bwa06GAM

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 7.6
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
Dec 01, 2025
End Date:
Dec 12, 2025
Topic:
7: Children and youth
Work Types:
Teaching / Work with children / Social
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
International age:
18 - 60
National age:
16 - 60
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
250.00 Euro [280 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

Description: Gamodubu Child Care Trust is a centre for orphaned and vulnerable children who are mostly also living with HIV and Aids. The Centre offers an out of school program that includes, but is not limited to feeding and also ensuring the children take their medication and have access to regular check-ups.

Type of Work: - Type of Work: The volunteers will assist in the daily education and stimulation of the physically disadvantaged youth, gardening, sports coaching & mentoring and general counselling of the kids. Spare time is usually meant for interaction with kids on their music practice sessions. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp.

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: Gamodubu Child Care Trust does not provide accommodation Volunteers are 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. Drinking water is safe. Gamodubu is one of the smallest villages in the country and does not have most amnesties.

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: Approximate Location: Gamodubu village, 40 kilometres west of capital city Gaborone. Gamodubu Childcare Trust. Where is located? -24.67995,25.6341 (GPS Coordinates).

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.