Background

Art in Tanzania is a Tanzanian NGO, also registered in Finland, which develops community work projects in towns and villages in Tanzania. We have volunteers from abroad working together with numerous small Tanzanian NGOs. We arrange short and long-term volunteer placements in various areas such as teaching, IT training, health (HIV, malaria), women groups, arts and handicrafts, music, sports coaching and environmental and conservation projects.

We operate in Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Arusha, Masai land and Zanzibar. We have around 100 volunteers in the country at any one time and 60 permanent staff to co-ordinate the projects.

We finance our operations through volunteers fees and the proceeds from safari and other adventure programs.

Our Objectives
Our main objective is to enhance the quality of life for orphans, women and tribal people such as the Masai across Tanzania, as well as developing environmental projects. All our work is ongoing, sustainable and operates at a grassroots level.

We also provide adventure packages for volunteers, such as wildlife safaris, coral island sailing trips, climbing Kilimanjaro and weekend trips to Zanzibar. All the proceeds from the adventure packages go directly towards the community development projects.