Youth Awareness Month

Name: Youth Awareness Month
Start: 2019-06-15
End: 2019-06-30
Location: Pretoria, South Africa

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The host organisation tries to 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. Our partner shall work and collaborate with other Volunteer driven organisation, Regional Work Camp Associations, and organisations. It 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.

💼 What the programme involves

An international work camps consists of volunteers from different races, nationalities and other backgrounds although local volunteers are usually in the majority.

The project's goal is providing a platform to recognize the role of Youth Play in South Africa society. This is an exciting project as volunteers have opportunity to work with different communities and interact with children after school and have also the opportunity to be hosted for their period of stay in the country.

The camp will require volunteers to be involved in different activities such as building up learning activities which will be used when the volunteers will meet the children from 8am to 4pm daily activities. Volunteers will work in groups.

The work camp will require volunteers to be involved in various sports and cultural activities and as well creating and using objects which will be used when the volunteers will meet the children from 2pm to 4pm daily activities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation will be in a house in Soshanguve. Participants will be required to bring their own sleeping bags. The accommodation has a simple bathroom with shower and water available. 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 (but not everyday).

🍲 Food

📍 About the location

Pretoria, Gauteng.

The community has multi-cultural people and English is mostly spoken with local languages such as Sotho, Zulu, and Tshwana to name a few.

🎒 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

- 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

- Willingness to guide students especially in cultural and arts activities mostly afternoon work from 2 pm till 4 pm mostly.

No experience needed at all!

🤝 Meeting point

The meeting point will be at the station of Pretoria where our partner 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. However, 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 when they are planning to book their ticket to Pretoria.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

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15/06/2019 → 30/06/2019

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 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

Pretoria, 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: 21:49 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Zulu Xhosa