📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
: This is an annual bilateral project involving two Organizations in Tanzania and Kenya. (UVIKIUTA and KVDA) For the second year we are organizing this project after the successful stories from last year. In Tanzania the project will be the project is been organized in Partnership with Chamazi local youth, women groups, faith based groups and local authorities. In Kenya the project will be hosted in Nairobi Kenya. Youth empowerment is an educational project implemented in cooperation with various community based groups, faith based organization in the area with the aim of increasing understanding of economic, social, cultural, environmental and spiritual forces that shape the relationship between various societies. The project also focuses on enabling both locals and program participants to recognize in their own lives, the links between their realities and that of other people from other cultures and to acknowledge how much we can learn from one another. The long term vision of the project is to achieve a more just and sustainable world in the community, as well as more widely, in which power and resources are more fairly shared by all.
💼 What the programme involves
: This is the project of 4 weeks rotating within two Eastern African Countries (Tanzania and Kenya). The project route will start from Tanzania and finally moving to Kenya. Based on the four components of the program (Orientation, Community services, cultural exchange, Development/global education) participants of this project will participate in a number of activities related to youth empowerment in Tanzania and Kenya as described below:
Tanzania- 11th to 24th August 2016: Youth forum with various topics on Youth empowerment to be organized to Mark 2016 International Youth day, various workshops, discussions, debates, study tours/visits, arts and music on various local and International Youth development issues. Participants will also give hand on renovation of the Youth hostel and training center. Kenya- 25th August to 7th September 2016 Activities will be confirmed on the information and will not be far from the theme of the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants are expected to be hosted in local host families within the community. However depending on the availability of the families, in some cases Participants will be sharing accommodation in community residential house. Clean water and electricity will be available. In the case where participants will be on group living rooms will be shared with 3-5 Participants and available full time kitchen staff to manage meals preparation.
📍 About the location
The project is located in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, the community which still maintain its natural beauty in comparing to the rest of the region. There is possibility of night walk to watch bush babies, meeting a large population of monkey in the morning and afternoons, bird watching among other. During weeks ends there is a good number excursion options including visiting Kilwa Mask & Bagamoyo historical sites (UNESCO's world heritage site); National & Village museums in Dar Es Salaam, Cultural tour in Dar Es Salaam that will include fish Market, Kariakoo Market, sight seen and Beach/Swimming. There is also a possibility for two days and one day Safari to Mikumi National Park as well over night in Zanzibar. In Kenya, we will have an opportunity as well for safari to Masai Mara and Nakuru National Parks, Masai cultural tourism etc.