Your Typical Itinerary
A typical day in the life of a Cape Town Teaching/Community Volunteer…
Please note that your itineraries may differ from this, depending on your own experience and the number of other volunteers on the placement at the same time, and this is simply to give an example.
| 07:00 |
Get up, eat breakfast of cereals, toast, tea/coffee, and start getting ready for your project |
| 07:40 |
Head off on the short drive to your project |
| 08:00 |
Start work at your community school. To make sure you will teach a variety of classes, you will rotate between different tasks and classes. |
| 08:00 or 10:00 |
Depends on the school, but some offer breakfast or a mid morning snack. |
| 12:00 |
After serving the children their lunch, you will be picked up from your project, and taken to your volunteer house, where lunch is waiting for you. |
| 13:30 |
Leave for one of the community projects. You will spend the afternoon playing with the children at the schools, assisting with the Masakhane or VDP Projects, or building and painting classrooms. |
| 16:30 |
End of the working day. You will be picked up from your project and taken home where we evaluate the day and discuss the schedule for the next day, or you can opt to be dropped off in town to check emails. |
| 18:30 |
Dinner at your volunteer house. After dinner, volunteers often go for a few drinks at one of the local nightspots. |
Please Note: During the school holidays volunteers will assist teachers in the community projects and also be involved in building, painting, holiday clubs and much more! Though the project might be slightly less ‘structured’ than during school term, there will be NO shortage of amazing, rewarding and exciting work to do with the local kids and in the local communities.
The term dates for 2009 are as follows:
- 1st Term: 21st January – 3rd April
- 2nd Term: 15th April – 26th June
- 3rd Term: 20th July – 23rd September
- 4th Term: 5th October – 11th December
