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Teach Drama, Dance and Music in the schools in the local community. It's a fun way to really make a difference to the disadvantaged children you'll work with, and it will have a very strong impact on you as well. You won't want to leave.
South Africa is FANTASTIC!
Teaching is incredible. I've been excited every day to go to school. The
kids are so ready to learn music and drama. I've been doing a mix with
them. I bring my guitar to school every day and have taught most of my
classes four of my favorite songs. Two by a band called Old Crow
Medicine Show and the other two by The Grateful Dead. I've also been
teaching the older kids some stage combat. All in all everything is wonderful. Thank you for this
experience!"
Richard Adler PROJECT OVERVIEW
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN FROM DOING THIS PROJECT:
An exciting, never-to-be-forgotten adventure into
Africa and the many diverse cultures in South Africa
The enormous satisfaction of helping disadvantaged children and
knowing that you made a difference to them.
New skills, more confidence, a greater understanding
of a different culture, invaluable personal and professional
development.
An entry on your CV or résumé that will put you head
and shoulders above most others in the job market
And best of all ... an unforgettable experience!
You'll be able to do some or all of the
following: Organising and putting on drama workshops in various
local schools around George and Knysna. This would
involve energising warm-ups, improvisations, dance-drama and devising pieces
of theatre in small groups. Organising an after-school drama club
(and possibly even during lunch break) or drama sessions
during school-time for pupils. Helping the local school children to put on a small-scale
productions so that they can all been involved in some aspect of it
(either acting, creating costumes, masks, set or make-up).
Please note that these may not always take place during your project - it will
depend on what's happening when you're there. Devising
and performing educational pieces of theatre (on issues such as
bullying) for the school children at any available venues (town hall/school
yard/wherever!). Alongside the drama, volunteers
could also help out with conversational English
classes (and any other subjects where needed).
It may also be possible to incorporate drama lessons into the English classes,
perhaps once a week. The project may possibly be
extended to involve local unemployed people, or street kids, or even elderly
people or children's orphanages. These are just a few ideas and it may be that
some volunteers will have more ideas that will help to make this project a
worthwhile one that will benefit the community for a long time to come.
Comments from
Sharon, Travellers Volunteer Liaison in Knysna, about what two of our
Drama Volunteers did in a class she went to observe: As you can imagine the
class got extremely rowdy and all the children had a lot of fun. The
noise levels then increased as Amy and Jack showed the class how to do
breathing exercises, and mouth warm-ups so they could make a ‘sound
collage’ by splitting the class up into groups and getting the different
groups to make one particular sound. Put together it was deafening but
all the children loved it with them all interacting.
They then where taught
how to create different effects with their voices by changing the pitch,
speed and volume of their voices. All they learnt was then put together
in character enactment and by volunteers from the class doing freeze
frame sketches. They then ended the class with a song.
The hour class went by
so quickly I actually had to check my watch to see if it was really
over! It was so great to see so many children in the class participated
and it was quite obvious to me that they all got a lot out of it as when
the class was over Amy and Jack where surrounded by children hugging and
kissing them! Well done guys!! SCHOOL TERMS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Term 1: 19th Jan – 1st April Term 2: 11th April – 24th June Term 3: 18th July – 30th Sept Term 4: 10th Oct – 9th Dec Dates for the 2012 school terms (semesters) are
given below. Term 1: 11th Jan – 23rd March Term 2: 10th April – 22nd June Term 3: 16th July – 28th Sept Term 4: 9th Oct – 7th Dec Nervous about going somewhere new? Read
Ben Smith's Case Study on this project
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As an added bonus and extra activity during your project, you may also have the opportunity to provide help and support to the local community through the various afternoon activities we have to offer. This is an excellent way to immerse yourself in the African culture, but most importantly to give a caring hand to the local community. The activities could range from helping out at;
You could be
part of these excellent and worthwhile projects ... so why not volunteer in Knysna!
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Knysna: For this project you will live in our volunteer
house with other Travellers volunteers. You may either have your own room or
will share a room with one or more other Travellers volunteers. It will
depend on how many people are there at the same time that you are. This is a
comfortable house with good facilities and a beautiful view of Knysna
Lagoon. You will be provided with a food budget, so that you can buy your
own groceries and cook and prepare your own meals at the house, this makes
for a great social event. "The area is beautiful and travelling is easy. The house we stay in is lovely and the Travellers workers are such kind, loving people which really makes it feel like a home away from home. What with all the other volunteers and the Travellers staff, it really does feel like our own little family ... well, our own very big family, I suppose!!" Luke Brennan
"Thank you so much for all the time and effort you have put into making this a
fantastic stay for us. We will never forget this experience!" Cat
Dunlop and Liz Lunn
TRAVEL:
Support & Backup:
To read about the excellent Support
& Backup we provide before you leave and during
your programme,
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