📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Child day care Centers in Chamazi community may also be labeled daycare centers, nursery schools, or preschools. These facilities care for children in groups. They have different sponsors, including schools, churches, social service agencies or independent owners. Many parents choose center-based care because they believe the presence of multiple caregivers, larger groups of children, and state inspections make them both safer and more dependable. Some parents also consider these types of centers a better learning environment for their children.
Over the last five years; Children day care Centers project has been implemented in this community to ensure that children receives a good quality education and gains the skills and knowledge they need to thrive achieve promising future. This project is geared toward children from birth to the age of six. This particular age of a child is considered the most vulnerable and crucial stage of a person's life where Childhood education often focuses on guiding children to learn through play and other creative methods.
💼 What the programme involves
a) Basic Childcare: Basic childcare is a primary function of a day-care volunteer, and much of a volunteer's time is spent monitoring children to ensure they remain safe as they go about their activities.
b) Play time: Play is important work for children. Play helps children share with others and copes with their feelings while developing verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Play also helps develop children's fine motor development and helps them develop confidence. Volunteers usually assist with age-appropriate activities such as rocking or holding infants and helping toddlers and pre-schoolers with arts and crafts, reading, writing, dancing, singing and playing games.
c) Administrative and clerical: to help with office duties such as computer work, filing or answering the phone. In some cases, you may be required to maintain records, take daily notes, or help with development of daily activity plans and schedules.
d) Clean-up and maintenance: to maintain focus on children at all times and to help maintain a safe, friendly, supportive environment. Volunteers must be vigilant to ensure all toys and equipment’s are safe, clean and in good working order, and to report problems to supervisors or maintenance personnel. Volunteers usually stock supplies and help with clean-ups of school rooms or play areas. Helping children pick up toys is a daily task.
Volunteers will receive preparation seminar before joining Children day care centers will include presentations about UVIKIUTA and local organization, as well as workshops and lectures on subjects of specific population that volunteers will work with, problems and issues that children are facing nowadays and possible ways of acting. In workshops intended for volunteers only we will cover the following subjects: preparation and realization of activities for children’ day care, teamwork, mutual cooperation and understanding.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated at the local host families close to the project. Basic accommodation facilities will be provided, in some cases volunteers should expect to share rooms with their host family members or other volunteers from the same or other projects. (No mix of different sex in the rooms). Volunteers’ relatives and friends can visit or staying over upon special approval.
Trying a variety of foods from other cultures is part of the programs’ philosophy for an authentic experience in Tanzania, and may be both fun and challenging. Food on our projects generally reflects the local cuisine. Some foods that are part of a regular diet at your home country may not be available during the program.
Vegetarians will be accommodated. However volunteers with more specific dietary requirements may need to supplement the included meals at their own expense. Volunteers with food allergies (e.g., nuts) must inform the organisation about the existence and severity of the allergy. Three meals per day are provided to the Volunteers at the workplace or and the host family. Meals and accommodation cost on transit to and from the project, during leisure or tourism activities or outside designated project area are volunteer’s responsibility. No reimbursements will be made for volunteers who miss their included meals.
📍 About the location
The project is located in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam City (about 30km to the South). The community can be accessible by both public and private transportation. You will be able to access basic facilities like convenience shops, Local markets, hospital and recreational/Social facilities. Participant who loves nature and walking will perfectly enjoy this location of the project.
a) Saturdays, Sundays and Public holidays are free for volunteers to join their host family’s social events or activities. Depending on volunteers’ interest there a possibilities to go to Beach, Museums, handcraft markets, wild-life safari, and tour to historical town of Bagamoyo, Zanzibar Islands, Cultural and Eco-tourism among many options available. You can search for more details; our staffs are available to provide more details and guidance when needed.
b) Candidates staying for over 12 weeks will be eligible to have one week break to travel around. For less than 12 weeks country you should plan to do that before or after the project and not during the project.
⚠️ Requirements
Potential candidates for this project should have the following minimum requirements:-
a) Basic first aid skills to be able to assist supervisors in the event of an emergency
b) Requires skills on listening to children, offering comfort when needed, and resolving minor spats and squabbles
c) Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of families and other workers or volunteers. However, all paid or volunteer child care workers are legally mandated to report incidents and suspicions of child abuse and neglect to a supervisor
d) Interested to work with Children
e) Interested in other cultures, Eager to learn and share
f) Patient, committed, Creative and flexible
g) Open minded and good team player
h) Able to work under less supervision and minimum resources
ℹ️ Additional information
a) Day care canters will be closed for the whole month of June and December for long holidays.
b) You may wish to use this time to travel or joining international work camps with groups from around the world (Ask for confirmation)
c) Detailed project information sheet will be share to the volunteer at least four weeks before the project start. Volunteers with specific questions can ask through e-mail or phone calls.