Tanzania | STARRY

Volunteering in TANZANIA .

Challenges.

Social:

The majority of Tanzania’s population lives in rural areas and experiences extreme poverty. The rural population experiences greater poverty and faces more barriers to escaping the cycle of poverty than urban populations.
Several factors influence rural Tanzanians’ inability to mobilize and obtain the necessary resources to escape poverty, including the practice of subsistence farming, limited infrastructure, and poor access to education. The consequences of poverty for the rural population include inadequate healthcare services, heightened disadvantages for women, poor nutrition, and increased child labour.

Agriculture:

The agriculture sector lacks productivity and is largely disconnected from the sustainable energy sector, which inhibits the growth of agricultural-based micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Migration:

Rural poverty has driven rural-urban migration without a corresponding increase in decent urban employment opportunities and basic services.
The lack of job creation, and inadequate social protection coverage against multi-faceted shocks, mean that 92 per cent of Tanzanians exist below the threshold for economic security

Hosting Organization: Assalam

Community Foundation - ACF TANZANIA

Who we are:

Assalam Community Foundation (ACF) is a non–profit organization committed to sustainable development that carries out quality education, social entrepreneurship, humanitarian aid, and permaculture.
By taking care of people, the earth and sharing fair, ACF works closely with communities and partners hand in hand to create a holistic and enduring model that brings lasting hope to children & youth and women in Tanzania.
ACF Foundation works closely with communities and partners to create a holistic and enduring model that brings lasting hope to children & women by providing them with high-quality education, empowerment, and employment with a loving environment and individualized care so they can embrace life and become contributing members of their society.
ACF works through: 1. High-Quality Education for All 2. Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainability 3. Humanitarian Aid for Fair Shares 4. Permaculture for Self-sufficiency

Aim:

Create a self-empowered African young generation, which is actively creating a self-sufficient and sustainable Africa, where power and resources are shared fair, everyone lives in dignity, and poverty and inequality are no more existing. We seek a world of peace and social justice.

Activities.

Volunteering for the childern and women living with poverty in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Through Mobile Library Project, volunteers will accompany the teachers to transport education to different villages each week. With a bus full of teachers and volunteers will organize weekly festivities, science, art and sports activities. By moving the mobile laboratories and libraries to a different village every weekend along with games and activities, ACF will extend their educational service to disadvantaged children in broader communities, allowing them to reach education opportunities. By the end of the Volunteering Teams activity, we expect to reach 600 children in 16 remote villages to bring educational aid

Through permaculture activities, volunteers will teach permaculture to children starting from nursery school, young people and women with the trained staff. Therefore, people will learn how to grow and use Zanzibar’s main agricultural crops, for both food and industrial purposes, such as natural cosmetics. Permaculture training helps people to find jobs in Zanzibar’s agricultural sector. Within this activity, the volunteers will also plant trees, clean the beaches and provide food aid with the crops that ACF harvest in their eco-village