Teach and Travel in South Africa (12 weeks)

Global Vision International

Vacancy: Teach and Travel in South Africa (12 weeks)
Company: Global Vision International
Category: Gap year in industry (General, Public Service & Govt)
Dates: First Monday of the month, excluding Decmeber
Salary: £2520

This twelve week programme combines two popular community projects and two adventure trips. Volunteers will spend 6 weeks in South Africa, with 5 weeks of volunteer work and a further week on a guided safari in Kruger National Park. By day you will be looking for the Big Five and in the evenings you will be cooking on an open fire and camping under the African skies. At this point volunteers will be transferred down to Swaziland for another 5 weeks of work and one week exploring the coast of Mozambique. Here you will visit local markets, enjoy water sports and snorkel with whale sharks.

In South Africa volunteers will have the choice of teaching in local schools or working at child care centres in the Emjindini township of Barberton. These provide care and education for disadvantaged children many of whom have broken families as a result of the AIDS pandemic. Similarly in Swaziland you will be assisting at small care centres run locally to assist orphans and vulnerable children. There are also opportunities to teach at local primary schools too, which are under-resourced and under funded.