Entrepreneurships Development in rural communities in South Africa

You will spend a lot of time at our workshop center, helping the product development team. From 8am to 4pm.

Daily task can differ depending of the need of that moment:
- Exploring new products design, recipes
- Creating training/workshops for locals
- Helping with business plans, marketing
- Sewing Center (reusable pads, eyes bags, clothes etc)
- Manufacturing products from our farm such Pickle Beetroots, Monkey Orange syrup, gluten free flour and hot sauce.
- Craft center (products made with recycled materials)

Volunteers will stay at a Backpackers situated on the same property. You will spend your day working with the team, learning from them and having an amazing experience! The work is very hand-on, so expect to be busy but remember to have fun!

We believe that conservation and communities cannot exist in isolation of each other - hence our goals through all our projects to interlink, grow, conserve and uplift. The holism of our programs is important as it works with the community as a whole to see the problems in a bigger picture.
Our goal is to create sustainable change - and have long-term impact in the spheres of both conservation and community upliftment. We believe that by working to grow resilient communities, that are healthy, educated, and have access to opportunities, we can break the poverty cycle and thus impact the poaching coming out of rural areas. Our projects are all interlinked and holistic, in order to help a community grow in all aspects.

We have a programming structure as follows:

- Green Kidz (our environmental education programme - We support 11 elementary-schools)
- Social Enterprise, where we support and grow small businesses through an incubator
- Agro-Ecology training, very similar to permaculture, but more suited to African conditions
- Rise creches (Our Early Childhood Development programme. We support 6 pre-schools around the area)
- Eco Village (this includes our recycling programme and our general day to day outreach into the village around us).

You will be immersed into the project as one of the team members to engage in the planning and running of the programs. You can combine our projects during your time with us or focusing on one (your choice). You will have the opportunity to explore our amazing area during the weekend (extra cost - We can organize it!)

We can't wait to have you join our Family!