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Town: Jeffreys Bay
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Province: Eastern Cape
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Rate per week in ZAR: 2950
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Rate Extra Weeks in ZAR: EXTRA WEEKS
ZAR 2000 per week after first month
ACCOMMODATION UPGRADE
ZAR 350 per week twin room sharing
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Duration: Min 1 week. Please note that you can extend for any length of time.
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Dates: This project can be joined at any time of the year, any day of the week.
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Introduction: "Social development project Jeffreys Bay"
Jeffreys Bay home to the perfect wave and endless summers, what a place to stay for a couple of weeks working on your tan while helping the local community improve their living conditions. See you down in J Bay for a life changing experience. Working with disadvantaged children and people affected by aids is the main aim of this project.
This project also offers the following:
Pre-School Volunteers - Work with children from 6 months to six years old, playing games, singing songs and exchanging cultures.
Volunteer Teachers - Teaching together with local teachers enhancing the learning experience of the local children.
Sports Development - Training together with local coaches improving sports in the community.
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Location: Offering endless beaches and endless summers, Jeffreys Bay is designed for the ordinary, unhurried, unworried, sun-seeking, fun loving person. Locals reckon that Jeffreys Bay was known as the place of dreaming, and it's easy to see why. With miles of seemingly endless ivory sand, littered with the largest variety of shells washed up by the tide, and some of the best bathing beaches - it's a special place for any beach bum. Jeffreys Bay or J-bay as it is affectionately known, is sandwiched between the scenic garden route and sunshine coast - so called as this region has more sunshine hours than any other.
Our gloriously temperate climate has a mere 5 degree midday difference between summer and winter, with a summer maximum average temp of 27 degs and minimum average temp of 19 degs. The summers are warm with a very temperate humidity level. Winters are mild and pleasant, and it is significant that water sports are practised year-round.
Our bay is the meeting point where the warm Indian Ocean current mingles with the waters of the cold Atlantic, creating unique conditions for an incredible diversity of marine life. Dolphins are an almost daily sighting with the southern right whale coming to clave between July and September putting on a show with their courtship rituals.
J-bay is home to the perfect wave! With its unique combination of beautiful beaches, endless summers, abundant shells, white gold (calamari) and relaxed lifestyle, its no wonder this town has become world renown.
Another International attraction is the Billabong Surfing Festival in July each year when surfers from all over the world come to enjoy these flawless formations of rolling surf.
The safe beaches are perfect for bathing and all water sports, making it a populat weekend getaway and holiday destination.
The Jeffreys Bay Shell Museum houses an impressive and beautiful collection of local shells gathered on the beaches of Jeffreys Bay, as well as shells from other countries. Visitors are welcome to collect shells which are varied and plentiful.
What would J-bay be without some sort of acknowledgement to surfing and to all the surfers that have graced its waves over time? The Surf Museum is an epic way to discover where, when and how surfing started, and to understand where this little seaside town fits into the whole culture.
Between May and August each year, the low pressure systems that moves across the cape, generate a swell that rolls around the headland of cape St Francis and into Jeffreys Bay, creating what has been described as the best right hand break in the world.
Volunteers must arrange their flights to and from Port Elizabeth airport.
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Getting to Project: Volunteers will be collected by our driver Shane at Port Elizabeth Airport and Transferred to All Africa J Bay Lodge in Jeffreys Bay.
On completion of the project volunteers will be transferred back to the airport by All Africa Volunteers.
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Project: There are various community based projects within walking distance of where you will be staying that you can be involved in, in different ways.
Madiba Bay crèche -
The school has 2 permanently employed care givers who are very dedicated but lack resources such as age specific teaching aides. The volunteer will therefore be expected to assist in a very creative manner making use of the most basic equipment to fulfill the daily program objectives.
Presently there are 25 children to the 2 teachers and this brings capacity problems in terms of human resources. The volunteer will be of great help here in order to run smaller classes based on age or special needs.
A primary help will be obtaining financial aid. This will allow the teachers access to material (photostats, paper, books, crayons etc.) to use in the classroom situation. Another area is to create a project to teach the children how to help themselves through the environment - growing vegetables to eat, flowers to sell etc.
There is also an opportunity to establish a link with an established Montessori school in town and to use ideas, themes etc. from this school. Also to bring the schools together by having outings to each others schools or going to the beach together.
