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We are a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political organization advocating for children's rights in the Northwest region of the United Republic of Tanzania, near Lake Victoria. Our 🎯 focus is on supporting vulnerable children and adolescents facing abuse, poverty, and exclusion. Many of these children suffer from street living and child trafficking🚸.
We offer:
1. Training 📚
2. Mentorship 🤝
3. Coaching 🌱
These services aim to improve their living conditions and future prospects.
We welcome solo volunteers, families, teams, and groups like students and friends to join our projects. You can share your skills and time to help these children.
Our initiatives include providing we offer a variety of activities, including :
-Technical skills 🛠️,
-Art and craft activities 🎨,
-Dance 💃,
-Acrobatics 🤸,
- Psychosocial support 💚
-Building homes 🏠, can work on the building
-Setting up an online shop 🛒."
Join us in building a brighter future for children! Whether through funding 💰, project proposals 📋, or on-site work 🛠️, your support makes a lasting impact."
For more information or to get involved, please contact us. Check out our social media for updates and more details. We look forward to your support!
Special note for volunteers and interns: Please confirm your participation as soon as possible, as we receive many inquiries
Other: the office is separate from the accommodation so volunteers will be responsible to pay for their own transport, roughly $1 per day for the motorcycle taxi. The organization haven't transport facilities to the field, most of them are hired individual, and public transport when is 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
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
This opportunity provides a chance to develop new friendships, visit new historical sites, and learn about native Tanzanian cultures such as food, language, clothing, housing, and traditional customs.
We believe we can offer a life-changing experience to the Project volunteers!!
Your support will not only help us achieve our mission goals but also reshape your perspective on our community, country, and the entire African continent!
You will be immersed in our daily lives, and understand our diverse culture, our history, and our language. We are sure you will learn Swahili and Haya words to enrich your experience! We also cooperate with a Swahili language center. If you are interested, you can join Swahili lessons. This opportunity will give you a chance to understand Haya culture, their traditions, their homes and villas, the Haya dancing and so much more.
We also organize Safari trips to the Ugandan Border, with nearby National parks that include Rubondo Island, and others like Serengeti and Ngorongoro parks (considered two of the bests for wildlife spotting). We can organize all types of Safari trips from budget/camping options to hotels and lodges inside the parks. Safari activities include Safari walks, waterfalls sightseeing, mountain trekking, game viewing, and photographic excursions to name a few.
Visit natural tourist attractions in Kagera Region:
-Visiting the natural trenches located at Bajwa
-Visiting Kyamunena falls.
-Visit Musila Island
-Visit different attractive beaches in Lake victoria
-Visit historical sites
Also, you can visit different parts of Tanzania
-Like Arusha , Zanzibar, and more
Volunteers/interns/family ,team can also improve their skills related to working with a non-profit such as program development and grant writing. We will be happy to provide letters of recommendation to our interns/volunteers.
To get a more enriching experience, volunteers/interns are encouraged to communicate in Swahili, pick up a few words, and learn the language which is entirely optional. We are exploring a new program with cultural tourism so volunteers will have some unique opportunities.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Fundraising and Awareness Support Needed
We need help to develop and sustain our child skills development center. Here’s how you can get involved:
Volunteer Opportunities: We're seeking volunteers to:
-Generate new financing ideas and partnerships.
-Assist with grant and report writing.
-Spread awareness about our projects globally.
-If you have experience or skills in fundraising, grant writing, or know potential supporters, your contribution can make a significant impact.
Training and Mentorship: Help us train our team in effective fundraising techniques, particularly in grant writing, to enhance our sustainability.
Construction Support: Support our construction project by financing, working on-site, or connecting us with potential supporters.
You can also directly engage in daily activities like family visits, artwork creation, and more.
