Participants will be engaged in creating local awareness about HIV/AIDS, malaria, and the use of illicit drugs for the youth in the community. Participants will give presentations, and organize workshops and discussions on the subject. It is important that people living in marginalized communities, especially in rural villages where there is not sufficient information provided to them about the spread of HIV/AIDS. The media does not provide sufficient education to most of the villages and the people themselves have very little access to the right information at the right time about this dangerous virus. Therefore, participants will work with local facilitators in order to create awareness about the transmission of HIV and how to tackle these challenges using local knowledge as well as more modern methods.
Accommodation:
Participants will stay either in a local house, hostel, school classrooms or camping tents and three meals a day will be available. You will receive more detailed information regarding accommodations on your info. Sheet after your application reaches our office.
Location:
Kilosa.
Other activities:
Orientation day and opening ceremony of the program.
Educational Activities:
There will be some educational sessions during the program. These will help participants to learn, explore, understand, challenge and act on various contemporary issues. To facilitate this learning there will be workshops, study part, discussion and visits during the program. Participants will choose from our list and can add to it. This will all be discussed on the orientation day.
Study focus:
Diseases control initiatives.
Leisure and Weekend excursion activities:
We will organize a sports day with school kids and local community members. Or have a cultural tour to various local places. Participants will go on a two days safari trips to National parks on the southern circuit such as Uduzungwa rainfall national park, Mikumi, Ruaha national park or Selous game reserve, etc.
International cultural nights:
Each country represented in the work camp will have an opportunity to present his/her country to the rest of the team and be ready to be asked questions about their country. This is a chance for you to sing songs, dance, and share stories from your home country! Evaluation and farewell party with local community members who will offer traditional dances and music.
Official languages will be:
ENGLISH and SWAHILI
Pick up cost from the airport to city centre - 20€ (Optional)
Participation fees:
200€ Project participation fee covers food and accommodation during the work camp project plus orientation.
Participants will be involved in teaching and coaching young students from local schools. They will use sports and music as a powerful means to bring people together. Participants will have an opportunity to share skills, ideas and knowledge with local people. This program will be organized with local primary schools, secondary schools and youth within the community. School pupils will be between the ages of 12-18 years. TYCEN sees sports as an ideal mechanism to connect and engage youths, especially girls. The “sports for social change” initiative is a pioneering program that uses the convening power of sports as a vehicle to minimize the effects of poverty and social injustice on marginalized youth and the young adult population around the world. Sports such as traditional games, football, basketball, volleyball, cricket, dance, etc are an enabler and time occupier for otherwise idle youth. This program is going to use the best values of sports as vehicles for leadership development, empowerment, bridging gender inequalities, improving education success, enhancing economic opportunities and social inclusion of marginalized groups including girls and youth with disabilities. These values include team work, respect, decision making, volunteering, integrity, self esteem, conflict resolution and communication as vital life skills.
Accommodation:
Participants will stay either in a house, hostel, school classrooms or camping tents and three meals a day will be available. You will receive more detailed information regarding accommodations on your info sheet after your application reaches our office.
Educational activities:
There will be some educational sessions during the program. These will help participants to learn, explore, understand, challenge and act on various contemporary issues. To facilitate this learning there will be workshops, study part, discussion and visits during the program. Participants will choose from our list and can add to it. This will all be discussed on the orientation day. Our study focus will be on sports for social and economic development.
Leisure and Weekend excursion activities:
We will organize a sports day with school kids and local community members. Or have a cultural tour to various local places. Participants will go on a two days safari trips to National parks on the southern circuit such as Uduzungwa Rainfall National Park, Mikumi, Ruaha National Park or Selous Game Reserve, etc.
International cultural nights:
Each country represented in the workcamp will have anopportunity to present his/her country to the rest of the team and be ready to be asked questions about their country. This is a chance for you to sing songs, dance, and share stories from your home country! Evaluation and farewell party with local community members who will offer traditional dances and music.
Official languages will be:
ENGLISH and SWAHILI
Participation fees:
200€ Project participation fee covers food and accommodation during the work camp project plus orientation. Pick up cost from the airport to city centre - 20€ (Optional)
« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »
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