Motswedi Community Rehabilitation Centre
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About the project
Motswedi Community Rehabilitation Centre
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Motswedi Rehabilitation centre is community-based rehabilitation centre based in Mochudi village, 40 kilometres east of capital city Gaborone. The centre is home to hundreds of young people affected by different physical impairment. The young people are taught academic and vocational skills and taken through physiotherapy counselling as well. The kids are taught during the day depending on their standards of learning. The centre is having an active working partnership with BWA. BWA had committed itself by assisting in developing a psychological and social development set up at the centre.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will assist in the daily education and stimulation of the physically disadvantaged youth, gardening, sports coaching & mentoring and general counseling of the kids. Moreover, volunteers can assist the centre on some renovation work that arises and maintain kids` library. Spare time is usually meant for interaction with kids on their music practice sessions. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Motswedi Community Based Rehabilitation Centre provides accommodation in their shared guest houses and 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. Drinking water is safe. Mochudi is one of the largest villages in the country and boasts of big chain stores like Spar Supermarkets selling international brands of food and various drinks.
📍 About the location
MOTSWEDI COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION CENTRE (MOCHUDI)
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.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers can visit the Mokolodi Game Reserve during their spare times. There is Phuthadikobo and Gaborone Museums, storage of magnificent historical artefacts and books.
⚠️ 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 camps run between set dates for two weeks in length. The weather conditions are as follows: Summer: November, December, and January Autumn: February, March, April 5 Winter: May, June, and July Spring: August, September, and October
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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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
BWA 10 MOTSWEDI
14/08/2023 at 00:00 → 25/08/2023 at 00:00
BWA-04-MOTS
11/07/2022 → 22/07/2022
BWA 03 MOTSWED
22/05/2023 at 00:00 → 02/06/2023 at 00:00
BWA-06-MOTS
15/08/2022 → 26/08/2022
BWA 06 MOTSWEDI
10/07/2023 at 00:00 → 21/07/2023 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
250.00 USD ≈ 224 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Mochudi, Botswana
Botswana
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Botswana Pula (BWP / P)
Exchange rate
1 BWP = 0.064229 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Central Africa Time
Local time: 21:41 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken