Chengenston Home Care
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About the project
Chengenston Home Care
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partner is a safe house for abused and vulnerable children. Since its inception the orphanage has housed and saved many children who are dumped by their parents due to unwanted pregnancies and some have the most shocking stories you have ever heard. It currently shelters children of all ages. A reasonable number of the children are HIV/AIDS orphans who lost their parents from HIV/AIDS, some were deserted by their parents dumped in bushes, toilets among other places. The centre also acts as a drop-in centre where abused children are kept in good health and safety while investigations are pending by responsible authorities.
💼 What the programme involves
Scope of Work:
Children at the orphanage are hungry for love, care, educational assistance and even just a smile and friendship. Volunteers are essential in providing these simple but usually undermined gestures. These are important for cognitive stimulation, emotional or confidence building which are important to develop inner drive and boosting their self-esteem. This opportunity will present volunteers a chance to impact both the children and themselves. It will give volunteers a gratifying blend of fresh, thrilling, and amazing experiences. The experience of each volunteer is different depending on the level of their innovation and inner drive. Volunteers therefore are expected to have passion for children and the drive to engage children actively to increase the chances of their experiences being worthy while.
Daily volunteer activities include playing with the children using those kinds of games that we take lightly when we are back home and think they are old fashioned, assist with school homework and generally ensuring that children are engaged at all times. Children usually wish to understand the volunteer, where they are from, what music they like, sporting activities, and including what sorts of social experiences they prefer engaging in. It is those kinds of things we take for granted that they want to hear. There is an opportunity for endless intellectual capacity to what volunteers could do. Whatever it is that you can think of, just know that your initiatives have an astounding positive effect on the children something that they will not forget.
Working Schedule: Participants work around 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday. The lion’s share of our volunteer placements does not require volunteers to work on public holidays and weekends, unless highlighted or in the event of the need arising from the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is provided at the centre or either a host family. At a host family, volunteers have the opportunity to immerse themselves into the real Zimbabwean culture and day to day life as they live in, eat and participate in host family activities. These host families are carefully selected based on a critical criterion to ensure basic comfort for our volunteers.
🍲 Food
Basic meals will be provided in the host family or the Center from what is locally available in the local community. Volunteers are therefore advised to be flexible and open minded. This will make it easy to negotiate entry in to the community as volunteers.
📍 About the location
The project takes place in Gokwe.
⚠️ Requirements
Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements)
Being a part of the orphanage triggers an extensive interest in volunteers and is an opportunity to discover one’s hidden or unknown skills, patience, love, talents and even interests something which usually the volunteer themselves never recognized. It is a chance to discover the inner person. Our volunteers are given an opportunity to be as innovative as much as they could as they will simply have this time. There is therefore no particular skill required to participate in this program.
Expectations from Projects: Volunteer projects take place in very humble places around Zimbabwe. The bulk of our projects are not that difficult at all, what is only needed is flexibility, positive mentally attitude as well as openness to new culture, new experience. The secret remedy to, make the most of your time while volunteering in Zimbabwe is to adapt to the local environment. It important to highlight each and every project is unique. It is critical to mention that volunteers should make the most of their time with the community they serve, since this is a chance of a life time, to work and live with people in their respective communities, just like them.
🤝 Meeting point
Terminal: Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Arrival and Orientation: Volunteers will be picked up from the Airport or regional bus station in on request. They will be transferred to any lodge in town of their choice. Two-day orientation will be organized in close collaboration with the volunteers and ZWA staff. The main objective of the orientation is to minimize the effects of cultural shock as well as to build capacities for the volunteers, so as to meet the community with open mind.
ℹ️ Additional information
Investment: The participates will contribute €250 for all around Zimbabwe, expect for Victoria Falls where volunteers should contribute US$320 because of very high cost related to Victoria falls projects. The fee covers orientation, evaluation, monitoring, project set up, office
running/administrative expenses, supporting small community projects running of activities during the project, certificate of participation, accommodation, feeding at camp and communication prior to, during and after the camp. Volunteers will participate in an orientation day after arrival charge, Participations are advised to reserve €50 for airport transfers, transport to and from the workcamp venue.
The Participation fee does not cover the following.
Internal travels to and from the project station. Refreshment outside the project Air ticket, excursions, visa and insurance Local travel and personal effects.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
ZWA/MLTV-004AUTO-EXT
02/12/2024 at 00:00 → 02/11/2027 at 00:00
ZWA/MLTV-004
01/01/2022 at 00:00 → 01/12/2024 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
250.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Gokwe, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Zimbabwean Dollar (ZWD / Z$)
Exchange rate
1 ZWD = 0.002556 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken