SAVWA Sports Development Programme | SAVWA 0077 | 2024-01-01 - 2024-12-31 | SPOR,SOCI,KIDS | Age: 18 - 99

South Africa Volunteer Work Camp Association

Work: Type of Work: Empowering young people in Sports development skills and intensive work camp project with hands on initiative, addressing issues on Gender using sports methodology. . Volunteer Task: The Sports Development Programme will require volunteers to be involved in different sports activities such as learning simple sports and games activities. Volunteers will interact and teach children sports and artistic activities they have. Volunteers will be able to interact with the community also. This is an exciting project as volunteers have opportunity to work with different communities and interact with children in sports development and impact leadership skills to the children.

Accomodation and food: Accommodation: Accommodation will be at the centre in Soshanguve. Participants can bring their own sleeping bags. The accommodation has a simple bathroom with shower and there is running water. The accommodation has flushing toilets and does have electricity but should expect normal power cuts lasting to 2 hours on various time slots in the week. (Not every day) Language: The community has multi-cultural people and English is mostly spoken with local languages such as Sotho, Zulu, and Tshwana to name a few.

Location: SoshanguvePretoria

Location and Leisure: 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 and prepare a dish from your country. Requirements: Qualification of participants: 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 and No experience needed at all. Willingness to guide students especially in cultural and arts activities mostly afternoon work from 2 pm till 6 pm mostly. Some weekends may have excursions with students to different areas of Pretoria

Airport: JNB

Train/Bus station: Book your tickets to OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa Take the Gautrain from OR Tambo International Airport located upstairs of the Arrival Lounge to Pretoria station. Purchase a train card once you exit the airport to follow online on www.gautrain.co.za This is a world class train safe and reliable. You will change train at Marlboro station take train going towards Pretoria station on Platform A upstairs. Once at Pretoria station just wait for SAVWA official to pick you up. Please reserve a small amount of money for transport to the camp and vice-verse. We advise all volunteers to ask for advice from us when they are planning to book their ticket to Pretoria and let us know of their date of arrival and departure.

Requirements: The work camp participation fee is strictly Euro 300 per month, 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. Please note that 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 from us when they are planning to book their ticket to South Africa.

Gautrain Pretoria Station

Language: eng

Extra Fee: 300 EUR