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Regional Community Services :Enhancing South-South Cooperation and Networking

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Zimbabwe Education Environment Study Education Environment +1 Permanent

About the project

Regional Community Services :Enhancing South-South Cooperation and Networking

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

In the spirit of regional cooperation three sister voluntary inspired youth organisations namely UVIKUITA (Tanzania) South Africa Voluntary Workcamps Association (SAVWA-South Africa) and Zimbabwe Workcamps Association forged partnership for a regional camp which will last about 40 days starting at Dar es Salaam, moving to Zimbabwe ending in South Africa. The primary objectives of the projects are multiple faceted namely regional integration, south-south youth exchange as well as building prosperous and peaceful Africa through youth empowerment, volunteerism and pan Africa exchange as well as scaling up global, regional and national actions to meet young people\'s needs, realize their rights and tap their possibilities as agents of change.

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteer project seeks to mitigate the harmful impacts of climate change. The work will involve varying activities which shall be spread across. This will include but limited to gender, climate colonisation and environmental work around, making tsotso stove, water harvesting dams, Bio fertiliser (Bokashi) making, reafforestation programs as well as working with people in their respective communities around Gutsa village The program requires a willing workforce of volunteers, to facilitate wonderful experience camp. This is a highly participatory projects, which will empower volunteers and communities in a remarkable manner. The project will valorise the importance of grassroots gender awareness programs climate change mitigation strategies and climate colonisation. In a nutshell the project will accord the young men and women a very rare opportunity to gain skills in gender, permaculture and agroecology, which are critical and essential in improving their livelihoods in their respective communities. The community may ask us to perform other necessary specific tasks outside the scope of our agreement. This is seen as a way of promoting community driven development.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation: The volunteer will live with host families within the community and this will provide volunteers with the opportunity to learn more from the local people and also share in their daily way of life as well as deep understanding of the host community. 

🍲 Food

Food: Basic meals will be provided in the host family 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 into the community as volunteers.

🎒 Leisure activities

Leisure activities will be organized for the group

⚠️ Requirements

No special skills are required in this program. Basically, passion and commitment are all volunteers require to take part in this program. Development Practitioners are most welcome to this project. Volunteers with other ideas to share are most welcome

ℹ️ Additional information

: 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, hence 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

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📅 Available sessions

ZWA010704082024

01/07/2024 at 00:00 → 04/08/2024 at 00:00

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 20
♂ 0/10 ♀ 0/10

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

300.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Zimbabwean Dollar (ZWD / Z$)

Exchange rate

1 ZWD = 0.002556 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central Africa Time

Local time: 21:28 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English