Volunteer in Tanzania

KODEA DEV. CO. - Volunteer program

Volunteer in Tanzania
Quick Skill Shop and Community Empowerment in Kilimahewa, Tanzania
National and International volunteers are welcome. You’ll be volunteering as part of the small, hardworking and adventurous Quick Skill Shop and Community Empowerment team in beautiful Kilimahewa, Mkuranga District; Pwani Region in Tanzania! This is a chance to work directly with rural communities by transferring your skills and knowledge across a range of diverse areas such as agro-tourism; carpentry; business; healthcare; beekeeping; gardening; poultry; Dairy farming; organic farming; fishkeeping; low income house building; oil making; soap making; teaching English; culture; entrepreneurship skills; sports and the arts.
Each volunteer program is carefully crafted to make full use of your individual skills and interests, ensuring that you’ll make a valuable contribution where most needed.
We invite you to be a genuine team player and make positive steps forward for this often forgotten part of Tanzania
Kilimahewa is in Mkuranga District. Mkuranga district is one of the six districts that form the Pwani Region. It is a relatively small district, covering 2,432 square kilometers, which is about the size of the Zanzibar Islands. The district has about 90 kilometers of coastline, extending from the Temeke to the Rufiji districts. Like much of coastal Tanzania, the district is endowed with coral reefs, mangrove forests, and coastal fisheries. Remote unpopulated islands host endangered species such as the red colobus monkey and attractive birds.

Almost 190,000 persons live in the 15 wards (three coastal) and 101 villages (10 coastal) in the Mkuranga District. Agriculture is the principal economic activity, with over 90% of the households engaged in farming. The most common food crops are cassava, rice and beans. Major cash crops are cashew nuts, coconut, pineapple and orange. The District is one of the largest producers of cashew nuts in Tanzania.

Mkuranga has several areas that are attractive for shrimp and finfish fishing. The district has ten official fisheries landing sites, the largest being in Kisiju Pwani. There are about 4,000 hectares of mangroves in Mkuranga. In-between the mangroves there are approximately 2,000 hectares of non-forested area, such as creeks, salt pans, and bare saline areas. Some of the salt pans are being used to produce salt, whereas others are abandoned or used for aquaculture.