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The Volunteer Projects
We work directly with local NGOs and Community based organisations, taking great care to select the organisations we partner with always making sure there is a real need for volunteers and the work that volunteers do will make a difference to the local community.
We work hard with the selected local partner organisations to develop roles for the volunteers focusing on areas where real difference can be to help the organisations meet their objectives. Through a dedicated team of local managers we constantly monitor the progress that is made through the volunteer programme and constantly review the thrust of our volunteer programmes to help local communities
Women’s Empowerment Project
Career break volunteers in Tanzania have been working for a number of years on our women’s empowerment programme. In this time, volunteers, together with our in-country teams and local partners, have helped around 300 women set up vital small businesses in villages around the towns of Arusha and Moshi as well as in the Pare Mountains. Business models are simple, often involving retail or food, and around 70% have proved to be productive enough to provide the women with livelihoods and the ability to support their families.
You live in a Home stay which directly supports families in the region providing them with a business and an income. Your home stay will be close by to your project so you will either walk or use local transport to travel. Living with a family also allows you to integrate fully within the community for a rich experience of local life. Your use of local facilities, shops, restaurants etc will bring income to local businesses.
Contribution to Livelihood Grant
The Livelihood Grant programme helps those who have lost breadwinners in the family due to HIV. The programme provides both monetary and advisory support to help these people build and sustain a livelihood, have two square meals and live a life of dignity. The monetary support for these people is made through our registered charity. We like all volunteers on the business programme make a financial contribution to the Foundation and this is used to help more people attain sustainable livelihoods. This is an optional contribution. You can either provide a direct contribution or fundraise the amount through family & friends and we can help you with tips to do this. This can be made as a separate payment directly to the Foundation to claim tax relief on the same.
Foundation
We have our own foundation, a registered charity, which our travellers and volunteers can join us in supporting.
Aims of the foundation are:
The advancement of education, the relief of poverty and sickness and the preservation and protection of good health through the provision of financial assistance, volunteers and such other forms of support as the council members may from time to time determine.
The Foundation supports local communities by:
- Making grants to individuals
- Making grants to organisations
- Providing other finance
- Providing human resources
- Providing buildings / facilities / open space
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