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Help to build a temporary child stay and skills development cente

The experience

Help to build a temporary child stay and skills development center is to ensure children are getting a safe place where they can be prepared for reunification with their families or alternative care to enjoy their childhood. Children will acquire basic skills like life skills and entrepreneurship during their stay at the center. The importance of having a center is to provide a nurturing environment for a child while they are away from the street

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 10 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers

Description: We kindly ask all volunteers/interns to contribute a small amount of (USD 10) per day, this cash will support the host to provide you with the meals during your stay, and it will be paid directly to the host family or the person in charge of purchasing food for a charity/NGO.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Swahili

Between 18 and 72 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Program focuses:

The general objective of the project is to have a center for children’s temporary stay while family reunification is in progress. At the same time, the children will be transformed through the development of their skills.

Project Beneficiaries

The center will benefit 25 girls and 25 boys who live in a risky environment, a total of 50 children at once. However, as the successful reunification of children takes place, new children can continuously come in, allowing more street children to benefit from the center in the following years. The majority of homeless children fall within the range of 7 to 15, while youth aged 15 to 22 are also commonly affected.

Activities & Shift

-Fundraise 10,000 € as a part of construction cost.
-Building and finish a center that can accommodate 50 children at once. it will provide basic social services (shelter, food, clothing) for 50 children at once.

-Enable eligible children to access education and health care.

-Reduce the number of street children in Bukoba.

-Reconnect street children with their families.

-Provide counseling and other social skills in the center.

-Support street children to go back to school.

-Support families of reconnected street children to make sure the children can stay in the family.

Rules

To follow child protection policy and other organization regulations during work with us