Voluntary Work
Medical Role
Throughout the project you will spend the mornings helping in the various community clinics by assisting the supervisors with the many people who need help. The clinics care for small sick children who have nowhere else to go for help. This works allows you to make an extremely positive impact on the rural health service, in the areas that are most in need of it. You will be making a profound difference to the lives of those in the surrounding communities.
Many children with special needs attend the day care centres in the area and you are able to help in these during the afternoon.
Please note: Those who would like to do a full time medical placement can work in the clinics in the afternoon as well instead of community work.
Community Development Role
After spending the morning working in the clinic, you will spend the afternoons working on projects to assist the communities in different areas. You will be rotating between the following community projects:
- Build and paint schools: Volunteers will be helping with the maintenance side of things – fixing fences and windows, rebuilding and painting.
- Education and Care Centre: This centre houses 115 children and has just 7 teachers to educate them. Your work here will be assisting the teachers with the afternoon after-care by doing things such as helping to serve meals, playing with the kids, reading and helping with other skills (art, music and dancing). If volunteers have adult skills i.e. computer, admin, financial or training, these can be great skills for the teachers to develop.
- Community Development Project: This development project was founded in support of patients and vulnerable children who suffer from HIV/AIDS and living in and around the local area. Many of the mothers within the communities have volunteered to care for the children of the project because they believe that it is important to show their support and love to the children.
What’s Included in the Programme
- Project Fee: this includes financing that goes directly to the project that you are involved in. This fee helps fund the project so that they can acquire medical supplies, building materials equipment and much more and also pays teachers/cooks wages at the pre-school. The programme cost also goes towards future development of the project through buying extra vehicles, equipment and building new housing for the volunteers.
- All airport transfers from Cape Town International Airport upon your arrival and departure
- Orientation programme
- All daily transfers to and from your projects during your stay
- Full board and lodging which includes three meals a day at our volunteer house
- Weekly laundry service during your stay
- Assistance in your projects by various African Impact staff and project managers
- Outings to Cape Point, the most South-Western tip of Africa, Boulder beach to see the African Penguin colony and Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27yrs.
What’s Not Included in the Programme
- Personal travel insurance for the duration of your placement, which must include cover for repatriation
- All Flights to Cape Town
- All items of a personal nature, such as curios, gifts, clothing (work and other)
- E-mail/Internet and telephone calls
- Soft drinks, wines and spirits
- All visas for border crossings
- Any excursions over and above your planned itinerary in Cape Town
Prices & Durations
South Africa Medical Volunteers Cape Town - 4 weeks £1,299
South Africa Medical Volunteers Cape Town - 8 weeks £1,999
