Youth Co-ordination Project

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about

Youth Coordination is responsible for the entire youth branch of DIS-MOI in the South-West Indian Ocean region, providing them with the tools to develop youth-in-action who will promote and raise awareness about human rights. The regional youth coordination is responsible for supporting the implementation and sustainability of DIS-MOI Clubs and DIS-MOI Zenn of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Madagascar, Reunion island, Seychelles & Comoros. We also offer trainings to institutions who would request our help in educating youth on their rights.

aims & goals

The main objectives of the Youth Co-ordination are as follows:

  • Supervise south-west indian ocean youth coordinators
  • Coordinate youth activities in the south-west Indian Ocean islands
  • Organise and supervise DIS-MOI clubs and DIS-MOI Zenn training sessions
  • Monitor the activities and results of the island youth section, including the collection of data needed to evaluate performance indicators.
  • Draft and submit interim and final technical reports
  • Maintain regular communication with island coordinators

DIS-MOI CLUB

A DIS-MOI club is a club set up in a secondary school, bringing together young people aged 15 to 19 for activities, presentations and conferences on human rights, as well as on the collective and individual responsibilities of young people in the face of human rights problems and violations in the world and in their everyday environment. The workshops and conferences cover various themes of the basic and advanced training program in human rights and citizenship education. We also offer young people the means/tools to know how to organize events, such as how to set up an agenda, a minutes, a concept note among others. Young people will be encouraged to develop attitudes and skills such as curiosity, responsibility, empowerment, observation, communication, collaboration and problem-solving.

DIS-MOI clubs already have their own structure to manage the club. Members are required for the operational committee, which is also known as the executive committee, and members and supporters who adhere to the values and principles of DIS-MOI clubs. A teacher is needed to accompany students in their activities/discussions and to liaise between the DIS-MOI secretariat and the college. Currently headed by Fanirisoa Razanatovo, the team comprises: 

President
Group spokesperson and is responsible for chairing and scheduling meetings.

Vice-president
In the President’s absence, he/she chairs meetings.

Secretary
Responsible for preparing the agenda, along with other members, and drafting and follow-up of minutes of meetings.

Communication officer
Responsible for taking photos for events and writing reports and captions for social networks.

Project officer
Responsible for concept notes & budgeting for projects, organizing events with other members and follow-up.

Treasurer
The treasurer, with the help of the teacher, is responsible for the funds raised as a result of their fund-raising activities.

DIS-MOI ZENN

DIS-MOI Zenn is the youth branch of DIS-MOI (Droits Humains Océan Indien). It was created in December 2022, as pilot project in Mauritius. Now targeting youth of the South West Indian Ocean region. DIS-MOI Zenn currently has aged 16-25 years old members. All members come from DIS-MOI Clubs, different universities as well as youth who are already in employment. In DIS-MOI Zenn, we have dedicated and committed human rights activists who strongly believe that everyone should be aware of not only their rights but also of their duties and responsibilities.

The vision of DIS-MOI Zenn is to see a young population well educated on their rights, duties, and responsibilities and youth being able to advocate in human rights violation’s cases in their surroundings.
The club needs to have at least five members which form the executive committee:

– President
– Vice-president
– Secretary
– Project lead
– Communication officer 

Along with the executive committee, DIS-MOI Zenn has different commissions of which we have a leader responsible for each, namely, the commission for women’s rights, children’s rights, environmental rights, older persons’ rights, and rights of people with disability.

what we do

As part of the mandate of the youth coordination, it is important to deliver Human Rights and Citizenship Education training for youth to be aware of their rights and responsibilities as citizen. DIS-MOI devised a syllabus as per below:

– MODULE 1 : Introduction to human rights
– MODULE 2:Rights and duties of citizens
– MODULE 3:Separation of powers
– MODULE 4:Police powers and Rights of defendants
– MODULE 5:Rights and duties of citizens: Internet

In addition to the human rights and citizenship education training, we encourage young people to take action after these training sessions by leading DIS-MOI campaigns. In 2024, three campaigns were highlighted:

– Ageing with rights
– Children’s campaign on domestic violence and research on the use of mobile phones “Rekonekte”.
– Environmental rights campaign

We also offer training to young people to prepare them to be human rights defenders in the field, helping them to understand how to set up a meeting or project, and explaining the various tools and documents required, as per below:
– Agenda: How to set up an agenda and the importance of it
– Meetings: How to conduct and set a meeting 
– Minutes of meeting:What is a minutes of meeting and What needs to be in it 
– Concept note: What is a concept note and how to write it 
– Event Programme:Why is it important and how to set a programme

Other activities as well can be organised such as: Petitions, debates, upcycling activity, slams and poems, cleanup campaigns & sketches.

Contact Details: youth@dismoi.org

MAURITIUS

Since the beginning of 2024, DIS-MOI Maurice have been meeting with several of the island’s secondary institutions to set up DIS-MOI clubs in their colleges, have also approached the Ministry of Education to facilitate the insertion of DIS-MOI clubs in the island’s colleges, and they are awaiting a positive response to this request. They have decided to turn to the private institutions with whom they have already set up DIS-MOI clubs.

In Mauritius, we currently have 3 active DIS-MOI clubs and 1 DIS-MOI Zenn. There is a total of 70 youth in DIS-MOI clubs and 30 youths from DIS-MOI Zenn for the year 2024 in Mauritius.

