Volunteer Role
You will spend your time teaching in 2 different schools within the Fish Hoek area, on the outskirts of Cape Town whilst also assisting in a number of excellent development schemes, aimed at supporting the wider community.
Teaching: As a volunteer you will work as a teaching assistant in the classroom. You will find that most of the schools have meagre 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.
Community Development: After having spent the morning at a school, you will help out the local community in different areas in the afternoon.
These areas include:
- Education and Care Centre: Assist teachers by helping to serve meals, playing with the kids, story time, etc
- Community Development Project: Support both orphans and children with HIV/AIDS
What’s Included In the Programme
- Project Fee: this entails financing that goes directly back into the project that you are involved with. This project fee facilitates funding for items such as teaching materials, sports equipment, supplies, teachers’ salaries etc. Project fees are also used to buy vehicles/equipment 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 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 Africa team 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 27 years.
What’s Not Included in the Programme
- Flights
- Personal travel insurance for the duration of your placement to include repatriation
- All transport by air or bus 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 i.e. Garden Route, Shark Diving etc (your project manager can help plan this for you)
Prices & Durations
South Africa Teaching and Development Volunteers - Cape Town - 4 weeks £1,299
South Africa Teaching and Development Volunteers - Cape Town - 8 weeks £1,999
