Internships in Rural Areas, Tanzania

Tanzania is an attractive East African country where you can spend some time on a volunteer project or international internship Projects Abroad offers a wide variety of projects in Tanzania, based in both the coastal city of Dar es Salaam and around the town of Arusha in the north of the country. Most Projects Abroad volunteers in Tanzania live with local host families. This allows you to experience Tanzania from a local’s perspective, a very different world from the often luxurious hotels of the safari industry. Projects Abroad offers a variety of volunteer programs in Tanzania including Teaching, Care, Sports, Building projects, as well as a Culture & Community program with the Maasai tribe. They also offer internships to help you gain experience in your career of choice, including, Microfinance, Law & Human Rights and Medical projects such as Nursing, Midwifery, General Medicine, and Dentistry.

Join a Nursing Elective program that puts students at the helm of care activities for patients, forming an integral part of hospital staff. Participants will provide care to the patients. The students will help ease the tension of patients, learn to promote physical health and act as counselors. They will provide intellectual, psychological, and emotional support in matters that deal with diseases. Nurses act as comforters, healers, and basic care providers for the patients. They will need to possess the knowledge and inherent sensitivity to be able to deal with issues related to the health of the client. They work as teachers, guiding patients in managing the therapy and treatment process related to the disease. They help promote a healthy lifestyle and educate patients about the steps they need to take to decrease the intensity of the pain, as well as the after-effects of the disease.