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Cher-a-Don Adventure Centre (Lalapanzi)Adventure volunteer work on your gap year in South AfricaThe Centre of Adventure. "Where every individual counts" |
Are you looking at travelling abroad on a gap holiday and want to volunteer
and work with underprivileged children, help a community? Here at Cher-a-Don Team
Building Adventure Centre previously know as Lalapanzi Adventure Centre there is
an opportunity for you to do community service on your gap vacation to work as a
working volunteer in South Africa, where you can make a difference to someone's
life, make a difference to a community, help reduce crime and give hope. Cher-a-Don
Adventure Centre is a teambuilding venue aimed at kids adventure camps. Our activities
include rock climbing, horse riding, obstacle course, kloofing, canoeing, raft building,
orienteering, paintball, abseiling, hiking, bird-watching & environmental exploring.
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With Cher-a-Don Team-Building Adventure Centre previously Lalapanzi Adventure Centre. We can now accommodate non riding gap year placements, helping with the adventure activities at Cher-a-Don (Lalapanzi) Adventure Centre. |
A high percentage of our camps are with troubled, at risk kids or youth in conflict with the law.
On your gap year work with underprivileged youth and teenagers, from communities that need your assistance and guidance, teach new life skills to a community that needs your help, make a diffrence in someone's life.
Contact us by email for availability for your South African adventure & working holiday. Tell us about yourself, your expectations and the length of your stay in South Africa.
info@mkulukeihorsetrails.co.za
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This is a great opportunity for you as a non horse riding partner to join us while your partner takes a equestrian break holiday with us too.
Equestrian Volunteers As a volunteer on your equestrian break holiday you too can be involved in the camps. Make your volunteer horse riding safari gapyear or career break in South Africa an adventure holiday at Mkulu Kei Horse Trails & Riding Holidays and at the adventure centre.
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Cher-a-Don Teambuilding & Adventure Centre 
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On your work & travel, volunteer exchange adventure in Africa there is a affordable voluntary work at Cher-a-Don Teambuilding Adventure Centre previously know as Lalapanzi Adventure Centre helping with the equine assisted therapy, adventure activities or just a compassionate helper, talking and motivating the camp participants. Too often in South Africa assistance is given in the form of donations or hand outs. Help by teaching life skills to people empowering them to be in a position to help themselves in the future, more inclined to go back to school and get an education. With education comes new opportunities. Help us make a "bad kid" into a productive member of society. |
Your skills, compassion and interest in the
youth will pay off. We have churches, corporate and schools visit us,
from a few hours to 7 days. Help us assist and identify the leaders
on leader identification school camps for the schools next prefects.
On your gap volunteer African experience meet South African youth from a extreme diversity of backgrounds, the cream of the cream with the school leadership camps to "at risk" youth and "bad Kids". Learn about the real South Africa from the children and community themselves.
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Here is an placement for you as a volunteer to work in South Africa where you can make a change in someone's life, make a difference to South Africa. Where your skills, compassion and interest in the youth will pay off. This is an ideal opportunity for a trainee social worker, teacher or psychiatrist, those interested in Hippo therapy, equine assisted therapy or just a compassionate person wanting to help someone else. Come visit, volunteer between studies, come and get work experience. Come on a career or study break, spend time with us on a gap program where you can change lives. A work & travel destination in South Africa where as a volunteer get to see the difference you are making. |
Help someone gain their confidence on the abseil or activity, assist with the horses in our equine learning and therapy. Spend some quality time with others that need your encouragement around a fire, the African sun setting on the Impala and Blesbok grazing on the hill side. Your volunteer work in South Africa can change the perception of troubled youth and in turn make a difference to a community.
Voluntary work at Cher-a-Don Teambuilding Adventure Centre (Lalapanzi) in South Africa is a fun filled adventure where in return your time and effort will help someone who needs your help and encouragement.
