Cape Town Pre-School Teaching And Education Detail

Cape Town Pre-School Teaching And Education

2 Weeks - GBP   725 | USD 1295 | E 945
4 Weeks - GBP 1095 | USD 1970 | E 1425
6 Weeks - GBP 1435 | USD 2585 | E 1865

As a volunteer, you will assist local community teachers and contribute to our effort of providing children with a better education. In addition, you will have the opportunity to organize your own classes.

These are the ways in which you will assist the schools:

• Assistant teaching: Provide individual attention and assistance to children during lessons.
• Help with crafts, painting, reading and games.
• Organize special needs classes for children who have not been able to keep up with the pace of the lessons.
• Assist with giving the children their meals. Every child receives a meal, which is often their only meal that day.
• Clean, maintain and even refurbish the classrooms, most of which are quite run down.
You will be working in one of the following schools:

This little pre school has been running for over 10 years in Red Hill and the 26 children from the community have been lead by the teaching of a very dedicated lady named Vuyiseka for the past 5 years. Vuyiseka has been assisted by Ntombi, the cook and Aviwe. The 26 beautiful children range between 2 and 6 yearrs of age, and mostly come from a Xhosa background. The school is run out of several containers with very limited resources. The children are given 2 meals a day, breakfast and lunch, which is sponsored by African Impact through our Sponsor a Child Initiative. African Impact have also stepped in by adopting this school and paying for the teacher's and cook’s monthly wages. This will be financed through volunteer project fees.

Edu-care Centre
Situated on the upper slopes of Red Hill, lies Children of Hope, a pre school of 29 children coming from a more Afrikaans background. The school has been in its current location since 2006 and the three ladies who run it have been with the kids for 2 years prior to that. Sophia, Ntombi and Maria are the amazing women who care for these precious little ones, ranging in age from 3 months to 6 years old. The centre has much better facilities than the rural pre-school, due to a generous donation from a Dutch gentleman, Mr Mags, whose memory lives on as he recently passed away. That said, the children are just as in need of assistance, care and attention as any of the others in this disadvantaged community. 

Noordhoek Valley Edu-care Centre
Situated on the campus of Living Way, a local job creation and adult skills training compound with a hive of small businesses, on the edge of Masiphumelele township is a school dedicated to 60 little children. English is always such a need and the presence of international volunteers helps bolster their learning and development.

It has two separate classroom buildings where two different age groups of 30 children each are taught. The children range from 3-6 years old and they only have one teacher!

After having spent the morning at one of the schools that we work with, you will assist in the local community in various aspects in the afternoon. You will rotate between the following community projects (Please also understand that our projects are continuously evolving, being improved, and adapting to the needs of the local communities that we are involved with, so involvement areas do change from time to time. Rest assured your work will be necessary, rewarding and exciting):

Building and painting schools 
Schools in Red Hill deal with a great shortage of classrooms and facilities, as a result of which they are limited to the amount of children they can accommodate. As a volunteer, you will assist with fixing fences and windows, and rebuilding and painting classrooms. This project will also involve community litter, glass and rubbish collection.

HIV and AIDS Orphanage
As one of our afternoon community projects, African Impact works alongside a home for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS situated in the heart of one of the peninsula townships, providing a safe and healthy home to children whose parents and family members are unable to look after them. As a volunteer, you will be involved in spending invaluable time with the wonderful children there, including supervising homework and playing educational games, as well as making friendships. The children at the home make this community project a delight and an incredible amount of fun!

Mini Farming Projects
At our preschools, African Impact have developed an initiative to allow the school to grow a sustainable source of food to contribute towards the community partnership initiative which provides two meals a day to otherwise very hungry children. The vegetable gardens, looked after by the children and teachers of the school, provide carrots, beetroots, cabbage, onions, spinach and lettuce, as a way of adding nutrients to their meals. While volunteering with African Impact, you might get the opportunity to immerse yourself in a mini-farm project, ranging from the basics of a vegetable garden, to building an underground drainage system to save on water irrigation.

Children’s Safe House
You will also be involved in entertaining and being entertained by the children of a safe house in the local area. Here, crafts, games, dressing up and getting to know each and every wonderful personality is first and foremost. Volunteers also help out with homework for the older children and provide support, encouragement and laughter throughout.

Educare Centre
Volunteers will assist teachers with after school care by helping with game playing, reading (both one-on-one with the kids and to the group during story time), and with other activities they engage the children with i.e. art, music, and dancing.

Masiphumelele Library
Masiphumelele has been blessed with a wonderfully-resourced library and great facilities. The library offers many services to the community and volunteers slot into some of the existing programs offered at the library. These include arts and crafts, puzzles, games, literacy, one on one reading, homework club and math club.