Volunteer Role
Medical Role
As a volunteer you will spend each morning in clinics that help support many sick little children who cannot get help anywhere else. This means that you will have the opportunity to make a positive impact on the health service in the areas that need it. This will make a profound difference to the lives of the people in the surrounding community.
Community Development Role
After having spent the morning at a school, you will help out the local community in different areas in the afternoon. You will rotate between the following community projects:
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Build and paint schools: As a volunteer, you will help with fixing fences and windows, rebuilding and painting.
- Education and Care Centre:
This centre houses 115 children with just 7 teachers. You will assist teachers by helping to serve meals, playing with the kids, reading and with any other skills they have i.e. art, music and dancing. Volunteers with adult skills such as computer, administration, financial or training can also add huge value to the teachers lives.
- Community Development Project:
The Community Development Project was started to support both orphans and children with HIV/AIDS living in and around the local area. Many mothers from the community volunteered to take care of the children belonging to this project as they feel that it is important to show their love and support to these children.
What’s Included in the Programme
- Project Fee: this includes financing that goes directly to the project that you are involved in. This fee helps fund the project so that they can acquire medical supplies, building materials equipment and much more. The programme cost also goes towards future development of the project through buying extra vehicles, equipment and building new housing for the volunteers.
- All airport transfers from Cape Town International Airport upon your arrival and departure
- Orientation programme
- All daily transfers to and from your projects during your stay
- Full board and lodging which includes three 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 Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27yrs.
What’s Not Included in the Programme
- Personal travel insurance for the duration of your placement, which must include cover for repatriation
- All Flights to Cape Town
- All items of a personal nature, such as curios, gifts, clothing (work and other)
- E-mail/Internet and telephone calls
- Soft drinks, wines and spirits
- All visas for border crossings
- Any excursions over and above your planned itinerary in Cape Town
