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This program is made for culture & arts lovers!

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The experience

Do you like to share your culture and to discover new ones? This program is made for you.
You can be a cooking-lover, an artist, a fan of sport or just a curious guy interested in art, sport and history of another culture.
In this program, you will organize workshops, teach, coach and so on, but you will also join traditional activities of the community such as cooking, local wedding...
Let's dive to the core of a new culture!

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Additional fee required

Amount: € 200 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: This is to support organization

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.

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.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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 Intermediate Swahili

Between 18 and 65 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

The volunteers will be involved in some of the activities below or all of them, depending on their skills and interests, the duration of their stay and their energy. This will be the topic of a further discussion.
The PDS team will be with them to supervise and make the exchange with the community easier.

We are particularly looking for someone who can develop artistic activities (dance, drama) and new sports other than football.

Volunteers are encouraged to bring information, equipment and materials from their home country. They can also participate in buying the necessary equipment and materials in Zanzibar to help the development of art and sport. It’s an opportunity for them to visit local markets of Zanzibar and to be really involved in the artistic and sporty life of the organization.

Activities & Shift

- Creative activities: organize artistic activities and workshops for adults or children (wall painting, art competitions like "PDS Got Talent"…)
- Implement artistic classes: drama, dance...
- Participate in cultural events (Cultural Nights, Cultural Exchange Parties, Cooking Nights, local weddings...).
- Give dance and music lessons to the community (adults) and participate in traditional dances and songs.
- Organize round table discussions: exchange information about art, food, sports, community life, religion, economy….
- Sport: teach the football team or other sports.
- Assist the local Footbal Coach during the trainings.
- Improve the educational methods, the program and the players’ performance.
- Organize sport games and events such as Olympiads, competitions...
- Implement other sports (basketball...).

Rules

- Wearing long and appropriate clothes in order to respect the culture and religion of Zanzibar : long pants at least up to the knees, T-shirt which covers shoulders and stomach.
- It is forbidden to sleep outside of PDS accomodation during the mission. The volunteers must come back to PDS House every day before midnight (including week-ends).
- It is forbidden to bring or drink alcohol within the PDS House and to drink alcohol in front of locals in PDS surroundings.
- Smoking at the designated location in PDS House or in isolated places.