Teaching Kids to Care About Their Communities
My name is Jackline Bonaventura Ngowi. Since January of 2014, I have been volunteering through AVC at Amka Center in Njoro, Moshi. At Amka Center, we teach children. I teach 28 kids between ages 3 years to 5 years old. I have been volunteering for about a year and I have seen the children learn […]
Local Volunteers Make Sense
Pauline is currently working as an accountant at the Brilliant Youth Foundation in Moshi, Tanzania. The below post was written during her time volunteering with AVC. My name is Pauline Gregory and I am volunteering at an organization in Moshi through Africa Volunteer Corps. My placement is a center that helps youth from different backgrounds by […]
Is ‘Voluntourism’ the Answer?
This post is authored by Kirsten Huntley Goode, AVC Board of Advisors member. After graduating from university, I traveled to Moshi, Tanzania for a month of “voluntourism” at Kigongoni nursery school, and it absolutely changed my life for the better. My daily walk was past Martin’s house, and every day he ran up and walked […]
Doing Development Differently
This post is authored by Ilunga Kalala, AVC Board of Advisors. When people ask me why and how I became involved with Africa Volunteer Corps, I usually start by describing the first time I met Caitlin Kelley, one of the organization’s founders. I had recently returned to New York from the Congo and my return […]