Youth In Action Against Poverty and HIV/AIDS ,Computers Skills Training Volunteer in Tanzania

Volunteer
Opportunity description

Youth In Action
Against Poverty and HIV/AIDS.(YAAPHA) Open Door Training Centre offers
vocational training to yo
ung girls who have been living in vulnerable
situations.

YAAPHA Open Door
Training Centre is looking for volunteers with advanced or basic computer
skills who are willing to share their knowledge teaching groups of young girls
computer technology that would increase their ability to obtain a higher level
of employment, thus better paying jobs.

This organization
has dedicated some of their financial and teaching efforts in providing a
computer training skills course to these vulnerable young girls. Right now they
have one computer teacher who is providing computer lessons to a group of 45
young girls who are at the centre, (these numbers fluctuate each semester).

The main work that a
volunteer computer teacher would be doing at this placement would be to assist
in computer lessons based on the topics that the centre has developed and in
accordance with the level of each class taught.

Volunteer computer
teachers are needed to teach basic to advanced computer skills to the students.
This may involve lessons from simple keyboarding to challenging computer
programs. Basic skills would include computer knowledge such as: sending and
receiving emails, using the internet, word processing software, spread sheet
software and social media. A volunteer computer teacher would be expected to
contribute according to his/her level of computer skills.

Volunteer Tasks
Required.

Introduction
to Computer

A volunteer would
help teach all computer application programs such as Ms word ,Ms excel, Ms
publisher, Ms Power point, Ms access, internet and emails. The volunteer
computer teacher would work together with the local teacher in providing these
lessons.

IT
Engineering

A volunteer computer
teacher would be expected to deliver lessons according to the topics that the
centre has established. A volunteer would also be expected to contribute
his/her own personal skills and experience that would be applicable to this
course of computer programming.

Computer
Maintenance

A volunteer computer
teacher would be expected to give computer maintenance lessons to these group
of girls; working together as a team with the local teacher. These skills would
be a great asset for them going out and look for jobs as IT professionals.

English Lessons

English is an
essential language when it comes to use computer . A volunteer computer teacher
would be expected to conduct English language lessons that are applicable to
computer programs. These girls knows very little English.