Blessed Hope Foundation is a community initiative that aims at improving the lives of orphaned children by providing them with shelter and consequently a school. In 2010, the community in partnership with the Youth Association of Zambia constructed a dormitory for boys and girls and a chicken house through which the foundation can raise funds through selling chickens for the children’s needs.
Study theme:
this camp’s primary focus is youth sexual reproductive health. The volunteers go to schools to teach about sexual reproductive health and other related topics.
Accommodation:
the volunteers will be accommodated in traditional thatched houses.
Traveling to Zambia:
Volunteers are responsible for their own travel arrangements, organizing their own transport and visas. It is very important that you find out well in advance about whether you need to apply for a visa at the Zambian embassy or commission in your country or whether you can get one at the point of entry in Zambia. If you intend to visit another country before coming to Zambia, please ensure that you apply a multiple entry visa for that country so that you can be allowed entry in Zambia. We will provide all participants coming to our projects with invitation letters for visa application processes. It is not YAZ standard policy to pick up volunteers from the airport, but if you would like to be picked up please inform us well in advance. It is therefore important for volunteers to communicate their dates and times of arrival via email. Volunteers should make sure to have our office and mobile numbers before traveling in order to call us in any inconveniences that might arise.
Orientation:
The orientation for all camps is held on the day after arrival (in this case all orientation will be on Sundays). Participants, therefore, have to be at the camp on Saturday (all camps starts on Sunday while arrival is on Saturday). We encourage volunteers to be at the site on the Saturday for orientation because personal orientation is time consuming!
Cost of participation in a YAZ workcamp:
The workcamp participation fee is 210 Euros per participant, which covers simple workcamp meals, arrangements for the whole workcamp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. Small Euro and Dollar notes are very difficult to change at currency exchange places and banks.
NB:
Travel expenses from Lusaka to work camp places and back are not covered in this 210 Euros camp fee and that this fee is payable upon arrival.
« The outside world did not interfere, because it seemed so distant, and so we spent our spare time getting to know each other and learning about each other countries', languages and cultures. Everyone was completely relaxed. This simply would not have been possible on any other type of holiday. VAP enabled me to have a truly memorable experience. »
