Travel You will be met at the Dar es Salaam airport by Global Volunteers' North American team leader. The team will check into a tourist-class hotel and will leave for Iringa, driving through Mikumi National Park the following morning. After resting overnight in Iringa, you will depart for the host village. One or more community buildings are used for dormitory-style lodging. Meals are prepared by village women.
Water is purified for drinking.
Free Time Volunteers enjoy cooking and basket-weaving lessons, attending various community ceremonies and playing soccer with the local people. There are opportunities to arrange safaris in Iringa. If you leave the community, free-time arrangements and costs are your responsibility. Airfare is additional. All costs, including airfare, are tax-deductible for U.S. tax payers.