📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Most schools in Tanzania have vacation the month of June to July, where kids are expected to join family members for extracurricular activities, educational tours and other studies outside class rooms. However, the experience has indicated that most students do not have any structured activities that are fully involving them for personal and academic development. As a result, bad influences during holidays time have affected the kids significantly since they join different peer groups and have limited supervision of their parents or guardians. This project is aiming to fill in the gap through effectively utilizing the vacation time and to allow students/kids to join structured activities which will contribute to their growth. The project is also aiming to give kids from the less privileged family an opportunity to enjoy the end of years’ festivals as other children.
💼 What the programme involves
We are expecting to work with 30-60 children from the community, between 5- and 13-year-olds, mostly pre-school and primary school students. Volunteers’ tasks will include:
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.
Gardening: ornamental and vegetable planting, composting, garden tour etc.
Nature activities: bird watching, tree planting, learning about various plants, birds, animals, worms and insects which are found in the area.
Academic development: Holiday’s homework, various competitions aiming to motivate children’s academic development and getting ready for the new academic semester.
Painting: painting some class rooms at the local school.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Local residential house in the village. Mattresses will be provided in shared room, water and electricity will be available. Our kitchen-volunteer staff will be available to prepare meals however, each volunteer will be required to help in meals preparation. All meals will be Vegetarian.
📍 About the location
Possibilities are:
Exploring Zanzibar’s historical, natural and cultural sites. These include museums, local markets, stone town etc. Enjoying wildlife and marine life. Jozani forest National Park, Blue Safari’s swimming tour to small islands, variety of water sports, spice tour among many other options.
Near Dar es Salaam possibilities could be: wildlife safari trips, marine excursions (Mingoyo Islands) eco and cultural tourism activities, Bagamoyo or Kilwa, Dar es Salaam tour (beach, museums, and markets).
⚠️ Requirements
To work with children and teenagers.
To work outdoors with sports and nature activities.
Be open-minded, open to learn and contribute.
Being able to work independently.
To be flexible.
ℹ️ Additional information
Non-Tanzanian volunteers are required to have business visa in order to join this project. Visa is available online and can be also obtained at the airport or other border of entry on arrival by presenting UVIKIUTA invitation letter.