📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ICYE TANZANIA
💼 What the programme involves
The main aim is to improve the situation of marginalized youths by raising public awareness to the issues as well as supporting them in obtaining education. Other aims include: Raising awareness about children who are affected by HIV/AIDS and helping them through counselling and legal support ; Maintaining a center where homeless children can live ; Involving children in leisure programmes such as singing, dancing, drama and sports in order to broaden their mind and discover their talents.Volunteers are welcomed to support the orphanage and training center in all areas, depending on your interest and skills.
This can include childcare, teaching in pre-school, English language or other courses to older students, or supporting the management with accounts and project development.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers stay with host families in the same neighbourhood as the project is located in so that volunteers can walk to the project. The host families provide 3 meals a day.
📍 About the location
This orphanage and education center lies on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam. The orphanage is home to 50 children from the age of 3-18, and they support another 100 children by paying tuition and boarding school for them. Most of the children are orphans, while other children are street children, children that come from brothels or other socially disadvantages children. The orphanage is financed through offering training courses to students from the neighbourhood, who pay a small tuition fee for the classes they take.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation : 4 semaines à 16 semaines. Frais supplémentaires : 450 € pour 4 semaines, 75 € pour chaque semaine additionnelle. Le projet est ouvert toute l'année, la date d'arrivée est libre.