Living Together Beyond Generation Project
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About the project
Living Together Beyond Generation Project
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The 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, Partner with Service Civil International (SCI) and Full member of Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS).
Vision: to be a community based, volunteer membership driven, people focused, self-sustaining and development oriented organisation which is youth centred and gender sensitive.
Aims and Objectives:
- to conduct voluntary based work camps and community driven development programmes in South Africa nationally throughout the year and regional and internationally throughout the world participation.
- to conduct capacity building training and skills development for young people.
- to facilitate youth exchange for volunteers North to South, South to North, and South to South volunteer driven work camps exchanges and developmental programmes.
- to establish a volunteer work camp site in South Africa self-sustaining and youth oriented establishment.
Activities: since its inception in 2012, SAVWA is looking to carry out projects in various communities of South Africa in the following categories:
- Construction: Roads and foot-bridges, low income housing, schools, clinics, churches and community center’s
- Renovation: Royal buildings, archeological and historical sites.
- Environmental: Soil and water conservation, tree planting
- Health: water supply, pit latrines, HIV/AIDS awareness and mitigation
- Economic: Poultry, piggery and irrigation schemes, communal and home gardens and other income generating enterprises. Volunteers An international work camps consists of volunteers from different races, nationalities and other backgrounds although local volunteers are usually in the majority; the latter are made up of two groups namely SAVWA members and local community members.
💼 What the programme involves
Use of arts/cultural & activities for young people participation in skills & development activities. The programme entails traditional drama program which is intending to build a sense of pride among the youths so that they can have a clear cultural identity on who they are and where they are going with their lives.
Living Together Beyond Generation Project will be conducted in Mabopane which is an area where quite a number of young people do not have much hope for their future. Most young people in South Africa often complain on how they are not given a fair opportunity in the workplace.
Volunteers activities: the Living Together Beyond Generation Programme will require volunteers to be involved in arts and cultural activities such as learning local South African arts and cultural activities and creating and using objects which will be used when the volunteers will meet the children from 2pm to 4pm daily activities. Volunteers will work in groups and will travel from 4 different Primary Schools and interact and teach children cultural and artistic activities they will have acquired before school visits. Trained teachers will be available for assistance on the activities at the schools. This is an exciting project as volunteers have opportunity to work with different communities and interact with children in cultural and arts and have also the opportunity to be hosted by individual family members for their period of stay in the country.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a house and venue still to be confirmed both in Soshanguve. Participants will be required to bring their own sleeping bags. The accommodation has a simple bathroom with shower and there is running water. The accommodation and work place have 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).
The community has multi-cultural people and English is mostly spoken with local languages such as Sotho, Zulu, and Tshwana to name a few.
📍 About the location
🎒 Leisure activities
The Weekend is 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.
Some weekends may have excursions with students to different areas of Pretoria.
⚠️ Requirements
Requirements 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 academic work on the project and No experience needed at all. Willingness to guide students especially in cultural and arts activities mostly afternoon work from 2 pm till 4 pm mostly.
What to bring: sleeping bag, sun cream, mosquito spray/lotion, sandals, 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 and arts and cultural items such as drums etc. for the children even sporting equipment such as soccer balls etc. and board games.
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be at the station of Pretoria where SAVWA will come to pick you (volunteers will have to go there from Johannesburg's airport by train).
ℹ️ Additional information
The work camp participation fee is strictly Euro 220 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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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SAVWA 0034
07/05/2018 → 21/05/2018
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–75 years old
Solidarity donation
220.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Mabopane, 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: 21:03 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken