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Khama Rhino Sanctuary (BWA12)

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 10.12
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
Dec 02, 2024
End Date:
Dec 13, 2024
Topic:
10: Environment protection
Work Types:
Environment / Manual / Work with animals
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
Free places last update:
Oct 29, 2024
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:
We would like to clarify that the 250 Euro fee is strictly designated as a participation fee, which covers several key aspects of your involvement. This fee includes the following: 1. Placement: The fee ensures your placement with BWA, which acts as the host organization for your activities. 2. Organisation: It covers the cost associated with the planning and organization of workcamps, which begins a year prior to the commencement of the program. 3.Communication: The fee contributes to the administrative costs related to general communication and coordination between participants and the host organization. 4. Feeding: Lastly, the fee helps cover the costs of providing meals and sustenance for participant during time with host organisation. Please note that this fee is non-refundable
Required Language:
English
Motivation letter:
This camp requires an additional motivation letter to explain in more detail why you would like to attend.

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

Type of Work: WORKCAMP 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: https://khamarhinosanctuary.org.bw

Study Theme: Environmental Work

Accommodation: 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. Network reception for three network providers, Mascom, Orange and BTC is relatively good in the park. Volunteers in possession of sim cards of their network providers from their coun

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: Serowe

Notes: COST OF PARTICIPATION IN A WORK CAMP

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.

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.