VOLUNTEER WITH US AND HELP OUR NGO TO EXPAND HER PLANS
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Arusha
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ABOUT ARUSHA
Arusha, Tanzania is a central hub and a main starting point of the world's most famous Safaris: Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire. Amidst this big city lies a disadvantaged Area and Community on the outskirts of Mt. Meru, Our Aim is to help these people living here, specifically women who have little to no income because of different unfortunate causes, most of them are single mothers to many children.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
Our organization based on economic empowerment to women and youths, fighting poverty and helping marginalization women by enabling them to become self-reliant. The program focuses on empowering women to take control of their own development through solidarity and collective and individual income generating activities.
By considering the above explanation, we need volunteers and travelers to help us to implement the planned programs.
OUR VISION
“A community envisioned with an independent and esteemed life”.
OUR MISSION
“Through education we ensure that each member of the society participates in the betterment of their life and building their own future”.
OUR OBJECTIVES
1. Promoting excellent education in the communities.
2. Promoting self-awareness and self-reliance so as to fight poverty within the communities.
3. Promoting women and youths in performing entrepreneurial activities to enhance sustainable development.
4. Lobbying community centers to help the communities to fight against poverty.
5. Protecting environment and natural resources within the communities.
OUR THEMATIC AREA
i. Education: Advocacy and Lobbying, supply of books and school equipment’s, provision of fees and other materials, education infrastructures and services, early learning and capacity building to teachers.
ii. Community Empowerment: Education empowerment, Economic empowerment and Psychological Empowerment.
iii. Environment: Environment in generally.
OUR PROGRAMS
1. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Despite having relatively high rates of female entrepreneurship in Tanzania, various constraints affect the returns to women’s enterprises, for example the lack of access to capital and exclusion from male-dominated sectors, and inadequate access to childcare services.
We empower women through, training them on business skills before and after start their businesses, providing small capital credits to run their businesses and also training them on how to make hand made products and how to sell all of the products made. Some of the products includes; bathing soaps, textile bags, jewelers, bracelets, table mats, and other things.
2. PROVISIONS OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES
This is a partial sponsorship where we support children with school supplies only. Many studies shows that majority of the children in Tanzania study at the public schools where thousands of them don’t have access to school supplies and textbooks.
Without the necessary school supplies, bright young minds lack the quality of education that they need to thrive academically. Too many young people with high potential turn to destructive rather than constructive paths for themselves and their community. We work with the community by supporting these children to acquire quality education by providing them with exercises, pens, pencils, school uniforms, text books, mathematical sett and other things.
3. SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Fill the gap Sponsorship Program is a Sponsorship Program which base on supporting the children who live in hardship environment to go school from kindergarten to university here in Tanzania. Many of the families in Tanzania experience financial hardships due to various reasons like; crop failure, diseases, divorce of parent or death of one or all parent(s), whereby We came up with Fill the Gap Sponsorship Program (FGSP) to help a Tanzanian children who is in need and face the above mentioned and unmentioned challenges to have a quality education as one of the human right.
The Program focuses on working with all abandoned children, promoting engagement in education particularly for those who don't attend to school due to the mentioned and unmentioned reasons.
Our program starts sponsoring a child from 2 years to 25 years to attain quality education. A sponsored children get a full support to attain his/her studies.
4. FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM
Being a parent isn’t easy, and being a single parent is even harder. Due to various reasons such as divorce, death of a spouse, abandonment and choice, women at any age can become single parents. When this happens, they are faced with a task of raising a family on their own. Woman looks into the lives of women who’ve managed to survive and thrive being single parents, and went on to help others cope with the situation.
Due to the reasons above, We saw there is a need to support these women to pay rent for their homes, electricity bills and garbage bills per each month for a period of three years. Within three years the beneficiaries of this program attend the business class which provided by the organization in order for them to gain business knowledge and at the end of the three years a woman get a small business capital credit to start her own business so as to run her own life with her children/family.
