Join me to help teach children and help me grow our community education program in beautiful Arusha, Tanzania

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  Description

  Hi
  I'm John
  Meet a non-profitable organization located in the beautiful land of ARUSHA, the northern part of a peaceful land of TANZANIA, the center for tourists activities.
  We are involving in providing education to children and youth both at risk and in vulnerable condition. Most of our students live in very poor circumstances and we are trying to give every child the opportunity to get education.
  
  We try to achieve that they can grow to be the best they can be and let them know the power of education within life in general.
  Through this program, we found that most of the children have talent so we fight to push them to their talent for both children and youth in the society by starting from the grassroots.
  We are focusing on providing education to children aged 3-6years in the morning 08:00am up to 01:00pm. A few of those kids will join the class at 16:00 to get extra lessons because some of the kids will go to primary school soon and need to be able to understand English.
  
  Around 16:00 also some other kids from primary or secondary education will come to school to get extra support with their homework. In Tanzania the sizes of school classes are really big (100 children in one classroom is very common). This means that they don’t always get enough attention from their teacher, so it’s really helpful if they can get some more help with their work.
  Besides teaching, we want to focus on women empowerment.
  
  We would like to provide sexual education for girls and we want to try to supply for their needs when having a menstruation. For example, we made reusable sanitary pads. This will lead to less drop out of school. Still many girls are not having the facilities that they need for having a period and that often means that they are not able to go to school some days during a month.
  
  OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES
  
  1.Promote community access education and skills including nursery, pre and primary school.
  2.Empower community youths and women on economic activities.
  3.Promote community, children and youth to realize their potentials, talents, gifts and professions.
  4.Promote mentorship program for youth and support them in starting development projects.
  5.Promote community access health services including health center.
  6.Developing various forms of projects including poultry farming, social development and entrepreneurship activities.
  
  We would like to welcome volunteers to our organization that share our values:
  
  1.Team work
  2.Social involvement
  3.Transparency
  4.Accountability
  5.Commitment
  6.Respect
  
  Note that this is a project that involves children. You should be a person that likes to work and play with kids as this is a big part of the voluntary work.
  
  We expect the volunteers to dress properly while they are at the school during class time. This means that you wear long pants or trousers and tops that are not too much revealing. You are in a position that children will look up to you and they will learn a lot from you. In this culture people are dressed like as written above. In your free time you are of course allowed to wear what you like.
  
  There are probably a lot of different things you can help our organization with. Please discuss what you would like to do or what you are able to help with.
  
  OUR VISION STATEMENT;
  
  Community access quality education, better health, skills, quality and affordable social services and live in a clean and friendly environment for development.
  
  THE CURRENT PROGRAMMES WE HAVE:
  1.Enhancing education to the children aged 3-6years
  2.Education to youth & children aged 7-17years
  3.Provision of health and sexual education for the young boys and girls.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Our organization will not charge/ask any fees from the workawayers

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Elderly Companionship

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  Hospitality/Tourism

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  The organisation together with the Visitors will organising camping safaris to all incredible safari in TANZANIA national parks like Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, lake Manyara, Mount Kilimanjaro..
  
  We also arrange,
  •Trip to lake Duluti, Forest walks
  •Trip to town tours and visiting snake parks & cultural heritage centre.
  •Trip to Meru water Falls and Maasai villages
  •Trip to chemka hot springs,Materuni waterfalls & coffee tours.
  •Trip to Zanzibar beaches experiences.
  
  Also the visitors will be practicing to prepare Local African dishes like cooking Makande(mixture of beans and maize), ugali, chapati, Loshoro (Maasai food with mixture of maize and milk)
  
  •Also volunteers will be able to learn Swahili language, African dances and many good cultural things.
  Through these, you will be able to learn about each other culture, and here we are very close to every things attractive.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  A volunteer can help to teach the students how to draw, singing and also play variety of games with children.
  -Also, we need volunteers who will help in teaching the children English language and practice with them.
  -Apart from volunteers to teach children English language also we accept even French practice, Germany practice and so many languages around the world.
  
  
  SOME OF THE RECOMMENDED MATERIALS ARE
  
  Black board chalks and white Board Pens or Refillable Whiteboard Markers and Refilling Inks.
  Flash Drives (USB), Printing Papers, Long Extension Cable, UPS Battery Backup.
  
  Art Materials (Acrylic / Poster Paint, Brushes, Glue, Craft Goods, Felt.
  Pens, Toys, Crayons or Kids’ Motivate Games or Cards for Learning, Pencils, Rubbers and Colour Paintings.
  
