The Diploma of Global Citizenship in Global Health – Global Health & Clinical Care is an immersive 6 or 12-week Academy experience based in Zanzibar, Tanzania, combining practical hospital experience, Global Health learning, personal development, cultural immersion and travel.

Think of it as travel, an international healthcare internship and learning all rolled into one.

For 6 or 12 weeks, Zanzibar becomes home. You'll live alongside an international Academy cohort while spending your weekdays learning alongside Tanzanian doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals within a local hospital.

Depending on your background and experience, your placement can expose you to different areas of healthcare, including outpatient care, emergency and trauma, general medicine, surgery and other clinical departments.

Around all of that, you'll experience everything that makes Zanzibar such an incredible place to spend part of your gap year: white-sand beaches, the Indian Ocean, Swahili culture, tropical island life, local food, snorkelling, Stone Town, weekend adventures and social life with your Academy cohort.

And your experience doesn't stop at the island. You'll also journey across to mainland Tanzania, travelling through the Usambara Mountains and northern Tanzania before experiencing one of the country's greatest adventures — safari.

Alongside the Academy, you'll work towards a Level 3 Diploma in Global Citizenship in Global Health, giving you an internationally recognised academic outcome alongside your practical experience.

The Academy takes inspiration from the Scandinavian folk school concept: bringing young people together to live, learn, travel and grow through shared real-world experiences rather than making education something that only happens inside a classroom.

We've adapted that philosophy to international healthcare experience and Global Health in Tanzania.

Healthcare systems don't operate in isolation. The health challenges experienced by communities can be influenced by economics, education, geography, infrastructure, culture, disease prevalence, health literacy and access to resources and medical care.

That's why the Academy doesn't simply send you into a hospital each morning.

We provide structured Global Citizenship and Global Health learning alongside your placement, helping you understand the wider context behind what you're observing and explore how healthcare challenges differ between countries and communities.

The goal isn't to compare Zanzibar's healthcare system against your own.

It's to observe, ask questions, understand context and learn from the professionals delivering healthcare within it.

At the heart of your Academy experience is your consistent placement within a local hospital in Zanzibar.

You'll learn alongside Tanzanian doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals while gaining firsthand insight into how patients are assessed, treated and supported within the local healthcare system.

Depending on your level of study, existing qualifications, experience, hospital requirements and appropriate supervision, you may rotate through areas such as outpatient care, emergency and trauma, general medicine, surgery and other clinical departments.

Your role may include observing clinical practice, following patient journeys and assisting healthcare teams where appropriate and permitted.

Participants are there to learn alongside and support local professionals — never to replace them.

One of the most valuable parts of an international healthcare internship is discovering just how much context shapes medicine.

Disease profiles, resources, diagnostic equipment, medication availability, patient volumes, referral pathways and access to specialist care can all differ from what you may be accustomed to at home.

You'll have the opportunity to observe how healthcare professionals adapt, prioritise and make clinical decisions within the resources available to them.

Rather than simply asking, "How is this different from home?", you'll be encouraged to explore a much more useful question:

"Why does healthcare operate this way here?"

That shift in perspective is at the heart of Global Health.

Your hospital placement is only one part of what you're learning.

Throughout the Academy, you'll participate in practical Global Citizenship and Global Health sessions exploring the bigger questions surrounding health and healthcare around the world.

You'll explore themes such as health inequality, infectious and non-communicable disease, access to care, prevention, health education, resource limitations and the social determinants of health.

You'll also consider how economics, geography, education, culture and infrastructure can influence who becomes unwell, who receives treatment and what healthcare options are available.

These aren't designed as traditional classroom lectures.

They're closely connected to what you're experiencing in Zanzibar — allowing something you observe during placement to become the starting point for deeper discussion and reflection.

As your understanding of the hospital and wider health context develops, you'll begin working collaboratively towards your Legacy Project.

Rather than arriving with assumptions about what a hospital or community needs, you'll first spend time listening, observing and learning from local healthcare professionals.

Your cohort can then work alongside local partners to develop something they identify as genuinely useful.

