African Impact - Volunteer Projects in Tanzania
Pair up with African Impact to start your volunteer experience in Tanzania, Africa! As east Africa's largest country, it holds a magnificent coastline, diverse wildlife, breathtaking scenery, and is home to Africa's largest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro. As a volunteer in Tanzania, you have the chance to explore numerous attractions, such as the world's largest crater, the Spice Island, and many other remarkable game parks.
Join African Impact at Tanzania's Local Women and Children Empowerment project or on the beautiful island of Zanzibar to help on our Teaching and Community support project.
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It was the most wonderful experience in my life so far. I would recommend it to everyone! It feels great to help te people and te community. You really feel important. And the most wonderful thing is when your kids from nursery school scream your name (Teacher Stephanie!)when they see you in the village. They really do need our help. It is really amazing what African Impact is doing there. It felt like a second home to me and I would love to go back (if I find the money :)). I really have a hard time getting used to my life back home. Africa was/is wonderful!
Alumni Interviews
Meet Stephanie Huybrechts, African Impact volunteer alum
Stephanie Huybrechts went to Zanzibar from the March 5 until April 16, 2012. She is from Belgium, nineteen years old, and works in a garden center.
GO: Why did you decide to volunteer with African Impact in Tanzania?
Stephanie: I decided to volunteer abroad because I had a hard time here in Belgium, things were not going to well, I had problems with myself, my future, everything arround me actually.
I thought going to Africa would help me, make things more clear to me and of course it is a chance to help others who really need it (and are thankfull) and to see another part of the world.
GO: Describe your day to day activities as a volunteer.
Stephanie: Everyday was almost the same routine. In the morning we taught English to adults (age 16-...) and after that we taught basic English to kids from nursery school.
Our afternoon was community project on Mondays and Tuesdays and on Wednesdays and Thursdays we did lessonpreparation for the next week. Friday afternoon was the start of the weekend. In the evening from 5 pm until 6 pm we did kidslub on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (doing educative and fun things with the kids).
The first two weeks I was very homesick, I really wanted to go home. The third and fourth week it started to change and the two last weeks I didn't wanted to go home anymore. It felt like home there... I love the African culture and way of live... Here everything is about money and work. Everybody has stress for a lot of reasons...In Africa everything is more lay back. Even the people there don't have much, they seem to be happy. And thats is what I love, that is what I want as well.
GO: How has this experience helped you grow personally and professionally?
Stephanie: At the moment I am taking TEFL courses, because I would love to go to Africa for a couple of years and live there. If you have your TEFL you can teach abroad. So I am looking for a job now and hoping it will work. Cross your fingers for me!
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About African Impact
African Impact is an award-winning volunteer travel organization, offering meaningful interactive volunteer programs throughout Africa. We have come a long way from our humble beginnings at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe in 2004 where we started out with a single goal - to bring about positive change.
With over 8 years' experience, we are now the largest on-the-ground African specialists in volunteer tourism with operations offices in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. We pride ourselves on doing things the right way, and are always seeking better, more sustainable ways to operate and offer responsible, safe volunteer experiences with long lasting positive effects on local communities and the physical environments in which we work.
We truly believe in making a difference and empowering our volunteers to do the same.
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In just a few weeks I will be heading back to the volunteer project for the third time in just under 3 years!
African Impacts project here, boosts the community in so many ways, if it is not teaching adults their ABC's or teaching children how to swim, it is cleaning the beach to make the village more attractive to tourists, or visiting the local diploma course on a Friday night to try the students fusion cooking. There is always some way to help the community, and they always make you feel like you belong.
Toni and Dulla are inspirations, having to cope with up to 15 volunteers coming and going constantly, with injuries, homesick people or just people who do not want to leave!
I could not recommend a more successful project than this, and if you ask my family they will definitely tell you that I do not shut up about this project.
I just have to say asante sana African Impact for introducing me to a country that I will never forget.