Ruaha Safari and Community Work, 3 Weeks

  Tanzania

• Other Cities in Tanzania: 
Dar Es Salaam,  Iringa

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: Monthly

Description: This 3-week package includes 5 days safari to the Ruaha National Park (3 days in the park) and 2 days free program. Community work at Dar es Salaam (Volunteer's hotel).

This is a special program for wildlife lovers and enthusiasts. The Ruaha National Park is the most beautiful wildlife reserve in Tanzania and there you encounter the elephants and lions that are really wild. Thereon you attend the community work and learn the local Tanzanian life with all the sorrows and joys. This is a program you will never forget and your safari will donate to the community work.

Art in Tanzania is a Tanzanian NGO having some 70 people permanent staff whereby some 12 are 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: Ruaha National Park is the gem of the Tanzanian National Parks. It is one of the few remaining old style safaris in total wilderness only few other visitors to be seen in the park. You can encounter big herds of elephants, large groups of lions and many rare species as wild dogs. Also a home for the beautiful Kudus. Community work and orientation will introduce you quickly to the daily African life. Even if your visit is short, you can give an important effort to help the poor societies. And why not stay a bit longer?

Cost in US$: USD 1,400

Experience Required: no

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

Participants Travel to Tanzania Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 2 - 4

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network

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