Travelling to Tanzania? Willing to Volunteer Teaching English to Kids?

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  altomic on 27/04/2016 - 23:24

  +1

  if you had caught me before I had had children then I would do this. I taught english in Japan for 4 years and enjoyed it immensely. your photos look amazing. hmm, maybe I should pull the kids out of school and move to tanzania. tempting.

  To any ozbargainer without children and no serious commitments - do this volunteer work. why not? an experience, you'd just waste your life doing nothing otherwise.

  Good luck happyvalley with finding volunteers.

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    KBZ on 28/04/2016 - 00:47

    +6

    I'm pretty sure getting paid to teach in a first world country especially Japan is completely different then a third world country like Tanzania.
    I wouldn't be going around recommending others on doing things I personally haven't done.

    Everyone please do your due diligence if you do want to volunteer, this organisation has only a blogspot and gmail address.
    I couldn't find any info with a google search.

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      Happyvalley on 30/04/2016 - 07:51

      Hi KBZ, Thank you for your observation. Indeed, Tanzania and Japan are two different countries, each country with it's own advantages and dis-advantages! May be my first post wasn't that clear, I will try to make myself clear: First, I should make it clear that I have myself lived in Australia for about four years when I was studying in NSW and this is the reason I thought of the giant Ozbargain website for my post. Second, our school has just started, it started in January 2016 to be exact, so we are not well established to be found on the web to the extent you might have expected. Having a blogspot is a stage for there are other well known international schools with no website and not even a blogspot. After all, this is Tanzania, investing heavily on website doesn't really pay for only a few individuals are used to googling and in most cases they end up without having what they were looking for because not much information is hosted in the web as it is in other developed countries. Third, our school is targeting volunteers who are in Tanzania for tourism purposes and are asked to spare a day, two, three etc to share life experiences with our teachers and kids. However, we would appreciate having volunteers who have come all the way from Australia to Tanzania to volunteer at our school. Now let it also be clear that we are looking for volunteers and not paid workers. People who would see the need to interact with Tanzanians at our school after/before they see wild animals and other stuff as tourists.

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    Happyvalley on 30/04/2016 - 07:17

    Hi Altomic, thank you for your understanding and for supporting our move to search for volunteers to teach English in our school.

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  Happyvalley on 20/10/2016 - 09:15

  Hi guys, it seems oz-bargainers are not that much traveling to Tanzania. Our school managed to get a volunteer from Holland and another from Germany and none from the lovely land of Kangaroo :C