In every country, Tanzania included, there are unfortunately many children who have been abandoned to their own luck. Orphans born in homes with no love, abused, or suffer poverty and sickness. These children need a loving heart, attention, education and friends who can help them find a better life full of opportunities, be successful and most importantly live a happy life. Anita’s Memorial Day care-center is an initiative established to honor dreams and vision of a young lady, the Late Anita Mlay. Her intention has been to establish a children center to support vulnerable children in her community. Unfortunately, she passed away at a very early age before realizing her dream.
Child’s Safer place is a project aiming to increase the overall wellbeing of the children in the community through various approaches. The goal is to provide a safe place for children of all abilities during the day to spend their time while their parents are at work, accessible services for children from low-income families and children, disabilities and those who are vulnerable. The project started in 2024 and currently has 15 children at the center. This number is expected to rise in 2025. The age of the children is from 2 to 5 years old.
İş Tanımı
You will engage in various activities aiming to increase child development and provide a safe place outside home. This will include:
- Social skills: To train kids to understand basic social skills that will help them to interact well with other people (manner, etc.)
- Basic childcare: Monitoring children to ensure they remain safe as they go about their day-to-day activities.
- Home Based services: Visiting children with special needs and encouraging parents to bring them to the centre.
- Other activities: Organize activities which will help the kids to relax but also learn. This may include games, sports, arts, craft, music classes, movie/ cartoon watching etc.
Konaklama ve Yemek
Volunteer(s) will be accommodated at the host family in the community a walking distance from the Children Center. Food will be provided in the host family and sometimes at the project site where vegetarian meals will be available for volunteers in need. You are expected to be part of the family by joining other household activities like cleaning, cooking etc.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
The project is located at Usa River township in the outskirts of Arusha city. It is a newly developed neighborhood with people of various cultural backgrounds due to the expansions of Arusha city. The community is found right at the slopes of Mount Meru, the second tallest Mountain in Tanzania after Kilimanjaro. The place is accessible by public and private transport from Arusha city and Kilimanjaro airport. All social services are available. Arusha is known as the capital of tourism but also the capital city of the East African community [EAC] in this regard, there will be a good number of leisure activities options that includes wildlife safari, Mountain trekking, eco and cultural tourism.
Notlar
Visas: Information regarding who needs visas and not need visa to come to Tanzania is indicated in the Immigration Tanzania website: https://www.immigration.go.tz/index.php/countries-which-are-not-required-to-apply-for-visa. Please read careful and let us know if you have doubts or questions. Visas are applied and issued online. Make enough time to process your visas on time so that you do not miss your project. Online Visa applicants are advised to make their applications through the Official Tanzania Immigration website www.immigration.go.tz ONLY or directly through the link:
visa.immigration.go.tz and not through any other links. UVIKIUTA and your sending organization will provide all the supporting documents required to apply for your visas. From the previous experiences it is recommended to ordinary visa with humanitarian and charity activities. Volunteers with no relevant visas will not be accepted to join the project.
