The following facilities are available for volunteering:

 

• St. Monica Kindergarten and Primary School, Stone Town (1 or 2 Weeks)
• Mother Nature Coastal Conservation Program Matemwe (for the 2nd Week)
• Mother Nature Tropical Rainforest Conservation Program Jozani Forest (for the 2nd Week)
• Jozani Community School (for the 2nd Week)

 

Day 1
Arrival by flight to Zanzibar airport and transfer to your accommodation.

 

Day 2
Work at your volunteer placement. You will be picked up at your accommodation in the morning and taken to the site. At 3.00 p.m., you will then be picked up and given an approximately 2-hour tour of Stone Town, the historic part of Zanzibar Town.

 

Day 3
After you have completed the second morning at your volunteer assignment, you have a "Spice Tour", a tour of a spice plantation in the afternoon. Besides exotic spices, tropical fruits are grown here that you can see, smell and taste.

 

Day 4
Full-day trip "Safari Blue“. From Fumba in the South of Zanzibar, on a dhow, the traditional sailing ship of the Indian Ocean, you will explore the natural wonders of Menai Bay. There will be a fruit snack on a sandbank, you can snorkel at a coral reef and swim in a lagoon. On an island there will be a beach barbecue with fish, lobster, chicken, vegetables and a tropical fruit tasting. You can also learn how to navigate a “Ngalawa”, the outrigger canoe of the local fishermen. In Menai Bay it is often possible to see dolphins. In the late afternoon, we will sail back to Fumba. Alcoholic beverages are inclusive.

 

Day 5
In the morning, you are at your volunteer placement. The afternoon is free, which you can use to explore Stone Town, either alone or with other volunteers. There are many small shops from which you can buy souvenirs.

 

Day 6
In the morning, volunteering in your site. In the afternoon, you take part in a Workshop at the Zanzibar Cultural Arts Centre, offered by local artisans. Depending on availability, you can make craft with paper, make candles, produce soap, do painting, make necklaces made of paper beads or do screen printing on a t-shirt.

 

Day 7
Full day tour! The day starts with a visit of the Jozani Forest National Park, which is famous for its endemic Red Colobus Monkeys. Besides some colonies of monkeys, you can see the impressive plants and trees of this tropical rainforest and you can have a stroll through the mangrove area. After this, we will drive to the Zanzibar Butterfly Centre, East Africa’s largest covered space for butterflies, which is a project of sustainable tourism. As the butterflies only live for a few weeks, the centre is in constant need of new butterflies. These are bred by the villagers of the nearby village Pete under the guidance of a biologist and sold to the butterfly centre.

Afterwards, we visit the handcraft project “MOTO”, where we will first have lunch. Then, we will see how a women’s cooperative produces wickerwork and braided objects. They also weave Kikoi fabrics that they tint, making use of solar technology. You can even try out everything yourself! Another highlight is a visit to the Zanzibar Turtles and Tortoise Land. It is a small park which is run by a farmer's cooperative who are being supported by World Unite! volunteers. The park has amongst other reptiles Aldabra Giant Tortoises, which is a protected species. You return to your accommodation in the late afternoon.

 

If you spend the second week in Kitogani, you stay there throughout.

 

The second week, you can either continue to spend in the city, or in Kitogani, or in Nungwi. Kitogani is a farming and fishing village in the south of Zanzibar, where little has changed in the last hundreds of years. You will find a piece of original Zanzibar, which was hardly influenced by tourism and modern development. You will live on full board with a local host family of simple standards or alternatively, if you prefer, at our Mother Nature Forest Camp. Matemwe, in the northeast of Zanzibar, however, is a beach resort with tourism. In Matemwe you can experience Zanzibar in both its rural life in the village, as well as aspects of beach tourism. In Matemwe, you live at the Mother Nature Camp on full board (or similar accommodation, if not available). If you are in Kitogani, then you start the morning of the 8th day with volunteering at the Mother Nature environmental conservation program or at the village school. If you continue in Matemwe, then you are transferred in the morning to your accommodation at the sea turtle bungalow, and you will start your volunteer assignment on the same day. If you stay in town, you continue with your previous volunteer assignment.

