Travels with Purpose
… Give Back While You Travel
If you’d like to make a meaningful difference during your time in Tanzania, we warmly invite you to contribute your time or skills to one of our community projects. Whether you can spare a day, a week, or longer, your help is genuinely valued. Opportunities can be scheduled before, during, or after your adventure, and can be woven into any Pure Afro itinerary, whether you’re joining us for a safari, a Kilimanjaro trek, or a beach escape on Zanzibar, Pemba, Mafia, or the Tanzanian mainland coast.
Doctors, teachers, tradespeople, and willing volunteers alike are all welcome. Giving back while on holiday is an experience you’ll carry with you long after you return home.
PROJECTS & DONATIONS
Pure Afro Travels Tanzania is a socially responsible, community-minded company, and supporting the people and wildlife of Tanzania is close to our hearts. We are actively involved in a number of local initiatives, where your participation and donations are gratefully received.
A number of local projects welcome hands-on participation from visitors. Get in touch with us for current opportunities and details on how to get involved during your stay.
We would love to help you plan a trip that gives back.
CONSERVATION
FZS Serengeti De-snaring Program
Poaching remains one of the most serious threats to wildlife conservation in Tanzania. As a founding member of this programme, Pure Afro Travels actively supports Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) in their efforts to reduce poaching across the Serengeti.
The programme operates through dedicated ranger-led teams that include former poachers, who carry out regular searches in the most affected areas of Serengeti National Park. Since launching in 2017, the teams have removed thousands of snares and released hundreds of animals alive.
Snares primarily target wildebeest for bushmeat, but they are indiscriminate traps that also claim predators, elephants, and countless other species. Funding comes from voluntary contributions by tour operators, NGOs, and individual donors, with FZS providing full logistical support to the field teams.
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COMMUNITY
Help for the Massai – massai.org
“Help for the Massai” is a small, private organization that is aimed at supporting various projects among the Massai tribe in Northern Tanzania. “Help for the Massai” was founded in 1997. The organization has a core of about 20 members and a larger base of donors and friends, without which the ongoing financial support in Tanzania wouldn’t be possible. In Tanzania, the organization is headed by Angelika Wohlenberg (‘Mama Maasai’). Currently there are two main centers in Tanzania:
Kwa Mrefu / Arusha
In March, 2008 “Help for the Massai” moved into our boarding school “Little Africa” on the outskirts of Arusha, and with the generous help of donors an office was erected. In 2011 a guesthouse was built. Each Tuesday and Thursday the house is open for visitors.
Malambo
The main work of “Help for the Massai” is in a small village about 280km north of Arusha in the middle of the Massai grasslands. Here the mobile clinics are based. “Help for the Massai,” works closely with the Lutheran Church and supports local, indigenous missionaries. In 2005 the “Naserian English Medium Primary School” was founded, educating over 230 pupils.
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WELFARE
Improving Healthcare in Tanzania – ihptz.org
International Health Partners is a non-governmental non-profit organization that has been dedicated solely to improving healthcare in Tanzania for over 23 years, working to integrate international medical knowledge and best practices within the local East African culture.
They employ and train local healthcare professionals and currently support the St. John’s University School of Nursing in Dodoma.
Their most exciting current project is the construction of a full-service hospital in Chihoni, an underserved community, which is designed to eventually become a professional development and training facility serving healthcare workers across East Africa.
Everyone is welcome to get involved – whether you can help with construction, support the nursing programme, donate, or simply lend a pair of hands. Contact IHP directly for the latest volunteering opportunities. It’s a life-changing experience! Check out the updates to hear first hand what’s happening in Tanzania. The stories and pictures are worth the visit alone.
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