Actually, there is no limitation if you want to stay more than 3 months or even a year in the organization. We believe that impact is people and people are the organization
Amazing experiences await you!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluent
Accommodation
Accommodation :
Volunteers/interns/family ,team will be able to stay with a host family . At present, we have 2 rooms for accommodation where one is sharing (same gender) and the other is private. The restroom is shared with other people staying. Apart from that, if anyone would like to stay in an apartment that is simple and friendly to the environment, this is in the office compound. Although you can contribute a bit, it includes a kitchen, cultural facilities, hot water, a sitting room, and a bedroom. Moreover its walkable distance to town, stores, shops, groceries, and the beach (Lake Victoria)
Food:
We normally provide volunteers/interns with 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) whenever they are in the home or office where vegetarian meals are also available. We offer locally sourced, fresh, and nutritious produce in meals cooked for other volunteers and people working at the project including children. Please let us know in advance if you have any strict dietary restrictions. Bukoba is abundant in natural varieties of food, with a rarity to have European/American or any dishes. Volunteers/interns will also have the chance to travel to the local market to buy food and prepare it as they wish when working with us.
Furthermore, a Volunteers/interns/family ,team can learn to prepare local dishes (cook) or prepare his/her home dishes.
We kindly ask all Volunteers/interns/family ,team to contribute a small amount of (USD 5) per day, this cash will support the host to provide you with the meals during your stay, and it will be paid directly to the host family or the person in charge of purchasing food for a charity/NGO. It will use only for the purposes of food and not as a donation towards the project or charity
What else ...
On non-working days, Volunteers/interns/family ,team can relax at the beach at Lake Victoria and explore Bukoba.
We have a dear friend who is an excellent guide and can recommend many interesting sights to see! There are cultural attractions and waterfalls among other things. There are also many Boda Boda (motorbike taxis) to help volunteers travel within the city.
To build a better connection with children, you can surprise them with gifts (used staff suitable to carry) that meet their requirements such as:
-Clothes, toys, boarding games, sports gear,
- Electronics stuff (keyboard, old laptop, iPad, camera, etc.
- Pens, pencils, rubbers, world-map, school bag, exercise books, English books, learning materials, watercolor paint to draw
-First aid kits, musical instruments, camera, watercolor paint to draw but also support us with anything you think is useful to children and young youth to give them more joy. -
- Paper (A4 for example) etc.
- Pens, pencils, rubbers, world-map, school bag, etc...
HOW TO GET TO OUR PROJECT FROM Dar E-Salaam (Nyerere airport) and Kilimanjaro International AIRPORT:
We normally advise using a Flight to get to Bukoba.
There are many kilometers if you use Buses, Dar is more than 1000 Km and it's two days.
Kilimanjaro is a one-day journey although you will arrive in the middle of the night in Bukoba.
The closest domestic Airport is the Bukoba Airport, located 20 minutes from Bukoba town. You can travel to our house either by taxi or motorbike known as Boda Boda and will take approximately 17 to 20 minutes.
VISA DESCRIPTION:
'Question 11:
I would like to come to Tanzania for two months to do volunteering activities in an institution x. what kind of visa will be appropriate for me?
Answer:
You will be required to apply for an ordinary visa for charity and humanitarian activities" (A6), which is specifically designated for applicants who wish to do charity and humanitarian activities for a period not exceeding 3 months. Its fee is 50 USD for EUROPEN and for USA citizens is 100 USD ,FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS-TANZANIA IMMIGRATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
(This is a government regulation) which you can apply for online or on arrival where we normally provide an invitation letter. Get more details before you apply for this opportunity by getting in touch with us.
WHAT TO PACK
Apart from clothes for hot weather, please also keep light jackets for the night/windy weather. A raincoat is useful during the rainy season. Do bring along flip-flops and hiking boots or comfortable shoes so you can explore the mountains in the surrounding areas.
Since medication and other related items are difficult to find, so make sure to bring your sunscreen and mosquito repellent along with your normal medicine prescription. Furthermore, some people take Malaria prophylaxis pills when traveling to Tanzania so please do check if you would like to carry it along.
Stay out of your comfort zone to experience something different.
Hakuna Matata!
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Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week
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