Product Details
We offer you the opportunity to interact with and educate AIDS orphans in an Orphan Day Care Centre, alongside other exciting community outreach initiatives which include: HIV / AIDS awareness programme, assisting at a local orphanage, farming to encourage positive living, refurbishment of community buildings and helping at an after-school reading club with high school students.
The highlights
- Educate and play with small children who have lost their parents as a result of AIDS
- Help raise awareness on preventing the spread of the HIV / AIDS virus in the local community
- Help improve the living conditions, nutrition, school equipment and vegetable gardens of the most needy families and the local orphanage to help them to become self sustaining
- Get involved with the local orphanage, teaching in the after school clubs and help with the refurbishment of classrooms into bedrooms to provide a place to stay
- Help build, refurbish and paint local community builidngs
- Immerse yourself in the local Zulu culture
- Make friends for life
What's included
- The project fee entails financing that goes directly back into the project that you are involved with. It facilitates funding for items such as books for the orphans, building materials, and educational resources
- Transport between Richards Bay Airport and St. Lucia
- Comprehensive orientation program
- All daily transfers to and from your projects during your stay
- Full board and lodging, which includes 3 meals a day at our volunteer house
- Laundry service during your stay
- Assistance at your projects by African Impact staff and volunteer coordinators
- Any visits to other African Impact programmes based in St. Lucia
Where will I sleep?
During your placement, you will stay at our large and comfortable project house situated in St. Lucia, approximately a 10 min walk to the beach. It is a fully furnished house with a large lounge, satellite television, barbeque area, garden, swimming pool, and a jacuzzi.
The house is staffed with cooks and laundry / cleaning ladies. All bedding is provided, so you will not need to bring a sleeping bag with you, although sometimes it is useful in the colder months (June – September). You will be sharing a bedroom with one to four people.
Members of our African Impact team will be staying on the same property, so that they are always available to assist you with any questions or issues you may have.
We find that volunteers living together and working closely together with their volunteer coordinators is the surest way of ensuring their safety, and of being able to attend to their most pressing needs. For this reason, we expect all volunteers to stay only in the accommodation provided for them and do not allow volunteers to spend nights away in the town or nearby villages, unless they are away on pre-arranged sightseeing excursions.
Project meals
You will be provided with three meals a day. Breakfast is on a help-yourself basis and usually consists of cereals, toast, tea and coffee. Lunch and dinner are full meals, and will be cooked for you by one of our chefs at your volunteer house.
