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Volunteer

VOLUNTEERING

Rift Valley Superior College can coordinate your volunteering assignment in Tanzania.

With a strong commitment to creating positive change Rift Valley Superior College strives to equip individuals with essential skills, promote sustainable practices, and provide opportunities for growth and leadership. By fostering a sense of responsibility and active participation, we aims to address local challenges and create lasting, positive transformations within the community, contributing to both social, economic and environmental well-being. Through volunteer opportunities, donors and collaborative efforts, Rift Valley Superior College continues to build a brighter and more inclusive future for all. Our students are from both Pastoral and Farming communities in Tanzania.

 

We offer a wide variety of volunteer opportunities and can make a custom placement for you depending on your skills and area of interest.


Contributing to the development of communities is a pillar of Rift Valley Superior College’s mission, so please join us as a volunteer!


Placements offered:

 

We have diverse Volunteer Placements: Volunteers have the opportunity to choose from a range of placements, including Tourism and Tour Guiding Operations, Sewing, Hair dressing and beauty, Nursery school teaching, and Hotel management but not limited to other areas of placements. 

1.    Tourism and Tour Guiding Operations:

Here you can help to teach Tour guiding operations, Mammals, Birds, Plants, Customer care, Culture, etc

2.    Sewing:

This initiative aimed at empowering young girls and boys in Tanzania, by providing them with vocational training in sewing and tailoring skills. The project seeks to equip girls and boys with practical skills that can lead to economic independence and self-sufficiency, thereby enabling them to support themselves and their families.

Participants learn basic and advanced sewing techniques, garment construction, pattern making, and fabric selection. They also receive training in entrepreneurship, business management, and financial literacy, preparing them to start their own sewing businesses or seek employment in the fashion industry.

3.    Hair dressing and beauty

The training in hairdressing, styling, and cosmetics, empowers young women to enter the beauty industry. Like tailoring, opening a hairdressing salon is a common source of income and empowerment for women in Tanzania. Teen mothers often gain valuable skills and knowledge in hairdressing and cosmetics classes that can prepare them for a career in the beauty and cosmetology industry.

4.    Nursery school teaching

5.    Hotel management

This program provides the necessary training to achieve the necessary knowledge and competencies. This course enable student to manage a hotel, be responsible for an operational section within a hotel, carry out contemporary systems and theories related to the administrative and operational areas in rooms divisions or food and beverage operations, comply and exhibit sound ethical behavior on the workplace, excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, deal with several key operational issues that might occur within a hotel or a catering organization, deliver economic, efficient, effective and environmentally friendly operational performance.

We cordially welcomes you to volunteer teaching or impart our student in this carrier. 


Other AREAS OF PLACEMEMNTS

Rift Valley Superior College would LOVE to prepare your own custom volunteer experience to complement your skills and area of interest!

 Examples include:

  1. Art and Crafts after school program
  2. Sports and games immersion program
  3. Languages such as French and English as a second language classes
  4. Music
  5. Your own Idea!


Note that:

Feel free to bring books, pens, pencils, basic first aid supplies, cloths, balls computers, and musical instruments to entertain the students and enhance activities. These items can usually be purchased locally, supporting the community as well.


Volunteering Prices

Please keep in mind that a portion of volunteer fees is used as a contribution toward the project the volunteer chooses to participate in.

 

Included:  


  1. Application fee
  2. Accommodation – Homestays
  3. Placement
  4. Town orientation
  5. Breakfast & dinner daily
  6. Volunteer placement organization and fees
  7. Airport transportation – Pick up and drop off
  8. Swahili language introduction
  9. Local SIM card registration. 
  10. Constant personal assistance prior/upon arrival/after​

 


Not included:

 

  1. International flights
  2. Insurance
  3. Transportation
  4. Lunches
  5. Gratuities
  6. Anything not on the list

 

 

Duration

Price per Person ($US)

2 weeks

$400

3 weeks

$600

4 weeks

$800

6 weeks

$1200

8 weeks

$1,600

3 months

$2,400

6 months

$4,800

 

Our Current Projects:

Due to the increasing number of girls and boys joining Rift Valley Superior College there is a need for constructing a hostel, classes and kitchen. PLEASE HELP US!

How you can support us: