Gamodubu Child Care Trust is a center for orphaned and vulnerable children who are mostly also living with HIV and Aids. The Centre offers an out of school program that includes, but is not limited to feeding and also ensuring the children take their medication and have access to regular check-ups.
Gamodubu
It is very important to know that Botswana is the semi-desert country and has four seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring (August, September, and October), summer (November, December, January,) and Autumn (February, March, April) are hot seasons and cold season is Winter (May, June, July).
Volunteers are therefore reminded to bring required materials as per season, e.g. sun block creams for hot seasons and warmer clothes for winter times.
An orientation is normally organized a day before the start of the work camp with the intentions of briefing participants about BWA as an organization, Botswana `s socio-economic background, cultural issues etc. In fact, the orientations shall be held on Sundays before departure to the work camp sites and the participants must arrive on the Fridays or Saturdays to have rest time and also to get to know each other, as well to get knowledge of the host village before the orientation. The orientation is the first contact between volunteers and BWA to discuss the preliminary work camp programme, work camp menu and expectations.
The volunteers will provide support on daily rehabilitation sessions and provide mentoring and coaching on the vocational upskilling and sports development. Volunteers will also provide psychological and physiological counselling to kids at the Camp hill Center. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the work camp. Also any construction activities are done in the daily maintenance of the facility.
Gamodubu Child Care Trust provides accommodation in a camping sites. Volunteers must bring their own tents, sleeping bags, mosquito nets or repellants. A heavy blanket can of great assistance as sometimes we experience very cold winters.
Volunteers can visit the Mokolodi Game Reserve during their spare times. There is Phuthadikobo and Gaborone Museums, storage of magnificent historical artefacts and books.
