Empowering Women and Girls in Tanzania
- Tanzania
- Arusha
About Program
This is an empowerment program based in Tanzania. The mamas and girls come from some truly heart-breaking backgrounds, including being shamed for being HIV positive. In this program, volunteers with good hearts and an open mind are needed. Empowering Women and Girls is a program designed to empower groups who come from a truly heartbreaking background; from being shamed for being HIV positive to abandonment due to assault, and a level of poverty that will be hard for most people from the western world to imagine.
The goals are to help women become self sufficient and to recruit and help more. Some of the opportunities are community work, counseling to HIV victims and home victims, palliative care, and youth programs including training health at school and communities.
This project involves teaching woman skills such as gardening, crafts, English, entrepreneurship, business skills, IT, and finance skills. These are all flexible depending on your skills and comfortability.
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Program Highlights
- Gain more experience and friends working with special needs children as well as the local professionals.
- Take the opportunity to travel and socialize on the weekends, as there is much to do for leisure and fun.
- Arusha is a beautiful tourist city with much to appreciate. The people are welcoming, and the landscape and sceneries are magnificent.
- Participate in making a better life for people who lack the resources to do so for themselves.
- Get chance to see and climb the highest mountain in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro
Program Impact
The goals are to help women and girls become self sufficient and empower them with skills such as Gardening, Crafts, English, Entrepreneurship, business skills, IT, and Finance skills that will enable them to fight poverty and take care of their families and their health.
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Location
Arusha, a city in Tanzania, is nestled between Mount Kilimanjaro and Serengeti National Park among other reserves filled with wildlife.
