Spend 12 weeks within a hospital Mental Health Department in Arusha, learning alongside psychiatric-trained nurses, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers and other mental-health professionals. Your experience is supervised and shaped by your existing education, professional background, competence and the department’s current needs.
Depending on your training and scope, opportunities may include observing or participating in mental-health assessments, counselling, case discussions, psychoeducation, family support, documentation and community mental-health initiatives. You may also gain exposure to sober houses or other external programs where appropriate.
The experience goes beyond clinical practice. You’ll explore how culture, stigma, healthcare access, family, economics and social circumstances influence mental health while working towards a Level 3 Global Citizenship Diploma and experiencing Tanzania through the wider Academy program.
Almost everything you need for your 6 or 12 weeks in Tanzania is built into your Adventure Academy fee.
A small number of personal and independent costs remain outside your Academy program.
Settle into Academy life, meet your placement team and begin building genuine relationships. Through your internship, Global Citizenship learning and cultural experiences, you'll start understanding the people, place and context behind your work before deciding how you can contribute.
Become increasingly involved in your internship as your confidence and understanding grow. Alongside your placement partner, you'll begin exploring real challenges and identifying where your Legacy Project could make a useful, sustainable contribution.
Hit the road for your first signature overland journey — travelling from Arusha into Ngorongoro Crater, across the Serengeti and west to Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria. Six days of safari, road trips, wildlife and adventure mark the halfway point of your Academy experience.
Return to your internship and turn ideas into action through your partner-led Legacy Project. Co-design, build, test and refine something your placement has identified as genuinely useful — learning firsthand what responsible, community-led impact actually looks like.
Your second overland journey takes you from Arusha through the Usambara Mountains to historic Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam before crossing the Indian Ocean to Zanzibar. Finish with four days experiencing island culture, adventure and beach life before returning home to Arusha.
Return to your internship to see how your project works without you, make final improvements and hand it over properly. Your final weeks in Arusha bring everything together through reflection, final placement days, Diploma completion, graduation and one last celebration with your Academy crew.
Settle into life in Arusha, meet your placement team and quickly move from orientation into hands-on participation. Global Citizenship learning and cultural experiences help you understand the context behind your work as you begin identifying your Legacy Project.
Work alongside your placement partner to co-design, build and test a focused Legacy Project, while continuing your internship, Academy workshops, cultural afternoons and Tanzania Adventure Days.
Hit the road for your signature overland journey through Ngorongoro and the Serengeti to Mwanza and Lake Victoria — six days of safari, wildlife, road trips and adventure across northern Tanzania.
Return to Arusha for your final placement week, refine and hand over your Legacy Project, complete your Global Citizenship learning and finish with graduation, goodbyes and one last celebration with your Academy crew.
Monday
Start the week with breakfast before heading to your internship placement, then spend the afternoon wrapping up placement activities, planning and enjoying some free time.
Tuesday
Start with optional morning yoga before heading to placement, followed by an afternoon Global Citizenship workshop exploring culture, ethics, sustainability and responsible global action.
Wednesday
Spend your morning at placement before switching into Tanzania mode with an afternoon of Swahili, cooking, art, music or another rotating cultural experience.
Thursday
Head to placement in the morning before an afternoon of personal growth, reflection and wellbeing, then switch off for Academy Social Night, drinks, games or Arusha nightlife.
Friday
Spend the morning at placement or developing your Legacy Project, then enjoy a free afternoon for cafés, the pool, markets, the gym or whatever you feel like doing.
Saturday
Saturdays are made for exploring, with Academy adventures taking you to waterfalls, coffee country, hot springs, cultural experiences, cycling trips and beyond.
Sunday
Sleep in, enjoy a slow breakfast and spend the day by the pool, exploring Arusha, grabbing brunch or simply recharging with your Academy crew.
Your placement gives you clinical experience, but the Academy helps you understand the wider forces shaping mental health, including culture, stigma, access, family, economics and social circumstances.
You’ll explore how mental-health beliefs, help-seeking, treatment and recovery can differ across cultures while learning from Tanzanian professionals working within real healthcare and resource constraints.
Explore how culture influences mental-health beliefs, presentation, treatment, help-seeking and recovery.
Understand how stigma, resources and social attitudes can influence whether people seek mental-health support.
Explore how poverty, employment, housing, relationships, education and social support can influence psychological wellbeing.
Understand the challenges of delivering mental-health care within different healthcare systems and resource settings.
Your Legacy Project develops from your placement experience. You’ll spend time understanding the department, listening to local professionals and identifying a practical priority rather than arriving with a predetermined intervention.
Together with qualified local professionals, you may develop psychoeducation resources, awareness materials, family-support resources, coping-skills resources, referral information or another project identified as useful by the department.
Subject to successful completion of the required academic components, you’ll work towards an accredited Level 3 Diploma in Global Citizenship in Community Development – Childcare & Early Education.
Alongside your qualification, you’ll build practical experience working with Tanzanian educators and young children, develop a collaborative Legacy Project, and strengthen the communication, teamwork, leadership and cross-cultural skills that can support your future study and career.
Work towards a Level 3 Diploma in Global Citizenship in Community Development – Childcare & Early Education, giving your international experience a recognised educational outcome.
Gain approximately three months of hands-on early childhood education experience, working alongside Tanzanian teachers and supporting children through learning, play and creative activities.
Build communication, teamwork, leadership, independence, adaptability and cross-cultural skills while developing practical experience you can carry into future study, work and applications.
Develop practical Swahili, explore community development and ethical international engagement, and learn how culture and local context shape responsible work with communities.
Living in Arusha gives you a home base beyond the hospital. You’ll share Academy life with an international cohort through meals, social nights, workshops, games, movie nights, adventures and everyday downtime.
Outside your placement, you’ll experience Swahili, Tanzanian culture, safari, mountains, waterfalls, coffee country and Zanzibar on the 12-week Academy. The result is a balance between serious professional learning and actually living in Tanzania.
For the next 6 or 12 weeks, this is more than somewhere you sleep – it’s home. Share a comfortable room with one or two other Academy travellers, each with a private bathroom and balcony off the main house, and enjoy Wi-Fi, hot showers, 24/7 security, a restaurant and bar, garden hangouts and a cosy indoor movie room.
It’s also the heart of Academy life – morning yoga in the garden, workshops and cultural afternoons around the house, lazy hours soaking up the African sun, movie and games nights, dinners and drinks at the bar, music, parties and plenty of spontaneous nights with your Academy crew.
Yes. This is a restricted-entry clinical internship. You must be currently enrolled in or already qualified in a relevant field.
Your responsibilities depend on your education, experience, competence and supervision. Clinical activities are only undertaken where appropriate and authorised by medical professionals. So you have a proper supervisor.
You may work alongside doctors, nurses, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers and other mental-health practitioners within the hospital department.
Depending on your scope, opportunities may include assessments, counselling, case discussions, treatment planning, psychoeducation, family support and community initiatives.
Not necessarily. Depending on current activities, opportunities may include community initiatives, sober houses and other external mental-health programs.
It's a collaborative project developed around an actual priority identified by the department, rather than a predetermined intervention brought from home. Its a project that you develop and leave behind, to be utilised long after your departure!
Subject to completing the academic requirements, you'll work towards a Level 3 Diploma in Global Citizenship in Global Health!
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