Spend 12 weeks working alongside a local animal-welfare organisation and qualified Tanzanian veterinarian in Arusha. Your placement combines shelter-based animal care with community veterinary outreach, giving you experience across the different sides of animal welfare.
At the shelter, you may support feeding, walking, cleaning, rehabilitation, socialisation, enrichment and recovery care for rescued dogs and cats. Outside the shelter, you may accompany the veterinary team into local communities to respond to animals needing assistance, support vaccination and preventative healthcare, or participate in animal-welfare education.
Your responsibilities develop according to your experience and confidence, with veterinary activities undertaken only where appropriate and under professional supervision. Alongside your placement, the Academy combines Global Citizenship learning, personal development, Swahili, cultural experiences, travel and a collaborative Legacy Project.
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.
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.
Your placement gives you practical experience, while Global Citizenship learning helps you understand the wider systems connecting animal welfare with communities, health, culture and development.
Explore veterinary access, public health, vaccination, responsible ownership, conservation, economics and cultural perspectives while learning why sustainable animal welfare requires more than treating individual animals.
Your Legacy Project develops through your placement. You’ll spend time understanding the shelter, listening to local staff and identifying where a practical contribution could genuinely help.
Together with the organisation, you may develop animal-care education resources, vaccination awareness materials, enrichment systems, adoption resources, shelter-care tools or another useful project identified by the local team.
More than memories. You’ll leave Tanzania with practical animal welfare experience, recognised learning and a deeper understanding of communities, culture and responsible international engagement. Living and working alongside local professionals will help you develop confidence, resilience, adaptability and independence while gaining new perspectives that can shape your future studies, career and approach to the world.
Gain practical animal welfare experience through rescue, rehabilitation, preventative care and supervised veterinary outreach in Tanzania.
Work towards a Level 3 Global Citizenship Diploma in Wildlife Conservation alongside your practical placement experience and Academy learning in Tanzania.
Understand animal welfare through community, health, cultural and environmental perspectives while exploring responsible approaches to international development.
Build confidence, resilience, adaptability and independence while living, learning and working alongside professionals and communities in Tanzania.
Your animal-welfare placement is only one part of your time in Tanzania. Live alongside your international Academy cohort while learning Swahili, experiencing local culture and exploring northern Tanzania together.
Between placement days, you’ll have shared meals, social nights, games, movie nights, spontaneous plans and weekends exploring the country. Adventure Days, safari and the 12-week Zanzibar escape give you the chance to experience Tanzania far beyond your placement.
No. Previous veterinary experience is not required. Your responsibilities are matched to your skills, confidence and experience. You work under a highly experienced and qualified veterinarian who guides and assists you.
The placement primarily focuses on dogs and cats, but cases can also involve donkeys, livestock and other rescued animals depending on current needs.
Your involvement depends on your experience and the veterinarian's direction. Veterinary activities are undertaken only where appropriate and under professional supervision. There is plenty of opportunity to get heavily involved in much of the work and is a very rewarding project.
You may support feeding, walking, cleaning, bathing, socialisation, enrichment, rehabilitation and monitoring animals during recovery.
Yes, most days you accompany the veterinary team into homes and local communities for rescue, vaccination, preventative care and animal-welfare outreach.
Possible examples include animal-care education, vaccination awareness, enrichment, adoption resources, shelter systems, rehabilitation resources or community outreach materials.
It can suit gap-year students, aspiring veterinary students, animal-science, zoology, biology, conservation students and people considering animal-related careers.
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