WHY VOLUNTEER ABROAD IN TANZANIA.

Tanzania is an attractive East African Country where you can spend some time on a volunteer project or international internship. Our volunteer projects abroad in Tanzania are available for anyone interested in volunteering in the developing world, including those on a gap year, career break or as summer experience while between semesters.

Amani hostel offers projects placement as well as internships in Tanzania, based in and around the town of Arusha in the north of Tanzania. Also Amani hostel offer in Arusha, Arusha is a popular place for tourists to arrange their arrange their Safari trips as tourism plays a large role in town’s economy.

All Amani hostel volunteers in Tanzania will live local host families. This allows you to experience Tanzania from a local’s perspective, a very different world from the often luxurious hotels of the safari industry.

Tanzania is an intensely varied and colorful land on the East coast of Africa. Home to Africa’s highest mountain, largest lake, huge wildlife reserves and hundreds of paradise beaches, it is without doubt one of Africa’s most appealing destinations and a great introduction to the African continent.

Healthcare and education have also improved since independence and volunteers working in school, care homes and medical institutions can help this progress to continue.

Living in energetic, colorful Tanzania will certainly prove you with plenty of interests and entertainment when you’re not working. The vibrant markets are worth exploring and are great place to buy traditional batiks, wood carvings and Maasai jewelry.

Tanzania is now firmly established as one of the best safari destinations in the world with an impressive 25% of the country protected as national parks or conservation areas, although working as a volunteer abroad in Tanzania will put you in contact with the welcoming Tanzania people, the wildlife is not to be missed.

Internship Project

If you are looking for valuable hands-on medical experience, this internship is great opportunity. There are many health issues to explore and there is an obvious lack of man power and resources in the local hospitals located in the major cities where we operate.

As a medical intern, you will study these rural health posts and community clinics. Participants spend the majority of their internship learning as an assistant to an already – existing doctor/healthcare professional. Work responsibilities vary with your education, skill and previous experience.

Volunteers’ will work with a HIV/AIDS outreach clinic conducting home based care to people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The homecare will include counseling to the caretakers and distributing medication and food supplies to people suffering with HIV or AIDS. Others duties will depend on which projects the organization is working on when the volunteers is there. Volunteers will sometimes be required to visit a branch office.

Volunteers in the HIV/AIDS program will devote their time taking care of HIV/AIDS infected children and people while getting them engaged in various educational activities designed to increase their awareness of the disease hopes of their dissemination of the information to others in hopes of ultimately stopping and preventing the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.

This project is open to any volunteers who are willing to share their love, time and compassion with the HIV/AIDS infected/affected patients.

Also internship, you will select a particular area of interest related to medical/healthcare issues and explore the issue further with the help of an assigned supervisor. Please note: the project supervisor DOES NOT develop internship as this is up to the intern to get as much or as little out of their projects.

Job in the internship, you will select a particular area of internship in Tanzania or to somewhere else where we operate vary with education, skills, experience and qualifications. Interns are not allowed to perform diagnoses or surgical operations.

Most of the time, interns help doctor or work as an assistant to doctors. Interns measure blood pressure (BP), temperature, height, weight as well as assist doctors and the medical staffs in the health centers

Interns may also help in health camps (if any), distribute medication, provide tips to patients pertaining to health, nutrition and sanitation as well as council patients and possibly participate in the treatment for minor injuries/wounds and/or maintain records of treated.