Childcare & Community Development

Arusha, Tanzania | 3 -20 Weeks | For Students, Interns or Travellers over 18

Program

Description

Working with a local pre-primary school, the Child Care programs offer volunteers the opportunity to work with children supporting their physical and cognitive development in a day-care style environment. Run by a qualified educator, the daycare you will be working at was established to support low-income families, offering quality, inquiry/play-based education to children in the local area.

First is all about making sustainable solutions and making a beneficial impact on the local community, which is why we require our volunteers to be at the placement for at least 4 weeks. The reason for this is, that we wish to create as much consistency for the children in the daycare as possible. Volunteers are more than welcome to work on the Child Care program even longer, as there is no maximum limit to this placement. Laughter is what we wish our volunteers to be spreading through the work with the permanent teachers and the love and energy, the volunteers will bring.

Anyone who has a heart, that cares for children can volunteer in this placement. As the daycare is run by 3 educated teachers, we don’t require the volunteers to have a certain degree of education to volunteer at this placement. You must however be a minimum of 18 years and provide a clean criminal record when applying for volunteering with us. If you do however have previous experience of working with children, this will only be an advantage.

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A typical

Day in the Life

After having breakfast at your accommodation, you will head to your childcare placement, which is close by.

Depending on where you are during your stay will determine what your day-to-day might look like. Typically, volunteers will spend the first part of their stay focusing on developing an understanding of the key challenges and ways in which the school operates, to contribute sustainably. This could mean in the beginning, you work more alongside the teacher, observing and enjoying playtime with the children.

As your time goes on, you will be able to become more heavily involved, perhaps helping run activities, lessons, units, and more.

The children attend school up until noon. Therefore, also being an Inquiry school, the day is generally broken into 5 main blocks:

Start the day with a fun exploration-based activity to promote wonder and questions in children.
Following this, the children will move into Literacy, where they will focus the learning activities around exploration or play-based activities.
The children then break for porridge.
After porridge, the play-based learning continues, however focusing on developing their early childhood math.
Finally, the day is wrapped up with games, play, songs, or any other fun winding-down activities before the children head home!

After 12, you will head back to the accommodation, where you can spend your free time with other travelers, exploring the city, relaxing, and many continue working on developing ideas, resources, and activities for your school in the afternoons also.

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