Schools
Be a teacher.
As a volunteer, one of your most important responsibilities will be teaching HIV prevention and awareness throughout the Mateves Ward. Volunteers will be placed in teaching groups and assigned a classroom at a local school to teach an HIV/AIDS education curriculum covering transmission, prevention, stigma, and caring for people living with HIV/AIDS. Each teaching group is comprised of three or four volunteers and one Tanzanian teaching partner to help translate into Swahili. During orientation, we provide a general outline and strategies for teaching, but it will ultimately be up to the volunteers to decide how they want to organize their lesson-plan.
Your Volunteer Program Managers will have pre-arranged your teaching sites, but volunteers are also responsible for teaching HIV prevention and spreading awareness throughout the adult community. Opportunities to teach in the adult community are many, ranging from teaching at churches, stores, local hangouts, and organized community teaching days at the OHS site. During each volunteer program we also hold a community testing day at one of the area’s busiest markets!
Volunteers can expect to spend around 15 hours per week lesson-planning and teaching both in schools and throughout the community.
