Tag: volunteering
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Fight Against Tuberculosis
by Senthamaraiselvan Pooja – Art in Tanzania internship Background of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The United Republic of Tanzania is one of the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB in the world. According to WHO, 142 000 people (253 per 100 000…
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Volunteering for the ’International Day of the African Child’ event
At Thursday the 16thJune a bus full of volunteers headed out at five o’clock in the morning to do some volunteering work for the International Day of the African Child at ’The Jakaya M. Kikwete Youth Park’. This is one of the biggest youth parks in Dar Es Salaam opened in October 2015 by…
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A fashion designer volunteers her skill in Tanzania and gains an experience of a life-time
Emilie Bendix Hansen is a 22 years old girl from Copenhagen, Denmark. She has been dreaming of coming to Africa for many years. She finally made her dream come true last January when she came to volunteer at Art in Tanzania (AIT). As a volunteer Emilie has been teaching English in a nursery school in…
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Pupils from One School in Dar es Salaam receive donations through AIT
Pupils from One school of Tegeta in Dar es Salaam are a happy lot following the completion of a modern sanitation block at the school. The toilets were constructed with funds from a volunteer at Art In Tanzania who saw the need for the school to have clean sanitation facilities…
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Do the mzungu!
Mzungu workout is a new project for Art in Tanzania. A group of volunteers from Denmark felt that there is a need for afternoon activities that would get also the women of Dar Es Salaam to get involved and to move…
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Learning for all ages
The classrooms in the house of Art in Tanzania get a little break during lunchtime after last of the children has rushed home. A fast clean and the boards fill up with preparations for new lessons, this time for the adults…