Zanzibar Adventure and Community Work, 2 Weeks

  Tanzania

• Other Cities in Tanzania: 
Dar Es Salaam,  Zanzibar

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks and 5-8 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: First Monday every month

Description: This 2-week package includes 2 days orientation, 7 days community work in a placement of your interest, 4 days at Zanzibar Islands and 1 day free program. Volunteering placement is in Dar es Salaam.

Program is short but makes you quickly familiar to the local Tanzanian daily life, needs at the grass root level as in orphanages and schools and then you can enjoy the famous Zanzibar islands including the historic stone town, spice tour and old Afro-Arabic culture.

Art in Tanzania is a Tanzanian NGO having some 70 people permanent staff whereby some 12 expatriates. We receive some 1,500 volunteers and interns annually and we run some 300 projects around the country.

For references please go to facebook and search several Art in Tanzania groups.

Highlights: The volunteering part of the program gives you an inside picture of the local Tanzanian life and culture. Even if your effort in time is short you can deliver much for the daily life of the poor societies in Tanzania. The volunteering places are located in the near vicinity of the Indian Ocean so on your free time you can enjoy life at the beaches. The leisure part in Zanzibar introduces you to the colourful history of these Islands of mixed cultures and ethnic groups and you also can relax at the beautiful Indian Ocean Beach.

Qualifications: Feasible to all people more than 18 years old. Guidance at the workplaces helps you to overcome the cultural and language differences.

Cost in US$: USD 740

Salary / Pay: Spouse or family attending will get reduced pricing

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Most of the volunteers are 18 to 26 years old. More and more elder people are attending.

Age Range: 18+, younger with elders

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Tanzania Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 2 - 4

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Art in Tanzania's Mission Statement: Volunteering and adventure tours in Tanzania. Helping poor and underprivileged. Supporting arts and music. To enhance the livelihood of the rural villages, orphans, women and tribal people as the Masai tribe. We also perform environmental projects as introducing fire bricks made of waste materials to avoid forest cutting for charcoal. We operate in grass root level so the work is easy to attend to all volunteers. We finance our operations with the small profits from the attending volunteers as well as from our other financial resources as from meaningful safaris.

Year Founded: 2004