For 6 or 10 weeks, Tanzania becomes your classroom, your workplace and your home. Intern alongside local professionals, work towards a Certificate in Global Citizenship, explore the country and share the whole experience with an international cohort.
Academy life is a huge part of the experience. You’ll live alongside a group of young people from across Europe, the UK, Australia, North America and beyond — sharing everyday moments, big adventures and the slightly chaotic stories that turn a group of strangers into your Tanzania family.
Your Academy Home Base is more than somewhere to sleep. It’s where you’ll eat together, learn together, hang out, make plans, celebrate, study and unwind between internships and adventures.
Whether you join us for 6 or 10 weeks, your Academy experience follows a journey of discovery, learning, contribution and personal growth.
You’ll settle into life in Tanzania, gain experience alongside local professionals, explore Global Citizenship, build friendships and contribute to a partner-led Legacy Project. Along the way, you’ll experience incredible adventures before finishing with reflection, celebration and graduation.
Six weeks gives you the complete Academy experience. Twelve weeks gives you more time to go deeper.
STAGE 01
Settle into Tanzania, meet your international cohort, begin your internship and discover your new surroundings.
Arrive · Adapt · Connect · Explore
STAGE 02
Build relationships at your placement, take part in Global Citizenship workshops and develop new skills and perspectives.
Listen · Learn · Question · Reflect
STAGE 03
Collaborate with local partners on your Legacy Project and discover Tanzania through safari, overland travel and shared adventures.
Collaborate · Contribute · Discover · Grow
STAGE 04
Complete your Academy journey, reflect on what you've learned, celebrate with your cohort and graduate with experiences that stay with you.
Reflect · Celebrate · Graduate · Take It Forward
Spend your weekdays alongside Tanzanian professionals and local organisations, gaining practical experience, building relationships and discovering what meaningful, responsible contribution looks like.
Choose a pathway that reflects your interests, your passions and where you want to go next.
Support locally led education, youth development and community initiatives while learning from the people making a difference every day.
Gain experience alongside animal-care and veterinary professionals, supporting animal welfare and responsible conservation initiatives.
Explore healthcare in Tanzania through supervised hospital and community-based experiences, learning alongside local healthcare professionals.
Living abroad brings new routines, challenges, friendships and responsibilities. Through your internship, personal development workshops and everyday Academy life, you’ll have the space to reflect, grow and discover what you’re capable of.
Understand your values and perspective while discovering what shapes you most.
Build confidence through new experiences, challenges and greater independence.
Learn to adapt, solve problems and navigate unfamiliar situations with resilience.
Develop communication, responsibility and leadership through real-world experience.
Your Legacy Project is developed alongside your local placement partner, shaped by real priorities and built around what can genuinely be useful. Through listening, collaboration and practical action, you’ll contribute to something designed to support the people and organisations you work with beyond your time in Tanzania.
Shaped by the needs and priorities identified by your local partner
Designed around available resources, time and local capacity.
Focused on something practical that responds to a genuine need.
Created with long-term relevance and local ownership in mind.
Developed with your partner so it can be understood, used or adapted after you leave.
Your Academy is more than an internship abroad. Alongside your placement, you’ll take part in structured Global Citizenship learning and work towards a Certificate in Global Citizenship & Ethical Volunteering — turning your experiences in Tanzania into meaningful learning and a qualification to take home.
Learning through experience. Your internship, Global Citizenship workshops, cultural immersion and personal reflection all come together to help you understand the world — and your place within it.
Your Academy experience doesn’t stop when your internship day ends. From weekly Adventure Days and cultural experiences to unforgettable safaris and overland journeys, exploring Tanzania is built into your 6- or 12-week programme. Discover incredible places, make memories with your international cohort and experience a side of Tanzania most visitors never get to see.
From waterfalls and mountain trails to local markets, cycling, beach days and cultural experiences — Saturdays are made for discovering somewhere new with your cohort.
Experience Tanzania’s extraordinary wildlife on included safaris to Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. The Zanzibar Academy also takes you into the legendary Serengeti.
Travel beyond your Academy home base on an included journey through Tanzania — from the Swahili coast to Zanzibar’s beaches, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and extended routes on the 12-week Academy.
Discover Swahili, Tanzanian food, music, dance and local traditions, alongside shared dinners, social nights and everyday adventures with your Academy community.
Explore deeper causes, systems and circumstances behind visible issues
Explore how culture, background and experience shape your perspective.
Explore when outside support helps and how volunteering can cause harm.
Consider who decides, tells stories and whose perspectives are missing.
Explore what happens after volunteers leave and how local systems continue
Live, learn, intern and travel in Tanzania through immersive 6 and 12-week Academy experiences in Arusha and Zanzibar.
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