{"id":17334,"date":"2025-09-13T05:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:22:01","slug":"kidc-suza-partnership-promotes-youth-engagement-in-marineenvironmental-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/?p=17334","title":{"rendered":"KIDC-SUZA Partnership Promotes Youth Engagement in MarineEnvironmental Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), through its Tropical Research Centre for<br>Oceanography, Environment, Science, and Natural Resources (TROCEN), in partnership with<br>the KOICA-NGO Overseas Volunteer Dispatch Program (Climate Environment) Volunteers,<br>launched the Environmental Journalism Team project on July 23, 2025 at the TROCEN<br>conference hall to raise awareness of local environmental challenges and promote youth-led<br>sustainable action by conducting a training session for selected SUZA students to prepare them<br>for active participation in the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session was led by Dr. Marry Mtumwa Khatib, Head of TROCEN and Program Director of<br>the Zanzibar Youth Marine Environmental Journalism initiative, alongside Ms. Seol Choi, Ms.<br>Hyewon Chang, and Ms. Seohyun Lee, volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-3.jpg 751w, https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-3-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-3-200x97.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17336\" style=\"width:389px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-2.jpg 646w, https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-2-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-2-200x116.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Participants in the Zanzibar Youth Marine Environmental Journalism Project training session<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the pool of participating students, the project will select ten student journalists to take part<br>in a nine-week intensive program centered on marine environmental issues. This hands-on<br>initiative will encompass environmental education, fieldwork, article writing, and media content<br>production, all designed to empower youth voices and drive meaningful change within the local<br>community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project seeks to deepen youth awareness of environmental issues and lay the groundwork<br>for them to become proactive leaders in driving positive change within their communities.<br>The KOICA-NGO Overseas Volunteer Dispatch Program (Climate Environment) is implemented<br>by the Korea International Development Cooperation Center (KIDC) under the commission of<br>the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The program aims to strengthen partner<br>countries\u2019 capacity to respond to climate change, support the development of sustainable green<br>infrastructure, and cultivate climate and environmental professionals, promoting green recovery<br>in developing countries affected by climate change and enhancing international cooperation on<br>climate action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), through its Tropical Research Centre forOceanography, Environment, Science, and Natural Resources (TROCEN), in partnership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-troccen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suza.ac.tz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}