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Rural Child Support Initiative_ Tanzania

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The experience

This project aims to improve the lives of children living in vulnerable rural areas by providing them with services they have long missed. Through the collaboration of stakeholders, communities, and donors, more children will be able to find new hope, a better education, and a brighter future.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Music: Perform to entertain guests, children or local communities.

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

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

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 15 Per day

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

Description: Food and Accommodation

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.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course 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.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

In many rural areas of Tanzania, children live in vulnerable conditions due to poverty, lack of essential services, gender-based violence, child marriage, child labor, and lack of quality education. These children are deprived of their basic rights such as education, good nutrition, health, protection, and safe upbringing.

This project aims to reach children living in vulnerable rural areas by providing them with educational, health, protection, and psychosocial support.

PROJECT TARGETS

Orphaned children

Children living in extreme poverty

Children who are exploited or abandoned

Children at risk of child marriage

Girls at risk of gender-based violence (GBV)

Children with disabilities who have been deprived of services

Age: 3 – 16 years

5. PROBLEM ADDRESSED

Children in rural areas face the following challenges:

Lack of school fees and learning materials

Malnutrition and lack of health services

Insecurity and increased violence against children

Dropouts due to poverty or teenage pregnancy

Lack of clothing and basic necessities

Poor school infrastructure and walking distance

Poor registration of birth certificates

The project aims to address these challenges in a practical way.

6. PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Overarching Objectives

To provide basic services to children living in vulnerable rural areas to improve their well-being, safety, and access to quality education.

Specific Objectives

1. Provide school supplies to children who cannot afford the cost.

2. Reduce malnutrition by providing food and nutrition in schools.

3. Protect children from violence, child labor, and teenage pregnancy.

4. Help children access basic medical care and services.

5. Build the capacity of teachers and parents to recognize and protect children's rights.

Activities & Shift

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

More than 500 rural children to receive school supplies

Increased school attendance

Reduced malnutrition and simple diseases

Girls to receive support for safe toilets, reduced absenteeism

Improved protection against violence

Community mobilized to protect children's rights

Increased number of children completing primary education

Rules

Education and School Supplies

Providing notebooks, pens, bags, uniforms, shoes, books

Funding fees for poor and orphaned students

Establishing After-School Learning Clubs