Human Rights Internships Abroad in Tanzania

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Human Rights Internships Abroad in Tanzania

Volunteer Human Rights in Tanzania

Our Human Rights project in Tanzania is located in the town of Arusha. As an intern you will be given the opportunity to work alongside a respected humanitarian organization while gaining direct experience in human rights in practice.

Projects Abroad works closely with an independent NGO that strives to impact the lives of those who are most vulnerable. They work directly with the local communities assessing the needs and putting strategies in place in order to overcome difficulties in the areas of education, community health, counseling, legal aid, and socio-economic empowerment.

Volunteering on a Human Rights Internship in Tanzania

Interns work alongside qualified and passionate individuals in and around the town of Arusha in northern Tanzania. Even though the placement helps a wide variety of people, their priority lies with women and children, specifically single mothers, orphans, and at-risk youth. You will be given the opportunity to broaden your skills while also making a real contribution to people’s quality of life.

This Human Rights project offers interns the unique opportunity to get involved at a grass roots level. Many communities in Tanzania still live in poverty. The organization we work with focuses on creating programs which help individuals in the battle against ignorance, diseases, poverty, HIV and AIDS, and environmental degradation.

International Human Rights Opportunities with Projects Abroad

Interns are involved in some of the following areas:

  • Promoting the importance of health through workshops and presentations in a target community.
  • Education and creating awareness about HIV and AIDS.
  • Educating communities on the harmful effects of female genital mutilation.
  • Aiming to reduce mortality rates of under-fives by educating target groups and communities about the importance of breast feeding, food security, and nutrition.
  • Educating and creating awareness in communities about the rights of disabled children, therefore ensuring that all children have equal rights and disabled children can be given the opportunity to develop into positive family and community members.
  • Supporting orphaned children and teenagers who are at risk of sexual abuse, drug abuse, and drug addition
  • Educating communities on the issues of family planning and sexually transmitted diseases, ensuring in the long run that children are born into and grow up with good healthy families where parents share equal responsibility.
  • Identifying cultural traditions, beliefs, and taboos that are gender discriminative and then educating and carrying out campaigns in order to change these views.

These aims and objectives and their strategies are at the forefront of the work which is carried out on the Human Rights project. However, the project never stops developing and growing, so new issues arise on a regular basis and new strategies are constantly being put in place in order to overcome these issues and help those who are most in need.

As an intern you will be able to get involved in a variety of different areas depending on your level of experience and areas of interest. It is important that you are flexible, communicate well, and are eager and willing to learn. With the help of committed interns this project can achieve many short and long term goals within the local communities of Tanzania