FASO PROJECTS FOR
INTERNS AND VOLUNTEERS
Volunteer and Adventure in
Tanzania.
While experiencing the
rich natural scenic travel spots and globally famous monuments, you can
volunteer in Tanzania. Many international volunteers step inside Tanzania for
the first time and entertaining them with the adventurous spirit is essential.
Although, these volunteers enter into Tanzania to help the people, who suffer
due to ill-health, malnutrition, educational inequalities, geographically isolated
areas, food insecurity, and culturally different group, adding a pinch of spice
can make the trip more memorable, all through their lifetime.
As a volunteer, apart from applying your skills and knowledge to solve
everyday challenges, you would gain crucial international work experience and
acquire a great deal of leadership and soft skills, develop your self-reliance
and acquire new professional skills.
FASO co-ordinate interns and volunteer visit into a country, and they can participate into the following projects:-
FASO co-ordinate interns and volunteer visit into a country, and they can participate into the following projects:-
1)
Farming
Agriculture is the main economic activity in
Tanzania; however, some families lack the knowledge and resources needed to
support themselves effectively. Improving their agricultural skills and
knowledge will greatly reduce poverty in the community.
Volunteers with a background in agriculture and
animal husbandry can initiate projects to raise animals such as chicken and
pigs; they can also teach better farming practices
2)
Research Project
This project offers the opportunity volunteer to
initiate and participate in economic and social research. Participants will be involved and experience
with serious problems of food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, and poverty
plaguing the beautiful country, research and assistance will go a long way and
will make a strong impact on the small-scale farmers, youth, women, schools,
and orphanages
3)
Early
Childhood Development
FASO is a non-government organization that respects
and champions the rights of all vulnerable children from farmer’s family
regardless of gender and faith. FASO in partnership with volunteers and
sponsors aim to train and provide on-going support to principles and care
givers at pre-schools from rural areas. This will improve knowledge and ensure quality
education to rural communities.
4)
Social
Architecture
FASO in partnership with students of architecture
from international universities facilitates the design and construction of
classrooms and libraries to rural schools using sustainable materials.
5)
Bicycles
AID FOR Rural children
FASO targets to distribute bicycles and equipment to
under-resources schools in rural communities, changing the lives of many
children who would normally work long distance to attend school.
6)
Child-Health
Project
This project will be done to improve community
knowledge on nutrition by training rural families on how to prepare nutrition
food and sensitize mothers and care takers on importance of breast feeding. The
project will also support mobile clinic to remote community villages and train farmer’s
family on importance and application of modern family planning.
7)
Advocacy
to eradicate Child Labour in Agriculture
Child labour is defined as work that is
inappropriate for a child age, affects children education, or is likely to harm
their health, safety or morals. It should be emphasized that not all work
carried out by children considered child labour. Some activities may help
children acquire importance livelihood skills and contribute to their survival
and food security. However, much of the work children do in agriculture is not
age-appropriate is likely to be hazardous or interference with children
education.
Through this project FASO will promote a greater
knowledge base on child labour across rural communities and within different
agriculture subsector.
8)
IT
for Children
In order to ensure sustainable development to rural
family, FASO provide the basic IT skills for children and youth to gain
knowledge, education and confidence so that they can grow as individuals and
contribute positively to the development of their communities though
technology.
Partners in this project may contribute used laptops
and may volunteer in training of basic knowledge of computer to rural children
and youth.
‘‘Your old laptop may be the
opportunity of a lifetime, please bring to us’’
9)
Women Project:
Women are very vital in helping to
fight poverty at the grass roots level. The mothers in the village want to
ensure the best for their children and household. The women in the community
operate a village community bank, which provides loans for women to start
income-generation enterprises. It is ideal for volunteers who are interested in
women’s emancipation to get involved in this project and to empower rural
women.
10) Medical Project:
Volunteers can also help to provide
medical services to the community. This is ideal for volunteers in the health
fields, such as doctors and nurses. Volunteers can help out at local clinics
and hospitals. FASO also welcomes doctors who have mobile medical equipment’s
and who can work in the village directly.
11) Care Projects:
We believe that care is something that
is not too small to give. The Care Projects involve the following activities:
Home Visits: Volunteers and staff visit
families in need and get to know them better. This helps organization to get to
know the needs of the community, and it also creates a ray of hope for the
families. Home visiting also involves distributing basic items to the families
in need and befriending the local families.
Home-Based Care: This entails
activities like cleaning the home and its surrounding and putting things in
order at a particular homestead to ensure that they enjoy a good living
standard. Through this activity, children with learning difficulties are
monitored to assess their independence on performing certain tasks like
washing, eating, etc.
The Ideal Volunteer
- Is change driven and has passion for
development,
- Has great deal of leadership skills
and can guide others,
- Remains productive under pressure and
in challenging environments,
- Is flexible, independent, and has
sense of humour,
- Self-motivated and has interest in
volunteer work,
- Has absorptive capacity to learning
on the job,
- Appreciates and respects other
languages, cultures, religious and social norms,
- Has a great deal of social networking
skills
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