14 DAYS Escorted Group Trip PACKAGE

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (flight details to be advised by Kylie), you will be met and transferred to  The School of St Jude for overnight. Dinner provided.

St Jude’s has simple single, double, twin and triple units with a private shower and toilet. Towels, pillows, bed linen, blankets, bathmat, soap, and toilet paper are provided.

Three meals a day are provided and the school kitchen is able to cater for a variety of dietary restrictions.

During your time at St Jude’s, you will be assisted by one of the staff on the school’s “visitor team”. Once we have confirmed your itinerary you will be put in contact with the school’s visitor team, so they can liaise with you about what you would like to do for the few days that you are at St Judes.

There are three Schools of St Jude and two boarding campuses and so over the next few days you will see the campuses, the kids and staff in action.

See children in action by visiting some classes and at the end of the school day visit a home of a child if you desire.

Depending on how many visitors are at the school when you are, your 3 meals a day during the week will be provided via either.

1. Eating with students and staff
2. Having private meals in a separate kitchen provided by a cook.

Overnight at The School of St. Jude.

Requests from Kylie of activities she wants to include whilst at the school:

• Neema Orphanage
• Samaritan Orphanage
• Shanga Project

Examples of activities that the group will do during their stay at St Jude’s:

Once the overall start and finish of this itinerary is confirmed, we will start to communicate with various school staff to start locking which and when below activities will be organized for your eventual visit. Let us know if you don’t like any of below options or would like us to include an activity which is not on the following list because at this stage, we are just at a rough planning stage.

Join our students on their journey home in one of our ~30 school busses. The bus departs from the school, dropping students home one-by-one. During the ride, hear about each student’s day and participate in fun sing-alongs as the bus moves through the local community.

This is your opportunity to spend time with the Founder, Gemma Sisia, to learn more about her motivation and future plans for The School of St Jude.

Enjoy being taken around the schools and boarding campuses by either current students or alumni of the school.

The school farm project supports the school by reducing food costs and providing a regular supply of fresh vegetables and fruit to the students. The farm covers 12 acres and is looked after by students and a few staff who teach them about modern agricultural methods.

Experience a weekly assembly at one of the school campuses where you will share in the excitement of students receiving awards as well as enjoy as various classes entertain the audience with dancing, singing, drama and comedy.

Experience first-hand the difference St Jude’s makes in the lives of our students, their families, and the wider community. If you decide to go on a home visit, the school can provide you with a Home Pack to take as a gift to the family. Home visits are encourages not only as it the highlight for many visitors but, more importantly, it gives visitors a chance to see what is “behind the uniform.

Welcome to an exciting new project at The School of St Jude. St Jude’s Student Art Program was born to showcase the incredible artistic talents of the students at St Jude’s. 100% of the 50+ pieces of art are created by students of St Jude’s.

Enjoy participating in an art class at the school and enjoy interacting with students whilst witnessing the unique ways art teachers at the school nurture the Tanzanian culture and creativity when teaching their art classes.

Tanzania has around 120 tribes, each characterized by a unique culture. The school’s music lessons have a focus on African drumming and dances so expect to get noisy on a drum or loosened up with some African dancing.

Experience the joy of education firsthand by reading to or with students as they learn the English language

Expect to participate along with staff and students, in the weekly extra-curricular sport and club activities. From playing a range of sports like soccer, netball, basketball and volleyball to joining in on clubs like drama, music, choir, public speaking and debating.

Learn to cook traditional Tanzanian food with the guidance of some of our CSY volunteers, and after that get a chance to eat the food that you have made.

After students at St Jude’s finish high school, they may participate in a Community Service Year whereby they spend a year teaching voluntarily in a local government secondary school, in thanks for the free education they have received at St Jude’s. In this activity, you will be taken to one of the many government school where our graduates are currently teaching so that you can see firsthand how they are, collectively, teaching over 15,000 students a year, before heading off to university. Get ready to be amazed as you watch them teach secondary classes such as chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics and English.

We welcome you to lend a hand serving lunch for our staff and students.

Visit a traditional Maasai Boma or village and meet members of an ancient tribe who are still living within their culture, even in today’s modern world. While your there enjoy the local Maasai choir as they get to sing and dance with you.

100% of students at St Jude’s are learning English and so its great when they can have conversations with visitors so they can hear native speakers speak. Expect to not only help the students with their English but also learn about them as people as well.

Today at 8am your driver will pick you up from the school with picnic lunch and drive you to Arusha National Park. Enjoy the park!

Option: Enjoy a game drive as well as walk inside the park with an armed ranger inside the park (which includes going to the waterfalls).  

Later on, you will drive back to The School of St Jude for dinner and overnight.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

After breakfast, you will be driven to Lake Manyara National Park

Enjoy a game drive in the park!
Overnight at Serena Hotel Lake Manyara.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

Lake Manyara is a beautiful little park, which is famous for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. A short visit to this serene park will greatly diversify your safari experience as the lush green jungle habitat is of stark contrast to the other parks you will visit during your safari.

Drive to Serengeti National Park

Enjoy an afternoon game drive at the central part of the Serengeti.

Overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

The Serengeti National Park is the world’s last great wildlife refuge as it contains an estimated three million large animals, most of which take part in a seasonal migration that is one of nature’s wonders. The area covers 14,763 sq kms and the name Serengeti comes from the Maasai ‘Siringet’, meaning endless.

Option: Hot Air Ballooning  in the early morning followed by a Bush Champaign Breakfast

Enjoy a full day in different parts of central Serengeti!

Overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge again.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

The Central Serengeti offers superb game viewing all year round due to its abundance of resident animals. Specifically, the Seronera River Valley in the Central Serengeti is a ‘must see’ on every safari regardless of the specific month of travel. Game viewing in Central Serengeti is at its best during the dry season (June – November) as resident animals are more concentrated in the immediate area due to the lack of water on the plains. Resident herbivores include impala, buffalo, hippo, warthog, topi, hartebeest, and giraffe. Resident carnivores include lions and leopards.

Have the morning Serengeti and then after lunch drive to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater to overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

There are several documented resident lion prides just within a one-hour game drive radius from Seronera. During the dry season, the resident prides begin to shift west and north in their territories and concentrate in the central region of the park. The dry season is a particularly good time for lion viewing in the Central Serengeti. The Central Serengeti is also one of the best areas in Africa to spot the elusive leopard. You may be lucky enough to encounter this majestic cat in the branches of the sausage trees that dot the banks of the Seronera River.

After breakfast at the lodge, your driver guide will pick you up and take you to Ngorongoro Crater

Descend to the crater floor for a crater game drive.

Then after the tour drive back to Arusha onto St Jude so as to reach around 5pm for overnight.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.

Drinking water is also provided in the car.

Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometres wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingos, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats. The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest.

There are three Schools of St Jude and two boarding campuses.
See children in action by visiting some classes and at the end of the school day visit a home of a child if you desire.

Overnight at The School of St Jude.

3 meals are provided at the school.

Today after breakfast you will be picked up from the hotel and transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight out (flight details to be advised by client)