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Camp Hill Community Trust Organisation

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 9.2
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
Jun 09, 2025
End Date:
Jun 20, 2025
Topic:
9: People with disabilities
Work Types:
Construction / Work with people with disabilities / Work with children
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
Free places last update:
May 21, 2025
International age:
18 - 60
National age:
16 - 60
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
250.00 Euro [285 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
Spoken Language:
English

Description: Camphill Community Trust The first Camphill community was a school for disabled children, set within the context of a shared communal life. The school flourished and led to the founding of other Camphill centres, some offering schooling, some training for disabled people and others long term employment and sheltered living. The Camp hill rehabilitation center is located in the village of Otse, approximately 70 km south of Gaborone. The center provides vocational rehabilitation programmes to the disabled kids. The Camp hill is committed to provision of vocational capacity to the underprivileged students afflicted by psychological and physiological challenges.

Type of Work: Work camp 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 Camp hill Center. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the work camp. The Mokolodi Sanctuary is only 25 minutes’ drive from the center and therefore can provide the much-needed excursion during the work camp. 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

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 Camp hill Rehabilitation Center 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, work camp is a platform for cultural exchange, volunteers should bring meal recipes and music of their own countries.

Language: ENGLISH

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 Otse Village,Botswana Location: -25.0494085, 25.7365889.

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.