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A high percentage of our adventure camps cater for youth from rural areas and townships in the under-privileged sectors of the community. Local youth, vulnerable kids and young adults; some are here on a journey because they are vulnerable to making bad choices and are "at risk". These kids are the youth that the crime syndicates and gang members target, they are easy to influence, hungry, have no real family support and without hope. Some are orphans, others have alcoholic parents A % have been involved in crime and are sent to us through the courts as an alternative sentence, a second chance. These are individuals that are under 18 years old and have made a wrong choice and rather than going to jail they are offered a chance to change their lives. |
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Working with these camps is hard work but very rewarding. The youth arrive angry, bitter, resentful, hard core, some still under the influence of drink and drugs. They leave us with new life skills, increased self-confidence, increased personal self-esteem, courage, new interpersonal skills, a better understanding and cooperation with others, new decision making skills, understanding of teamwork and others discover they have leadership skills. They are fired up and motivated, ready to form new friends and fix broken relationships with family members and wanting to go back to school to better their lives. After camp with new life skills they are less likely to be sucked back into crime as they believe in themselves and have a better understanding and plan for their future.
Each individual requires personal attention, some just need someone to care, encourage, believe in them while others need more motivation to change. They are on camp for 3-5 days and you can see the difference from one day to the next, sometimes it is an activity or series of obstacles that changes their lives, maybe they are good at it or find it differcult; either way the result is character building, live changing.
A South African working volunteer holiday opportunity on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape at a adventure teambuilding venue. We only invite 1 to 6 volunteers at a time in to our home. While some students are on a equine working holiday and want to do lots of horse riding we can now accommodate those who don't ride or can't ride horses more at the camps, working with the activities, abseiling, the obstacle course and other fun challenges. Cher-a-Don (Lalapanzi) Adventure Centre Cher-a-Don (Lalapanzi) Adventure Centre a adventurous opportunity for a gap year holiday on safari working with communities that need your help. A chance to learn new skills yourself, learn to ride a horse, abseil all while giving to a less fortunate community. A very affordable option of a holiday in South Africa. And become involved in our Equine Assisted Therapy at Cher-a-Don Teambuilding Adventure Centre (Lalapanzi), using horses as a form of therapy with kids in trouble with the law and "at risk" teenagers. See Equine Assisted Therapy/Learning You can also learn about horses and how to communicate, join up and even learn to ride a horse on Mkulu Kei horses. Gain work experience working with people, for tourism, Hippo Therapy and other equine related jobs on your gap year or career break. Have a home base and network with South Africans to extend your holiday in South Africa. A letter of reference on your completion of your stay with us and the chance to join a Wild Coast overnight horse trail at a substantially reduced rate. And for those who are not interested in horses, gap year adventure students can volunteer to help with school and children groups at the adventure centre with activities, obstacle course, abseiling and paintball and be involved with hiking and other eco adventure tourism experiences. This is not a free holiday, you pay a small fee to enjoy our privileged life, have the opportunity to learn from our horsemanship techniques and gain equestrian experience, learn to abseil, work with underprivileged at risk children and your small daily rate is used to finance and give a child the opportunity to experience a camp. This is an adventure travel volunteer holiday, not employment. Daily rates and important information you need to know.
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Our aim is to encourage emotional intelligence and accountability through group dynamic tasks, activities, team building exercises and self-assessment programs. At Cher-a-Don Teambuilding Adventure Centre (Lalapanzi) we strive to build self-belief and confidence in the individuals that visit us through individual and team challenges that are adventure based. By adapting the activities we can personalize the camp to suit the requirements of the day and promote team work and tasks are designed to give individuals a chance to take the lead and coordinate their team members.
Become a leader take control of your life.
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By developing life skills using team work and tasks and physical activities as a medium, individuals learn communication skills, morale, trust. Communication, cohesiveness strengthens teamwork of a group building team spirit and an atmosphere of cooperation. Team work and team building are critical for personal growth and success in life, social, business success and career. A good leader will both inspire confidence and give a strong example of what to aim for in life. A good leader is one that listens and not just talks, is positive and makes quick decisions to build a positive team environment. Learn leadership and management skills while having fun, Cher-a-Don (Lalapanzi) a great venue for promoting leaders, school leader identification. |
The activities acknowledge the different strengths and abilities of individuals thus ensuring that all members of a group are given the chance to 'shine'. With team tasks any differences, whether social standing, age, race, work place or culture can be counter productive but by working together can remove the barriers and open doors.
