More Africa

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9

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More Africa is a special school for physical and/or mental disabled children in Paje, Zanzibar. We provide special education, physical therapy, daycare and medical care.

More Africa
More Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) on Zanzibar which focuses on children and young adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. The special school provides special education, physical therapy, medical help, training and daycare to children who aren’t allowed ...

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More Africa
More Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) on Zanzibar which focuses on children and young adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. The special school provides special education, physical therapy, medical help, training and daycare to children who aren’t allowed anywhere else because of their disability.

Goals
More Africa is a NGO founded in 2015 by the Dutch Ellen van Beers.
The main aim of More Africa is the special school, in order to provide every child the right to education, therapy and/or meaningful daytime activities. On Zanzibar, education, counseling or therapy for children/young adults with disabilities are not obvious. Parents often struggle with the fact that they want the best for their child, but the child cannot go anywhere and will not be accepted at regular schools. For these children, More Africa is there. We provide customized education, counseling and therapy.

Our approach
The More Africa school offers a nursery, primary and physical therapy department. Besides, More Africa offers job opportunities for young adults with disabilities from the age of 18 and older. In this way we strive to increase positive impacts of tourism and decrease the negative sides of tourism, by focussing on community based tourism.
The More Africa school offers these children and young adults the opportunity to develop themselves in a familiar and safe environment, as More Africa works with individual careplans and all children have their own personal goals they would like to achieve. 
More Africa is a progressive organization on Zanzibar when it comes to involving parents in the development, guidance and support of their child. More Africa is convinced that it is essential to involve parents in the development of the child. In this way parents can continue the development at home, in the familiar surroundings.

Departments
More Africa supports children and young adults with special needs in their development through physical therapy, training, special education and daycare. More Africa works with five departments:
1. Nursery
This group consists toddlers and children with major development delays. We prepare them for the primary school by teaching them basic scholar and social skills.
2. Primary school
This group consists of children who are not allowed in Zanzibar to go to a government school due to their disabilities
3. Daycare
More Africa offers daycare for children with severe mental disabilities. We offer these children education by experiential learning. This means that it is about education in which you allow children to gain as much experience as possible, so that they learn to experience and discover for themselves.
4. Physical Therapy
This group consists of children with multiple disabilities. We offer these children especially physical therapy and daycare through sensory stimulation. These children often have Cerebral Palsy.
5. 18+ Trainingprogram
More Africa offers a training programme for people with disabilities from the age of 18.
The training program prepares our employees to work within the hospitality sector. We teach our employees to work as security, gardener, bartender, chef or housekeeper. We believe that everyone has the ability to be a meaningful member of the community. In this way we create employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

 


Contact Person

Ellen van Beers

Spoken languages: English, Dutch
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More Africa reviews

Lisette van der Sijde rating5.0

2019 at Physical Therapy for disabled children

My experiences as a pediatric physicaltherapist at More Africa. It was a great experience. The hospitality and open minded vision gave me the opportunity to use my expertise and experience from the past 30 years. Together with Ellen, we mapped the children well: what is the diagnosis, what are ...
Alinda Hofstra rating5.0

2019 at Social Work for Disabled Children

Within 1 year I have already been to the project twice. I enjoyed it so much and learned a lot. You get to know yourself well, the african culture, how to deal with the kids of More Africa. I definitely recommend it to everyone, if you are looking for a whole new special adventure, you should ...
Daan Ragbourn rating5.0

2019 at Social Work for Disabled Children

We have been able to help this great project for 2 months. It has made a huge impression on us. It is one of the few or maybe the only project that really does something for this target group and their parents, who need this help really bad. I really recommend everyone to come and support this pure ...
Marlies Rijken rating5.0

2019 at Guesthouse for Charity Management Assistant

Worked on school for children with a disability. Liked it very much and went back a few times. First volunteering in 2015 The people are very friendly and always want to help you. There is a dormotory which is basic but good. The food is also ...
Lisa Hendriks rating5.0

2018 at Social Work for Disabled Children

Google Translator: The project manager will help you with everything. Working with the children was fun and educational. The island is beautiful. The facilities on the project were good. It was an experience to remember! --------------------------------------------------------------- Original ...
Amy Verhallen rating5.0

2018 at Physical Therapy for disabled children

It is the ideal project for physiotherapists or physiotherapy students, who are looking for something special. Taking initiative is appreciated and something is actually done with the ideas you give. Very nice to take the project to a higher level together with the other volunteers and to see ...

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