VOLUNTEERING 

Everyone is welcome!

Hope welcomes anyone who wishes to volunteer with them for any short or long period of time, recent volunteers have stayed for periods of 1 week up to 10 weeks! Volunteers can work in a range of roles from helping with the housekeeping at the orphanage to teaching or supervising the children at school or visiting patients on a home visit.

It is suggested that volunteers come with an idea of what they would like to do at Hope Foundation; reading the suggested roles before you arrive may be useful in deciding what you can do to help. Individual Volunteering is quite new at Hope so the volunteers need to be a bit pro-active and be prepared to jump in and get involved. Fundraising before you come is also a good idea as funds are very limited at Hope so any extra contributions you can make towards a project or the general running costs will be gratefully received.

INFORMATION & ADVICE FOR VOLUNTEERS

HOW TO ARRANGE
 

  If you would like to find out more or arrange to volunteer, you should contact Direct to hopefoundationtz@yahoo.com   

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We want to make volunteering easy and affordable for you,

COST OF STAYING AT THE ORPHANAGE

The orphanage has rooms with space for up to 8 volunteers; due to it's fairly remote location it is suggested that volunteers stay at the orphanage. Volunteers are asked to contribute 100,000tsh (approx £50/$80) per week, this includes their accommodation, 3 meals a day and a weekly clothes wash.

FOOD & DRINK

Food at the orphanage is excellent! Breakfast is quite light and may consist of bread & honey, boiled eggs, cooked banana or a fried dough. Lunch and dinner usually contain rice, noodles, or ugali with a stew that may contain any combination of cooking bananas, vegetables, beans, meat, or maize, there may also be cooked greens as a side dish. Sometimes there are sweet bananas, oranges or watermelon and hot water for tea & coffee is boiled at meal times.

ACCOMODATION

Volunteers sleep in the family home, the rooms are very comfortable with large bunk beds, a table or chair and a window. There are no mosquito nets but due to the high altitude there are not many around; although if you are worried then bring your own net. The toilet is in the house and is African style; a ceramic toilet bowl in the floor with a flush, many places in Tanzania use these types of toilets.The electric is intermittent as it currently runs off a generator until a permanent source is found, so bring a torch for the evenings!

LOCAL INFO

Although the area is remote, there are a quite a lot of people who speak basic to fair English. There are some small shops selling basics such as toilet paper, water, sodas and snacks and there is mobile phone network coverage. The main road is a 10 minute down the hill walk to wave down a dalladalla into Marangu where there is a post office, internet and an ATM so it is not completely cut off from the outside world!

VACCINATIONS & MEDICAL ADVICE

Before coming to Tanzania seek medical advice from your Doctor on vaccinations required for the length of your stay. You will probably be required to have a Yellow Fever vaccination and certificate, also Hepatitis A + B. You should also seek advice on Malaria medication. Also, please be aware that HIV/AIDS is prevalent in Tanzania and that some of the children or adults at Hope may be living with the disease.

VISAS

Please check with the Tanzanian Embassy in your country for the most up to date visa requirements, explain what you are planning to do in Tanzania and they should be able to advise you on the best visa to obtain for your trip. You can also ask Hope Foundation for advice as local immigration rules may also apply so seek advice from them before ordering a visa in your home country.

Happy New Year 2015 all friends. We just start a new year with some friends who come from Different Countries. It was Joyful to our Children when they received Six teachers from CCCU England. 
We had a Welcome Party for them and Our Children were so happy.

 The First day at the school before they start Volunteering.

From the left is Rhiannon Townson,Laura Dean, Melanie Lea, Marnie-Jae Blackmore, Samantha CHapman, Abigail Howson

Students from CCCU dancing with our Children during the welcome party.

After reading this volunteering information you feel you would like to find out more, please visit the Contact Us page.

VOLUNTEERING ROLES AT HOPE FOUNDATION

These are some suggestions from Hope staff and from previous volunteers on the roles volunteers can play whilst at Hope.

