Wake up! welcomes two new volunteers

Sunday, January 14, 2018
Welcome to our two new volunteers, Jule and Lea

We are very happy to welcome our new volunteers: Jule Seidel and Lea Heldmann. We hope Wake Up! EEC can serve as your home away from home.

The centre welcomes any volunteer who is enthusiastic, energetic and willing to make a clear commitment: gap-year students, seniors, international and local volunteers. We can always use extra hands, energy and creative ideas in the classroom or the afternoon care. Furthermore we have various projects which need extra manpower (such as development of the playground and vegetable garden).

We have partnered with a South African organisation called Claim Victory Tours who recruit volunteers mainly in Germany. This organisation takes care of all the admin and has started to offer us candidates on a regular basis. In 2017 during the first term we had two young school leavers from Germany, Melissa and Selin, who were happy to do any odd job and made great friends with the teaching staff.

We have also had a local volunteer for a while who has been helping with fundraising, baking cookies with parents. As unemployment in Namibia amongst young people is very high, there is a lot of potential to recruit young local volunteers, who can gain some exposure and experience with us in various fields.

See our page on volunteering for more information.