32° South

Volunteer in rural and village schools along the scenic ‘Wild Coast’. The programme focuses on enhancing education and computer literacy skills and sports development. Integrated into this programme is the Inkwenkwezi Conservation Initiative, a hands-on experience working alongside game rangers and field guides in the private reserve. The Wild Coast, with its strong amaXhosa culture, vibrant population and environmental significance, is a destination of recognised developmental importance in the newly established democratic South Africa.

Project Location: Cintsa, near East London on South Africa’s beautiful and rugged ‘Wild Coast’

Project Age Limit: Minimum 17 years, maximum decided on potential participants’ health

• With the Education Development Initiative:
  • Pioneering the development of user friendly, appropriate teaching resources for future programme expansion in rural South Africa
  • Working with a teaching and development team aligned to National education frameworks
  • Bridging the learning divide in South Africa’s education system
  • Linkages to national and international NGO efforts
  • Being part of a community upliftment programme
  • Experiencing South African diversity through immersion and exposure at the grass roots level
  • Travelling and exploring South Africa's most exciting and culturally diverse coastal region, the Wild Coast of the former Transkei

• With the Wildlife and Conservation Programme:
  • Working alongside wildlife professionals in an authentic capacity
  • Field survival skills
  • Camping out in the African bush
  • Mammal research and monitoring
  • Game counts
  • Alien vegetation identification and eradication strategies
  • Fire management - an important support system for savannah eco-systems
  • Exploration of coastal eco-systems