WEZESHA

Affordable Volunteering in Tanzania

Tanzania

Location
Tanzania: Dar Es Salaam

Program Duration
1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months (includes high school academic semester abroad), 7-12 months (includes high school academic year abroad), 1-2 years

Typical Duration of Program
3-6 months

Dates
through out the year

  • Description

    All short term volunteers - 1-8 weeks - need no specific job description. Volunteers willing to work for more than 8 weeks will be given a job description on request. Volunteers work in orphanages, youth projects and schools.

  • Highlights

    This program gives volunteers a chance to learn the activities of the projects in Tanzania, the culture, lifestyle, traditions and many more. Volunteers live with host families and experience African dishes, charators and languages, others can stay in hostels if they want. But long term volunteers will live in a volunteer house. All volunteers intending to serve for more than four months will need to stay in a volunteer house.

  • Qualifications

    Anyone willing to volunteer must be above 17 and willing to work under minimum supervision, willing to learn Swahili.

  • Minimum Education

    High School

  • Languages

    • English
    • Swahili

  • Cost in US$:

    500 USD 1-2 weeks; 800 USD 3-4 weeks

  • Cost Includes:

    • Food
    • Housing
    • In-country orientation/Training
    • In-country staff support
    • Language instruction
    • Registration fees

  • Program Fees Include:

    Registration, addministration, airport pick, orientation, accommodation and three meals a day

  • Salary/Pay

    none

  • Experience Required

    no

  • Volunteer Types

    • Aids
    • Building/construction Projects
    • Childcare/children
    • Clerical And Office Work
    • Community Centers
    • Community Development
    • Community Organizing
    • Computer Training
    • Democracy Training
    • Disability Issues
    • Drama
    • Drug Or Alcohol Recovery
    • Education
    • English Teaching
    • Feasibility Studies
    • Gender Issues
    • Grassroots Organization
    • Handicapped
    • Home Visit
    • Homelessness
    • Human Rights
    • Infrastructure Planning
    • Journalism
    • Law
    • Legal Aide
    • Media Work
    • Micro-enterprise
    • Microcredit
    • Minority Groups
    • Music
    • Office Work
    • Organizational Development
    • Orphans
    • Pastoral Work
    • Primary Education
    • Public Speaking Coordination
    • Religious Instructor
    • Research
    • Secondary Education
    • Self Help
    • Small Business Development
    • Social Services, Social Work
    • Sports Volunteering
    • Street Kids
    • Tourism
    • Volunteer Management
    • Volunteering
    • Water
    • Women
    • Writing
    • Youth
    • Youth Development
    • Youth Ministry
  • Typical Volunteer

    any one willing to serve the youth in Tanzania

  • Age Range

    from 17-65

  • This Program is open to

    Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

  • Typical Living Arrangements

    • Apartment/Flat
    • Home-stays
    • Independent living

  • Participants Travel

    Independently

  • Typically Participants Work

    Independently or in Groups of 5

  • Application Process Involves

    • Disciplinary Clearance Form
    • Letters of Reference
    • Written Application
  • Typically The Application Process Time is

    1 month

  • Year Founded

    2009

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