tanzania community - gap year

building

Help give the children of northern Tanzania the most precious gift. Education.

Your project work will improve the education facilities for the community by building schools, classrooms and libraries as well as lots of painting, football games and informal teaching in the local schools. Babati is a small town resting on the slopes of the Great Rift Valley, near to Lake Manyara in Tanzania. The village community are friendly and welcoming and in desperate need of help. This is a unique opportunity to experience Tanzanian village life and directly help rural villages to improve the livelihoods and future of their children.

where: Babati, Manyara District, northern Tanzania

what: school building and renovation, informal teaching, work with children

how long: 6 weeks

tanzania community - gap year

exploring

Six weeks of activities through five different countries on our southern Africa expedition.

We have been running expeditions in these countries for over 8 years now and they never fail to blow us away! You will be trekking through the mountains of Swaziland, scuba diving in the fauna rich seas of the Mozambique channel, bridge swinging and white water river tubing in South Africa, spotting Botswana's abundant game on not one but four safari's, finally finishing the trip of a life time off by bungee-jumping at the 'smoke that thunders'!

where: Swaziland, Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia

what: trekking, scuba diving, white-water river tubing, bridge swinging, salt pans 4x4 safari, dug-out canoe safari, river cruise, bungee-jumping!

how long: 6 weeks

tanzania community - gap year

in a nutshell

what more can you want from a gap year?

Spend six weeks volunteering on our community development project in northern Tanzania helping to improve educational facilities for the children of Babati. Then onto our six week Southern Africa adventure exploring the mountains of Swaziland, the oceans of Mozambique, the canyons of South Africa, the plains of Botswana and the torrent of Victoria Falls. Team sizes from 10 to 16.