📝 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 (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: Providing support and care to orphans and improving their emotional situations and their level of acceptance with daily routines one of the orphan care home called Kingdom Life (Attridgville).
Kingdom Life Children\'s Centre . A good-hearted woman resident in Atteridgeville realizing the urgent need for caring for the children in the area with no other place to go has established this home. Initially time and effort was invested in establishing, registering and organizing the affairs of the Home. The focus currently is to create better opportunities for the children to develop in a stable and caring environment, and to improve their life skills.
Volunteer Tasks: It is of paramount importance to us to render services and programs that is in the best interest of every individual child.
Just as soon as you think you've seen the worst of cases, you come across yet another one. Abusers don't discriminate against colour, creed or age. Child Abuse is rife in South Africa and unfortunately not nearly enough is being done to protect the future of our country, the children. Government is shirking their responsibility when it comes to providing for destitute families therefore making it increasingly difficult for the poorest of the poor to survive.
Abuse & Poverty are the main contributing factors to street children and abandoned baby statistics in our country. Volunteers will get first hand activities such as baby minding and cleaning the house. Other activities will be mentioned with consultation with volunteers as well as matron consultation what exactly needs to be carried out during the work camp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Attridgville, Pretoria
What to bring: Warm clothes, Sleeping bag (if possible), sun cream, mosquito spray/lotion, sandals, Raincoat, light working clothes during working hours and warm clothes at night, as it may turn out to be chilly; Torch or flash light. Do not bring jewellery or items of personal value please.
Accommodation: Accommodation will be in rooms at the project centre. 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 workplace have flushing toilets and does have electricity.
Language: 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: 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/request:
1. To be open-minded and “doer“ type
2. Ready to stand out in front of the others and coordinate the children
3. Any knowledge of musical instrument, singing or dancing is highly welcome
4. Please bring some typical food & cookies & recipes & pictures & flags and if possible musical pieces, songs, instruments
5. Please also bring for the children (if it\'s possible) clothes& toys that you don\'t need and personal care products
6. Meals should be prepared by the volunteers for themselves (breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner as well) – based on available ingredients for the day.
⚠️ Requirements
Extra info: 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.
