Women Projects in Tanzania with micatz

General Info

Maasai International Challenge Africa (MICATZ) offers the opportunity to work on meaningful projects in schools, orphanages, hospitals, health clinics, on different community projects and with government organizations.

Participants live with a host family and undertake voluntary work placements in social work, conservation, health care, or teaching English to nurseries, primary and secondary schools to children ranging in ages from 0 - 15 years old.

Tanzania, Maasai women are economically weak. Though Maasai culture is one of the major attractions of tourism industry in Tanzania, Maasai people are not benefited from the tourism industry. A local NGO in ILKDNGA and Monduli district is presently running different programs to uplift the economic condition of Maasai women.
 
ILKDNGA has been running an income generating projects for Maasai women. In this project, Maasai women are trained to make traditional Masai crafts, beads, clothes, handicrafts, and other goods. These products are later sold in market and part of this income goes to women. This is a wonderful project, if you enjoy Maasai culture and rural life of Maasai people.

Skill/Qualification
There is no specific qualification needed to join the women's project Tanzania. If you have skills in crafts, beading, and arts that would be great. You can join this project if you want to support the income generating efforts of Maasai women.
 
VOLUNTEERS ROLE
There is no formal structure (example well structured office or infrastructure) in this women project. There are 18 Maasai women's groups in 8 different villages of Mt. Meru. These Maasai women's groups are coordinated by ILKDNGA. You will travel each village to other village (nearly 30-50 minutes) each day and support them. There are many works that you can engage in.
 
• If you are an artist or professional having skills on crafts, beads, ornament, and handicrafts you can teach them the recent techniques/designs so that they can make better products and sell their products in markets.
 
• If you are non-professional but just want to work and support these Maasai women, then you can work with them learning how to make Maasai crafts, beads, ornaments. It would be a wonderful experience to work with one of the native tribes who respects foreigners.
• Maasai women's group also needs volunteers' help to learn English so that they can talk with tourists and sell their products directly. So, you can also run an informal English language class for Maasai women.
 
• If you have knowledge and skills about marketing, then you can help Maasai women to develop marketing strategies and help them to sell their products in national and international market.
 
Besides women's group, you can run English language classes for Maasai children and local youth with a little English knowledge Maasai youth can work as tourist guides making additional income for the family.