the newly opened teen corner in Chidi, local youth meet for one of the first information sessions; First visit to a potential third site in Mapatizya.
