Volunteer in South Africa: Day Care Center

Project At A Glance

Location: Cape Town Start point: Cape Town Duration: 2-12 weeks Hours: 30-40 hours per week Food: Local food (3 times a day) Room: Host family or hostel Date: First and Third Wednesday of each month

IFRE supports many day care centers which are developed to offer day care services for poor families and working mothers. Volunteers usually enjoy spending time with the children at the day care centers. You will be helping them to feed the children, keep the children clean, play with them, you can maybe also bring some pictures of your country and tell them a bit about it very briefly. What you can also do is have a few pictures of things for example fruit, colors, ammonals, very basic things and then you can tell them what it is in English and the teachers can tell you what they call it in Afrikaans. You can exchange info and then you can also bring some photos of your family and tell them who is who. You are welcome to do activities with them what you would like as well, you can just consult with the teacher whether it will be ok.

Skills/Qualifications Requirements

There are no specific qualifications required to adequately perform volunteer activities. However, individuals should be enthusiastic about caring for other and compassionate to the often unfortunate situations of these children

Role of the Volunteers

Volunteers in any of the above projects are involved in various activities such as:

• Helping children with homework and teaching basic conversational English
• Supporting recreational and artistic activities with the objective of educational learning
• Helping kids with their gardens
• Organizing and developing sports activities
• Supporting in the kitchen/helping to serve lunch in the dining room
• Assisting with location-specific duties – routine maintenance, construction, etc

Room/ Food/ Supervision

Volunteers mainly stay with homestays in the communities. Our host families are active community members, mature, trained and experienced with international volunteers. You will get a single room (or sharing with another volunteer) in a homestay. The accommodation will be clean and simply furnished. Local host will manage 3 local meals a day. During the volunteering period, local organization staff will guide, help, and supervise you.