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Vision for Youth (V4Y)

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TANZANIA Education Children Education Children Permanent

About the project

Vision for Youth (V4Y)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

We are ICYE national committee to Tanzania, our mission is to foster crosscultural understanding and to address the needs of the disadvantaged Tanzanians particularly focus is placed on children and youth in order to raise their socioeconomic standards in life through available resources.
The Board of United Planet Tanzania assure to provide you with a safe learning environment wherein allow you to make a difference on the community you work and to fully experience a world outside the ordinary by feeling like local inhabitant. You will engage deeply with Tanzanians by working and collaborating with local communities and living in host family or project’s house.

💼 What the programme involves

Brief description and main aims To create awareness, campaign against Poverty, Drug abuse, HIV/AIDS and human violation in order to have a better generation. To have a responsible and independent society/ generation capable of facing challenges and find solutions to the problems affected them (Society) especially youth generation. Main Activities BRIGHT ENERGY PROJECT: Another vehicle upon which V4Y aim to use to catapult the community into sustainable action Briquettes Production Project. V4Y aims to bring clean energy products and services along with employment opportunities to an underprivileged. BEHAVIOR CHANGE AND COMMUNICATION PROJECT: Organization is implementing Behaviour Change and Communication Project in Secondary Schools and Universities / Colleges, whereby we teach wide range of Life Skills such as Self-awareness and Control, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, family planning, health education, Drug Abuses, reproductive health, effect early pregnancy, relationships (brother and sister hood),how to meet and attain their vision through education, behaviour changes THE EYE PROJECT: The project is working with young unemployed in town by providing entrepreneurship skills. 70 people attended the 3 seminars organized by the NGO and learned how to run a sustainable local business. A year later, Vision 4 Youth is proud to announce that a few students already opened their own store and are doing very well. Volunteer tasks -Participants/volunteers will be working on Expanding and continuing promoting the various youth events in the community through a variety of events like Youth Forums. -Coordinate and work alongside local youth in the delivery of workshops with topics ranging from the HIV/AIDS, Sexual Reproductive Health, and employability. -Organize community events such as a Community Health Care Day, environment cleanliness or Sports Days to involve and reach out to the community at large. These events may include activities around World AIDS Day or International Women's Day, Mother's day and other -Work on environment project -Organize youth empowerment event like entrepreneurship workshops and training.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be hosted the project site and in the Families near by the project site.

📍 About the location

Arusha is like tourism city and it has all good facilities including cheap and expensive accommodation, roads, internet cafes, tour companies that provides cheap and expensive Safaris. V4Y can help volunteer in organize it. - Volunteers will be using Dar es Salaam international airport and we will arrange the pick up and the tip to Arusha. Volunteer will need to pay for hi/her travel from Dar es salaam to Arusha which cost only 40USD for going and return. - Automatic Machine (ATM) for money service are found easily in Arusha and they work 24hrs.

⚠️ Requirements

 This project is suitable to skilled and unskilled volunteer
 Are at least 18 years of age at the time of arrival.
 Have an advanced knowledge of spoken and written English.
 Interested to work with youth on cross-cutting matters such as entrepreneurship, sexual and reproductive health and behavior change communication.

ℹ️ Additional information

Participation : 4 semaines à 16 semaines. Frais supplémentaires : 500 € pour 4 semaines, 75 € pour chaque semaine additionnelle. Le projet est ouvert toute l'année, la date d'arrivée est libre.

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📅 Available sessions

TAN-33/2018

01/01/2018 → 28/12/2018

Closed
Volunteers registered 5 / 10
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–35 years old

Solidarity donation

500.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

Arusha, 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: 21:30 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swahili