à partir de 1 205€

Fantastique 4.5rating (42)

Energizing the South African Youth

location
4 - 20 semaines  ·  Âge 16 - 50+

rating  Fantastique 4.5  · 
  Vérifié par Volunteer World
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Particulièrement approprié pour

Âge 16+
Seul voyageur
Couples
Groupes
50+

À propos du programme

Izizwe Project is the ultimate multitasker, juggling creches, schools, sports coaching, holiday fun, and a whole lot more in Walmer Township!

About the Program

Walmer Township is like a colorful puzzle piece in Port Elizabeth, nestled between fancy neighborhoods of the well-off white folks. This mission aims to blend these diverse worlds, creating a vibrant tapestry of unity and growth.

Despite the hurdles of poverty, neglect, and ...

À propos du programme

About the Program

Walmer Township is like a colorful puzzle piece in Port Elizabeth, nestled between fancy neighborhoods of the well-off white folks. This mission aims to blend these diverse worlds, creating a vibrant tapestry of unity and growth.

Despite the hurdles of poverty, neglect, and unemployment, Walmer is a friendly spot with open arms for volunteers keen on diving into their daily life. This project has been a beacon of hope since 2006, working with the community for the community.

As a volunteer, get ready to dive in with gusto, respect the local customs (even the quirky ones!), and embrace the unexpected twists and turns of township life. Stay flexible, show your enthusiasm, and remember, change takes time - you're here to sprinkle some positivity, not rewrite the book in a blink. Let the adventure begin!

Typical Tasks

Ready for a wild ride of possibilities to jazz up your life? Check out these cool options:

  • Izizwe Holiday Program: Our crew whips up a daily dose of dance-offs, theater antics, and sports showdowns. Over 250 kids join in the fun each day during holidays!
  • Primary school powerhouse: Lending a hand with sports and teacher support for the 6-12 age group.
  • Little champs at preschools and creches: Hang with 20-30 kiddos at a crèche or preschool, leading group activities and giving them top-notch care. Get ready for educational fun, games, walks, and lots of singing and dancing with the 4-6 age crew.
  • Sports superstar: Step up your game by coaching our basketball and soccer hotshots aged 12-16. Three times a week, you can be their sports hero and keep the fun rolling!

Needs

In addition to the everyday helping hand, there's also a bit of a financial itch that needs scratching. Any gifts or donations from our lovely volunteers are like hitting the jackpot for us! Here's a sneak peek at what we could use some extra hands with:

  • Fun learning materials for the township kids
  • Cool sports gear for the little champs
  • Toothbrushes and toothpaste for our dental hygiene program with the little ones
  • Yummy food packages for families and kids in need
  • School uniforms are always welcome. We try to support a few children at the beginning of the school year with the kit they need to succeed.

Please keep in mind that modest weekly donation of $35 will be added in your booking. Should you need a donation certificate, just let us know and we will gladly assist you.


Guidance and Supervision

Our awesome local coordinators are all in for making sure your experience is top-notch! They'll be your ultimate guides, showing you the ropes and connecting you with locals. We're all about volunteers who dive in headfirst, getting cozy with the community and little ones, taking the lead like a boss. While we won't be tied to your hip 24/7, we'll sprinkle some magic to ensure your stay is a blast!



Journée typique

Our hours are flexible and it often happens that volunteers finish early but join us to dive into exciting tasks from 8:30 am to 3 pm during the week, such as:

  • Dental hygiene program
  • Baby sports and movement program
  • Daycare renovation projects
  • Fundraising programs
  • Leading epic dance sessions
  • Coaching the ...

Journée typique

Our hours are flexible and it often happens that volunteers finish early but join us to dive into exciting tasks from 8:30 am to 3 pm during the week, such as:

  • Dental hygiene program
  • Baby sports and movement program
  • Daycare renovation projects
  • Fundraising programs
  • Leading epic dance sessions
  • Coaching the next sports superstars


Activités de loisirs

The Eastern Cape and the surroundings of Port Elizabeth show a large variety of natural beauty and make PE a great central place to visit the variety of South Africa. To the East you will find the Wild coast (former Transkei and Ciskei) which is mostly rural and undeveloped, but closer you will find ...

