2024 LOHADA (Loving hand for the disadvantaged and aged)
Host Organization: LOHADA (Loving hand for the disadvantaged and aged)
Website: https://lohada.org/
City: Arusha
Country: Tanzania
Internship format: In-person
Organization Profile: This Tanzanian-run, non-profit organization runs three centers — in Arusha, and in rural, northern Tanzania — serving hundreds of impoverished children and their extended families as well as elderly people exiled from their communities.
LOHADA strives to empower families by educating children and helping their guardians to break the bonds of prostitution, alcoholism, and abuse; and to be a guardian to children who have no one because they have been abandoned, orphaned, or abused.
Internship Department: Teaching, Health (Doctors, Nurses, Public Health, etc), Marketing
Department Profile: Overall, LOHADA provides multi-pronged interventions as encapsulated in its name, specifically: child and adult education, vocational training for women empowerment, affordable healthcare, shelter, and food through agricultural projects. Though it began as a children's home for the orphaned and the destitute, it has grown to cater for the aged in addition to providing a conducive accommodation to children born in prisons. Besides, LOHADA has a healthcare wing called Golden Grace through which it offers affordable healthcare to villagers in rural areas in the form of mobile clinics, cancer screening services and more. We have also instituted a program to train parents from nearby slum areas on upbringing so that when some of their children graduate out of LOHADA, they do not return to the same parenting environment which in fact led us to rescue them from. More information can be found in our website.
Project Description:
Specific jobs and roles are flexible, below are some roles the volunteer may take on:
- Nursery School Assistant — Helping with daily care, education, and recreation of younger children at Camp Moses.
- Grieving Center Therapist Assistant— Shadowing therapists/psychologists/counselors helping children deal with grief of losing a family member.
- Primary School Assistant — Working at Camp Joshua with primary school children, helping with lessons and recreation.
- Handyman/woman — assist with repair, maintenance, and improvement of LOHADA infrastructure.
- Special Education Instructor Assistant — Participate in the evaluation of children and assist LOHADA teachers to help students with learning disabilities.
- Teaching Assistant — Helping with teaching at the primary school
- Healthcare Assistant – Shadowing health professionals providing care and comfort to patients in LOHADA’s Healthcare facility located In Shinyanga.
Number of Opening(s): 2
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 24 – August 16, 2024): Five days a week and 35-40 hours a week
Work Attire: Semi-formal (modesty is esteemed in Tanzania)
Local Language: Swahili
Language level needed: Basic reading, writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford)
Additional desired intern qualifications: We encourage our interns to be flexible, open-minded and possess a growth mindset. To have successful experience it is important for the intern to be willing to learn and be culturally sensitive.
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