Environmental Advocacy Internship in Africa

Summary

Art in Tanzania is introducing and implementing environmentally friendly solutions for Tanzanian communities. These solutions include dry toilets, composting and household water reuse, and solar water purification systems. We also emphasize sustainable tourism operations.

Details

Environment Advocacy placement is an essential task in Tanzania as the public knowledge of environmental protection is poor.

Tanzanian communities lack the economic strength needed to implement environmentally friendly solutions in their households.

Presently, less than 50% of households have a toilet. Interns are developing sustainable and affordable solutions, including dry toilets for homes and schools.

This program includes an introduction to solar-based water purification as well. Other green work includes developing compost, finding sustainable sources for providing heat for cooking, developing tree and bamboo nurseries, educating the neighbourhood, and doing advocacy work.

Sustainable Wildlife Safaris and other tourism operations are essential local sources of funding. The safaris also help us work towards sustainability.

We are developing a sustainable NGO business model to streamline revenue into communities.

You can also get experience in an African tree nursery and help in planting operations.

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, an internship is 2-3 months long. The placement starting dates are flexible.

Academic-level team leaders are supervising your internship daily. We monitor your work with a weekly plan and report system to ensure 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 USD 175 per week and is a personal expense. However, the cost drops to USD 125 per week after the first 13 weeks.

• Airport transfers from and to USD 120 are a personal expense
. • Charity VISA for immigration is USD 50. A 3-6 months charity VISA is USD 250, and 12 month one is USD 500.

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

• Flights are a personal expense.
• Local transport programs in Tanzania are a personal expense but are small if needed. 

You and your visiting friends can enjoy our sustainable tourism program

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

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

Participant references https://youtu.be/wsd846-tkQE and https://youtu.be/skkAoaAXoFU and https://youtu.be/EnUbSvXT92Q and https://youtu.be/IqgXsbGOk0g

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

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.

Contact us for more details at info@artintanzania.org or SKYPE with us at infoartintanzania. You can also send a quick note via WhatsApp at +255767777773.

Web: https://www.artintanzania.org

Application: https://www.artintanzania.org/application

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/artintanzania

Blog: http://www.volunteer-africa-blog.org

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/artintanzania

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/art-in-tanzania

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/artintanzania

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artintanzania/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/artintanzania

This program has multi-professional aspects, so we tailor the tasks according to the participant's skill level. Research-oriented approaches are also welcome to develop the community-level issues and skills of the Tanzanian people in common. Students with disabilities are welcome.