Cape Town Teaching (Pre-School and Primary) and Building Project

  South Africa

Cape Town (Kaapstad)

Term: Throughout the year 
Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks and 5-8 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: Inquire for dates

Description: This program involves various aspects of community work and development. You will have the opportunity to be involved in our exciting rural pre-school curriculum, as well as participate in community building projects.

* Assistant Teaching:
Children in Red Hill Pre-schools have a severe lack of facilities and are taught from containers that have been brought into the community as donations.
As a volunteer you will work as a teaching assistant in the classroom. You will find that most of the schools have meager and ill-equipped facilities, but a wealth of children with a desire to learn. As a volunteer, you will assist teachers and contribute to our effort of providing children with a better education.
You will spend most of your time assisting teachers, so that you can give children the individual attention they desire but hardly ever get. In addition, you will have the opportunity to organize your own classes.

These are the ways in which you will assist the schools:
- Act as an assistant teacher. Provide individual attention and assistance to children during lessons
- Help with doing crafts, painting, reading and games
- Organize special needs classes for children who have not been able to keep up with the pace of the classes
- Help with giving the children their meals. Every child receives a meal at most basic schools, which is often their only meal that day.
- Help clean, maintain, and even refurbish the classrooms, most of which are quite run down

Highlights:
- Assistant teaching
- Reading and crafts with children
- Sports coaching
- Work with disadvantaged and vulnerable children
- Help uplift a community through education, health, building and sport
- Immerse yourself in local Capetonian culture
- Make friends for life
- Vivacious Cape Town is one of the most stunning cities on the globe. It is the home of the spectacular Table Mountain; the heritage site of Nelson Mandela's prison home, Robben Island; the gateway to the stunning Western Cape wine lands; and boasts magnificent beaches, amongst others.
- These are not included in your volunteering fee, but our coordinators are able to assist you with making the necessary booking arrangements.
- The "Wild Coast" along the eastern frontier of South Africa is a collection of unrivaled surf spots and beautiful beaches and cultural stops that will intrigue even the most seasoned traveler, and endear this land to you
- Garden Route weekend

Qualifications: Minimum 18 years, maximum decided on potential participants' health

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: 2 weeks-USD 1,290; 4 weeks- USD 1,990

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

Age Range: Minimum 18 years

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to South Africa Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Written Application

African Impact's Mission Statement: African Impact facilitates cultural exchange programmes through volunteer work. We awards you the opportunity to immerse yourselves in local schools, health institutions, communities and wildlife conservation programmes. In this way as a volunteer you are able to leave your mark on a corner of Africa whilst at the same time experiencing a lifestyle that will shift your perspectives and allow you to see our world in a different light. We invite you to join us on a journey to Africa to explore, to inspire and to impact. We invite you to be more than a tourist, but to be a traveller, a conservationist and a humanitarian.

Year Founded: 1999