VSO have been active in Tanzania since 1961. We currently operate in seven regions in mainland Tanzania, as well as on Zanzibar. Join us.
Volunteering in Tanzania
Volunteers in Tanzania are training youth in more environmentally friendly income-generating activities these women can take part in, including beekeeping.
Our work in Tanzania encompasses building healthy communities, strengthening education systems and supporting people to provide for themselves and their families.
We run a number of programmes and require volunteers with a range of specialisms.
With more than 50 years’ experience supporting volunteers you’ll be in good hands. We’ll do all we can to help you settle and make the biggest possible difference.
Volunteer stories from Tanzania
The sweet benefits of cross-cultural volunteering
Emeka Enwe, a Finish citizen, and Dotto Joseph from Tanzania might normally live over 4,000 miles apart from each other, but through VSO’s blended volunteering model, they’ve joined forces. Today they’re working together on a beekeeping project in Tanzania.
Helping women benefit in Tanzania’s male dominated mining industry
Women stand to gain much from Tanzania's male dominated mining industry. Find out how a VSO project is supporting women - and youth and people with disabilities - to access equitable opportunities in the sector in Geita and Mara.
Disability is not inability: Khamis’s story
Khamis is thriving against the odds thanks to VSO projects in Tanzania. Watch his journey in this short film by young filmmaker – and VSO volunteer – Nicholaus Jackson Ambwene.