  Community Service
 The Visiting Schools Programme is committed to community service projects. ISM is endeavouring to advance local communities and is in touch with local organisations and the local government. A typical service project would help to build a local school. Visiting schools raise sponsor money for supplies of raw materials with which to conduct the project. Visiting school pupils and people from the community provide the labour.
 Often schools that have been visiting Moshi on a regular basis have "adopted" a local primary school. Each year, groups of students have raised money to build a classroom before they have come out. Then, when they have arrived, they have been involved in the hard labour of digging foundations, building the bricks and starting on building the walls. For younger groups, less work-intensive community service work can also be found.
ISM is looking into other community service projects in various other areas, and seeks to diversify its focus to a greater variety of projects, e.g. combining hard labour with soft labour - visiting students teaching basic mathematics or English; building various other amenities, building and supplying a library or a computer room.
 ISM suggests that visiting schools raise $3,500 for the local school they help. This enables raw materials to be bought before you arrive, local craftsmen and builders to be employed to help you with your construction and complete the project when you leave.
The Kilimanjaro regional government provides the additional teaching staff on a regular basis. ISM believes it is extremely important to invest in the Tanzanian educational system as it is developing a new generation of Tanzanians. ISM endeavours to continue with its community service by offering its scholarship programme to develop the Tanzanian students that will be able to lead the country in the future. For more details please see http://www.ismoshi.org/scholar.htm.
 Please view written reports of previous visiting schools that have completed a community service project and the positive effect this has had:
International School of Geneva, and
Munich International School.
ISM students complete this "hard labour" as part of their own CAS programme and, although it is hard work, it is an incredibly rewarding service. For more photos of the school's own trips and to give you a greater idea of what it is all about please see www.ismoshi.org/hardl07.htm.
Duration of activity: 2 - 5 days
Suggested age range: 14+
Approximate cost: $75 pppd (excluding sponsor money for cost of raw materials)
 
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