5. GREEN TANZANIA PROGRAM
This is a program designed to help youths in primary and secondary schools to learn environmental protection at young age and to formulate environmental clubs at their schools where they will discuss and discover new ideas of protecting environment and to generate the youths with great passion, pleasure and knowledge on environmental degradation problems where the program cover Tanzania in general.
Also the program based on seedling and growing trees, and after few period of time we provide the trees to the community(s). This program has among its components, issues that address environmental awareness, fruit tree planting with particular emphasis to multipurpose trees and species especially fruit trees for nutrition in schools.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
1.DAY CARE AND PRE-SCHOOL
Large number of our communities we serve are of low income, they can’t afford to take their children to big daycare centers, which has resulted us to establish our own daycare and preschool centers where we will charge a small contribution from their parents so as to help them to go work and earn something for their families.
We have two centers we need to work with; The one at our head offices (Mianzini-Arusha), and the other at our sub-office at Olsunyai village-Arusha.
2. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH TAILORING (Sewing) TRAINING PROJECT
The project designed to provide Vocational Training and basic equipment to increase the household income and improve the living conditions of Widows ,Divorced, and marginalized Women in Arusha Tanzania.
100 Women would be exposed to training techniques mainly designed to develop their skills and performance in Tailoring. Training topics set out to meet their training needs and to overcome their difficulties. After training courses women who took part in the tailoring training received sewing machines through which they would be able to sew clothes to earn for themselves and their families.
YOUR HELP
we are looking for anyone willing to contribute to improve our way of operating the Organization. No special skills are required, but the key areas that we seek help in fundraising for our projects and programs, Planning and implementing new programs and Projects, Home visits for new sponsorship children, Management, Graphics designs, Photographing, Website design, Social media and so much more.
Loads of creativity and motivation are needed here! You can choose your own field of activity within the ones mentioned above and much more. You will be working together with the people involved in this organization. Working hours will be discussed individually and depend on how much you want to engage.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Volunteer to help a local NGO with daily routines
• Learn everything about the Tanzanian NGO management
• Enjoy your time with the staffs and become part of the team
• Gain experience by helping and interacting with the community(s)
• Play with kids and enjoy teaching them international languages science subjects and mathematics
• Enjoy affordable Tanzania and Zanzibar Safaris
ACCOMMODATION
We host our volunteers at our hostel and we have 4 rooms and we can host 10 volunteers per once.
Our hostel is situated only 1.2 km from the center of Arusha. Though is in town, the property is a green and quiet oasis. Public transportation, as well as shops, are within walking distance less than 1 km away. Supermarkets, ATMs and bars are between 1.5 km to 3 km from the house. Within 2 km you can find also some nice restaurants and places. Attractions are easily reachable by public transportation (or private if you want). Kilimanjaro Airport is situated 50 km away, meanwhile Arusha Airport 4 km away where is easy to get our hostel.
Our hostel is well equipped with; Electricity, Water, Laundry, Kitchen where you can prepare your own meals, Clean bathrooms, a green garden, fire place.
We provide full-board meals plan (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)
WHAT ELSE
During your free time, we will help you to discover this beautiful country which will let you to learn a lot of things. We can offer you the following:
• City tour of Arusha to get familiar with the surroundings
• Visits to different attractions in town such as museums, Tanzanite Experience, Cultural Heritage, Masai Moja Curious and Crafts, Maasai Market
• Day trips: the waterfalls around Arusha and Moshi, coffee tours (learn about the process from the bean to the finished product), Lake Duluti (hiking and kanoa), Kilimamoto (for an awesome sundown), Arusha National Park, Maji Moto (Hot Springs) near Moshi, visit to a maasai village
• Safaris to the National Parks like Lake Manyara NP, Tarangire NP, Serengeti NP, Ngorongoro Conservation Area
• Climbings on Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro
• Trips to Zanzibar
OUR MESSAGE
Also during your stay with us, our request to you is RESPECT. Everyone in the stay has to be respected and have to be respect each other. Also respectful and tolerant towards Tanzanian culture and customs; they may appear old fashioned compared to the Western ones
