Remedial education

Name: Remedial education
Start: 2018-02-01
End: 2019-12-31
Location: Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA

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TANZANIA Culture Education Social work Teenagers Culture Education +2 Permanent

About the project

Remedial education

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

In an education institution set up, it is normal to find a number of student who are known as slow learners. A “slow learner” is not a diagnostic category, it is a term people use to describe a student who has the ability to learn necessary academic skills, but at rate and depth below average same age peers. In order to grasp new concepts, a slow learner needs more time, more repetition, and often more resources from teachers to be successful. Reasoning skills are typically delayed, which makes new concepts difficult to learn. A slow learner has traditionally been identified as anyone with a Full Scale IQ one standard deviation below the mean but not as low as two standard deviations below the mean. Remedial education project is an initiative intending to assist slow learner students in the community in order to achieve expected competencies in core academic skills such as literacy and numeracy. This program is complementary to the formal education provided by community schools. Relationship will be created with a student's regular classroom teacher to determine what kind of help a student needs. This project is focusing on ordinary level secondary students (13 to 18 years old).

💼 What the programme involves

 Volunteers are expected to perform the listed tasks below:-  To provide home works and other academic remedial or enrichment support to one or small groups of students. Support could be either Mathematics, English Language or Science subjects.  Help students to understand and complete homework subject matter and guide them in other academic activities as appropriate.  Provide mentor ship and form relationships with assigned students  Administer pre and post testing

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be accommodated in the host families located in an eco-village. There are standard houses with three bedrooms, living room and kitchen. The houses are surrounded by nature and green vegetation. Basic accommodation facilities will be provided, and you should expect to share room with either host family members or other volunteers from the same or other projects. Depending on the availability of host families; volunteers shall expect to stay as well at the Youth accommodation with thin the community. Three meals will be provided to the volunteers either at the accommodation or work placement. Vegetarian meals will be available.

🍲 Food

Public holidays and Sundays will be free time for volunteers to do their personal activities including exploring what the region offer in terms of cultural and natural attractions. Possibilities are:-  Exploring Zanzibar historical, natural and cultural sites. These include museums, local markets, stone town etc. Enjoy wildlife and marine life. Jozani forest National Park, Blue safaris swimming, tour to small islands, variety of water sports, spice tour among many other options.  Near Dar es Salam 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).

📍 About the location

Vigoa community is very small and you might not be able to find it in a google map. However Vigoa is located very close to Azam sports complex. It is about 35km from Dar es Salaam International airport and the community is very accessible. A good number of social services are available including mobile phone signals, Police station, shopping centres, Pubs, Banking facilitates etc. All this makes the community attractive to live for people who are commuting to Dar es salaam city center for work every day.

⚠️ Requirements

Potential candidate for this project should consider the minimum conditions outlined below:-  Skills on the subjects he/she is interest to provide support  Interested to work with teenager students  Interested in other cultures  Eager to learn and share  Patient and committed  Creative and flexible  Open minded and good team player  Able to work under less supervision and minimum resources  Have English Language skills and an interest to learn the local Language (Kiswahili). Optional language classes will be provided.

ℹ️ Additional information

16–65 years old

Solidarity donation

300.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

TANZANIA

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Tanzanian Shilling (TZS / Sh)

Exchange rate

1 TZS = 0.000339 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

East Africa Time

Local time: 21:10 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili