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Hello/Jambo/Holla, Welcome to make a smile in the lives of vulnerable adolescent girls, young women, and children facing exploitation, abuse, and poverty in Tanzania, near the beautiful shores of Lake Victoria. These girls, young women, and youth face challenges such as child labor, domestic violence, trafficking, and various forms of abuse, and we are committed to providing them with protection, opportunities.
Join Us: We invite solo volunteers, families, and groups-students and friends alike-to engage in our projects.
Your skills, time, and love can make a meaningful difference in activities such as:
-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
-Building a training center, like classes, hostels, and others
-Support in handicrafts and handwork
-Digital innovation skills and designing training
-Vocation and Training classes (technical assistance)
- Provide education on business and entrepreneurship
Important Note: Please be aware that the office is separate from the accommodation. Volunteers are responsible for their own transportation, which costs approximately $1 per day for a motorcycle taxi. For the field, we usually arrange through hired or use public transport when available.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Gardening
Cooking & food
Mountain
Nature
Cycling
Animals
Farming
Photography
Performing arts
Carpentry
Art & design
Languages
Team sports
Hiking
Dancing
Sustainability
Culture
Charity work
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Join Us for Getting Experience: Embark on a journey filled with new friendships, historical explorations, and rich Tanzanian culture. Enjoy local cuisine, language, traditional clothing, and customs.
Support you to immerse yourself in our daily lives, learn Swahili and Haya, and deepen your understanding of our diverse traditions.
Adventure Awaits: Enjoy activities like game viewing, waterfall sightseeing, and mountain trekking. Explore Kagera Region's gems, including Bajwa trenches, Kyamunena Falls, Musila Island, and beautiful beaches on Lake Victoria.
Expand Your Skills: Volunteers and interns can enhance their skills in program development and grant writing, with letters of recommendation provided. We encourage you to learn a few Swahili phrases to enrich your experience.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
The association focuses on the sustainability initiatives and projects, such as handicrafts, STEM, Vocational training, Business and entrepreneurship, building a training center for adolescent girls and women empowerment, and vital trades. We equip them with tools and knowledge that lead to dependence and build resilience.
At the same time, when possible, you can be involved in:
-Connect organization link-minded partners such as universities, not-for-profit, and for-profit organizations
-Amplify our impact on social media to reach a global audience.
- Help in documentation on resource mobilization, reports, and other important matters.
-Digital software, technology, and computer
Apart from that, you can contribute to our impact by providing support with equipment and your expertise, helping us become more sustainable.
There is no limitation if you want to stay more than 3 months or even a year for sustainability in the organization or project. we believe that impact is people, and people are the organization or projects.
Amazing experiences await you!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluent
Accommodation
Accommodation: Volunteers, interns, and families can stay with a welcoming host family. We offer two rooms: one shared (same gender) and one private, with a shared restroom.
Food: We provide three meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the home or office, with vegetarian options available. Our meals use fresh, locally sourced produce and cater to dietary restrictions when informed in advance. While Bukoba specializes in local cuisine, volunteers can visit the local market to buy ingredients and cook their favorite dishes.
We ask volunteers to contribute a small amount of $5 per day, which goes directly to the host family for meals during your stay. This amount supports food costs and is not a donation to the project or charity. Enjoy your culinary journey with us!.
What else ...
To the non helping days you can have personal plan like visit different places like beach and explore Bukoba. Getting ride on the Bukoba and other part of Kagera region. Also visit water falls,cultural attractions.
Can surpring children and office with the gifts that easily to carry or transported such as:
-Closes,toy board games and sports gear
-First aid kits, music intruments
-Art supplies water paints,papers
-Technological learning equipments and other digital support
Anything that can use to into the office nad field site like laptop, phone, camera,projector, and other equipments; nothing is less ,its valuuble to adolescent girls and children.
To reach to our project Bukoba ,from Dar es Salaam (Nyerere Airport) or Kilimanjaro international airport .we recomment flying as bus travel can take over a day. then land to the domestic airport is Bukoba airport .To reach to the house or host takes 20 minutes from town by motortaxi or car taxi.
I f your already in Mwanza town , Tanzania you can catch up a ship (Boat) to Bukoba , although it not available every day. However buses travel there dayily.
Visa Details ; we prefer apply online you can get exctly what you want kind of visa you want and allows to work in charty an humantarian activities like us. For europen citizen cast $50 A6 visa give you a chance to work in organization, $ 100 for U.S citizens ,Please apply online as well as you can get more detail over there.
What to pack: Take a light clothing for warm weather ,pack jacket for cooler night and a raincoat for rainy season.Flip flops and confortable shoes or hikinf boots are recommended foe exploring the beautiful sorrounfings.
Bring important medication , suncreen, ,mosquito repellent some travelers opt malaria prophylaxis, so please consider this before your trip as well as can consult your doctor for more.
Hakuna Matata!
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This moment was full of love with the family and boys at our house where they tried to visit different places with them. Also, she supports us… read more
He is a very kind, sensitive, passionate and funny person, I learned so much from him about the African culture while at the same time he was also interested to learn more about mine. The… read more
the work is very varied and as a volunteer, you have great freedom in the organization of your work (school, work… read more
Apart from that, she is innovative, and try to bring new ideas and some resource were missing. Cerena develops a relationship with children in our project, especially on the street and at home where we spend time… read more
Hi, every one ,this am writing for Anais is hard worker, cool, open minded,she is a friend of children
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During the stay with she supports boys in sports and games at the house, help home activities like preparing food as well as she adopted African cultural.
Teaching: college of sexual education particularly diseases,… read more
We can't mention the school's project without mentioning Julia, she played a big role to ensure girls are accessing reusable pads at each school. Also, she transfers sewing knowledge… read more
We were welcomed from the first minute we arrived, which was a very nice feeling. All the boys who live there came and gave a hand to help us with our backpacks.
On our first day we went to visit the boys of the street. It was good place to start to see how is life… read more
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That is not enough she went far to support house act ivies like cooking last but not least she supports children… read more
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We had our own room with a double bed and we also had our own bathroom.
Most of the time we worked in a college, where some ex- street boys and other students have the chance to get education!
We teached them… read more
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Apart from that he teaches boys different sport and games, even train them how to ride bikes.
At different times he prepared… read more
Alberto used to teach children, play with them, cook, learn the Swahili language, advise the organization even go to the school projects, where she meet with girls and motivated them apart from that… read more
Everyone were so open and welcoming to me, and they really made me feel like a part of the family. The boys will love to teach you kiswahili, cook with you, play… read more
He the man of the impact, change-maker also his raise fund to support youth business were we able to support 4 businesses. Not… read more
Originally I was only going to stay for 3 weeks, but I am very glad I stayed a week longer!
Working with the boys on the street was emotionally challenging and forfilling, since I really had the feeling of doing something good and connecting with the youth.
Teaching the secondary school students about sexual… read more
More moreover, Lea, I have been leading a street children project in Bukoba Tanzania, whereby visiting street, planning, link with… read more
Living in Bukoba with this loving and caring family was very beautifull. Chui is the man of the field and i have a lot of respect for the work and efford he puts in his work. He is so passionate about helping others and i find that very inspiring. This man has got some nerves for this, sometimes hard, work. Ive had… read more
The NGO he set up is in the rising and needs your help to keep growing. Chui is really open to suggestions when it comes to what you want to do to… read more
Also, she is good at coordinating and writing documents, faster learners. Adopting an environment in a quick way like working conditions, living situations especially in food,… read more
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