 

Volunteering at your project.

 

If you are in Kitogani or in the city then you will join a full-day canoe tour through the mangroves between Zanzibar's main island Unguja and Uzi Island. You will also walk through Uzi Island where you will have lunch with a host family and get to know the traditional life of Uzi Island's fishermen and farmers. You will return to your accommodation in the late afternoon.

 

Transfer to the airport for flight to Zanzibar Kilimanjaro (JRO). There you will be met and transferred to Moshi - Accommodation at Kili Cottages on full board. In the afternoon, there is a briefing for the safari that starts the next morning.

 

In the morning, start 5-day safari from Moshi. On the first day of the safari, we drive from Moshi to the Lake Manyara National Park (takes about 4 hours). The lake is impressively framed by the hills of the East African Rift Valley. In the tall trees, the humid forest monkeys swing from branch to branch and elephants stand in the shade of acacia trees. You can also see many zebras, impalas, giraffes, hippos and waterfowl. Lunch Box is provided on the go. Dinner is in Karatu (camping or Simple Lodge).

 

On the second day, we drive to the Serengeti National Park through Olduvai Gorge. The Olduvai Gorge is a bizarre landscape, which was created over millions of years due to tectonic shifts. Here, they found significant remnants of early human beings which were fundamental in understanding the evolution of mankind. On the way to the Serengeti, we see many wild animals like wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, giraffes, elephants, antelopes, monkeys and various types of monkeys and birds. Lunchbox is provided on the way. In the late afternoon, we arrive at our accommodation in the area Ikoma, where we have dinner and and camp overnight.

 

Day 16
On the third day of the safari, we have a day long safari in the world famous Serengeti National Park, in which there is the highest density of wild animals worldwide! Lunchbox lunch is provided and evening meals are in our camp site in the Ikoma Area.

 

Day 17
After breakfast, we go on a 30 minutes drive from the lodge to Ngorongoro Crater. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest non-flooded volcanic crater of the earth, one of the most important natural wonders of our planet. It is not only the home of the endangered black rhino, but also there are lions, leopards, hyenas, antelopes and flamingos. We will have picnic lunch near the “Hippo Pool”. Then we go back for dinner and stay at our accommodation in Karatu (camping or Simple Lodge).

 

 

Day 18
On the fifth day on safari, we visit the Tarangire National Park. The landscape of Tarangire is different from the other National Park in northern Tanzania, with lots of baobab trees and thick bushes. There are many elephants and tree-climbing lions that live here. Lunchbox is provided on the way. In the afternoon, we drive back to Moshi and the accommodation at Kili Cottages.

 

Free morning in Moshi. In the afternoon is a visit of Shah Industries, a Workshop and Shop for souvenirs made ​​of leather and horn, where many people with impairment work. Accommodation is at Kili Cottages.

 

Day trip to Materuni Waterfall and Materuni Village. The Materuni waterfall, with a height of almost 150 m (500 ft) is the highest and most impressive waterfall at the slopes of Kilimanjaro of the Moshi area. From Materuni Village, we will walk some 30 minutes to the waterfall. The walk itself is interesting, as you will see some smaller waterfalls and lots of waterways which are part of the irrigation system of the local farmers who grow coffee, bananas and many other fruits and vegetables.

 

At the waterfall, you can even refresh in the cool and crystal clear water – don’t forget to bring your swimwear! When we return, we will have a late lunch at Materuni village and then we will do a small walk around the village to see the typical life of the Chagga tribe. The village, located at a height of around 1300 m (4300 ft) above sea level is set within a dramatic landscape of high rises and deep valleys, all covered by tropical rain forest. Accommodation at Kili Cottages.

 

Full day trip to a Maasai village in Arusha. There, you can drag the steppe with the Maasai with a herd cattle or goats and learn about the Maasai culture. The Maasai will show you their traditional dance, their houses, their handicrafts and their school. Lunchbox is brought with you. Then you head back to Moshi and accommodation is at Kili Cottages with dinner.

 

Transfer to JRO airport for your departure.

 

 

Details about St. Monica Kindergarten.

 

Details about Primary School at Kitogani.