📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The reality of life is that a large amount of a child’s time is spent sitting in a School environment. For instance in this particular School project; Children arrives at 07:30am and depart around 4:00pm. This place is where they learn various skills deemed necessary and proper for them to achieve success in the global society. The school environment is where Children gain an understanding of their place in the world and the gifts that they have to offer it. It is where the student develops what they want their future to look like, as well as knowledge of the skills needed to reach that goal. With the school environment such an important place in the growth of a child; Marera School will host this project with the aim of improving the school environment to provide more friendly and decent learning environment for the children.
💼 What the programme involves
Renovation work- fixing broken walls, floor and painting; fixing broken desks; Making/ painting mural and other teaching aid like maps, posters, drawing symbols etc. in the classroom to stimulate learning atmosphere; provision of garbage collection bins and compositing sites in the school. Hygiene education will be attached to the student’s activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will share simple rooms at the communal house in the community. Running water and electricity will be available. The accommodation facility is located in a very strategic point where you can view the highest Mountain in Africa; Mt.Kilimanjaro. AI kitchen volunteer will be available throughout the project to provide support needed and manage the kitchen. Meals are mostly organic both vegetarian and non-vegetarian.
📍 About the location
Marera is one of the 21 Villages which boarding Mount Kilimanjaro National Park in Northern Tanzania. This location makes the area to be evergreen and cool throughout the year. With its mountainous landscape the village host a good number of coffee, banana and vegetable plantations. The community is located about 45km from Moshi city which makes it very accessible.
Northern Tanzania is considered to be the capital of natural and all tourist attraction in East Africa. Marangu itself offers variety of eco and cultural tourism attractions including Hiking/Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Other options are Wildlife safari to a good number of famous National Parks in the regions that includes Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, and Tarangire among many others.
ℹ️ Additional information
We are non-profit organization with no funding from either International voluntary Projects, The State or from the local authorities. In this regard volunteers are requested to contribute a participation fee of 250 to be paid in Cash on arrival. This fee does cover the cost of airport pickups and orientation on arrival, food and accommodation during the project, project materials, other resources when needed and general running cost of the program. Participation fee does not cover the cost of medical services; all types of insurances, Business visa, and airport drop off on departure date, pocket money, free/leisure activities and other personal expenses.