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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 9.2
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
May 05, 2025
End Date:
May 16, 2025
Topic:
9: People with disabilities
Work Types:
Work with people with disabilities / Work with elderly people / 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 - 99
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: Motswedi Rehabilitation centre is a community-based rehabilitation centre based in Mochudi village, 40 kilometres east of capital city Gaborone. The centre is home to hundreds of young people affected by different physical impairment. The young people are taught academic and vocational skills and taken through physiotherapy counselling as well. The kids are taught during the day depending on their standards of learning. The centre is having an active working partnership with BWA. BWA had committed itself by assisting in developing a psychological and social development set up at the centre.

Type of Work: he volunteers will help with the daily education and activities for youth with physical disabilities, including gardening, sports coaching, mentoring, and providing general counseling. Additionally, they may assist with any renovation projects at the center and help maintain the children's library. During free time, volunteers often engage with the kids during their music practice sessions. They can also share and exchange different cultural experiences throughout 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: Motswedi Community Based Rehabilitation Centre provides accommodation in their shared guest houses and 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, workcamp is a platform for cultural exchange, volunteers should bring meal recipes and music of their own countries. Drinking water is safe. Mochudi is one of the largest villages in the country and boasts of big chain stores.

Language: english

Requirements: no special requirements

Approximate Location: Approximate Location: Mochudi village, 40 kilometres east of capital city 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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