Design a Virtual Volunteer Project in Tanzania
That builds greater opportunities for women and children with disabilities
How you’ll expand opportunities for women with disabilities in Tanzania
Give women the gift of work so they can save lives
Your experience ensures that each NGO leader is paid to work with volunteers so that she is not reliant on donor funding or contributions to support her community & provide life saving services.
Design projects that have a longterm impact
Your virtual volunteer project is kept in a database and shared with other women led partners in the country so that projects don’t have a onetime impact & can continually support communities
Support another woman’s internship project
Your virtual volunteer project will go to support the virtual project of another woman in the country you selected through our Intern 2 Intern Program and you’ll get the chance to work with her on your project
“I worked on a project to strengthen leadership skills for women entrepreneurs living with a disability in Tanzania. If you get a chance, definitely do this! ”
— Danielle, USA
Explore the education & entrepreneurship projects in Tanzania our Volunteer Fellows are involved with
Education For All
Your education project will help increase learning opportunities for young women and children living with a disability. It can also work to reduce the discrimination many youth face and provide additional training to educators and stakeholders on how to increase support of children living with a disability.
Entrepreneurship For Women
Your entrepreneurship project will help build skills for young women living with a disability who are learning entrepreneurship. It can also work to reduce job discrimination many women face and increase stakeholders ability to support women living with a disability find meaningful work
Lalita designed a video to promote sign language learning between women
“Technology helped me learn more about Tanzania and the culture and the country. I’m excited to explore more & see the impact of the project in connecting us!”
-Lalita, USA
Meet Your Project Parter
Aneth is the Executive Director of FUWAVITA and began the organization after experiencing job discrimination due to being a woman who is Deaf. She works across Tanzania to empower women living with disabilities.
Want to learn about what’s included in the program?
Check out how it works
FAQs about the projects
But I wanna be a special education teacher. Why aren’t you placing me with a school?
It’s simple. You design a volunteer project our partner can use to improve school access for youth living with a disability.
If we place you at a school, it is taking away jobs from local teachers & that’s not what we’re about.
Do you work with a lot of NGOS?
No. In each country we work with only 1 NGO per cause & are proud to work with FUWAVITA in supporting women living with disabilities.
Why? Because many organizations are less effective than a few scrappy, powerhouse women led ones working together.
Ps. Not gonna lie, we love this
Why women led only organizations?
Because when you invest in a woman, she invests in her community.
& You give her the capital to change the world.
Do you pay the NGOs or donate to them?
We are honored to be providing meaningful work to the partners we work with. When they work with you, they get paid to share their expertise.
This then allows them to invest in their organizations, without relying on donor funding.
We love this. They love this. It works.
This is my first time. How do I create my own volunteer project with the partner?
We totally get you & walk you through every step to decide on a project based on your personal goals. Let’s take an example of a potential project.
Let’s say you are studying to be a teacher & are passionate about disability activism. You also secretly love Instagram & wanna learn how to create educational materials for youth. We would help you plan an Instagram campaign using stories to build literacy for Deaf youth in Tanzania.
What is the impact on the partners?
Money to run their own orgs (yesss)
New innovations (designed by you!) that are stored online in a database with A Tree That Grows & the NGO, which can be shared throughout the country
Capacity building from A Tree that Grows on running online internship programs for their own communities
& sponsoring an internship for another woman through our Intern 2 Intern Program
For more Qs about the impact of our projects check out our FAQs
Accepting Only 30 Volunteer Fellows Per Session
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