Teaching in a youth organization in Tanzania

YCI makes it important that volunteers work in a group during their project, whether they assign you to another partner or a group of people. This allows volunteers to feel safe and to know that they are with others during their project. The costs that volunteers fundraise are also a positive aspect of YCI, because the money goes towards the organization that you work with, your stipends while in country, and only a small amount to YCI's costs. Other organizations that I had searched up before going with YCI did not donate their money to the in-country organization we would be working with.

YCI provided us with detailed guidelines of what we were going to be doing in Tanzania - while in country, we were still given freedom to take on the project however we liked, allowing us to feel as if the project was ours.

Daily experiences - walk or take the public transportation to the office, which was situated right in the middle of the city. After a few hours of planning at the office, we would take the public transportation to the organization we were working with (transportation costs were covered by YCI's stipends). At the centre we were volunteering at, we taught health, environment, and civics classes. We also took part in a community project, helping the youth take part in a community initiative. We also worked on a Youth Day event at the end of our project for the students and community. We got weekends off and had enough time to travel the country and have lots of fun.