Activités de loisirs

The Eastern Cape and the surroundings of Port Elizabeth show a large variety of natural beauty and make PE a great central place to visit the variety of South Africa. To the East you will find the Wild coast (former Transkei and Ciskei) which is mostly rural and undeveloped, but closer you will find Addo Elephant Part and great coastal villages such as Port Alfred. To the North you will find the great Karoo; a semi desert area with wide open spaces, large nature areas and long open roads with historical places such as Graaff Reinet, the Baviaanskloof Wilderness and much more. To the East towards Cape Town, you will be amazed by the Tsitsikamma National Park, holiday villages such as Plettenberg Bay, Knysna and natures Valley or the surf mecca of Jeffrey’s Bay. This gives you plenty to see and visit while you are here.

Remember, your adventures aren't part of our package, and you can choose to join in (or not) but also remember that these adventures are for your cost. 


Conditions

Conditions

Âge minimum: 16 ans

Pour participer à ce programme tu dois avoir au moins 16 ans quand le programme commence.

Compétences linguistiques

Tu dois parler Anglais (niveau de base)

Vérification des Antécédents Criminels

requis

Documents Requis

Short resume

Restrictions de Nationalité

Aucune restriction. De l'aide venant de tous les coins du monde est bienvenu.

Autres Compétences

Be comfortable around another non-western culture and be ready to help with any tasks that might come up.

Engagement horaire

Nous avons besoin de ton aide pour lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi et vendredi de 08:30 - 15:00

Services inclus

Services inclus

Services de Go With Khaya

Included in Fees

  • Information and assistance before departure
  • Pick up upon arrival and drop off at the end of your stay (Monday to Friday)
  • City Tour and Introduction Program 
  • Shared accommodation in volunteer house
  • Onsite volunteer coordinator available 24/7
  • 3 Family style meals a day
  • Donation to the project
  • Daily transport to and from the project

NOT included in fees

  • Personal luxuries such as snacks, cold drinks and alcohol</li>
  • Costs for weekend trips

  • Flight tickets

  • Insurance

  • Laundry service

  • Arrival & departure transfers on Saturday/Sundays

Transfert de l'aéroport Port Elizabeth International Airport

Our volunteers arrive on Mondays and start at the project on Tuesdays. We can pick you up from the airport or from any accommodation in Port Elizabet/Gqeberha.

 

Arrivals and departure transfers from Monday to Friday are included in the fees. If you need an arrival or departure transfer over the weekend (Saturday to Sunday), we ask for a local cash payment of ZAR 250 per transfer.

Logement

The volunteer house in Port Elizabeth is a gorgeous home with loads of space.  Whether you prefer to unwind in the garden, at the pool or in the lounge; this home has a special place for everyone. 

The home was built in grand old architectural style and is decorated with modern touches. A pool for summer and a fireplace for winter, what more do you need?

The property is well secured and superbly located within walking distance of the beach, restaurants, laundry & shops.

Aliments & Boissons

Our full time cook will provide all meals at the volunteer house on a daily basis. This means you will be able to enjoy great South African home cooked meals & learn how to cook some of these specialties.

We believe in participation, so volunteers will not be sitting back and get served, they still need to help with the cooking at times, chop vegetables, clean dishes and warm up the food for dinner themselves.

Our cook will create weekly menus offering breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as alternate meals like stews, curries, stir-fry, soups, pastas and other wholesome options. Meals will be prepared and cooked from Monday to Friday, where on weekends volunteers will only have to heat up a meal or make their own similar meals.

There is free coffee, tea and cordial juice available at any time. For breakfast you will have toast, fruit, yogurt, cereal and/or eggs. For lunch you can have sandwiches with cheese, marmalade, cold meats or other spreads. Please tell our coordinators about any wishes, vegetarian wishes and allergies concerning food.

Accès à Internet

Accès limité sur le site du projet

NE SONT inclus dans le prix:

NE SONT inclus dans le prix:

Billets d'avion

L'aéroport le plus proche est Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ) à Port Elizabeth. Nous t'aidons à trouver des vols pas chers pour aller en Afrique du Sud. TROUVER DES VOLS PAS CHERS

Assurance Voyage

Partir à l'étranger est une aventure et c'est toujours mieux d'être bien préparé. Que ce soit une maladie soudaine, une blessure ou du vol - une assurance voyage pour Afrique du Sud te protège en cas de situation imprévue. OBTENIR UN DEVIS

Vaccins

Si tu envisages de faire du bénévolat en Afrique du Sud, nous te conseillons de consulter un médecin avant le début de ton voyage. Renseigne-toi sur les vaccins nécessaires pour Afrique du Sud. INFOS VACCINS

Informations sur l'arrivée

Our awesome volunteers swoop in on Mondays, diving headfirst into action on Tuesdays. Need a lift from the airport or your cozy Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha pad? We've got you covered!

