I've stayed in Jeffreys Bay for three weeks and
worked as a volunteer at one of the schools in the township. The
children at the Creche were very adorable and the two teachers were
just amazing in their dedication to educate about 40-50 children
every single day. They could definitely use some helping hands and
their appreciation for me investing three weeks of my time in
helping them was enormous...........Read
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Jeffreys Bay Pre School Volunteers South Africa
Jeffreys Bay home to the perfect wave
and endless summers, what a place to stay for a
couple of weeks working on your tan while helping
the local community improve their living conditions. See you down in
J Bay for a life changing experience. Working
with children from 6 months to six years old, playing games,
singing songs and exchanging cultures.
THE PROJECT: The school has 2 permanently employed care givers
who are 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.
Presently there are 25 children to the 2 teachers
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.
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.
There is also an opportunity to establish a link
with an established school in town and to use ideas,
themes etc from this school. Also to bring the schools together
by having outings to each others schools or going to the beach
together.
The
school receives no grants or funding of any sort from local or
national government (the school was built with foreign donations)–
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
·
Welcome children to school
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Oversee outside free play while waiting for school program 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
·
Assist in home time routine
Community Upliftment
Your afternoons
could be used for getting involved with
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 to
beaches and nature reserves.
Sports development.
Maintaining and repair of houses
of people affected by aids.
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.
This
can mean simply spending time with AIDS patients who otherwise feel rejected
by the community.
Distributing
of flyers in the community to create more awareness and fight the stigma
surrounding AIDS
Help
with weekly and monthly food packages through fundraising, buying food,
packing and distributing
Plant rescue program
The foundation works towards saving plants from local development sites and
replanting them in public gardens.
Work
with them in day to day maintenance of these gardens
Assist
in the rescue of plants from building sites
Educating
kids at schools about nature
Planting
of vegetable gardens in various areas including schools and AIDS patients
homes
THE
COMMUNITY:
This community is located
near the beach along the most
breathtaking coastline with miles and miles of unspoiled beaches.
Other projects that you can be involved with are, working with the
children in the pre-school and primary school, working with street
children, maintenance of schools and homes, sport development and
building projects. We encourage volunteers to seek new ways to help
these communities.
ACCOMMODATION:
You will be staying at the Volunteer
Lodge in Jeffreys Bay more info
Jeffreys Bay Volunteer Lodge
Sharing Twin:
In this option you book a bed in a twin room. You might share a room with someone from a completely
different culture which adds to the whole learning experience.
Dormitory: This
consists of 4 and 6 bed dorms.
Meals:
Breakfast is supplied on a self service basis.
Volunteers can supply and prepare their own meals or enjoy meals in the
lodge or local restaurants just a hop from your accommodation.
Extra weeks
ZAR 2000 per week when staying longer than a
month
Accommodation Upgrade
ZAR 350 per week
twin room
sharing
Includes
● Accommodation
(shared 4 and 6 Sleeper Dorm Room
(Accommodation upgrades to twin rooms available)
● Transfers to and from Port Elizabeth Airport
● Sponsorship for
community project.
●
Breakfast included
Dates
This project can be joined at any time of
the year and on any day of the week.
Who can Apply
This project is open to
anyone over the age of 18, fairly fit and in good health.
Location
The Project is located
in Jeffreys Bay South Africa,
Volunteers must arrange their flights to and from Port
Elizabeth airport
Working Hours
Work days will be
weekdays from 8-4 with weekends off to relax or explore the area.
THE
COMMUNITY: