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COUNTRY:
Tanzania
DEPARTURES:
Departures from Arusha every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year
PRICE:
From US $500 (11 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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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

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.

The Barbaig live in a very arid dry land walk 10km every day to fetch 20 litres of water for family use and take their cows with them for watering. In our Project Work, we are trying to bring water from 20km away to this Barbaig tribe as sympathy for them because the Government , for years has neglected them as customary nomads. They customary use firewood thus diminishing the forests. With water, they can be advised to replace and plant new trees as environmental protection.

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Reviewed 17 Mar 2006 by Shawna Hay Dressler5 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Meeting and living with local people - 99% of travellers/tourists actually don't get to do this. Getting to places where few people ever get to go and that you likely couldn't have found on your own. Giving back to a country that gives you so much during your holiday. And having life-long friends out of it.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Don't hesitate, just do it! It'll me unlike most other travel you've ever done. And don't over-pack like we did, just relax and have fun. Pick travel over tourism any day, and if you can do a good deed while you're there than that's even better.

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


I definitely think so, and we were told so on many occasions - in fact the thank you dinner that they threw in appreciation of our work was another highlight of our trip.

I think it minimised environmental impact, other than the hot dogs, but that's my veg-loving opinion!

4. Any other comments?


My husband and I went to Africa and there we did your Tanzania Tribes and School Renovation project with this operator. We had an amazing time, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone - in fact we've been showing our pictures around and generating a lot of awareness and interest in this kind of travel. I know that we intend to do much more volunteer travel in the future, it's doubtful we'll be able to enjoy travel any other way now!

 

Reviewed 21 Nov 2006 by Julian Page4 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Every minute was memorable, from the buses to the people who are just so friendly it shakes you out of your London culture of not talking to strangers.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Bring a blow up pillow.

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


Totally.

4. Any other comments?


Great fun and hugely eye-opening.

Reviewed 24 Aug 2006 by Lian4 star rating

For the final portion of my trip, I did some volunteer work for five days. I went to the small village of Babati, about 3 hours by bus from Arusha (it would've been less, but halfway there the road just ends and its slow-going gravel). Babati is a town of about 30,000 people, mostly focused on agriculture. I hooked up with a company there who connects workers with communities in need. My project was a renovation of Sinai Primary School, serving roughly 600 students in only 5 classrooms. The school was about 2 miles from town, so every morning my guide and I rode our bicycles down to the job site...Read more here
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