Working with / supervising children

Hope have recently had a dining room built; lunch is around 1.30-3pm and dinner around 7.30-8pm, but outside of these times it can be used for activities and homework as well as religious education and prayer.

Some areas where volunteers can help include:

• Supervising/playing with young children aged 3-6years from around 11am onwards after they return from Kindergarten.
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• Helping older children with homework after school / lunch, and helping with extra tuition.
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  Helping run / organize activities such as arts and crafts, games in the afternoons.
  
  
   
                           The kids big colouring extravaganza

Vocational/Specific Skills

Volunteers who have a particular skill or profession can assist by teaching one or a group of students. Examples could be Carpentry, computer skills (although computer access is very limited) car mechanics, building, tailoring etc.

Teaching Adult English

The staff and some of the teenagers at the orphanage are keen to learn more English and those who wish to can arrange small groups in the evenings or whenever convenient to help with teaching English skills. Previous volunteers taught in the evenings around 5pm (before it gets too dark) and could have between 4-8 students each session. Their ages can vary from teenagers to adults and levels of education can vary greatly as some may not have completed secondary education so volunteers must be prepared for the different abilities. There are no real resources so volunteers should be creative with their teaching methods!

Home Visits

Hope arranges home visits; usually once a week on Thursdays, taking food or medication if it is available, to those sick or suffering from HIV. Volunteers are asked to contribute towards this, perhaps with a bag or rice or sugar costing around 1500-2000tsh. If volunteers have nursing training this may also be of help in advice or making the patients more comfortable.

Housekeeping and Cooking  

Volunteers can help with the daily housekeeping of the orphanage; cleaning, washing children’s clothes or helping with the preparation of lunch and dinner.

Secondary Tutoring

Some children are unable to afford to go to secondary school, volunteers can help tutor them at the orphanage; keeping their knowledge up to date until sponsorship money or funds are found for them to return to school.

Suggestions for items that volunteers can bring for the orphanage: 

• Games & Toys: Deflated footballs, skipping ropes, tennis balls, playing cards, educational games, simple board games, extra dice, jigsaw puzzles, toys for very young kids; ABC blocks, cars etc. Lego, stickle bricks.
• Clothes and shoes for children of all ages and adults, football boots or trainers.
• Arts & Crafts: Paper and card, pencils, crayons, paints, paintbrushes, glue, blu tack, sellotape, safety scissors, beads, buttons, sequins, string.
• Educational Materials: Reading books, school books, abacus, chalk board and chalk, exercise books.

Many of the stationary items can be bought in Moshi but some items can be expensive or of poor quality. Also be aware that there are 28 children so if you bring toys or materials please ensure there is enough to be shared otherwise there may be squabbling!

Suggestions for Items that volunteers can bring for themselves:

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• Headlamp or torch: it can get very dark at night and electricity is intermittent till a reliable source is found.
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• Cotton sheet or sleeping bag liner, (blankets and pillows are provided.)
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• Mosquito net if volunteer is worried about bites!
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• Good shoes if it is the rainy season as the hillside can be slippery.
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• Waterproof jacket/Pac a Mac or umbrella if it is rainy season.
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• Flip Flops for wearing in the washroom/toilet.
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• A warm jumper as it can get cold at night.

PREVIOUS VOLUNTEERS

Previous volunteers Sean and Sarah are happy to answer any questions or give advice on volunteering at Hope Foundation, just visit the Contact Us page for their details.

SWEDISH VOLUNTEERS

ar en icke vinstdrivande organisation, som driver en skola samt ett barnhem. Barnen som bor har kommer ifran daliga forhallande. nar dom kommer hit sa far dom mojlighet till undervisning samt klader och mat och ett hem. Hope foundation  har manga ideer om hur livet skall bli battre for barnen. Men dom blir icke finansierade av regeringen. Sa dom lever pa gavor ifran privatpersoners och vanners intresse. Men med ett vaxande antal barn , vaxer aven behovet utav mat , klader samt undervisning.