  Dictionaries (English-English) or English Story Textbooks
  
  Laptops, Computers for Students, Tablets or iPad, Watches (in working order), Unlocked Mobile Phones (in working order please as expensive to repair!
  
  Sports Shoes (Trainers) and Black School Shoes, Sports Jerseys for the students, Balls.
  School Bags and Clothing for young males and females (all sizes)
  
  Textbooks for Library, Notebooks
  In addition, if you may find any Useful Building Materials would also appreciate a lot.
  
  
  
  -Apart from volunteers to teach children English language also we accept even French practice, Germany practice and so many languages around the world.
  
  
  OUR LAST MINUTE PROJECT
  
  We currently running construction project in our foundation to build classes for our new school of which we need volunteers to come and work out with us on this project.
  
  How would I be useful in this project?
  
  -As volunteers you will be useful simply by help us to organize different actions to raise money in order to accomplish this project.
  
  - We need volunteers who are committed in working with us to raise money to fulfill our future plan project and those who are ready to work with us hands by hands.
  
  -We need volunteers who will help us to connect and promote our foundation with international NGO’s and social media
  
  DO I REQUIRE ANY PROFFESSIONAL SKILLS IN THIS PROJECT ?
  - It doesn’t matter whether you have skills or not there is so many works to do that doesn’t need any professionals' skills and we will assist and show you how to do it.
  
  
  
  WHAT WE ALREADY ACHIEVED
  
  - We thank our lovely volunteers who did different fundraising campaign which helped to extend and renovate our old classrooms and make the environment conducive and friendly to give education to children at our school.
  
  - We were able to buy proper chairs and tables and books we needed in the class
  
  - Through our poultry farming project, we were able to get some money to buy materials for the school.
  
  - Last year we did poultry farming around our school. We gave the people of our community the opportunity to learn how to do poultry farming. We were also able to employ some of these man and woman and with this we are trying to get people out of poor circumstances. Due to some challenges, we don’t do it these months.
  
  A big part of what we want to achieve can’t be achieved without money. Therefore, we would like to ask volunteers to help us doing fundraising.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Swahili (Kiswahili): Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are interested on learning new languages like English, Germany, Germany, Spanish, French, Italian and other popular languages spoken worldwide. At our center we have a special class for language exchange where volunteers are able to teach and learn new language
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  Accommodation

  Accommodation is at the family's house, where you will be provided with bed and adequate beddings. It is most likely that you will share the bedroom with another volunteer. We don’t have a shower as you are probably used to in your country. So, to get clean, we boil water with pans/jug what we use as hot water to wash ourselves.
  This is probably very interesting if you’ve never done it before 😇. Something else what might be new to you is our toilet. We have a squat toilet, and you can’t use toilet paper as the pipes will clog. You can have a look at the Wikipedia site for how to use a squat toilet if you are interested 😇. Clothes are washed by hand as we don’t have a washing machine either.
  
  With the host family you will be encouraged to eat local African dishes which most people find quite appetizing.
  
  We provide three meals per day (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
  
  Volunteers are free to cook and prepare meals to their standard choices, and they can give assistance in case of need and that is when you want too.
  
  Internet:
  
  Currently we do not have Wi-fi at our compound. We will go to town with you so you can purchase a Tanzanian sim-card with internet access.
  
  Water:
  
  Tap water is used for washing and cooking and it’s free. For drinking it is best to buy water in the shop.

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  What else ...

  ARUSHA is located in northern Tanzania, the place is very Quiet for relaxing since it's the center for tourist in Tanzania compared to other five cities in TANZANIA, it's the starting point when climb Mount Kilimanjaro or go for wildlife safari to Serengeti Park, Tarangire park, lake Manyara park, Arusha Park, Ngorongoro park and climb mount Meru or Mount Oldonyo lengai and so many.
  
  There is a reliable public transport from the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), which are buses, minibuses, and recently they establish train route for long trips from northern zone to the central zone.
  
  Coming from KIA there are private transport there such as TAXI, MOTORCYCLE (BODABODA), TUKTUK(BAJAJI), HiAce whichever prices is also affordable.
  
  
  I advise you to land🛬on Kilimanjaro International Airport where it’s simple to meet us, apart from many transport options, but all of it will drop you at the town center that is very close to our place.
  During your Arrival & Departure we will organize private transport to pick you up from the airport, The organization will take care for your arrival and departure.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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