Tanzania community projects
| country: | Tanzania |
| trip type: | Moderate walking holidays |
| departures: | Departures from Arusha every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year |
| price: | From US $800 (12 days) excluding flights. Price includes accommodation, meals, internal transport and taxes and is based on groups of 10-20 people working together - please request price for individuals and smaller groups |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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introduction to Tanzania community projects
This wonderful holiday is split into three unique experiences, involving a wildlife safari, a cultural tour, trekking and a school renovation project.
3 days of game viewing staying in camps where you chance the view of the Big Five including elephants, lion, cheetah, leopard, rhinoceros, buffalo, wildebeest migration, zebra, giraffe, gazelles, impala etc.
1 day of Mt. Hanang 3417 m trekking (the 4th highest mountain in Tanzania enjoying an exceptionally beautiful rift valley landscape, full of small craters and basins.
4 days of a special authentic Barbaig Tribe Cultural tour. The Barbaig is an off the tourist beaten track, an authentic tribe, conservative in their culture, nomadic, cattle rearing like the famous Masai, with the women still wearing locally tanned ceremonial goatskin gowns.
Mix (interact) freely with this tribe, see how they sew their goatskin gowns, how they locally pound and grind maize (corn) flour, hold interviews with men and women on how the women manage sharing husbands and why. Chance marriage, circumcision, prayer rituals.
4 days of project work renovating either a Primary School or Secondary School building. At the School you manage to mix freely with the students, play football, local dances, teach in the classes and participate in all manual building activities assisted by local technicians and community. You directly purchase all material and make payments to assistants to ensure full use of your cost donations.
Mix (interact) freely with this tribe, see how they sew their goatskin gowns, how they locally pound and grind maize (corn) flour, hold interviews with men and women on how the women manage sharing husbands and why. Chance marriage, circumcision, prayer rituals.
4 days of project work renovating either a Primary School or Secondary School building. At the School you manage to mix freely with the students, play football, local dances, teach in the classes and participate in all manual building activities assisted by local technicians and community. You directly purchase all material and make payments to assistants to ensure full use of your cost donations.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Depart Arusha at 8.30 am for Wildlife viewing in Lake Manyara Park |
| Day 2: | Game Viewing Ngorongoro Crater Park |
| Day 3: | Game Viewing Tarangire National Park |
| Day 4: | Transfer Katesh, site seeing and registration of Mt Hanang Trekking |
| Day 5: | Barbaig Cultural Tour at Gijega Barbaig Village |
| Day 6: | Mt. Hanang 3417 m trekking |
| Day 7: | Transfer to Babati/Gorowa tribe cultural insight tour/Lake Babati local canoe rowing while viewing floating hippos |
| Day 8: | Transfer to Project site- immediate start of project work |
| Day 9: | Project Work- renovation of Classrooms |
| Day 10-11: | Project Work |
| Day 12: | Transfer to Arusha at the end of the tour |
traveller reviews for Tanzania community projects
The wildlife viewing and the opportunity to live with a local family was superb. I felt privileged to be allowed to share in the daily lives of a local village. The people were more friendly and welcoming than I ever imagined. (more)
volunteer travel - what's it all about?
Are you looking for an adventurous trip with a purpose, or on a gap year or career break? If you want to make a difference in some of the world’s most important conservation areas - and in community projects - then volunteer trips are for you! Volunteers tend to have a sense of adventure, and come from a range of different backgrounds and from all over the world. Edward Abbey said 'sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul'.
how this holiday makes a difference
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The visitors are interacting freely with the local community thereby breaking the racial barriers and hitherto black/white colonial hangovers. Through cultural exchange interviews, both visitor and host learn more about the cultural contrasts, and how the men manage many wives without the usual love hostilities. The men/women will tell/explain the benefits of marrying many wives and traditional reasons of allowing children outside marriage.
The visitor will learn more about real African Rural life as lived by ordinary people in the rural areas and know Africa in its real perspective compared to what is depicted in the International News Media. Through service charges to service providers the local women ' guides, family elders/fathers, children in the community earn direct income from tourists, hitherto denied them because of being outside the traditional wildlife tour routes. Through the Village and Local Government Levies and Project Work, the entire community benefit by having the hitherto compulsory contribution project works completed through our programmes. By strictly adhering to proper environmental codes and health conduct throughout our programmes the community gradually psychologically adopt better environmental protection and improved health standards. |
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