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Countries/States Served:
TZ, KE, GH, LK, TZ
People Utilized or Employed:
Trainable Volunteers, Anesthesiology, Audiologist, Cardiology, Chiropractor, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Dental Hygiene, Critical Care Medicine, Gastroenterology, Nursing, Allergy and Immunology, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pharmacy, Urology, Dentistry, Social Work, Veterinary
Types of Students Allowed:
Medical Students, Premedical Students, Nursing Students, Pharmacy Students, Veterinary Students |
Program Length:
Short Term (Less than 1 month) and Long Term (Greater than 1 month)
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Current Volunteer Opportunities (Unpaid Positions)
care-orphanage in Tanzania needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
Tanzania and all the sub-Saharan African countries are badly affected by the epidemics of poverty and HIV. The number of orphans and street children is growing. Efforts have been made by various local organizations to protect these children by offering much-needed education as well as skill-development training. Thousands of orphan children who suffer from extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS and hopelessness leave their villages and travel to Dar es Sa-laam, Arusha, Moshi and other cities, where they most often end up worse off on the street. Most orphanages in Tanzania lack resources and are under-staffed. Orpha-nages in Tanzania focus primarily on offering formal and informal schooling and a safe place to live and study.
Volunteers generally work with the following activities:
In the morning help with breakfast and prepare the children for school. Volunteers accompany the children to and from school.
Teach English 3-4 hours a day in the local school.
Small children (ages 2-6 years) remain in their or-phanages where volunteers who choose not to teach in schools play with the children: sports, art, games, picture books, music. All sorts of fun activities are welcome.
Also organize activities when the children return from school, both free time fun and help with homework.
Skill-training and free time activities for the children who are too old to go to school.
After dinner help the children wash, brush teeth and take care of themselves.
This is just a general picture of the daily life of volunteers. Each orphanage has its own routine. Some orphanages are in rural areas.
Work is from 20-30 hours per week. Volunteers are ac-commodated in a separate room at the orphanage or with host families, with local food three times a day. You may have to share room with another volunteer
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
15
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Teaching in Tanzania needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
Teaching English Project
This is a great opportunity for interns with an educational background to learn the basic fundamentals of teaching a class while simultaneously gaining invaluable experience in their desired professions. As an intern, you can experience the numerous obstacles affecting the education of Tanzania’s youth as well as see the effects the current lack of teachers in the country’s rural villages has on the education process.
In this project, interns will teach English at nurseries, primary, and secondary schools throughout Tanzania – teaching children ranging in ages from 6 to 16 years old. Primarily working under the guidance of the schools’ directors, interns teach in rural schools.
Skills / Qualifications
There are no specific qualifications needed to join the English-teaching project in Tanzania. However, interns are expected to be fluent in English. Teaching experience will be helpful (but not required).
Interns’ responsibilities
Interns will primarily work as English instructors either in private or public schools as well as schools run by regional orphanages. Interns will teach English for 2-3 hours each day (six days a week) in addition to organizing extracurricular activities, games, art classes/lessons, singing, dance, etc. Interns may also be asked to assist with various administrative duties as well as assist the schools’ English-teachers (note: each school has at least one English-teacher).
In the internship, you will select a particular area of interest related to teaching English and explore the issue further with the help of an assigned supervisor. Please note: the project supervisor does not develop internships; this is up to the intern to get as much or as little out of their projects.
Maasai Challenge’s application fee of USD $200.00 covers advertising, program promotion, and office expenses (rent, utilities, and staff salaries).
Internship Program locations, fees, and dates
please; Email us via info@micatz.org and we will get back to you with appropriate answers of your questions.
Accommodation
During the volunteering period, volunteers stay with a host family, hostel, or in a volunteer house. However, a volunteer joining the orphanage project will stay at the orphanage’s compound. We arrange a separate room or share rooms for volunteers – with shared bathroom facilities with host families as well as in the residential orphanage settings.
