Disaster Management Internship in Africa

Summary

Art in Tanzania works with corporate and governmental institutions to tackle natural and artificial environmental disasters.

Details

Tanzanian public knowledge of Disaster management is poor. People and their properties are affected by floods, earthquakes, landslides, diseases like malaria, cholera, hunger, poverty, desert, global warming due to climate change, and industrial incidents from poor health and safety in the workplace.

This program aims to educate and build Tanzanian people about resilience from the early stage to the last set of disaster management, such as mitigation, preparedness, response, and prevention at schools and public shares, with the help of various governmental and non-governmental institutions.

Presently we work with entities such as Twiga Cement Industries, Coca-cola, the Tanzania government, NBC Bank, PVC, and AG-Energies Company Ltd. We are extending our program to work United Nations Organization.

This program has a cross-cutting focus where the students of different professionals can attend and work together.

The internship outcome is to learn to use your studies and experience to work in developing country conditions.

Work hours are 6-8 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Your program can be from 2 weeks to 12 months. Commonly internship is 2-3 months long. The placement starting dates are flexible.

Academic-level team leaders are daily supervising your internship. We monitor your work with a weekly plan and report system to secure you proceed well with your tasks.

We can take students in all year round as all programs are ongoing. Your placement is tailored to your background, experience, and interests to empower our daily work with the communities.

The typical morning tasks include practical fieldwork in the schools and communities, and afternoons are for planning, reporting, and social media visibility functions.

The Benefits and Perks are as follows:


Accommodation with breakfast and dinner is EUR 175 per week and is a personal expense. However, the cost drops to EUR 125 weekly after the first 13 weeks.


Airport transfers from and to EUR 120 are a personal expense


Charity VISA for immigration is USD 50 and is a personal expense. A 3-6 months charity VISA is USD 250, and 12 months one is USD 500.


We pay a USD 100 per month stipend to you. It is small but 2x Tanzania's national minimum wage. The minimum participation time is four weeks for the assistance.


Flights are a personal expense.

Local program transport in Tanzania is a personal expense but small if needed.

You and your visiting friends can enjoy low-cost sustainable tours and safaris.

We need your tentative arrival and departure to book you in and open your account.

Student work: https://www.slideshare.net/ArtinTanzania/art-in-tanzania-tanzania-climate-change-report

Participant reference: https://youtu.be/wsd846-tkQE 

and https://youtu.be/EnUbSvXT92Q and https://youtu.be/skkAoaAXoFU 

and https://youtu.be/IqgXsbGOk0g 

Students presently in Tanzania can be contacted at intern@artintanzania.org. Please also check their experiences at https://www.instagram.com/artintanzania/. In addition, our TIKTOK page is at https://www.tiktok.com/@artintanzania.

Participant reference: https://youtu.be/wsd846-tkQE

and https://youtu.be/EnUbSvXT92Q

Contact us for more details at info@artintanzania.org or visit us at www.artintanzania.org or SKYPE with us at infoartintanzania.

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