Tanzania offers so many opportunities for voluntary work. Prior work experience is absolutely not required to become a volunteer. To get you started and acclimated with your new environment, we offer 3 days orientation in the beginning of your trip to help you understand your chosen voluntary area, culture and language in Tanzania. The minimum length of volunteering period is one month.
If you don't find suitable volunteering placement from our list it is easy to find new placements according to your education, occupation or work experience. Health care professionals can also do voluntary work in hospitals.
Tanzania Volunteers arranges all the contracts and documents needed for volunteering, including Residence Permit. When you arrive we will pick you from the airport and you will stay comfortably in our volunteer house together with other volunteers and interns.
Our workers will take good care of you during your entire trip. On the weekends you can do different safaris and small trips with us and after your volunteering period you can even climb Mt. Kilimanjaro or have a holiday in Zanzibar. Make sure that you have extra time for these longer trips after your volunteering period is over!
"When I visited Upendo in 2008 and after returning home I decided that I wanted to help the children, give them some love and attention. I then found Tanzania Volunteers who helped me to arrange my placement for 2010. My days at Upendo were sometimes challenging; dealing with the different ...
"Juvenile Jail is not as bad place as it might sound like. It’s closer to remand home than actual (adults’) jail and the kids are not some hard-core youth criminals, most have committed quite small crimes such as not going to school and stealing something etc. The work itself was ...
"Juvenile Jail sounded much worse than the place actually was, so it was nice to realize that your images from the place had been worse than the reality. During the mornings (about 9-12 am) we had classes. We taught them math, geography and English. Most of the kids were on ...
"Moshi is a nice town in just the right size. There are many people, a lot of traffic and noise but it’s not too big. Mawenzi hospital is a really interesting place to work; it’s so different from a Danish hospital. You learn a lot and get good experience." ...
"I had such a great time here. Everything is very well organized and I enjoyed my first time in Africa a lot. To make in internship here is interesting and you can learn a lot, also about the real African life and the people here. I would definitely do it ...
"Staying in the house was wonderful. It was great to get to know many new people, talk with them (and also with Hanna and Louis) about life and how it is going. All the visits were great experiences. Moshi was nice little town. I could have travelled even more there ...
"Even though I only spent two weeks in TVL- house and Moshi I had a lot of great experiences there. You feel at home in the house and it’s nice to be there during your spare time and weekends."
- Freja Sorensen, Denmark