Details pertaining to living accommodations will be provided in placement details prior to arrival in-country. Maasai Challenge’s main offices are located in Arusha – allowing interns quick and easy access to the local coordinator.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
15
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Medical Internship project in Tanzania needed for
Opportunity Description:
If you are looking for valuable hands-on medical expe-rience, there are possibilities in the hospitals in Arusha.
As a medical intern, you will also be able to work at rural health posts and community clinics. Participants spend the majority of their internship working as an assistant to a doctor/healthcare professional. Work responsibilities vary with your education, skills, and previous experience. Interns interested in joining this internship must have health care certification, such as an ID as a medical stu-dent, EMT or paramedic certification, or nursing or physi-cian's credentials.
Medical interns without credentials are not allowed to work in this program because of the potential liability risk. Job responsibilities of interns vary with education, skills, experience, and qualifications. Interns measure blood pressure, temperature, height, weight, as well as assist doctors. Interns may also help in health camps, distribute medication, advice patients about health, nutrition and sanitation as well as council patients and possibly participate in the treatment of minor injuries and wounds or maintain journals.
Work is from 20-30 hours per week. Volunteers are ac-commodated in a separate room at the orphanage or with host families, with local food three times a day. You may have to share room with another volunteer.
On the first day of the project you will meet a project coordinator, who will explain your role as a volunteer. The orientation will cover all the relevant information about your project, including safety issues. An individual timeta-ble will be worked out for you based on how much time you want to commit to volunteering.
You will select a particular area of interest related to medical/healthcare issues and explore the issue further with the help of an assigned supervisor. Please note: the project supervisor DOES NOT develop internships. It is up to the interns to get as much as possible out of their projects.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
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HIV project in Tanzania needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
Despite global concerns and efforts, this deadly disease is still epidemic in Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention and coun-seling projects in Tanzania are an attempt to prevent fur-ther transmission through education. The projects also provide moral support to those affected and help them to build self-esteem and hope in life.
Volunteers in this program will care for HIV/AIDS infected children and adults and get them involved in educational activities, with focus on safe sex. Educational materials are provided.
Volunteers help with the following activities
Care for and encourage HIV/AIDS patients.
Counseling and education in hospitals and communi-ties.
Encourage young men and women by involving them to actively participate in HIV/AIDS preventive educa-tion in the district
Help various HIV/AIDS organizations in their commu-nity outreach programs such as hospice care, recrea-tional and educational programs, voluntary HIV coun-seling and testing, seminars and conferences on the virus within the community.
Counseling for the caretakers and distributing medi-cation and food supplies.
Assist with homecare visits to HIV positive people.
Medical training is not necessary for all aspects of the program, but a background in HIV/AIDS and basic health care is preferred.
Volunteers without medical background will help to edu-cate and entertain children and other practical tasks.
You will almost certainly be asked to help with informal teaching for children and adults. Your role could include activities in nurseries, children’s homes, with HIV/Aids victims, helping adults to practice their English and ar-ranging fun activities.
Volunteers will need to be pro-active in organizing activi-ties they particularly want to get up and running.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
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Mission Statement: (See Web Site For Updated Information)
VISION:
4.1 A health society, educationally society, mentally liberalization, and socio-economically support to reduce poverty and become independently
MISSION:
4.2 To promote health to marginalized groups whose social economic situation has been made vulnerable due to HIV AIDS impact?
4.3 To conduct participatory research in target communities with a view to identifying Hidden social, economically problem and setting up appropriate strategies to meet identified needs in the areas of TB, General health education, HIV counseling, legal aid and life empowerment.
4.4 To work towards programs which empower individuals in the war against ignorance, Diseases, Poverty Eradication under Education bases and thereby contributes towards the county’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
4.5 To improve African and Asian people cultural life by helping them in eradicating poverty via volunteer’s donations and physical participation to communities’ projects. |
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