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Thornhill is a small community located 25min from Jeffreys
bay towards Port Elizabeth, volunteers will stay at our
Wildlife Lodge at African Dawn and transported to and from
the project on week days.
The aim of our community projects is both to have
a cultural exchange and the upliftment of disadvantaged communities.
The projects we use are both for the need in the
area and the safety factor of our volunteers. Volunteers will be
organized by a representative.
The projects we help with is mostly determined by
the budgets available and the need at the time and ranges across a
large spectrum from repairing to building schools, helping teachers
in the classroom or the elderly with the vegetable gardens that
supports the soup kitchens.
Groups are encouraged to do fundraising for larger
projects that can be started before or during their arrival. As we
are a non profit organization all donation go directly to the
specified projects.
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Project Cost
All Rates
Quoted in South African Rands
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ZAR 3950/week
first
month
South African Rands
Extra weeks
ZAR 3000 per additional week when staying longer than one
month South African Rands
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Twin/Double Sharing R50/Day
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Project
Includes
● Accommodation
(Accommodation upgrades to twin and double rooms available)
● Transfers to and from Port Elizabeth
●Sponsorship for Endangered Species Projects and sponsoring
of purchasing additional animals for breeding project and
donation to schools.
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Breakfast and dinner Included
Working Hours
Work days will be
weekdays from 7-5 with two days of per week to relax or explore the area,
there are a selection of day excursions you can join to surrounding
Game Farms and attractions.
Book
Now Here
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Project Duration
Please note that
you can extend for any length of time
(min 2 weeks)
Starting Dates
This project can be joined at any time of
the year.
Who can Apply
This project is open to
anyone over the age of 18, fairly fit and in good health.
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COMMUNITY
PROGRAM MORNINGS:
Background:
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The school has 2 permanently employed care giver
who is very dedicated but lack resources such as age specific
teaching aides. The volunteer will therefore be expected to
assist in a very creative manner making use of the most basic
equipment to fulfil the daily program objectives.
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Presently there are 25 children to the 1 teacher
and this brings capacity problems in terms of human resources.
The volunteer will be of great help here in order to run smaller
classes based on age or special needs.
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A primary help will be obtaining financial aid.
This will allow the teachers access to material (Photostats,
paper, books, crayons etc) to use in the classroom situation.
Another area is to create a project to teach the children how to
help themselves through the environment – growing vegetables to
eat, flowers to sell etc.
The
school receives no grants or funding of any sort from local or
national government,
infrastructure is therefore basic but functional, salaries low and
teacher aids minimal. A basic feeding program exists consisting of a
bowl of maze meal (porridge) and sugar.
Tasks
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Welcome children to school
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Oversee outside free play while waiting for school to start
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Assist children inside for breakfast
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Help with either cooking, serving or cleaning breakfast utensils
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Washing hands and general hygiene program
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Divide into age groups
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Continue with theme related project for the week
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Free play outside or inside if raining
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Song and dance routine
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Story time
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Assist in home time routine
Community Upliftment
Your afternoons can be used for
community upliftment project, these include but are not limited to:
Repair and Maintenance of
schools, churches and community buildings.
Establishing and maintaining
vegetable gardens.
Field trips with children.
Sports development.
Work days will be
weekdays from 8-2 and weekends free to relax or join the wildlife
program,
there are a selection of day excursions you can join to surrounding
Game Farms and attractions. Most volunteers spend the weekends in
J-Bay.
General
community project tasks
There are key figures in the community that are involved in various
projects. Volunteers can assist in these projects which include:
AIDS Care
Providing support to the ladies involved in home base care and assisting
them in visiting patients in various ways.
l This
can mean simply spending time with AIDS patients who otherwise feel rejected
by the community.
l Distributing
of flyers in the community to create more awareness and fight the stigma
surrounding AIDS.
WILDLIFE
PROGRAM AFTERNOONS:
Working as a
volunteer you will be involved in many aspects of conservation
and wildlife care.
Daily preparation of food for the animals and birds in the
park. This involves cutting up raw meat.
Feeding and giving fresh water to the animals and birds twice a day.
Daily cleaning of enclosures
Upkeep and improvement of enclosures including repairing broken
fences, planting vegetation, etc
Maintenance of the park such as painting and constructing new
enclosures and other buildings.
Checking that animals are well and caring for those that require
special attention.
Hand rearing new born animals born at the sanctuary and any that are
brought in by the public. This involves regular feeding, usually
bottle feeding with milk formula to begin with, assisting them
urinate and defecate, cleaning and grooming them, constantly
checking that they are comfortable, warm and happy. New born
animals also require feeding through the night for the first few
weeks.
Playing and sitting with young animals to stimulate them.
Interacting with the public extends to assisting our staff in
training and conservation awareness.
Other volunteer tasks may include:
Conservation educational on fauna and flora in the region as well as
identification of mammals, wildlife spoor, animal dung etc.
Observing and studying the animals and their behaviour, this
includes sleeping out in the game areas in camps.
Doing survival training practically on the reserve.
Building new habitats for animals on the game reserve area.
Please note if you join the
project for less than one month not all duties and activities
mentioned may be included in the program
If you have any questions feel free to
contact Tyron
by mail
africandawnvolunteers@gmail.com or
call +27 (0)83 661 5393
Book Now
Includes: Accommodation
(shared 8 Sleeper Log cabin in Game area) and Transfers to and from
Port Elizabeth
(Accommodation upgrades to twin and double rooms available)
Sponsorship for Endangered Species Projects and sponsoring of
purchasing additional animals for breeding project. We also do
regular donations to community projects.
Excludes: Extra Excursions,
flights, drinks and visas.
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