It is through the activities we are able to reach youth in trouble or at risk.
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Cher-a-Don team building adventure centre, a wilderness retreat and outdoor adventure camp venue with customized teambuilding and opportunities for personal growth. Our activities include rock climbing, horse riding, obstacle course, kloofing, canoeing, raft building, orienteering, paintball, abseiling, hiking, bird-watching & environmental exploring. At Cher-a-Don we have the ideal setting for providing all types of adventurous activities. The centre is aimed at school outings, office function and church getaways and youth camps as well as corporate teambuilding, end-of-year outings, and corporate office team building functions. Activities offer a wealth of experience in facilitating many initiative exercises and much personal growth takes place in this context, as does the inevitable 'team building'. |
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Team building is the process of turning a group of individuals into a team, equipped with skills such as communication, trust, co-operation, planning and honesty.
The productivity of a well-developed individual or team can be astonishing.
At Cher-a-Don team-building and adventure centre the activities offered are geared towards the age group and ability of the group concerned. Our facilities are a venue for outdoor school leadership camps, sports teams and business tours and designed to maximize the opportunities of being in an outdoor learning setting, working on both personal and team strategies. Educators with their learners and business leaders and their colleagues are challenged with new and demanding activities which are facilitated to help them to develop and improve their personal skills and promote active and healthy lifestyles. The physical challenges of life in the outdoors help to develop self-reliance, personal responsibility and teach life skills. Other programs to promote communication and team work or to introduce students, teenagers, troubled youths and corporate members to the outdoor life are offered.
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The more extreme games are adaptable to suit each group's needs and abilities, and teach valuable life skills by helping to find each individuals strengths and weaknesses thereby gaining great results with adventure to create a prosperous and successful outcome. By putting together a series of activities that build up and encourage confidence and by working on the individuals strengths and weaknesses their lives can be changed. By gaining trust in themselves and others, by encouraging and listening and offering new life skills, direction and solutions their lives can be transformed into making better choices that will be taken home and used in the future. |
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For many years there has been studies on therapeutic riding and the relationship between humans and horses that have led therapists to realizing the potential for healing through the use of horses. See Equine Assisted Therapy/Learning Equine-assisted therapy/learning: Using horses is an effective program for troubled, defiant, and/or rebellious adolescents and teenagers. The bond teens develop with a horse can help them learn alternative, more appropriate, and more effective ways of dealing with life’s challenges. A form of fun therapy where participants learn about themselves, other people and interacting with the world. Its not about teaching riding or horse care skills and the children do not need any previous experience of horses. |
We offer a very wide range of high quality adventure
activities, all goal orientated, to suit all ages
and abilities including fun days, weekend breaks, instruction, adventure getaways,
team building and outdoor pursuits, outdoor activity courses, class and school
excursions, school group outings, veldskool, adventure camps, mini conferences,
corporate weekends, functions, leadership identification, leadership development,
sport camps & clinics, equestrian teams and associations.
Come visit us at Cher-a-Don Adventure Centre previously trading as Lalapanzi Adventure Centre, in South Africa and help with the camps, an opportunity to work with underprivileged communities.
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A very high % of our camps are with troubled youth from less privileged backgrounds. Kids in trouble or at risk of making bad decisions. Experience everyday living in our incredible country, meet South Africans either living in this area or on holiday, extend your network of friends in South Africa. Learn the culture both black and white, (It is politically correct to say black, white or coloured when referring to race in South Africa). The saying "Just now" in South Africa means when it happens, not immediately. Africa has its own unique time frame. Experience first hand why our "Rainbow Nation" is so special and sometimes complicated. |
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Booking Essential
See Rates Page Volunteers Daily Rates
Why should I pay to work?
