From 1 to 12 months.

Tose is a center for children with multiple and severe disabilities. The centre provides respite care rehabilitation and training for caregivers. Tose is a Shona word that means together. We Together overcome disabilities and problems, share success and sorrows and encourage each other. Respite means rest. The home is unique in the sense that it offers relief to parents and guardians of the physically challenged as well as offering basic survival skills to the disabled. Most of them regarded by the society, institutions and hospitals as lost hope.

The work includes working with children with multiple disabilities. The volunteers will be involved in the general care of the children, working in the local school where you will be involved in promotion of the education growth of the children both through classroom work and also practical work, you will also be involved in involving the children in innovation and creativity activities that will also promoter the education growth of the children. Moreover, volunteers will be involved in helping in organizational duties and office work at the orphanage.

Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements):Doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical students, social workers, physiotherapists, agriculturalists, fundraisers are most welcome to this project. However Zimbabwe Workcamps Association has an open door policy and other volunteers who feel they can contribute are most welcome.

Volunteers will be accommodated at Tose Respite Care Home. Rooms will be available to individual volunteers. Volunteers with special needs like seniors/ aged, families and physically challenged will have special arrangements for their accommodations.

The project is located in Harare, about 6km away from the city.

Basic meals will be provided in the host family from what is locally available in the local community. Volunteers are therefore advised to be flexible and open minded. This will make it easy for them to negotiate their entry in to the community.

Participants work around 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday. The lion’s share of our volunteer placements do not require volunteers to work on public holidays and weekends, unless highlighted or in the event of the need arising from the project.

Volunteer projects take place in very humble places around Zimbabwe. The bulk of our projects are not that difficult at all, what is only needed is flexibility, positive mentally attitude as well as openness to new culture, new experience. The secret remedy to, make the most of your time while volunteering in Zimbabwe is to adapt to the local environment. It important to highlight each and every project is unique. It is critical to mention that volunteers should make the most of their time with the community they serve, since this is a chance of a life time, to work and live with people in their respective communities, just like them.

Volunteers will be picked up from Harare International Airport or Road Port regional bus station in Harare on request. They will be transferred to ZWA Resource in Hatfield or any lodge in town of their choice. Two day orientation will be organized in close collaboration with the volunteers and ZWA staff. The main objective of the orientation is to minimize the effects of cultural shock as well as to build capacities for the volunteers, so as to meet the community with open mind.

The program cost is Euro 180 per month. The participation fee will cover for the volunteer’s overall placement at the project, administrative costs, project/community support, monitoring/evaluation and contingency. The volunteer is entitled to accommodation, meals, access to water for domestic use and will be empowered by the hosts to make good use of locally available resources to facilitate the placement.

From 1 to 12 months.

Larche is a community home for people with severe physical and mental challenges. Most of the community members do know their relatives because they were either dumped at the market, bus ranks or in at the crossroads, so that good Samaritans can pick them and drop them at the Department of Social Welfare or the nearest police station. The reason why they were dumped is because of their physical and mental disabilities. It is against this back cloth, that the lion’s share of those staying at the Larche Community Home do not know their relatives. In this regard Larche is their home.

The work includes working with people with multiple and severe mental and physical disabilities. The volunteers will be involved in the general care of the children, working in the local school where you will be involved in promotion of the education growth of the children both through classroom work and also practical work, you will also be involved in involving the children in innovation and creativity activities that will also promoter the education growth of the children. Moreover, volunteers will be involved in helping in organizational duties and office work at the orphanage.

Areas of Specialization (Skills, Knowledge Requirements):Doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical students, social workers, physiotherapists, agriculturalists, fundraisers are most welcome to this project. However volunteers with other ideas to share are most welcome.

Volunteers will be accommodated at the Larche Community Home. Rooms will be available to individual volunteers. Volunteers with special needs like seniors/aged, families and physically challenged will have special arrangements for their accommodation.

The project is located in Harare, about 12km away from city.

Basic meals will be provided in the host family from what is locally available in the local community. Volunteers are therefore advised to be flexible and open minded. This will make it easy for them to negotiate their entry in to the community.

Participants work around 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday. The lion’s share of our volunteer placements do not require volunteers to work on public holidays and weekends, unless highlighted or in the event of the need arising from the project.

Volunteer projects take place in very humble places around Zimbabwe. The bulk of our projects are not that difficult at all, what is only needed is flexibility, positive mentally attitude as well as openness to new culture, new experience. The secret remedy to, make the most of your time while volunteering in Zimbabwe is to adapt to the local environment. It important to highlight each and every project is unique. It is critical to mention that volunteers should make the most of their time with the community they serve, since this is a chance of a life time, to work and live with people in their respective communities, just like them.

Volunteers will be picked up from Harare International Airport or Road Port regional bus station in Harare on request. They will be transferred to ZWA Resource in Hatfield or any lodge in town of their choice. Two day orientation will be organized in close collaboration with the volunteers and ZWA staff. The main objective of the orientation is to minimize the effects of cultural shock as well as to build capacities for the volunteers, so as to meet the community with open mind.

The program cost is Euro 180 per month. The participation fee will cover for the volunteer’s overall placement at the project, administrative costs, project/community support, monitoring/evaluation and contingency. The volunteer is entitled to accommodation, meals, access to water for domestic use and will be empowered by the hosts to make good use of locally available resources to facilitate the placement.