Tanzania Adventures and Volunteering - 10 weeks

  Tanzania

• Other Cities in Tanzania: 
Arusha,  Dar Es Salaam,  Zanzibar,  Rural Areas

Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: Every first Monday each calendar month

Description: This 10-week package includes 1 week Kiswahili small talk language course, 7 weeks tailored community work, 1 week safari programs including N'gorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara National Park, Coral Islands (Dar es Salaam Marine Park) and Zanzibar Islands. Community work can be done in town projects and/or at Masai villages. We tailor the actual work program for you. The cost includes all adventure programs, airport transfers, breakfast and dinner (except at Zanzibar breakfast only), project transport, orientation, work place guidance.

You will get a thorough picture of the Tanzanian life in towns and villages. You help at the communities and on and off you have a break at safaris.

Highlights: Encounter African life from towns to the villages. Have a cultural look at the Masai village. Socialize and learn Kiswahili. You can select work placement from some 30 different options from nursery schools to environmental and health sector, practically anything in your interest. Work program is spiced with unforgettable safaris and all safari income is used to support the community work projects.

Qualifications: Minimum 18 years old preferred. Younger people with elder's guidance.

Cost in US$: USD 2,700 for volunteers and USD 2,770 for interns

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: 19 to 26 year old youngsters as a main group but growing number of elder people joining.

Age Range: 18 years or older

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 4-8

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