This project will allow you to gain experience in your chosen field within medicine while experiencing what life is like for some Africans. Asian poorest residents in the towns of your choice country programs, our medical student placements meet the requirements of all Universities schools around the world and offer you

Guaranteed medical placement in one of our partner hospitals where we work within your chosen destination and your medical placement with us will be organized by our professional staff in your chosen country 

Every year we organize and receive medical electives for several hundred students who most choose to come/to go to Tanzania. Our staff in the USA, UK, and TANZANIA and in our placement destinations has a real understanding of what makes a great elective, and detailed knowledge of which hospitals offer the best student experience in particular fields. 

Your Medical placement

Our partner hospitals and clinics in each destination are carefully chosen to offer as a wide range of clinical and Medical opportunities as possible. Our Major medical popular placements are in pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, General Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceuticals, or Physiotherapy, but we can also arrange more for specialist fields on request.

Your main activities on this project will usually include: helping the doctors with basic procedures, receiving patients, helping to clean and tidy away the office, assisting doctors while performing different office tasks, and also assisting the patients after treatment, As well as the core medical placements, we offer a range of optional programs giving broader insight into the realities of healthcare and everyday life in the developing world. 

It is difficult to be specific about the day-to-day work you will do as it is so varied and spread across many areas. The hospital is very busy with a multitude of duties and responsibilities, so you will probably be working very hard in most areas! You may work in a variety of medical departments, where you can either assist or shadow the staff members, depending on your level of experience. 

Work at the Hospital is from 20-30 hours per week. Volunteers are accommodated in the local Tanzanian host family with local food three times a day. You might be asked to share a room with another volunteer. So please be flexible with it.

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 timetable will be worked out for you based on how much time you want to commit to volunteering. 

You should be supervised all of the time while you are there and given help and direction. Your workload will depend on yourself and your ability to cope with the hospital work, as well as your confidence with the work, and as the staff members’ confidence in you grows. The initiative is also an important ingredient to a successful placement. 

When you take part in this placement, it is required that you bring along your own white lab coat and a stethoscope as the equipment is not always freely available.

Accommodations:
Will depending on volunteer/s choice on staying with a local Tanzanian host family together with other volunteers, Both backpackers hostel and our host family are simple and comfortable, with satellite TV, kitchen and living room, and staff of laundry/cleaning ladies and a cook. All bedding and full accommodation are provided/will be provided after paying their choice program costs, So you will not need to bring a sleeping bag or come out with food plans except for your own traveling expenses costs.

In-country support:

We work directly with the project to provide support during your time in Tanzania. You can expect help from project coordinators, staff at the schools and orphanages, and fellow volunteers. We also provide a 24-hour cell phone number for emergencies.

Additional Activities and Excursions:

If you have free time during or after your volunteer stay, you will have the opportunity to take part in excursions at your own cost. The following are some examples of activities you can enjoy in Arusha -Tanzania:

• Trekking/hiking Mt.Kilimajaro
• Visiting Tanzania National parks
• Visiting Maasai villages and Tanzania snake Park

Orientation

On the first day of the project, you will be given an extensive orientation to familiarize yourself with your new surroundings. You will be informed of local customs, and how to get around using public transport. The orientation will cover all the relevant information about your project, including safety issues. An individual timetable will be worked out for you based on how much time you want to commit to volunteering.

The cost of volunteering with us for a 2-4weeks medical program is $500usd per person and that includes our program registration fees which are $300usd.

Enrolment

What does your program fee cover?

The total cost includes a Registration Fee of $300usd (Refundable if you choose not to go but the refund can only be done if you will provide us with enough reasons on why you have canceled your placement ) – 24/7 support from Amani hostel staff, information pack, administration costs, local travel costs to inspect programs and communication costs with volunteers, Program Fees, Airport pick up and drop off orientation, program supervision, accommodation and meals during volunteer placement period, In-country 24/7 volunteer support and In-country administration costs.

What program Fee does not cover?

Visa, flights, travel insurance (Compulsory), vaccinations, souvenirs, trips or tours you do while in the country, a gift to projects staff and host family, any personal expenses, transfer back to the airport from the program, spending money (volunteers in our different destination generally find US$50 to be sufficient for basic weekly expenses).

You enroll by filling and sending to us our volunteer application via info@amanihostel.net, please add a letter of motivation in English with a picture, of how long you wish to work and why you want to work as a volunteer and describe yourself. The local coordinator will do his best to respect your first priority, but we may not guarantee that all your wishes can be fulfilled. 

Upon receipt of your enrolment form, Amani hostel will send confirmation and a handbook with useful details and further explanations about your project placement.