Volunteer with Shalom Center which works for the street children in Tanzania
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Shalom Centre provides care and love for street children without prejudices. This has created confidence in the children to overcome their past and positively look into the future with great hope. The intention is not to keep the child at the center, but to attempt to understand each childs background and efforts made to assist each individual child. They have an outreach program that reaches all areas of Tanzania. This placement needs volunteer to help in providing basic education on health & hygiene, teaching/tutoring for English, Math, conduct sex education and dealing with adolescence workshop and help in providing counseling to the children. Providing sports activities for afterschool. Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school.
Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:-
Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education At-Risk Youth Work Social Worker (BSW) Social Work Student General Administration Teacher – English Teacher – Math Teacher – Physical Education Soccer Baseball Educational Games Other Musical Instruments Social Worker (MSW)
Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:-
Tutoring children after they return from school. Provide English and Math basic education. Conduct sexual health, Dealing with Adolescence and health and hygiene workshops Supervise children during garden (shamba) work on Tuesdays, Help children with washing on their clothes on Wednesday, assist staff with cooking and cleaning rooms
Basecamp International Centers welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604
Basecamp International Centers believe international volunteering promotes cross-cultural learning that helps create global awareness, understanding between cultures and provides the platform for positive change. Our volunteers have taught in schools, provided disaster relief support for the International Red Cross, conducted essential research to improve the management strategies of threatened environments, built homes for impoverished people, provided vocational training and programs for street kids and have worked in co-operation with hundreds of local organizations to distribute aid and improve the quality of life for people throughout Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaWe have volunteer placement on Social, Heath and Medical, Environment, Children and Building Projects in Nepal, Peru, Ghana, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Costa Rica and Ecuador.Basecamp International Centers welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference.