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TeV Hostels and Guest Houses

These are very comfortable dwelling that has a lounge and other features.

Chuda: The hostel/guest house is a located within Chuda area in the City of Tanga, consisting of six bedrooms; all fitted with fans, twin beds, cupboards and shared toilet facility within the building.

There is also sitting room, dining area and a kitchen with an outside veranda where in the evening one can have barbecue at balcony.

There is a garden area that is always being developed.

Access to Personal Resources:

Chuda hostel is located in about 1 km from TeV’s main office.
Tanga offers all of the basic facilities including shops, movie houses and restaurants. The hostel is located within distance
to the general public hospital and features a number of smaller private clinics or General Practitioners offices in the area.

Volunteers will have easy access to public transportation systems, i.e. minibus popularly known as ‘daladala’ and taxis.
The local post office as well as banks can be found in the business district located in the Central Business District.

Volunteers will be living in or close to the community they will be working with and where public transport (daladala, taxi’s) is readily available and a car is not necessary.
Notwithstanding, Volunteers have a choice to rent bicycles if they are going to spend months in the country.

Host Families

The opportunity to live with a host family will have the greatest impact upon your stay in Tanzania. Host families give a better picture of the local lifestyle than if one had lived on his/her own, and the experience quickly reveals that your travel has really immersed you in the local cultures, merely not watching what was going on instead fully participating.

Living with host family gives an opportunity to take part in the daily activities that make up Tanzanian society.

We always ask volunteers if they want to live in the culture or if they want to actually live the culture. They did not really understand this statement, or the fact that their prior travel experiences had failed to immerse them in the local culture, until they had met other expatriates or volunteers who are living in Tanzania and saw the difference between the two.

Living with a host family can give you an experiential understanding of what it means to live in a developing country thus contributing to your academic goals in a way that cannot be measured. By analysing everything that you have learned in the classroom, you will be able to understand truly how complicated the process of development is. You will also come to the awareness that perhaps the greatest development of all is human development. Certainly coming into Tanzania with a rudimentary knowledge of development, you will emerge with a new great breadth of understanding in these matters.

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