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Khama Rhino Sanctuary

This project is part of the SCI North South Programmes. Volunteers should be 20 years old, have previous volunteering experience and take part in the Preparation Workshops organised by their sending branch. More details from your sending branch.
Camp code:
BW-BWA 10.4
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
Jul 10, 2023
End Date:
Jul 21, 2023
Topic:
10: Environment protection
Work Types:
Environment
Number of volunteers:
15
Number of places still available:
15
International age:
18 - 99
National age:
16 - 99
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
250.00 US Dollar
Breakdown:
  1. Accommodation and food: 0.00 US Dollar
  2. Transportation: 0.00 US Dollar
  3. Activities: 0.00 US Dollar
  4. Hosting organisation support: 250 US Dollar
Purpose of extra costs:
COST OF PARTICIPATION IN A WORKCAMP: The work camp participation fee is US $250 per participant, which covers simple work camp meals, arrangements for the whole work camp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. BWA organizes transport for participants from the airport in Gaborone to Mochudi (BWA Head Office) at a nominal fee of US$ 40 per participant, where participants are inducted prior to departure to work camps destination.
Required Language:
English

Description: Khama Rhino Sanctuary is located around 25km north of Serowe and 320 km Northwest from Gaborone. It is defined by Kalahari Desert sands and quite range of vegetation. Khama Rhino Sanctuary is a conservation park for the endangered white and black rhinos. It also hosts a wide range of animals including kudus, impalas, gemsboks, giraffes, and a variety of small animals and birds. Volunteers at the nature reserve can enjoy day and evening game drives and some educational lectures on some days. Volunteers can also arrange to join the rangers for their animals counting exercises and patrols along the park fences. The Khama Rhino Sanctuary is having an active working partnership with BWA. BWA had committed itself by assisting to sustain the ecosystem of the reserve.

Type of Work: The volunteers will assist in the maintenance of the footpaths, park fence, fire breaks and trails and helping in day-to-day business maintenance of the park. The volunteers will participate as a team in the whole duration of the camp. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp. The orientation for the workcamp is scheduled at BWA head offices for the day before the workcamp start at Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

For more information about workcamp site, please visit: http://khamarhinosanctuary.org.bw

Accommodation: Khama Rhino Sanctuary provides accommodation in camping sites. Volunteers must bring their own tents, sleeping bags, mosquito nets or repellants. A heavy blanket can of great assistance as Khama Rhino Sanctuary experience very cold winters, with temperatures reaching lows of -5 at night. Internet, supermarkets and banking are available in Serowe town, which is 20 minutes' drive form the sanctuary.

Approximate Location: Khama Rhino Sanctuary is located around 25 km north of Serowe and 320 km Northwest from Gaborone, capital city of the Republic of Botswana.

Notes: ORIENTATION: An orientation is normally organized a day before the start of the workcamp with the intentions of briefing participants about BWA as an organization, Botswana's socio-economic background, cultural issues etc. Please, ensure that your travel arrangements would allow at least two days of reaching BWA head office, rightly so, in lieu of rest and orientation before leaving to the work

Organization Description: The Botswana Workcamps Association (BWA) is a non-governmental, non-profit making voluntary organization registered with the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs in April 1980 under the Societies Act. With headquarters in Mochudi in the Kgatleng District, BWA collaborates with local and national structures and bodies and is member of the Southern Africa Workcamps Cooperation (SAWC). It is affiliated to the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (BOCONGO) and to the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Services (CCIVS). The mission of Botswana Workcamps Association is to enhance leadership development through community voluntary discipline, participation and increase self-reliance for broad based sustainable development in construction, environmental management and conservation, economic empowerment, psychological and physiological rehabilitation and leadership development BWA draws its membership from junior, secondary, tertiary schools and out of school youth. BWA exists under three programmes, which include, leadership development, workcamps and youth centre development.