Volunteer in the Iringa District of the highlands region.
Local time in Tanzania:
Genuine development projects to help children thrive. Exceptional service-learning for families, groups and individuals.
Work one-on-one with students from kindergarten through high school on English language skills, primarily through reading, writing and recitation in classrooms, and during two-week English language camps in June, September and December. Introduction to English teaching curriculum and other teaching materials are available for volunteers when they arrive in Ipalamwa, Tanzania.
Help assemble, plant, nurture seedlings for and harvest household container gardens, distribute nutritious Rise Against Hunger meals to families, conduct food and nutrition workshops, and lessons on raising poultry, maintaining chicken coops and employing fuel-efficient stoves.
Tutor primary school students in math or English. Teach secondary students math, science, English or physical geography. Teach the teachers and administrators alternative discipline measures to better manage their classrooms. Offer psychosocial support to students of all ages.
Provide patient care, health screenings, and dental and eye exams at Global Volunteers’ modern Ipalamwa General Clinic (IGC). Counsel pregnant women on prenatal care and peri-natal depression, and practices for safe deliveries and healthy babies. Teach mothers and fathers basic health care, stress reduction, recovery from depression, trauma and substance abuse. Professionals and people with lived experience in the areas of grief and suicide prevention, alcohol addiction, domestic conflict and abuse, and depression and anxiety are especially needed as volunteers on upcoming service programs to meet the many needs.
Help paint, repair, and maintain classrooms and community centers. Construct chicken coops, install household hand washing stations, build fuel-efficient stoves, or promote solar energy systems.
Conduct interactive workshops for pregnant women, mothers, fathers and grandparents on health, nutrition, early childhood development, education, psychology, or related topics in your field. Choose from 37 prepared outlines and presentations.
Accompany our caregiver staff on family home visits to reinforce workshop lessons and demonstrate effective child stimulation exercises, maternal self-care, proper hand washing with soap and water and other appropriate technologies.
Cooperatives throughout the Kilolo District need instruction in basic business skills from preparing incorporation documents to bookkeeping and production. Also, if you have knitting skills, you can teach how to knit school uniform sweaters to sell at locally affordable prices.
lobal Volunteers Tanzania Team Leader Given Mlowe directs your daily work assignments and all local volunteer logistics. In cooperation with our community partners, Given facilitates your team’s orientation, assists you in being fully engaged in your assigned work project(s), and manages all project-related logistical issues. She was born in Iringa and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Consumer Studies from Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro.
