SAVWA Heritage Month

Name: SAVWA Heritage Month
Start: 2019-09-16
End: 2023-09-29
Location: Soshanguve, South Africa

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South Africa Art Culture Education Social work Study Teenagers Art Culture +4 Fixed dates

About the 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 (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: Building a strong cultural identity, common heritage, shared values and ethics with youth driven and African history celebration! Volunteer Tasks: The Heritage Month celebration will require volunteers to be involved in arts and cultural activities such as learning local South African arts and cultural activities and sharing their own cultural and values from their respective countries. Volunteers will work in groups and will be able to share each day and cook their local traditional food and teach children cultural and artistic activities and games. This is an exciting project as volunteers have opportunity to work with different communities and interact with children in cultural and arts activities in the community.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Soshanguve, Pretoria 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. Accommodation: Accommodation will be in a house and venue of activities 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 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 Ndebele, Zulu, and other local languages

📍 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. Requirements: Qualification 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 - No experience needed at all. Willingness to guide students especially in cultural and arts activities Weekend will have excursions with volunteers to different areas of Pretoria.

⚠️ Requirements

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

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📷 Project photos

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📅 Available sessions

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16/09/2019 → 29/09/2019

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15/09/2023 → 29/09/2023

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16/09/2022 → 30/09/2022

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–99 years old

Solidarity donation

260.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

Soshanguve, 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: 21:10 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Zulu Xhosa