This is an adventure travel volunteer holiday, not employment. Without the paying volunteers we would not be in a financial position to give an underprivileged child the opportunity to experience a camp at Cher-a-Don. Our intention is every year to take the grade 5 class from our local school and give them the experience of a weekend at Cher-a-Don Team-building and Adventure Centre without any cost to themselves. Help us uplift a community.
We only want volunteers who really want to be here, want to help, learn and work. Please don’t take someone else’s place, if you would rather be somewhere else. This is an opportunity for you to have fun in South Africa while giving back.
Working students from abroad or outside South Africa are required to hold a valid passport which expiry date at least 6 months later than your intended date of return to your own country.
Visit this link for more information and advise on travel working visas. Visa information.
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Volunteers from the UK, EU, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are not required to pay for a visa to enter South Africa. You will be granted a temporary visitor's permit valid for 90 days when you present your passport on arrival at the airport in South Africa. However if you are intending to stay for longer than 90 days, it is worthwhile applying for a visa in your home country before you travel. This will save you the trouble of having to extend your visitor's permit once you are in South Africa. To extend your stay when in South Africa there is a small fee and you will need to go to the Home Affairs office in East London one month before your visa expires. |
Exempt: Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, USA, France, Switzerland.
Accommodation (Sharing).
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Is in our home overlooking a beautiful area, with rolling hills and dams or in another house on the same property, depending on numbers of volunteers at the time. With horses grazing outside your window, watch the inter-play and pecking order of a herd of horses from the veranda. Check out the awesome African sunsets. Experience a braai and South African food. Meet South African youth from a extreme diversity of backgrounds, the cream of the cream with the leadership camps to "at risk" youth and "bad Kid's. Learn about the real South Africa from the children and community themselves. All meals are taken with our family, an all-inclusive package on your working / gap vacation and we open our home and hearts to our volunteers.
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What work will I do?No two days are ever the same, sometimes we have camps one after the other while at other times (when the schools are writing exams) we are quieter. We need you to be our other pair of hands, ears or voice. When the kitchen staff are very busy help them, if we are busy with the obstacle course, encourage, support, discipline, help the participants. Talk to the kids get involved, each child needs attention. We require help repairing and making new activities, taking out the participants on hikes, with orienteering, encouraging at the abseil site and assisting with the horses during therapy. |
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You must be keen to work, willing to try anything, and looking to benefit from all that the Cher-a-Don Lalapanzi Adventure Centre experience has to offer. This is a volunteer/student placement for the volunteer who is active, fit, compassionate, a people person and would like the chance to work with less privileged communities and troubled kids. During camps you are expected to interact with the participants, encourage and help us where needed. If there is work you are more than happy to help, any hour, any day. You work with us and play with us and become part of our family lifestyle. You will be given time off to just chill or visit the beach, local watering hole etc. |
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Included in your daily rate:• Accommodation • Meals (Please inform us of any special dietary requirements). • Laundry • Emails - check mail on internet after hours |
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You will need to bring:• Drinks, soft drinks, cigarettes, sweets • Toiletries • Cell phone • Pocket money basically to go out. • A valid driving license is a nice to have but not essential. |
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Please if you don't want to be here don't take someone else's place. Volunteers who can ride a horse, can take advantage of a reduced daily rate of our overnight trails with Mkulu Kei Horse Trails (our horse riding company, this is a very inexpensive way to extend your stay in South Africa and get to go on a horse trail on the Wild Coast. Come and stay with us on a working gap holiday, help at Cher-a-Don and then experience a riding holiday trail at the reduced rate. Alternatively book a 6 months plus gap year experience and have a free 4-day over night horse trail on the Wild Coast. |
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Voluntary work teaching children and youth from underprivileged communities, outside using activities to develop new life skills and personal growth. The more you are involved the more you will gain yourself. Volunteers on a working holiday at Cher-a-Don Adventure Centre may request to join the equine volunteers on an existing over night horse trail at a quoted and reduced rate. You will be required to assist on trail where needed, with feeding, grooming and generally as a second pair of hands. The quoted trail daily rate must be paid prior to departure. Please don't tell us the day the trail starts, we need to book and pay the hotels prior to departing. |
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