Interview with an Intern: Tomoki
Art in Tanzania receives many different interns and volunteers from different parts of the world, all year round. As an intern myself, it is interesting to meet and live among such a diverse group of people, learn about their home countries and what they are doing with Art in Tanzania. So I decided to interview […]
Evening English Class: Interview with Zabron
‘TIA: This Is Africa’ Used to explain the laid back, relaxed, African way of living: ‘This is Africa‘ is a common phrase heard around the volunteer compound and Dar es Salaam in general. Despite working on bongo time (african timing), having TIA permanently carved into my brain, and adjusting to a less structured way of living; 5pm […]
Boxing Day at Bahari Beach with Glory of Africa Orphanage
Swapping winter coats for t-shirts & shorts, wellies for flip-flops, and roast dinners for barbecues it’s safe to say Christmas 2017 has been unlike any other for me and spending Boxing Day at the beach with children from the Glory of Africa Orphanage has definitely been a highlight! The idea of a day trip to […]
Football with the Local Children
As well as their own projects, Art in Tanzania interns and volunteers can participate in different projects and activities throughout their stay. Nette, a student from Finland who is here conducting research for her thesis, is a big fan of football; luckily enough so are the local children! Barely even a 5 minute walk from the […]
Visit to the National Museum of Dar-es-Salaam
As projects take place Monday-Friday, interns and volunteers have the weekends for trips and other activities; such as visiting the National Museum of Dar es Salaam! Last Saturday, myself and two other interns took a trip to Dar city centre. Starting in Tegeta, the journey lasted about two hours due to connecting buses in Mbusho […]
Tumaini Nursery School
With Art in Tanzania supporting over 100 community schools and education centres, there are many different location opportunities for teaching projects for volunteers/interns. Academic centres benefit from the work of interns and volunteers as innovative methods of teaching are introduced helping not only the students but the staff also. Earlier this week I was given […]
Teaching at the Glory of Africa Orphanage
Hi! I’m Lily and am a Social Media and Marketing intern at Art in Tanzania! I accompanied one of my fellow interns, Michiel – a volunteer from Holland, to the Glory of Africa Orphanage located about 30 minutes from the Dar es Salaam compound. As part of his project, Michiel is teaching English to children […]
Teaching in Tanzania
I am Katie, a Media and Journalism intern at Art In Tanzania. As part of my project, I am able to travel alongside my fellow interns to their projects and document what happens there. Today we visited Mtakuja Secondary School, an international school that teaches students from 13 to 20 years old. The school provides […]
Media intern signing off
Hi, this is Paavo writing. I’ve been working for Art in Tanzania these past 8 weeks as a media intern. As this is my last day on the job, I thought it would be a good opportunity to tell what’s been going on, and how I hope media programmes of Art in Tanzania will go […]
Local Public School in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)
Hi! This is Hikaru. I am an internship student of Art in Tanzania. Last week, I was given opportunities to visit local public schools. “There are normally about 900 students and 40-50 teachers in a school during academic semesters”, says a president of one of the schools. In Tanzania, there are two major kinds of […]