- South Africa
About Program
Awarded third place in the "Outstanding Volunteer Program" category at the Global Youth Travel Awards 2015, the Ubuntu Building Project supports rural communities in South Africa by addressing building, construction and maintenance needs in schools and community centres. In 2015 alone, Ubuntu volunteers completed the following initiatives: built a classroom, refurbished a second classroom, built and maintained jungle gyms in some of the areas poorest schools and preschools, built a community centre and soup kitchen from a shipping container, installed long drop toilets and hygiene friendly tippy-taps in two rural preschools.
Designed on a two week time-frame, the Ubuntu Project is aimed at group volunteering and can be tailored to achieve skill and knowledge sharing to support institutional aims.
Volunteering is a two way teaching and learning exchange. Africa is not a charity, you can't change the world in a few weeks, but a few weeks can change your world.