Arrivals and departures from Monday to Friday are included in the fees. If you're jetting in or out over the weekend (Saturday to Sunday), just have ZAR 250 handy for a local cash payment per transfer.

Join us for a full week of awesomeness (that's 7 nights), but remember, we take a breather for 2-3 weeks in December/January.

Disponibilité
janv. févr. mars avril mai juin juil. août sept. oct. nov. déc.

Frais de Programme

4 semaines (durée min.) 1 205€
8 semaines 2 189€
20 semaines (durée max.) 5 472€
Prix moyen 287€/semaine

Frais de Programme

287€ par semaine 4 - 20 semaines Âge 16 - 50+

Méthodes de payement

Visa Master Card Maestro American Express PayPal

PAS DE FRAIS DE CARTE DE CRÉDIT


Durée

4 - 20 semaines

Acompte

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Paiement final

Le paiement du montant restant doit être organisé avec Go With Khaya durant le processus de candidature. Très souvent ce paiement est effectué par virement bancaire ou en espèces.


Rencontrez votre hôte

Go With Khaya

Fantastique 4.5 rating (42 avis)

Agence - fondée en 2005

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Langues parlées: Anglais

Sur le projet

Go With Khaya provides responsible and affordable volunteer projects. Take a gap year, work with communities and children, teach sport or work with wildlife.

Rencontrez votre hôte

“Khaya” means village or dwelling in several African languages – but it also has a deeper meaning, that of ‘belonging’. In Xhosa it also means home or homestead and in Swahili it means boma, which is an enclosed secure area for cattle. At Khaya Volunteer Projects, we make our volunteers feel that they belong. If you choose Khaya to organize your volunteering experience, you will feel secure and well-informed. You will also feel that you belong to the project you decide to work with, as Khaya fits the right people to the right projects.

History

Go With Khaya Travel Experiences was established in 2005 under the initial name Khaya Volunteer Projects. We offered international students the opportunity to come to South Africa and experience working with local companies and organizations as interns. Our goal was to offer an incomparable experience of the diverse culture and socio-political landscape of this amazing country, and our hope was to inspire people to offer their time and effort in return.

We soon found that many volunteering projects needed more hands and financial support than interns could provide, so in 2009 we started to offer volunteering opportunities to people of all ages and walks of life, such as gap year students, travelers, and conscientious older people with time to spare – whoever you are, you will find the right project for you and fit right in. Things took off from there and we didn’t look back - in 2011, Khaya expanded to Tanzania (Arusha and Zanzibar) and Zimbabwe. Today we have offices in South Africa, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Malawi.

Our Mission

Our mission is simple but resonant: we provide volunteering opportunities for international travelers that are both unique and as affordable as possible with high standards of service and facilities. Needless to say, we also prioritize our selected volunteer projects’ needs in ways that benefit both project and you, the volunteer.

At Go With Khaya, our greatest desire is to show people the true Africa, with its dynamic cultures and its incredible raw beauty. To live and work locally in South Africa, Tanzania or Zanzibar means immersing yourself in these countries and experiencing your travels in an entirely unique way you will never forget.

Our offer

Go With Khaya will introduce you to affordable volunteer projects which have been personally chosen by or established by us. You can choose from a number of viable, sustainable, rewarding ventures: working with children, healthcare, sports development, education, conservation, animals – whatever you can think of, that project wants and needs your time and energy!

We have developed an extremely hands-on and personal approach to your experience. You will have a project facilitator working closely with you throughout your volunteering program to make sure your questions are answered and your concerns addressed. No question, suggestion or complaint is too silly, small or simple! This is just one of the many reasons Khaya has volunteers coming back to us year after year.

Dynamite comes in small packages! One of our points of pride is that our volunteering projects are selected and developed for quality over quantity. This means you won’t have to stand in a queue to touch an elephant or to take part in an activity – this isn’t Disneyworld!  Many other volunteer projects have 30 or 40 volunteers involved, which we feel dilutes your experience and denies the volunteer project your focus and enthusiasm. Some of our volunteer projects are rather new and in the process of improving, so we at Khaya make it our priority to uplift and support where we can and grow these projects to new heights – and for this, we want our volunteers to be as involved as possible and not just people who paid a fee to be ‘faces in the crowd’!

Why Go With Khaya?

Affordability

We focus on keeping our volunteer projects’ prices transparent and as low as possible while still offering the highest level of service. We encourage…no, we CHALLENGE you, our prospective volunteers, to compare our prices with other organizations. We offer incomparably affordable experiences for the level of service you will be receiving. We make sure to eliminate hidden costs and ‘fine print’ as far as possible in our volunteer project pricing. All your meals, transport and 24/7 supervision and guidance is included in our offering (this MAY differ per project, so please double-check with us).

