Camphill Rehabilitation Centre

Name: Camphill Rehabilitation Centre
Start: 2022-07-11
End: 2023-09-29
Location: Otse, Botswana

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Botswana Education Social work Education Social work Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Camphill rehabilitation centre is in the village of Otse, approximately 70 km south of Gaborone. The centre provides vocational rehabilitation programmes to the disabled kids. The Camphill is committed to provision of 13 vocational capacity to the underprivileged students afflicted by psychological and physiological challenges.

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteers will provide support on daily rehabilitation sessions and provide mentoring and coaching on the vocational upskilling and sports development. Volunteers will also provide psychological and physiological counselling to kids at the Camphill Centre. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp. The Mokolodi Sanctuary is only 25 minutes drive from the centre and therefore can provide the much-needed excursion during the workcamp. There is also the nearby scenery Mayelanoong Hill, which is regarded as sacred cultural site, with some unexplained mystery about disappearance of lovers centuries ago.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Camphill Rehabilitation Centre provides accommodation in their shared dormitories. Volunteers are also encouraged to bring their own tents for their privacy. Hot showers and bathrooms/toilets with running water are available. Please remember to bring very warm clothes and sleeping bags. Most importantly, workcamp is a platform for cultural exchange, volunteers should bring meal recipes and music of their own countries.

📍 About the location

OTSE VILLAGE

It is very important to know that Botswana is the semi-desert country and has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring (August, September, and October), summer (November, December, January,) and Autumn (February, March, April) are hot seasons and cold season is Winter (May, June, July). Volunteers are therefore reminded to bring required materials as per season, e.g., sun block creams for hot seasons and warmer clothes for winter times.

⚠️ Requirements

Skills of the individual volunteer
• Commitment of volunteers; Project or work camps are not just cheap holidays; hard work and full participation is required. Volunteers should be self driven, adaptable, people oriented and tenacious,
• Specific motivation may be required for some projects.
• ENGLISH is the medium of communication in work camp. Participants who are not good in English are also accepted to participate as BWA encourages non-discrimination.

🤝 Meeting point

An orientation is normally organized a day before the start of the work camp with the intentions of briefing participants about BWA as an organization, Botswana `s socio-economic background, cultural issues etc. In fact, the orientations shall be held on Sundays before departure to the workcamp sites and the participants must arrive on the Fridays or Saturdays to have rest time and to get to know each other, as well to get knowledge of the host village before the orientation. The orientation is the first contact between volunteers and BWA to discuss the preliminary workcamp programme, workcamp menu and expectations. The local culture is also presented to the volunteers through showcasing traditional music, food, dress, language and architectural structures in the village of Mochudi. The understanding of Botswana culture is a journey such volunteers will keep learning about cultural items and values as they maneuver with workcamp programme. Participants will also have a chance to go the city, Gaborone from Mochudi and to do their necessary travel and camp logistics before they depart for the camp. All workcamp orientations are held at BWA head offices. Please, ensure that your travel arrangements would allow at least two days 10 of reaching BWA head office, rightly so, in lieu of rest and orientation before leaving to the workcamp.

ℹ️ Additional information

The work camp participation fee is US $250 per participant, which covers simple and affordable work camp meals, arrangements for the whole work camp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. BWA organizes transport for participants from the airport in Gaborone to Mochudi (BWA Head Office) at a nominal fee of US$ 40 per participant, where participants are inducted prior to departure to work camps destination.

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