Spend 12 weeks working within a local school community in Arusha, supporting more than 250 children and young people aged approximately 7–18. Your placement combines sports coaching with youth development, health and wellness education, mentorship and sporting events.
Depending on age groups, schedules and activities, you may coach football, basketball or volleyball, develop fitness activities, support training sessions, prepare students for competitions or help deliver learning around nutrition, exercise, the human body and healthy lifestyles.
As you build relationships with students and teachers, your role develops beyond individual activities. You’ll work collaboratively towards a Legacy Project that responds to a genuine priority within the school’s sports or wellness program.
Alongside your placement, the Academy combines Global Citizenship learning, personal development, Swahili, Tanzanian culture, travel and an accredited Level 3 Diploma.
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.
Your 12 weeks are designed as a journey — from settling into life in Tanzania and
building real relationships at your internship, to developing a partner-led Legacy Project
and putting your learning into action. Along the way, two signature overland journeys
take you across some of Tanzania’s most extraordinary landscapes, making travel,
culture and adventure part of the learning itself.
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.
Sport can create confidence, teamwork, leadership, wellbeing and belonging, but meaningful youth development requires understanding the wider context around participation and opportunity.
Through Global Citizenship learning, you’ll explore community development, inequality, education, sustainability, culture, ethical volunteering and locally led change while connecting those ideas to your practical placement.
Understand how sport can support confidence, communication, teamwork, leadership, resilience and belonging.
Explore how locally led recreational and educational programs create stronger opportunities for young people.
Connect physical activity with healthy lifestyles, wellbeing, nutrition and practical youth health education.
Explore ethical volunteering, inequality, sustainability, cultural perspectives and responsible international engagement.
Your Volunteer Project develops from what you learn during your placement. You’ll work with teachers, students and other Academy participants to identify a genuine priority within the school’s sports or wellness program.
The project could become a football league, coaching curriculum, tournament, girls’ sports initiative, wellness activity, health-education resource or another practical solution identified by the school. You’ll test it, gather feedback and refine it before handover
You’ll live with an international cohort in Arusha, sharing social nights, games, dinners and free time around the Academy schedule. Your placement is important, but so are the friendships and experiences outside it.
Across your 12 weeks, you’ll experience Tanzania through Swahili, cultural activities, safari, waterfalls, mountains, coffee country, local communities, weekly adventures and Zanzibar. And because football is such a strong part of everyday life, sport can become an immediate way to connect with people beyond your placement.
No. The master content states that professional coaching qualifications are not required. Enthusiasm, reliability, creativity and positive engagement with young people are equally valuable.
You'll work within a local school community in Arusha supporting more than 250 children and young people aged approximately 7–18.
No. The placement combines sports coaching with health and wellness education, mentorship, event organisation and broader youth-development activities.
Yes. Students range from approximately 7–18, so activities can vary from movement and games for younger children to more structured coaching and competitive preparation for older students.
Possible projects include a football league, coaching curriculum, tournament, girls' sports initiative, wellness activities, health-education resources or another priority identified by the school.
It can suit gap-year students, sports enthusiasts, aspiring coaches, sports-science and physical-education students, youth-work, education, public-health and community-development students.
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