Where does your money go?

We donate a good portion of your volunteering fee directly to the projects we work with (this can differ per project, you can check with us). This means that not only are you helping and supporting the projects with your time and energy, but you are also financially contributing to them! Khaya ensures that the costs involved in our projects are as transparent and uncomplicated as possible so that you know exactly where your hard-earned money is going to. Please contact us if you have ANY queries whatsoever regarding your fee, and what kind of mileage you are getting for your buck!

Locally based

Go With Khaya has one fantastic advantage over other volunteer groups – we’re based right here in Africa, and are therefore directly involved with the volunteer projects on an ongoing, hands-on basis. We make every effort to visit all our projects regularly to ensure that everything is running smoothly, and to ensure that both projects AND volunteers receive all the necessary support and guidance. Our direct partnership with our projects allows us to see immediately how you, the volunteer, fit into the bigger picture, and at the same time we can help with the day-to-day details of your stay.

Very important to us: Go With Khaya strives to create employment in Africa by employing local people at several of our projects and giving them much-needed income opportunities.

Going the extra mile

Go With Khaya believes in going the extra mile. Whether you have questions specifically about the volunteer project you have embarked on, or just a general travel question (er no, lions and elephants don’t usually run rampant in city streets here! :). Ask away with impunity, nothing is too big or small for us to find the answer.

Go With Khaya also conducts ongoing coaching and training of our local partners and coordinators. We train the staff of several projects on how to deal with volunteers, how to utilize them, and the best possible way to assist them. In doing so, we offer support for volunteers and at the same time foster an environment of empowerment for the full-time project workers.

Keeping it real

The pictures that you see on our website are authentic – they were taken by volunteers and GWK staff. We want you to see exactly what you get if you sign up for a volunteering project with us. We are NOT involved in this industry merely to make a buck – we have a passion to make change happen, and to create a win-win situation for all involved. Also, we really want you to send us YOUR pictures and words, your vision of your experience, for our own knowledge and for potential future volunteers.

Pre-departure and feedback

Before you depart your home country, GWK will supply you with a pre-departure guide with information about the project you choose. We will supply everything you need to know about visa requirements, and a list of what you need to bring with you; the climate; what to expect culturally and environmentally; and much, much more information!

We always aim to improve our services wherever possible, so once you have completed your time as a volunteer; we will ask you for feedback on your experience with us. Your feedback is of utmost importance to us to keep improving and growing our partnerships to new heights.


42 avis · rating4.5

Claudia Fiedler rating3

2024 at Education on Zanzibar

School: Overall the teaching experience is an experience that changed my view on the world. However, if you are visiting from europe you need to be aware, that things in africa work differently than at home. To me, the project seemed quite unorganised. The communication with the school was ...
David Mason-Williams rating4.4

2023 at Siyafunda Wild Experience

Volunteering with Siyafunda was one of the best decisions of my life! Everyone involved in the project is passionate and knowledgable about their work, which I find inspirational. I learnt so much during my six weeks with Siyafunda, and I cannot wait to one day return and learn more! Anyone who is ...
Zeyneb Kasmi rating3.2

2022 at Education on Zanzibar

I spent in total 5 weeks in Zanzibar. The island became a second home. I taught mostly in a secondary school. It was a wonderful experience! However, I was living 25 min away from Stone Town / and the school. I did not like taking the bus/dali dali every single day. They only drive to up to a ...
Aniek Fassotte rating4.4

2022 at Penguin Rescue and Rehabilitation Assistant

Het originele plan was om zes weken bij dit project te gaan werken. Uiteindelijk is dit me zo goed bevallen dat ik mijn verblijf heb verlengd met twee extra weken. Het was mooi om zulke ervaring op te kunnen doen. Maar eerlijk is eerlijk, met de 'bazen' bij dit project moet je wel om kunnen gaan. ..
Lison Mc Nicoll rating4.6

2022 at Vervet Monkey Rescue

I stayed 2 weeks in Bambelela in June-July 2022. It was amazing! People there are so nice and we have plenty of monkey time. The tasks to do are easy but so helpful for them! An experience of a life! I’ll always remember my beautiful monkeys there! ...
corinne loze rating5

2022 at Vervet Monkey Rescue

it was an amazing experience with a lot af support and involing of volonteers. The program is very serious and it was just so adorable to take care of pink faces ...

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