Volunteer To Run An HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign In Tanzania

Written by on June 22, 2011 in Health - No comments

The world has been fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic for 30 years and Support For International Change (SIC), an organization that is dedicated to limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in underserved communities, has been doing our part by sending volunteers to educate local communities in Tanzania about this preventable disease.

SIC’s volunteer programs provides university students and recent graduates an opportunity to run HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns and directly impact rural communities by working alongside local Tanzanians. Our volunteers dedicate most of their time teaching, creating lesson plans and training peer educators. They are also involved in community assessment work within their assigned villages. In addition to these responsibilities, SIC also strongly encourages our volunteers to take the lead on other projects related to SIC’s work.

Watch the video here to see the slideshow one of our previous volunteers, Huan Dong, captured on camera.

My experience volunteering with Support for International Change’s HIV Awareness Campaign was simply life changing. Beyond providing HIV education and testing to rural villagers in Tanzania, I was able to learn about global health, different cultures, and even a bit of Swahili. I never expected that I would have such a great impact on the people that I met, and I never expected to have been so greatly impacted myself. Now, I can see myself in perspective to people in a different part of the world; I feel like a global citizen. Thank you so much friends, family, SIC, and AllPeopleBeHappy for making this possible! – Huan Dong

Below are some links that will provide additional information about SIC’s volunteer programs in Tanzania.

We currently have space available for our summer program starting July 20 – September 14 and our fall program starting September 22 – December 15. If you’d like to learn more about SIC’s volunteer program, please feel free to contact us. We are happy to answer any questions you might have no matter how big or small!

 

Monica

Monica Wong is the Engagement Specialist at Start Some Good. She is also a Georgetown MBA student, social media enthusiast and travel blogger passionate about nonprofit & social change. With a focus on venture outreach, she works with bloggers and various other media outlets to highlight some of the most exciting and innovative campaign initiatives on Start Some Good.

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