Teach and Assist Community Development in Tanzania

  Tanzania

Serengeti

Length of Position: three weeks
Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks and 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: year round

Description: Volunteer in Africa! Work on village development projects including teaching, building classrooms and dormitories, and supplying books and other school materials. Volunteers help repair roofs, paint classrooms, construct desks and chairs, and assist with other construction tasks related to the expansion of the secondary schools. Volunteers may also teach beginning through intermediate English pronunciation and conversation in a high school classrooms. English is the language of instruction, but in the remote villages where we work, you will find that the students' English comprehension is limited.

On some teams physicians, nurses, dentists and physical therapists may work part-time at rural clinics performing examinations and well-baby checkups. Volunteers also provide basic computer instruction on portable computers donated through various individuals and organizations.

Help improve impoverished Tanzanian children's potential in this internationally recognized service program. Service program cost for students is USD2,095 for three weeks.

Highlights: Work alongside local teachers and students during the school year in remote partner communities. Our hosts make certain your skills and interests are put to the best use on long-term community infrastructure, teaching and medical projects. Your efforts will help ease the suffering and engender hope for the future of students and their families. Lend your heart and hands to make a world of difference!

The team drives through Mikumni National Park on the way to the project sites. Volunteers enjoy cooking and basket-weaving lessons, attending various community ceremonies and playing soccer with the local people.

Qualifications: If you have energy, an open mind, and are willing to serve as part of a team and take direction from local leaders, you will make a positive contribution to this exciting volunteer program.

Cost in US$: USD2,495/3 wks - negotiable

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Our volunteers are culturally curious and open-minded people looking to contribute to a community development project and to improve their understanding of different ways of life, and the social struggles in developing communities. They are all ages, from various ethnic backgrounds, and of all different professions, such as educators, students, laborers, medical professionals, full-time parents, computer professionals, artists, lawyers and the like.

Age Range: all adults

This Program is open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Tanzania Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Global Volunteers's Mission Statement: "Partners in Development". Founded to help advance peace, rehabilitate improverished communities, and promote mutual international understanding between peoples of diverse cultures through short-term volunteer service on long-term community development programs. We maintain on-going partnerships with local leaders and indigenous host organizations worldwide. Each year, we mobilize up to 300 teams of volunteers to work alongside local people on work projects central to their advancement. We also raise funds to support our international and domestic partners and to provide child sponsorships for educational, social and medical assistance. Global Volunteers is in special consultative status with the United Nations and UNICEF.

Year Founded: 1984