Depending on local priorities, this could involve patient-health education, preventative-health resources, awareness materials, community-health initiatives, practical information resources or another project identified by the healthcare team.

You'll have time to develop the idea, seek feedback, make changes and create a proper handover.

The purpose isn't to produce something that simply looks impressive.

It's to contribute something practical, locally relevant and sustainable that can remain useful after your cohort leaves.

The Academy isn't only about what you learn inside the hospital.

It's also about what happens to you when you move to a tropical island off the coast of East Africa, experience healthcare in a completely different context and build a life somewhere far outside what is familiar.

Weekly personal growth, self-awareness and reflection sessions give you space to process that journey.

Through workshops, discussions and your Global Impact Journal, you'll explore confidence, independence, identity, values, resilience, communication, leadership, relationships, cultural adjustment and future direction.

For participants considering careers in healthcare, you'll also have opportunities to reflect on the kind of healthcare professional you want to become.

Living in Zanzibar gives you an opportunity to experience the island far beyond the perspective of a typical visitor.

You'll learn practical Swahili, experience local food and traditions, participate in cultural workshops and learn from Tanzanian professionals, community partners and guest speakers.

You'll also begin seeing how culture, religion, family, economics and community intersect with health and healthcare.

But some of the most important learning will happen naturally — through conversations, mistakes, relationships and everyday experiences.

Over time, Zanzibar starts feeling less like somewhere you're visiting and more like somewhere you're actually living.

While the Academy has genuine educational and Global Health foundations, we haven't forgotten something important:

You're spending your gap year in Zanzibar.

Your Academy home base places you in Paje on Zanzibar's east coast, with the Indian Ocean, beaches and tropical island life becoming part of your everyday experience.

Adventure Days may include Stone Town, Jozani, snorkelling and ocean adventures, beaches, local food, cultural experiences and island exploration.

Both Academy formats also take you beyond Zanzibar.

During the 6-week Academy, you'll travel by ferry to mainland Tanzania, journey through the Usambara Mountains towards Arusha, and experience safari through Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater.

The 12-week Academy takes the adventure even further with an extended overland journey through mainland Tanzania and some of the country's most extraordinary landscapes and wildlife destinations.

Your internship, learning and adventure are intentionally built together.

Academy participants join on set intake dates, meaning you'll arrive and progress through the experience alongside an international cohort.

You'll live together at our Academy home in Paje, close to the Indian Ocean, while participants complete different internship pathways across Global Health and Community Development.

Outside placement there'll be shared meals, beach afternoons, workshops, games and movie nights, social events, island adventures, road trips and plenty of spontaneous plans.

Thursday is generally our main debrief and social night, while Friday afternoons and Sundays provide free time to explore, relax or simply spend the afternoon beside the pool or beach.

You have structure when it matters — and independence when it doesn't.

Alongside your practical experience, you'll complete the academic components of your Level 3 Diploma in Global Citizenship in Global Health.

The qualification is Ofqual-regulated at Level 3 and carries 16 UCAS Tariff points in the UK. Depending on the specific qualification and recognition arrangements, it may also correspond to approximately 20–21 ECTS credits in Europe. Recognition and credit transfer can vary between countries and institutions, so participants should confirm how the qualification may be recognised by their own university or education provider.

Subject to successfully completing the academic requirements, you'll graduate with this qualification alongside practical international healthcare experience.

You'll also develop broader skills in cross-cultural communication, teamwork, adaptability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, health education and responsible international practice.

For participants studying or considering careers in medicine, nursing, paramedicine, public health, global health or other healthcare fields, the internship provides particularly relevant international exposure.

Boresha Global Academy gives you 6 or 12 weeks to experience another healthcare system, challenge your perspective, travel across Tanzania, build friendships from around the world and explore where a future in healthcare could take you.

It's not just a hospital placement. It's not just a course. And it's definitely not just a holiday.

It's a Global Health, travel and learning experience all in one — combining practical clinical exposure, the adventure of living in Zanzibar and the future value of an accredited Global Citizenship qualification.