The school receives no grants or funding of any sort from local or national government (the school was built with foreign donations). Infrastructure is therefore basic but functional, salaries low and teacher aids minimal. A basic feeding program exists consisting of a bowl of maze meal (porridge) and sugar.
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Accommodation: You might share a room with someone from a completely different culture which adds to the whole learning experience. Dormitory: This consists of 4 and 6 bed dorms. Meals: Breakfast is supplied on a self service basis. Volunteers can supply and prepare their own meals or enjoy meals in the lodge or local restaurants just a hop from your accommodation. You will be staying at the Volunteer Lodge in Jeffreys Bay more info All Africa J Bay Lodge
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Upgrade to Single: R 350pp
Upgrade Dbl/Twin: R 450pp
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Program: Welcome children to school, oversee outside free play while waiting for school program to start, assist children inside for breakfast, help with either cooking, serving or cleaning breakfast utensils, washing hands and general hygiene program, divide into age groups, continue with theme related project for the week, free play outside or inside if raining, song and dance routine, story time, assist in home time routine.
Community upliftment -
Your afternoons will be used for community upliftment project, these include but are not limited to:
Repair and maintenance of schools, churches and community buildings.
Establishing and maintaining vegetable gardens.
Field trips with children to beaches and natures reserves.
Sports development.
Maintaining and repair of houses of people affected by aids.
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Program may include: General community project tasks -
There are key figures in the community that are involved in various projects. Volunteers can assist in these projects which include:
AIDS care;
Providing support to the ladies involved in home base care and assisting them in visiting patients in various ways.
This can mean simply spending time with AIDS patients who otherwise feel rejected by the community.
Or distributing flyers in the community to create more awareness and fight the stigme surrounding AIDS.
Or help with weekly and monthly food packages through fundraising, buying food, packing and distributing.
Plant rescue program;
The foundation works towards saving plants from local development sites and replanting them in public gardens.
You work with them in day to day maintenance of these gardens.
Or assist in the rescue of plants from building sites.
Or educating kids at schools about nature.
Or planting of vegatable gardens in various areas including schools and AIDS patients homes.
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Includes: Accommodation (shared 4 sleeper dorm), transfers to and from Port Elizabeth, sponsorship for community projects and sponsoring of local kids.
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Excludes: All flights, all beverages, excursions, insurance.
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Applicants: This project is open to anyone over the age of 18, fairly fit and in good health.
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Hours: Work days will be weekdays from 8-4 with weekends off to relax or explore the area.
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Freetime: Surfing: J-Bay Surf School - learn to surf
Jeffreys Bay Surf School, based at Island Vibe is the leading surf school in town and one of the best in the country. The surf instructor is the Eastern Province Surf Team's coach and a qualified life guard, ensuring absolute professionalism and competency - special boards are used for complete beginners. Depending on surf conditions lessons are run twice daily.
Horse Riding
Take saddle to 14 kilometres of deserted beaches with the opportunity to spot whales and dolphins along the way. The trail follows natural dune fields, where at times the tall dunes engulf you. After heavy rains these dune fields are filled with sparkling emerald pools. Go at your own pace - easy stroll or gallop with the wind in your hair, the guide stays with the slowest.
Shopping
A special to all Island Vibe guests is the 10% Billabong discount card, making this shoppers paradise a dream come true.
Sand Boarding
Epic sand boarding on pristine dunes. If you're mad about snow boarding, or there's no swell, this one is for you.
Kite and wind surfing
Tours, lessons and rentals available through Island Vibe. Summer wind conditions are perfect for pros, while the protected lagoons are ideal for complete novices.
Game viewing
Authentic, big 5 game viewing in the malaria free surrounds of J-bay. We are ideally located, with game viewing just 10 minutes drive from J-bay or an easy days outing to the bigger reserves like Addo Elephant Park.
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Contact us for more info +27 (0) 83 661 5393
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Rate per week in ZAR: 2950
Rate Extra Weeks in ZAR: EXTRA WEEKS
ZAR 2000 per week after first month
ACCOMMODATION UPGRADE
ZAR 350 per week twin room sharing
Duration: Min 1 week. Please note that you can extend for any length of time.
Dates: This project can be joined at any time of the year, any day of the week.
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