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Human Rights Advocacy Internship in Africa

On-site, Work must be performed in or near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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  • Details

    End Date:June 30, 2025
    Application Deadline:December 29, 2024
    Internship Benefits:Academic Credits
    Payment:Stipend
    Stipend / Wage:We pay USD 100 per month being 2x Tanzania national minimum wage for on site work.
    Hours Per Week:32h+

    Description

    Summary

    The Human Rights program includes working with Tanzanian human rights professionals focusing on children's, women's, and disabled people's rights and limited sexual rights. In addition, students can include research and thesis focus for the program.

    Details

    Art in Tanzania's Human Rights program focused on Children's and Women's Rights. We also have a rights team consisting of our team members, private Tanzanian people such as lawyers, other rights-oriented citizens, participating interns, and volunteers.

    Practical work includes advocacy, attending seminars, teaching, and gaining more visibility. Rights issues are always sensitive, and teamwork and networking are essential.

    A consortium of Tanzanian NGOs, including UNICEF, Save the Children, and others, developed and ran the Children's Agenda program, which was chaired by the Ministry of Community Works Gender and Children.

    We use our social media pages for advocacy work, and our Facebook pages have more than 50K followers.

    The internship outcome is to learn to use your studies and experience to work in developing country conditions.

    Work hours are 6-8 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Your program can be from 2 weeks to 12 months. An internship is commonly 2-3 months long. The placement starting dates are flexible.

    Academic-level team leaders supervise your internship daily. We monitor your work with a weekly plan and report system to ensure you pcomplete your tasks successfully

    We can take students in all year round as all programs are ongoing. Your placement is tailored to your background, experience, and interests to empower our daily work with the communities.

    The typical morning tasks include practical fieldwork in the schools and communities, and afternoons are for planning, reporting, and social media visibility functions.

    The Benefits and Perks are as follows:

    Accommodation with breakfast and dinner is EUR 175 per week and is a personal expense. However, the cost drops to EUR 125 weekly after the first 13 weeks.

    Airport transfers from and to EUR 120 are a personal expense

    Charity VISA for immigration is USD 50 and is a personal expense. A 3-12 months charity VISA is USD 250.

    We pay you a USD 100 per month stipend. It is small but 2x Tanzania's national minimum wage. Flights are a personal expense.

    Local transport programs in Tanzania are a personal expense but are small if needed.

    You and your visiting friends can enjoy low-cost, sustainable tours and safaris.

    We need your tentative arrival and departure date to book you and open your account.

    Student references https://youtu.be/MuD0RppGjP8 and https://youtu.be/NXE9nGPFCmY and https://youtu.be/EnUbSvXT92Q.

    and https://youtu.be/MuD0RppGjP8?list=PLD26GQ5Cc_rSkeHIS-2UWkbNnhXwsv2uK and https://youtu.be/VlwUUmuPdZs

    Students presently in Tanzania can be contacted at intern@artintanzania.org. Please also check their experiences at https://www.instagram.com/artintanzania/. In addition, our TIKTOK page is at https://www.tiktok.com/@artintanzania.

    Contact us for more details at info@artintanzania.org or SKYPE with us at infoartintanzania. You can also send a quick note via WhatsApp at +255767777773.

    Web: https://www.artintanzania.org

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    Summary

    The Human Rights program includes working with Tanzanian human rights professionals focusing on children's, women's, and disabled people's rights and limited sexual rights. In addition, students can include research and thesis focus for the program.

    Details

    Art in Tanzania's Human Rights program focused on Children's and Women's Rights. We also have a rights team consisting of our team members, private Tanzanian people such as lawyers, other rights-oriented citizens, participating interns, and volunteers.

    Practical work includes advocacy, attending seminars, teaching, and gaining more visibility. Rights issues are always sensitive, and teamwork and networking are essential.

    A consortium of Tanzanian NGOs, including UNICEF, Save the Children, and others, developed and ran the Children's Agenda program, which was chaired by the Ministry of Community Works Gender and Children.

    We use our social media pages for advocacy work, and our Facebook pages…

    Benefits

    This program has multi-professional aspects, so we tailor the tasks according to the participant's skill level. Research-oriented approaches are also welcome to develop the community-level issues and skills of the Tanzanian people in common. Students with disabilities are welcome.

    This program has multi-professional aspects, so we tailor the tasks according to the participant's skill level. Research-oriented approaches are also welcome to develop the community-level issues and skills of the Tanzanian people in common. Students with disabilities are welcome.

    Location

    On-site
    Umoja Rd Block 2Q, Dar es Salaam, None 23333, Tanzania
    Madale village

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