Spring Break Programs

Volunteers support local childcare centers and community programs by assisting with educational activities, creative play, and day-to-day care. Working alongside experienced caregivers, participants help foster nurturing environments that promote children’s learning, confidence, and well-being. This hands-on experience encourages cultural exchange and strengthens community bonds. Volunteers play a vital role in empowering young learners while contributing to sustainable, community-led care initiatives.

Volunteers work in partnership with local educators and caregivers to support the development and well-being of children through care, creative learning, and daily engagement. Activities may include assisting with early education, organizing play-based learning, and helping with everyday routines. This immersive experience promotes cross-cultural understanding while strengthening community-based childcare efforts. Volunteers contribute meaningfully to empowering children and supporting inclusive, compassionate environments where every child can thrive.

Assist locals with much needed construction, repairs and renovations. Get your hands dirty and engage with the community! Our projects are dictated by community need. As a result, you may be renovating a school, building a home, or constructing a community center. No matter which phase of a project you join, be assured that your contribution will be lasting and greatly appreciated. No experience is necessary, as you will be working alongside locals with lots of experience using local materials.

By joining a building project, you will bring the human-power that is needed to fuel the construction. Projects are selected by community need, which creates a variety of different projects. Education

During your program you will get to help run Art Clubs in local schools, using any number of different mediums. Your efforts will be helping local children use their own creative abilities to express themselves and produce their own works of art that they can be proud of.

The aims and objectives of this project are:

• Deepen the artistic and creative expression of local children and yourself
• Broaden cultural interactions through learning and idea exchange
• Gain invaluable and practical experience in teaching
• Expand your knowledge of Ghanaian customs, history, art and culture

Typically you can choose the age group you’d prefer to work with, and then develop a syllabus for your class and dete

This is a great opportunity for prospective medical students to not only hone their medical skills through international work experience, but also provide medical assistance to people and places with less resources available to them.

The hospital is an institution established in 1975 which is operated by a religious order in the community, and initially focused on providing medical care to expectant mothers and children. As the population grew in Arusha, the need for varied care grew as well. Over time this medical facility has grown to become the second largest hospital in Arusha with an in-patient capacity of 100 and well over 100 staff members. It now handles patients in Obstetrics/Gyneco

In many parts of the country, there are increasing numbers of children and minors who have been left to fend for themselves, due to unfortunate circumstances. You can join a dedicated team of local staff in their efforts to help Ghanaians in need, by teaching, renovating, and completing various other tasks.

The teaching staff are often overworked and therefore welcome any help that can be given. Working as a teacher’s assistant in the school or taking on other projects provides the staff with invaluable support and often frees-up their time to give the children the one-to-one attention they need.

Your ability to speak English will mean that you can help with English lessons which can provide