📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
: Youth for community action 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
: 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 in cooperation with local Youths; these will include workshops, discussions, debates and study visits related to current world development issues. (E.g. peace and conflicts, justice, human rights, gender etc.). Participants will participate as will in renovation of Youth hostel and training rooms to be used for future youth programs.
🏠 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 sites); 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.