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Camphill Rehabilitation Centre (BWA10)

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 7.10
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
Sep 23, 2024
End Date:
Oct 04, 2024
Topic:
7: Children and youth
Options:
Mixed Age Camp
Wheelchair Accessible
Work Types:
Work with people with disabilities / Work with children / Manual
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
Free places last update:
Feb 07, 2024
International age:
18 - 99
National age:
16 - 99
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
260.00 US Dollar
Breakdown:
  1. Accommodation and food: 15.00 US Dollar
  2. Transportation: 15.00 US Dollar
  3. Activities: 0.00 US Dollar
  4. Hosting organisation support: 230 US Dollar
Purpose of extra costs:
none
Spoken Language:
English
Child friendly camp
Yes (Minimum age: 8)
Motivation letter:
This camp requires an additional motivation letter to explain in more detail why you would like to attend.

Description: Camp hill Rehabilitation Centre-Otse,70 km south of Gaborone Vocational Education, Social/ psychological, counseling

Type of Work: WORKCAMP WORK: The volunteers will provide support on daily rehabilitation sessions and provide mentoring and coaching on the vocational upskilling and sports development. Volunteers will also provide psychological and physiological counselling to kids at the Camphill Centre. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp. The Mokolodi Sanctuary is only 25 minutes drive from the centre and therefore can provide the much-needed excursion during the workcamp. There is also the nearby scenery Mayelanoong Hill, which is regarded as sacred cultural site, with some unexplained mystery about disappearance of lover’s centuries ago.

Study Theme: Psychosocial .Construction

Accommodation: ACCOMMODATION: Camp hill Rehabilitation Centre provides accommodation in their shared dormitories. Volunteers are also encouraged to bring their own tents for their privacy. Hot showers and bathrooms/toilets with running water are available. Please remember to bring very warm clothes and sleeping bags. Most importantly, workcamp is a platform for cultural exchange, volunteers should bring meal recipes and music of their own countries.

Language: English

Requirements: Skills of the individual volunteer • Commitment of volunteers; Project or work camps are not just cheap holidays; hard work and full participation is required. Volunteers should be self driven, adaptable, people oriented and tenacious, • Specific motivation may be required for some projects. • ENGLISH is the medium of communication in work camp. Note: Workcamps are form of cultural exchange as su

Approximate Location: Otse

Notes: COST OF PARTICIPATION IN A WORK CAMP

The work camp participation fee is US $260 per participant, which covers simple work camp meals, arrangements for the whole work camp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. BWA organizes transport for participants from the airport in Gaborone to Mochudi (BWA Head Office) at a nominal fee of US$ 40 per participant, where participants are inducted prior to departure to work camps destination

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.