On 23rd this month I had to travel from Dar es Salaam to the amazing Moshi town under invitation by a local NGO that is working hard to bring a change in the way the society thinks of volunteer-ism. Its a sad fact that near everywhere you come across various community development projects with volunteers it has always been foreigners. People from USA, Canada and other European states paying hundred of dollars to come to volunteer in Africa.
With little knowledge of the culture in the society they come to work in, plus short time of their stay we find most of these projects not bring the aimed results or success.
This is why Africa Volunteer Corps came into being, a Moshi based NGO founded with a mission to unite passionate, qualified African volunteers with African NGOs to
deepen their impact and empower Africans to play a vital role in shaping
Africa's future.
Before allocating the volunteers to the specific NGOs, AVC conduct a seminar to impart important knowledge and train the volunteers on various skills that will help them in their activities to their respective areas and even far beyond when they finish their time with volunteer work. And this is where I came into being, I went there to train on Social Media use. :-) !
I met great people and it was a real great experience and as a promoter of 'WE CAN' slogan for my fellow Tanzanians what AVC is doing is more than 'awesome'. I believe young people if are empowered as what AVC is doing there is a lot of good and amazing positive change that may take place in our communities. And this is just a beginning AVC has a goal to expand all over Tanzania, Mwanza is next! | |
| With Some of the Volunteers Acting our first Twitter hashtag #nitaruka |
For more information about this AFRICA VOLUNTEER CORPS visit http://africavolunteercorps.org/
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