Teach English in Rural Schools

 
  PROJECT OVERVIEW
Location: Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Albertinia, Knysna, Oudtshoorn & Riversdale
Duration: 8-12 weeks
Hours: 30-40 hours per week
Accommodation: Host family or hostel
Meal: Local meals (thrice a day)
Date: Wednesdays of each month
 


Rural schools in South Africa need assistance as they lack enough funds and resources to provide quality education. Students lack proper English language lessons. English is the most widely spoken language therefore students should learn it from their early years. Teaching English Project aims at providing these children written as well as spoken English language skills. Volunteers can assist by taking classes, preparing curriculum or organizing various activities for the children to participate in.

Your Activities as a Volunteer

Volunteers can assist in activities that include:

  • Teaching conversational English, Math or Science to students aged 5 to 10-years-old primary school students or 11 to 16-years-old secondary school students
  • Reading literature for students to improve their comprehension as well as pronunciation skills
  • Providing theoretical and practical assistance and aid to teachers
  • Interacting with students during lessons or free times
Note: In South Africa, many of our volunteer projects are based in rural communities, sometime located at a great distance from the city limits of Cape Town. In each local community, we support multiple projects such as orphanages, schools, HIV/AIDS project, hospital etc. Volunteers will help or participate in more than one project during their experience. This multi-tasking presents a varied volunteering experience and extra help is greatly appreciated by the community.

Project Skills Required

This project is located in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa. In addition to that, Stellenbosch, Albertinia, Knysna, Oudtshoorn and Riversdale are some other places you can choose to volunteer in.  All of these places provide excellent volunteering environment.

Project Location

This project is located in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa. In addition to that, Stellenbosch, Albertinia, Knysna, Oudtshoorn and Riversdale are some other places you can choose to volunteer in. All of these places provide excellent volunteering environment.

Arrangement of Room/Food/Supervision

In South Africa, all volunteers stay with well-screened host families. Our host families are socially respected and are well versed in the art of hosting international volunteers. Host families offer a safe home, private rooms and shared bathroom facilities with running water. Volunteers can do their own laundry at home or the host family may offer to do it for you for a nominal extra fee. You will receive three prepared meals per day. If you will be out of the house during lunch hour, you can request a lunch "to go" that you can take with you or eat out on your own. Host families provide typical meals that are traditional to South Africa.

Throughout the volunteer project, our local staff stays in contact with volunteers either through visits or via email/telephone. With longer placements, we visit our volunteers every two weeks (when possible). Volunteers are always welcome at the local office. If project placement is near, we request that volunteers stop by the office once a week to keep us posted on how you are doing with your home stay and project. If project placement is very far, then our local staff members maintain communication either by email and/or phone.