  1. Hindu girls college, 25 youth – Only girls
  2. Medco Alex Bhujoharry college , 15 youth – Only girls
  3. Bhujoharry College, 30 youth – 18 girls and 12 boys
  4. DIS-MOI Zenn, 30 youth – 12 boys and 18 girls

ACTIVITIES (DIS-MOI Club & DIS-MOI Zenn)

– Human Rights and Citizenship Education training : Medco Alex Bhujoharry,Hindu Girls,Bhujoharry,St Andrews
– Children’s rights workshop: Aim of the workshop is to make youth understand the convention on the rights of the child by using a more interactive approach of teaching putting emphasis on qualities a human rights’ activist should acquire.
– Empowering youth for human rights and ecology: Upcycling activity to decorate DIS-MOI Maurice’s new office with materials that already existed
– Launch of ageing with rights campaign: DIS-MOI launched the one-year campaign on Older Peoples Rights themed “Ageing with rights”
– Political ecology youth camp
– Exchange Programme Bridging intergenerational gap between youth, older persons & people with disabilities
– Youth debate competition

RODRIGUES

Since the beginning of 2024, there has been a restructuration and renewal of membership for DIS-MOI clubs of Rodrigues. In Rodrigues, we currently have 7 active DIS-MOI clubs and 1 DIS-MOI Zenn:

  • DIS-MOI club polytechnic – 5 youth – 3 girls & 2 boys
  • DIS-MOI club AA Le Chou – 26 youth – 24 girls & 2 boys
  • DIS-MOI club La Ferme – 22 youth – 15 girls & 7 boys
  • DIS-MOI club songes – 16 youth – 10 girls & 6 boys
  • DIS-MOI club Mont Lubin – 14 youth – 11 girls & 3 boy
  • DIS-MOI club Marechal – 14 youth – 13 girls & 1 boy
  • DIS-MOI club Grande Montagne – 12 youth – 6 girls & 6 boys
  • DIS-MOI club terre rouge – 11 youth – 9 girls & 2 boys
  • DIS-MOI Zenn – 13 youth – 6 girls & 7 boys

We have a total of 111 youth in DIS-MOI clubs and 18 youths from DIS-MOI  Zenn for the year 2024 in Rodrigues.

ACTIVITIES

– Cleaning campaign of the year with SORE and distribution of plant in Riviere coco: To sensitise the population on the importance of the environment
– Awareness Campaign on Human Rights at DIS-MOI club AA Le Chou: To share and promote the importance of Human rights to fellow students in their school premises
– International Women’s Day celebration
– DIS-MOI Zenn sensitisation and awareness campaign:  Visit to Mrs Theresia Louis aged 91 years old and did a cleanup campaign in the south-west region, sensitize the community on Human Rights.

MADAGASCAR

Since the beginning of 2024, we now have 5 DIS-MOI clubs in Madagascar.  In Madagascar, we currently have 5 active DIS-MOI clubs.

  • Lycee Andohalo – 22 youths – 18 girls & 4 boys
  • Lycee Talatamaty – 57 youths – 32 girls & 25 boys
  • Lycee Ambohidratrimo – 106 youths – 57 girls & 49 boys
  • Lycee Jean Joseph Rabearivelo – 30 youths – 17 girls & 13 males
  • Lycee Moderne d’Ampefiloha – 59 youths 
    Total Dis-Moi Madagascar: 274 youths

ACTIVITIES

  • Human Rights training in the DIS-MOI clubs

COMOROS

Since the beginning of 2024, we have 1 DIS-MOI Zenn in Comoros. Number of participants in the DIS-MOI Zenn: 19 youth 11 girls & 8 boys.

ACTIVITIES

  • Training of trainers for creation of a network of youth ambassadors for peace and ecology

  • Young members and volunteers went to Chindini beach to carry out a major cleaning campaign

Regional and Inter-Island Projects

In 2024, DIS-MOI  strengthened regional collaboration and solidarity across the Indian Ocean through numerous impactful initiatives.

  • On September 28, Mr. Vijay Naraidoo conducted a webinar on elderly rights, emphasizing the importance of a convention on the rights of older persons.  Online: 19 participants – (4 from Dis-Moi Comoros, 7 from DIS-MOI Madagascar, 1 from France, Ms. Chantal Mennessier, 5 from DIS-MOI Rodrigues, 2 from DIS-MOI  Mauritius). In-person: 6 participants – Vishnu Gooradoo, Antoinette Collin, 2 representatives from Eli & Sons, Fanirisoa Razanatovo, and Vijay Naraidoo.
  • DIS-MOI  youth participated in the IOC-organised conference, held from October 16 to 18 in Madagascar. Participants were from Madagascar and Mauritius.

  • Members from Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Rodrigues gathered from November 26 to December 3 for training on ecology and human rights. As from November 23 to November 25 – they were in involved capacity building trainings in DIS-MOI Regional Secretariat on the mission and vision of DIS-MOI , administrative, financial and leadership trainings.

  • Roundtable discussions were held with regional members of DIS-MOI and stakeholders, including civil society and ministries in Mauritius, to explore litigation strategies to advance socio-economic rights.

  • Throughout the year, online training under the DAP – Australian Embassy project included participants from across the region to learn on basic human rights education. 

  • From August 22 to September 2, 27 students from Mont Fleuri Primary School (Seychelles) visited Mauritius for a cultural exchange that included workshops on human rights and child rights.

  • Campaign: EnfanceSansPeur: Launched in October, this campaign raised awareness about the impact of domestic violence on children

  • Interclub slam competitions in Comoros and Madagascar, in partnership with OIF in November 2024