Empowering Women and Girls
Highlights
- Empowering Women and Girls: Join a program in Tanzania dedicated to empowering women and girls who have faced HIV stigma, assault, abandonment, and extreme poverty.
- Diverse Opportunities: Engage in community work, counseling, palliative care, and youth programs, making a meaningful impact on the lives of those in need.
- Adaptability and Proactivity: Be prepared for diverse conditions and tasks, requiring an open mind and proactive approach to improve conditions.
- Skill Development: Teach valuable skills, including gardening, crafts, entrepreneurship, and IT, tailored to your expertise.
- Cultural Immersion: Experience Arusha's beauty, hospitality, and leisure opportunities while gaining new skills and making a difference in the community.
Overview
Volunteers with compassionate hearts and open minds are needed for the Empowering Women and Girls program in Tanzania. This initiative supports individuals who have faced heart-wrenching challenges, from HIV stigma to assault-related abandonment and extreme poverty.
The program's goals include fostering self-sufficiency among women and girls and expanding its reach. Opportunities encompass community work, counseling for HIV and assault survivors, palliative care, and youth programs, including health education and a sanitary pad project.
Tasks depend on volunteer comfort levels, and substitutions are acceptable. A $100 fee directly aids center development.
Expect diverse conditions and approaches, so it's best to approach the project with an open mind and proactive spirit. Trust must be earned, and dedication is vital, as there are both busy and slow days.
Duties involve teaching various skills, such as gardening, crafts, entrepreneurship, and IT, tailored to your expertise.
- Airport pickup
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Orientation and Town tour
- Wi-fi
- Flight tickets
- VISA
- Insurance
- Placement Transport Fees
Important Information
THINGS TO BRING, DONATIONS.
What to bring?
You are not mandated to bring anything to your volunteer placements apart from the center’s contribution, but if you feel like donating and sharing it will be appreciated. There are many needs due to the limited resources the centers have.
Alternatively, you can also purchase the products found at these centers as another way of supporting the activities of these women.
Other things to bring are those for your personal use like decent clothes, sunscreen, soap, towels, slippers etc.
ACTIVITIES
Where can I go after my placement?
You can visit House of Babies, a home for orphaned and abandoned children.
You can visit a Special needs center.
You can go to the gym/ walk/ run.
Where can I go on weekends?
Arusha Town
Maasai Market & Souvenir Shops.
Museums and Historical sites.
Multi-cultural Restaurants and Hotels.
Swimming.
Parties & Concerts.
Day trips
Napuru Waterfalls.
Hot springs.
Zip line Adventure.
Serval Wildlife Zoo.
Lake Duluti.
Materuni Waterfalls & Local Coffee making experience.
Maasai village visit.
Hadzabe community visit.
Tours and Safaris
Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Oldupai Gorge.
Serengeti National park.
Enduimet Wildlife Management Area.
Manyara National park.
Tarangire National park, and many more!
Hikes
Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.
Climbing Mt. Meru, the second highest mountain in Tanzania.
Zanzibar Excursions
Zanzibar’s divine beaches, diving and water sports.
Booking Section
Dates & Availability
This program is available all year round. You can select any date as per your comfort.Please select the week you plan to join the program.
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