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Bwa01KRS

This project is part of the SCI North South Programmes. Volunteers should be 20 years old, have previous volunteering experience and take part in the Preparation Workshops organised by their sending branch. More details from your sending branch.
Camp code:
BW-BWA 10.1
Country:
Botswana
Start Date:
May 05, 2025
End Date:
May 16, 2025
Topic:
10: Environment protection
Special Topics:
Climate for Peace Programme
Work Types:
Environment / Manual / Work with animals
Number of volunteers:
10
Free places for Males:
5
Free places for Females:
5
Free places last update:
Oct 29, 2024
International age:
18 - 60
National age:
18 - 60
Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:
250.00 Euro [284 US Dollar]
Breakdown:
  1. Accommodation and food: 0.00 Euro
  2. Transportation: 0.00 Euro
  3. Activities: 0.00 Euro
  4. Hosting organisation support: 250 Euro
Purpose of extra costs:
We would like to clarify that the 250 Euro fee is strictly designated as a participation fee, which covers several key aspects of your involvement. This fee includes the following: 1. Placement: The fee ensures your placement with BWA, which acts as the host organization for your activities. 2. Organisation : It covers the cost associated with the planning and organization of workcamps, which begins a year prior to the commencement of the program. 3.Communication: The fee contributes to the administrative costs related to general communication and coordination between participants and the host organization. 4. Feeding: Lastly, the fee helps cover the costs of providing meals and sustenance for participant during time with host organisation. Please note that this fee is non-refundable
Required Language:
English
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Description: Established in 1989 due to growing concern over the then escalating prevalence of rhino poaching in Botswana, KRS is home to endangered black and white rhino. Once abundant in Botswana, these peaceful giants were on the brink of local extinction in the early 1980s, despite being granted protected status since 1922.

Type of Work: The volunteers will assist in the maintenance of the footpaths, park fence, fire breaks and trails and helping in day-to-day business maintenance of the park. The volunteers will participate as a team in the whole duration of the camp. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the work camp. The orientation for the work camp is scheduled at BWA head offices for the day before the work camp start at Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

Study Theme: Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements)

  • Experience in working in a zoo or park is ideal to be accepted in the program
  • Working with animals and studying towards the same discipline of dealing with animals is essential

Accommodation: Khama Rhino Sanctuary provides accommodation in camping sites. Volunteers must bring their own tents, sleeping bags, mosquito nets or repellants. A heavy blanket can of great assistance as Khama Rhino Sanctuary experience very cold winters, with temperatures reaching lows of -5 at night. Internet, supermarkets and banking are available in Serowe town, which is 20 minutes’ drive form the sanctuary. Network reception for three network providers, Mascom, Orange and BTC is relatively good in the park. Volunteers in possession of sim cards of their network providers from their countries can be able

Language: Only English is used

Requirements: No special qualifications required

Approximate Location: Location: The volunteers will be based inside the park for duration of their stay. i.e. Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, Paje.

Notes: Cost of Participation in a Work Camp

The work camp participation fee is €250 per participant, which covers simple work camp meals, arrangements for the whole work camp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. BWA organizes transport for participants from the airport in Gaborone to Mochudi (BWA Head Office) at a nominal fee of € 40 per participant, where participants are inducted prior to departure to work camps destination

Organization Description: The Botswana Workcamps Association (BWA) is a non-governmental, non-profit making voluntary organization registered with the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs in April 1980 under the Societies Act. With headquarters in Mochudi in the Kgatleng District, BWA collaborates with local and national structures and bodies and is member of the Southern Africa Workcamps Cooperation (SAWC). It is affiliated to the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (BOCONGO) and to the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Services (CCIVS). The mission of Botswana Workcamps Association is to enhance leadership development through community voluntary discipline, participation and increase self-reliance for broad based sustainable development in construction, environmental management and conservation, economic empowerment, psychological and physiological rehabilitation and leadership development BWA draws its membership from junior, secondary, tertiary schools and out of school youth. BWA exists under three programmes, which include, leadership development, workcamps and youth centre development.

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