Description

This volunteer program involves various aspects of community work and development. You will have the opportunity to be involved in our exciting rural pre-school curriculum, as well as participate in community building projects.

Assistant Teaching:

Children in Red Hill Pre-schools have a severe lack of facilities and are taught from containers that have been brought into the community as donations.

As a volunteer you will work as a teaching assistant in the classroom. You will find that most of the schools have meager and ill-equipped facilities, but a wealth of children with a desire to learn. As a volunteer, you will assist teachers and contribute to our effort of providing children with a better education.

You will spend most of your time assisting teachers, so that you can give children the individual attention they desire but hardly ever get. In addition, you will have the opportunity to organize your own classes.

These are the ways in which you will assist the schools:
- Act as an assistant teacher. Provide individual attention and assistance to children during lessons
- Help with doing crafts, painting, reading and games
- Organize special needs classes for children who have not been able to keep up with the pace of the classes
- Help with giving the children their meals. Every child receives a meal at most basic schools, which is often their only meal that day.
- Help clean, maintain, and even refurbish the classrooms, most of which are quite run down

Highlights

- Assistant teaching in local pre-schools and primary schools
- Work with disadvantaged and vulnerable children
- Reading and crafts with children
- Sports coaching
- Help uplift a community through education, health, building and sport
- A cableway trip to the summit of Table Mountain where you will find the best views of Cape Town. The cable car's rotating floor ensures that all passengers get a 360 degree aerial view of the city.
- A visit to Cape Point, situated within the Southern Section of Table Mountain National Park which is globally recognized for its extraordinarily rich, diverse and unique fauna and flora - with rugged cliffs, steep slopes and sandy flats.
- A trip to Boulders Beach, home to a growing colony of the vulnerable African Penguin. Wooden walkways allow visitors to view the penguins in their natural habitat and visitors will love the penguins and their antics. Also a great swimming or snorkelling spot.

Qualifications

Minimum 18 years, maximum decided on potential participants' health

Minimum Education

High School

Intern Types

• Education
• Sports
• Mathematics

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

USD 1295 +

Cost Includes:

• Excursions
• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Registration fees
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Written materials abroad
• Written materials pre-departure

Program Fees Include:

- Project Fee: this entails financing that goes directly back into the project that you are involved with. This fee facilitates funding for items such as teachers wages, building materials, equipment, supplies, etc. Project fees are also used to buy vehicles / equipment for the project, and for developing new housing for volunteers to provide for the expansion of the project
- All airport transfers from Cape Town International Airport upon your arrival and departure
- Orientation program
- All daily transfers to and from your projects during your stay
- Full board and lodging which includes 3 meals a day at our volunteer house
- Weekly laundry service during your stay
- Assistance in your projects by various African Impact staff and project managers
- Outings to Cape Point the most South-Western tip of Africa, Boulder beach to see the African Penguin colony, and Table Mountain

Credit Available

yes

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Age Range

Minimum 18 years

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

in Groups

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Typically The Application Process Time is

2 working days

Year Founded

2004