Announcement for the post of Project Manager Volunteer and English Teachers Volunteers
The Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) operating in Tanzania to empowering the street children and girls living under poverty, diseases, illiterate, underemployment and under technology through Vocational training (carpentry, tailoring and ICT). We have constructed and registered our own Peace Flame Pre and Primary School which is located at Nduli village within Iringa Municipality of Region in Tanzania. We have mobilized workshop tools for carpentry, tailoring and sweater machines, and computers. The school is going and we have pupils from kindergarten to Standard Five (5). This is English Medium School.
Due to the increase number of street children and girls school dropout in Tanzania we come up with the project of “Street Children Bamboo Centre”, Because we have all workshop tools needed to empower need skills to our most vulnerable youth and girls. Now we need a Project Manager Volunteer and related English teachers to come to work with us. The needed volunteers will help us to establish a Bamboo Centre for our street children and girls. Volunteers will help us to train the street children and girls on how to make bamboo home furniture just to promote tourism activities in Iringa Town since the town is known as the home of tourism who are coming to conduct tourism activities at Ruaha National Park which is found within Iringa district. Such skills need to be coupled with other business trainings. These volunteers will help to establish of our CCDO Tourism Recreation Centre (CCDO Bamboo Centre) for our street children and girls.
The CCDO Bamboo Centre will serve as a national focal point for bamboo related activities including botanical and agricultural research, mapping of bamboo habitats around the town, advocacy work, research in innovative applications (such as paper making and cloth making for example), training in propagation and also in the skills required in its many applications, and establishing policy that is conducive for the growth of the industry. The Centre itself will be built entirely of locally grown and treated bamboo and all interiors and furnishings will also be produced from bamboo, gradually built by the students. The centre will itself serve as a model of what could be attained through the use of bamboo as a building material. The established Centre will develop state of the art training rooms, workshops, audio-visual and mechanical equipment and tools, libraries, a permanent exhibit of traditional bamboo artefacts and locally produced modern applications. The Centre’s responsibilities will not end once its students graduate. The graduates from the centre will be supported by the centre in finding employment related to their studies and skills attained or in establishing their own enterprises. The centre will continue offering them support related to their endeavours. The centre will also develop a register of bamboo graduates including builders, furniture makers, farmers, trainers, etc. This would ensure ready access to skills as they arise and whenever there is such demand from the public and private sectors. There are a number of opportunities for graduates that the Centre, together with government institutions responsible for youth and employment, could jointly explore and support. Importantly the students and graduates will form an important component of efforts by the country to provide citizens with low-cost housing by using locally available bamboo material. This would also ensure continued employment of graduates of the Centre.
CCDO’s Bamboo Centre would contribute towards the achievement of CCDO’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly SDG 4 Quality education, SDG 5 Gender equality, SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth, SDG 9 Industry innovation and infrastructure, SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production, SDG 13 Climate action, SDG 15 Life on land, and SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals. It will most probably also contribute to SDG 1 No poverty and SDG 2 Zero hunger.
Based on the above rationale, the key project problems investigated in the project were:
1) Rising cost of building materials: A number of East African countries import building materials, making construction expensive and often unaffordable for many local people. Alternatively, local bamboo resources have been relatively ignored as a sustainable building material. Due to high costs, the gap between demand and supply of housing has been rising in the region.
2) Lack of awareness on using bamboo as a building material: One of the major problems in promoting bamboo as a building material is lack of awareness among government, researchers, builders and local communities.
3) Lack of technical knowhow and skilled human resources: The other major problem associated with bamboo housing promotion in the region is lack of skilled human resources and technical knowhow. As architectural schools in the universities don’t include bamboo in their curriculum, students lack exposure to bamboo as a building material.
4) Lack of supportive bamboo housing policies: No African country has policies on using bamboo as a building material, with no approved codes for bamboo building across the continent.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
1) Establishment of training facility
2) Identify suitable location of the centre
3) Obtain permit for building training centre
4) Design and construct training centre
5) Procure training and workshop facilities
Capacity Building and Demonstrations
1) Conduct training needs assessment
2) Design training programme
3) Identify and select trainee and suitable trainers
4) Conduct training and workshop
5) Establish demonstrations of bamboo nursery, plantation, and product processing
6) Provide post-training technical back support
Project management
1) Recruit project staff
2) Set up project management mechanism
3) Establish project M&E system
REPORTING AND MONITORING
The Project Manager will produce a monitoring and evaluation plan in the first quarter of the project and will be responsible for internal monitoring of project activities. The Project Manager will also be responsible for reporting to the CCDO Management supporting the project on a quarterly basis in the first three quarters and with the submission of an annual report at the end of the 4th quarter. Monitoring and evaluation will be the responsibility of CCDO’s Unit for Policy Research & Evaluation with an independent evaluation and financial audit at the end of the project. The Unit will also be responsible for the conduct of a Mid-Term Review mid-way through the project in view of assessing the project’s progress and recommending directions for the remainder of the project duration.
NB: The Obtained volunteers will be sassisted free house, there shall be no cost to pay to the CCDO. During the wekeend days they will be provided a vehicle to visit Ruaha National Parks for their own entertainment, butfor their own cost. Also you can access this information from this link https://www.givingway.com/donate/ccdo