What do you do as a short-term holiday volunteer
Rehoboth is looking for a special person who can come and serve at Rehoboth during a holiday period. We need your help in a variety of ways:
- Planning and coordinating a holiday program for our children while they are out of school.
- Incorporating Bible stories along with play activities during the holiday.
- Driving children to beach, sports, outings, shopping, church, etc.
- Running sports programs for groups of children.
- If needed, sorting and organizing clothing, shoes, toys, bedding, etc. in our store room.
- If needed, helping out in the ‘shop’ with the weekly and monthly grocery distribution to the houses.
What do you need as a volunteer
There are 4 main components you will need to become a volunteer at Rehoboth.
Time
Most short-term holiday volunteers would come for a couple of weeks. This could be a time where the volunteer has a break from his or her own studies or work and can devote time to the excitement of running a holiday program. If you have time around the holidays, then we'd love to hear from you.
A Heart for Children and Serving God
You do not need any specific skills or experience to come and be a short-term holiday volunteer at Rehoboth. You do need to love children and have a desire to serve God.
Driving Licence
One of the biggest tasks that all volunteers do, is helping with transport of children (school activities, church, hospital appointments, sports practice, outings etc.). You need to have a valid driver’s license with at least one full year of driving experience, be able to drive a vehicle with a manual gearbox and feel confident to drive on the left side of the road. The conditions of the roads in South Africa require confident, experienced drivers. Unfortunately, we cannot take on volunteers who do not meet this requirement. Rehoboth is 20 minutes-drive out of town, and it places a burden on other members of the team to drive unlicensed volunteers for groceries and outings.