📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Kids and Teenagers Educational facilities is a project aiming to improve and maintain facilities provided to students, so that they can use every opportunity to develop full potential. Educational facilities include buildings, fixtures, and equipment necessary for the effective and efficient operation of the program of public education, classrooms, libraries, rooms and space for physical education, space for fine arts, restrooms, cafeterias, landscaping and paving, and similar items.
It has been recorded that, Children and Teenagers are spending more time in schools than at home. Therefore, physical environment of educational facilities is one of the key factors in the overall health, safety and security for children, staff, and visitors. Academic and personal development of a child is influenced by different factors including school facilities which are free of health and safety hazards and promote learning, hence contributing to their bright future. This project is therefore aiming to contribute to improved educational facilities for children and teenagers.
💼 What the programme involves
# Renovation (fixing walls, wall painting etc.).
# Provide garbage collection bins and train children and teenagers on how to use them.
#Health Education: Provide basic education on hygiene, sanitation and public health care to the teenagers and children in the school.
#Assist in organization of extracurricular activities during this time of school holidays. (sports, games, educational activities and help in home works).
#Study Part (Educational activities): Workshops, discussions, debates and education tours focusing on sustainable development goals topic’s related to future of children in the society. Please bring information from your own community, region or Country for sharing.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be at community residential house. Volunteers will share rooms (2-4) people in one room, using mattresses laydown in the ground. Clean water will available. Our kitchen-volunteer staff will be available to prepare meals however, e volunteer will be required to help in meals preparation. Vegetarian meals will be available.
📍 About the location
Pemba Island, known as "The Green Island" in Arabic. (It is an island forming part of the Zanzibar archipelago lying within the Swahili cost in the Indian coast. With a land area of 988 square kilometers (it is situated about 50 kilometers to the north of Unguja, the largest island of the archipelago). The Island is accessible through fast ferries and flight from Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Tanga towns.
Volunteers are expected to take the opportunity to explore Pemba Island famous known as “spice Island”. It is gifted with various natural, cultural and touristic attractions. Some famous options include: -
# Ngezi Forest
# Vumawimbi beach
#Misali Island
#Eco and spice tour including Cloves farms
⚠️ Requirements
#Motivation and interest to do voluntary work
#Interest to do work outdoors manual work including painting
# Interested to work with Children and young people (Teenagers)
#Be open minded, interested on other cultures
#Flexible and be able to adopt easily
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.