Kawa Training Center

Products & Services CV

The main objective of Kawa Training Centre (KTC) is to train qualified Zanzibarians for the tourism industry. In 2011 Kawa Training Center started its first pilot training with nine trainees. Some of these trainees had already been involved in the tourism industry and they gained additional skills. Others had never been guiding before and are now working as qualified tour guides. As years have passed by, Kawa Training Center has grown both in size and capability. In 2015 they managed to get their own building that accommodates all training activities.

Courses

• Kawa Training Center is conducting professional teaching in a range of (tourism related) subjects. Students are some of the best qualified on the job market when they finish their education.
• Although the training of tour guides will always be one of the core courses they offer, KTC aim to expand into a training center of professional education, where dedicated people in the tourism industry can take courses and refresher courses in essential basic and more advanced subjects.
• Those could be English and other languages, computer literacy, accountancy, product development, marketing, website building, customer relations, CV writing and job application training. They would also like to offer graduated tour guide students a course in how to start up and run a tour operator business.
• During the Sustainable tourism classes, KTC teaches their students about the importance of the environment and motivates them to become active in protecting the environment and creating more awareness about the wellbeing of our planet.

Tours

• In addition, KTC students have developed a range of popular tours that are now being deployed professionally. These are the following, among others: Stonetown City tour for kids, Ghost Tour, Mwanga Handcraft Tour, Religion Tour, Street Life and Makunduchi Village Tour, The Viko tour and the Daladala Adventure, and Re-Cycling tour.

Volunteer

• Courses are delivered by paid and volunteer teachers possessing different relevant skills and academic backgrounds.
• Volunteers are both Tanzanian and international people.
• KTC always welcomes international volunteers, who have experience with training or have expertise that can benefit Kawa Training Center. The subjects that are taught vary from English Communication Skills and Presentation Skills to Tour Guide Research and Tour Guide Practice, Teacher Training, IT lab development. Also subjects such as Business Skills, Customer Care and Sales and Marketing are part of the courses.
• KTC is broadly recognized in Zanzibar as an active NGO that organizes and participates in trainings and workshops within the tourism industry.

Empowering women

• The courses at Kawa Training Center are empowering young people in general, but the girls that are following the training are also being empowered as women.
• Educated female tourguides have great opportunities of generating income and with an income young women in Zanzibar are more able to make their own decisions and provide for themselves and relatives without depending on male family members.
• So far, all female students have found work immediately after graduating. Yet, very few young women join a KTC training and young women have proven to be extremely difficult to recruit.

Work & Internships CV

Jobs

• According to JoHo's information, there are no paid jobs at the KTC (yet).

Internships

• KTC welcomes interns who can share their skills to benefit the training center. If interested, send your CV and motivation to the training center with your proposal.

Volunteer

• There are several opportunities to volunteer at the center. Share your expertise and gain experience by providing training to the students. If interested, send your CV and motivation to the center.

Empowering Zanzibari women

Kawa Training Center has initiated a campaign that focuses on empowering Zanzibari women.

The purpose of the campaign is to make more women join the tourguide training.  

Since the beginning it has been Kawa training Center’s ambition to make young women join the program but they have proven to be very difficult to recruit.