TEACHING
Our volunteer is placed in exciting community schools,
public schools, or orphanage schools. Many of the schools we work with are
constantly under stuffed and are always in need of new volunteers. In this program,
volunteer can work by themselves or alongside other teachers and volunteers.
Typical subjects taught include – English,Math,science,social studies,art and
physical education. A typical school year depends on the type of school.
Community schools run throughout the year and have holidays for the entire
month of December. Government schools have holidays the entire month of June
and the entire month of December.they also take short, week-long holidays in April
and September. During this schools holidays (where community schools and
government schools both have holidays), volunteer can take a
break,travel,engage in tourist activities such as safari, take tutorials for
senior students, or participate in another placement. However , we work with a
combination of schools(community and government)therefore the majority of the
year volunteer will be able to work in the schools during the school terms
without being affected by holidays.N.B volunteers DO NOT need to be a qualified
or experienced teacher
ORPHANAGE WORK
Sub-Saharan African countries are suffering from huge member
of orphans left behind after their parents die from illness such as HIV/AIDS
resulting in a large number of orphanages in country such a Tanzania. Contributing
to this disproportionate number of orphanages is the fact that in some cases
the parents are simply unable to provide for the children or have been abandoned,
increase the number of orphans in Tanzania, volunteer need to understand,
however that Tanzania orphanages are not organized the way most westerners
expect. Because of the family-oriented culture, orphans tend to be absorbed
into extended families or are even sometimes taken in by neighbors-these added
children put a huge strain on the families who take them in and so the orphans
are sent to ‘orphanages’ for certain hours of the day to receive education,
interaction and food. Western volunteers must understand that the children usually
do not live at the orphanage and are only there for a few hours in the day and so,
if placed in an orphanage, one of your core rules will most likely be teaching.
Along with teaching, volunteer who work in an orphanage help with general work
and daily chores and will generally work from 8:00 am until 3:30 pm. Your
participation in an orphanage project will not only appreciate by the CHILDREN
but also by the orphanage administration. This work ranges from cooking and
cleaning to farm work, assisting with feeding programs, caring for children and
babies and teaching.
MEDICAL PLACEMENTS
Healthcare is neither easily accessible nor affordable for
many Tanzanians in living in the rural villages and poor urban areas like in
Mbeya. Poverty creates a large barrier to the acquisition of healthcare in general,
but in rural areas in particular. Our volunteer work in a number of medical
clinics and hospitals in urban and suburban of Mbeya. These dispensaries and
hospital have very basic equipment and facilities. Volunteers are placed in a
hospital or dispensary based on previous medical training and experience. The
key requirements in a medical volunteer
(aside from the relevant training
and qualifications) are initiative,enthusiasm,and readiness to work in
unfamiliar circumstances – a surgery with minimal equipment, an understaffed hospital,
or a clinic for leprosy or tuberculosis
patients due to language barriers, volunteer need to understand that a key role
in a medical placement is simple observation. The doctors are understandably
hesitant to allow volunteers may be appropriately qualified to do so. the
instruments available in Tanzania will probably be not familiar to volunteers. So,
if working in the medical placement do not become frustrated if you are not
actually conducting surgeries, you will be observing surgeries, taking blood pressure,
administering vaccines, along with a wide range of other medical tasks.
N.B For the MEDICAL PLACEMENT, volunteer need to be training
or qualified in a relevant medical field. Therefore, volunteers must supply a
scanned copy of their medical certificates to Omari at SHVO upon registering
into this program. Also, advise which specific department or area you would
like to be involved in during your volunteer experience (this must be relevant
to your training). Medical volunteers in Tanzania, must be registered onto the
SHVO program at least three months before their due start date, due to the
registration process where we have to register you with the local Tanzanian
authorities. Finaly,medical volunteers will need to bring a white lab coat. You
will not be allowed to work in the placement until you have one, and while you
can have one tailor-made for you in Mbeya,you will lose at least 3-5days of
work time while waiting for it to be completed.
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