📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
: UVIKIUTA Youth center in Partnership with local schools and community members have decided to organize this project to offer an opportunity for children and teenagers from all social-economic background, ethnicity and religions to have time together after school hours to learn and do useful things in the community. The overall goal of the project is to plant seeds of peace and harmony with various groups in the community.
💼 What the programme involves
: Based on the four components of the program (Orientation, Community services, cultural exchange, Development/global education) participants of this project will interact most of the time with children and teenager from the age of 6-14 years support and assist the children in various activities during the project. Games: Indoor and outdoor games that will stimulate learning, team building and activeness. Local games will be introduced as well foreign ones from the volunteers. Please bring new games to share with Kids. Physical activities: Action jumping, Olympic Games etc. Gardening: Ornamental and vegetable planting, composting, garden tour etc. Nature activities: Bird watching, Plant a tree, Tree feeder, learning about various plants, birds, animals, worms, and insects available in the area. Academic development: Holidays' home works, various competitions aiming to motivate the kids to like education and get ready for the New Year studies.
Intergeneration gatherings in a form of sports Bonanzas, workshops, debates and study tours will be organized under the theme of the project to provide an opportunity for both Program participants and host community members to understand connection between the environment and children development.
🏠 Accommodation on site
: Participants are expected to be hosted in local host families within the community. However depending on the availability of the families, in some cases Participants will be sharing accommodation in community residential house. Clean water and electricity will be available. In the case where participants will be on group living rooms will be shared with 3-5 Participants and available full time kitchen staff to manage meals preparation.
📍 About the location
: The project is located in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, the community which still maintain its natural beauty in comparing to the rest of the region. There is possibility of night walk to watch bush babies, meeting a large population of monkey in the morning and afternoons, bird watching among other. During weeks ends there is a good number excursion options including visiting Kilwa Mask & Bagamoyo historical sites (UNESCO's world heritage sites); National & Village museums in Dar Es Salaam, Cultural tour in Dar Es Salaam that will include fish Market, Kariakoo Market, sight seen and Beach/Swimming. There is also a possibility for two days and one day Safari to Mikumi National Park as well over night in Zanzibar.