Celebration of Arts and Culture

Name: Celebration of Arts and Culture
Start: 2019-05-06
End: 2023-04-15
Location: Soshanguve, South Africa

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South Africa Art Culture Children Manual work Teenagers Art Culture +3 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

South Africa Volunteer Work Camp Association (SAVWA) will contribute towards the development of South African communities both urban and rural through local, national, regional and international volunteers to work together towards the cultural, economic, socio-political well-being of young people and marginalised persons or groups through empowerment work camps programs and promotion of sustainable development. The South Africa Volunteer Work Camp Association shall work and collaborate with other Volunteer driven organisation, Regional Work Camp Associations, and organisations. South Africa Volunteer Work Camp Association is a member of Southern African Workcamp Cooperation (SAWC), Partner with Service Civil International (SCI), Full member of Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) and Partner Member of Alliance if European Voluntary Service Organisations.

💼 What the programme involves

Type of Work: Celebration of Arts and Cultural activities and skills development of South African history and communities. Volunteer Tasks: Volunteers will be tasked with general hands activities such as figure sculpture cleaning, ground maintance, painting and general care of area. An opportunity to learn about making of art sculptures and share cultural activities, making beads and learning South African history and communities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Soshanguve, Pretoria! What to bring: Warm clothes, Sleeping bag, sun cream, mosquito spray/lotion, sandals, working gloves and closed shoes are advisable. Rain coat, light working clothes during working hours and warm clothes at night, as it may turn out to be chilly; Torch or flash light; Accommodation: Accommodation will be in a house in Soshanguve. Participants will be required to bring their own sleeping bags. The accommodation has a simple bathroom with shower and there is water. The accommodation place has flushing toilets and do have electricity but should expect normal power cuts lasting to 4 hours on various time slots in the week. (Not every day)

📍 About the location

Leisure Activities: Weekends are meant to be for free tours that the group can organize by themselves. All our work camps are reserved for cultural nights when each volunteer can present her/his country and culture. Requirements: Qualification of participants: - Open minded, ready to interact with other people of different cultural background - Positive attitude - Willing to share his/her experiences - Flexible to live/stay in simple living conditions - Flexible to eat local food - Ready to do heavy manual work on the project and No experience needed

⚠️ Requirements

The work camp participation fee is strictly Euro 260, and this covers simple accommodation, food and project expenses office running/administrative expenses, certificate of participation during the camp, communication prior to, during and after the camp. Please note that this does not include travel expenses to and from the camp, pick up from airport so participants are asked to reserve a small amount of money for transport to the camp and vice-verse. We advise all volunteers to ask for advice from us when they are planning to book their ticket to Pretoria.

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📅 Available sessions

SAVWA 0045

06/05/2019 → 19/05/2019

Closed

0 / 10

♂ 0/5 ♀ 0/5

SAVWA 0056

06/05/2022 → 20/05/2022

Closed

0 / 10

♂ 0/5 ♀ 0/5

0068

01/04/2023 → 15/04/2023

Closed

0 / 6

♂ 0/3 ♀ 0/3

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–99 years old

Solidarity donation

260.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Soshanguve, South Africa

South Africa

🌍 Location info

Local currency

South Africa Rand (ZAR / R)

Exchange rate

1 ZAR = 0.054452 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

South Africa Standard Time

Local time: 21:55 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Zulu Xhosa