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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 7.4
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
May 05, 2025
End Date:
May 16, 2025
Topic:
7: Children and youth
Work Types:
Work with people with disabilities / Teaching / Work with children
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
Free places last update:
Oct 29, 2024
International age:
18 - 60
National age:
18 - 60
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
250.00 Euro [284 US Dollar]
Breakdown:
  1. Accommodation and food: 0.00 Euro
  2. Transportation: 0.00 Euro
  3. Activities: 0.00 Euro
  4. Hosting organisation support: 250 Euro
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
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Description: Tlokweng is a village on the outskirts of Botswana's capital Gaborone, which is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. Despite the significant development the country has undergone in recent decades, this brings many challenges. The local government struggles to provide adequate housing, schooling and health care to all who arrive in and around the capital. Moreover, HIV/AIDS and its consequences remain a major problem in Gaborone and its surroundings, including Tlokweng.

Since 1986, SOS Children’s Villages has been supporting children, young people and families and advocating for their rights in Tlokweng.

Type of Work: Work camp: Social and Construction work camp
SOS has some ongoing general maintenance that will be done in phases. Most of the activities that can be done are playing with children, teaching them how to read and write, tutoring. Other works include painting of some buildings and the projects are subject to change since volunteers from other agencies keep on doing them. Projects will likely be confirmed when camp date is near.

Study Theme: Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements)

  • Knowledge in dealing with children, protection of children’s rights, advocacy of children’s rights

Accommodation: Accommodation

SOS has facilities that volunteers can use for accommodation. There are showers and toilets available on site. Volunteers can bring their own tents for their own convenience.

Requirements: Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements)

  • Knowledge in dealing with children, protection of children’s rights, advocacy of children’s rights

Approximate Location: Location: The volunteers will be based in Tlokweng/Gaborone.

Notes: Cost of Participation in a Work Camp

The work camp participation fee is €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 € 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.

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