Medical Volunteering in Tanzania

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Recruiting Organization: Art in Tanzania

Summary

Art in Tanzania helps small community clinics in the villages and larger hospitals. Tanzania's healthcare is missing professional medical staff. You can assist in developing healthcare, but you also get great experience working in a developing country with limited medical facilities.

Details

Art in Tanzania, a community medical support team works in Dar es Salaam. In the Madale village medical support program, we can combine small village clinics with larger hospitals.

The public health program focuses on helping and educating the village communities about nutrition, sports and exercise, art therapy, sustainability, and other fields.

Typical hospital clinical work placement includes:

1. Internal medicine

2. Paediatrics

3. Obstetrics

4 Gynaecology

5 Emergency

6 Radiology

7 Laboratory

8 Ambulance

9 Psychiatry

10 Psychology

11 Orthopaedic

12 Ent

13 Pharmacy

14 CTC

Tanzanian pharmacies are far from Western standards. Specifically, small village pharmacies need training and advocacy to develop their prototypes.

The medical program also includes HIV/AIDS counselling, advocacy, testing, and events for raising awareness.

The internship outcome is to learn to use your studies and experience to work in a developing country's 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 supervise 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 your daily work with the community.

You can also conduct the thesis, related tasks, and internship placement.

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 EUR 175 per week and is a personal expense. However, the cost drops to EUR 125 weekly after the first 13 weeks.

Airport transfers from and to EUR 120 are a personal expense.

A charity student or volunteer VISA is USD 50 and is a personal expense. Less than a 1-year multiple-entry charity VISA is USD 250.

We pay a USD 100 per month stipend to you. It is small but 2x Tanzania's national minimum wage.

Flights are a personal expense.

The local transport program in Tanzania is a personal expense but small if needed.

You and your visiting friends can enjoy low-cost, sustainable tours and safaris.

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

Medical Interns https://youtu.be/6s-6shHLuLA

Student references https://youtu.be/gAW-z5zzWj4 and https://youtu.be/EnUbSvXT92Q and https://youtu.be/VDh9s9-5WXQ

and https://youtu.be/RAyuDd92Zu4 and https://youtu.be/IqgXsbGOk0g

Students presently in Tanzania can be contacted at intern@artintanzania.org, and please also check their experiences at https://www.instagram.com/artintanzania/.

Contact us for more details at info@artintanzania.org or SKYPE with us at infoartintanzania. You can always send a quick note to our 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-africablog.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

Stipend Provided

Training Provided

Housing Available

Language/Cultral Support Available

Wheelchair AccessibleFalse

Fee RequiredFalse

Fee Amount: None

This opportunity is recurring