ZWA Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Workcamps Association is the partner organisation of VAP in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Workcamps Association is a youth volunteer organization founded in October 1993. It is a non political, non sectarian, non religious, voluntary organization. Its membership is open to anyone above the age of sixteen years irrespective of nationality, gender, race, religion, political view or educational qualification. Zimbabwe Workcamps Association employs international voluntary service as a double edged sword to attacck both education and community development.
Workcamps are proven developmental techniques aimed at encouraging local communities to do self-help projects, through the use of scarcely available resources in the raising of their socio-economic, cultural and physical standards of living.
It strives to:
* Assist with community development.
* Encourage the concept of voluntary service as a force in the search for peace, equality and international understanding.
* Enable young people to encounter and understand different cultures.
* Organize and run voluntary workcamps in Zimbabwe and in the region either independently or in collaboration with other voluntary organization or government departments.
* Promote peace, democracy, social justice, volunteerism and exchange of information, skills and best shared practices.
After a period of serious economic and politcal crisis and after the sad loss of its founder, Innocent Katsiga, ZWA has survived and hopes to welcome more volunteers to Zimbabwe.

In 2025 VAP has:
member of:
Volunteer Action for Peace, member of the Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service Volunteer Action for Peace, member of the Volunteer International Network Exchange UK
with the support of:
Volunteer Action for Peace, member of the European «Youth in Action» Programme

Quote of the day

« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »

Dominic K. from Slimbridge

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