www.newhopewaves.org

 

The volunteer opportunities in our organization 1. Pre-School and Primary School teaching program The school that we are running has more 150 children from the ages of 4-15 years coming from the most impoverished communities in Livingstone namely Ngwenya, Namatama, Zecco, Malota, Burton, Highlands, Maramba and Libuyu and most of the children are coming from poor families who cannot afford to take them to government and private school due to financial constraints. So we are providing affordable almost free education to the children in the communities to get them in school so that they will learn to read and write then excel to higher grades too. The volunteer (s) will teach the children at our school in basic subject with the help with the local teacher mainly English, Maths, Arts and other creative subjects. The volunteer (s) will choose whether he or she want to work with the pre grades or to teach the grades 1 up to 7th with different ages and learning abilities. The school schedule is from 08 am to 12 am from Monday to Friday then you have free weekends for our personal activities and we have also optional session for school classes in the afternoon but to overwhelming tasks at school we strongly advise that you take morning sessions then prepare the next lessons for the next morning. The school has 3 rooms for classes so due to the high number of children we have those session in the morning and afternoon to cover all the grades in the school. 2. Sports (soccer/football) coaching and life skills education program The volunteer (s) will work with the children and young people from the ages of 10-25 years old about 50 boys participating in soccer/football the main sport for our vulnerable communities to keep the boys and yet to engage girls to stay away from drugs, illicit sex and other vices affecting our people such as HIV and Teen pregnancies. The volunteer (s) will coach the boys in basic football skills, still willing to introduce other sports depending on the sport equipment available as football more accessible and requires less equipment as balls, jerseys and boots so the volunteers should not be a professional coach but to assist the local coaches etc. The volunteer (s) can also assist in the administration of the sports program to organize activities locally and internationally to create partnerships with other sports organizations, individual and families that can collect some old but usable sports equipment such as balls, jerseys/uniforms, boots/cleats as well as other fundraising to make the team make the football fixtures and travels, referees fees so forth so open minded to new ideas to better our programs. The volunteer (s) should be prepared with skills that will make our program more creative and engage the young people to address their own challenges through sport and education. To keep our boys competitive and ambitious in life that the senior is playing the official league under Football Association of Zambia Division 2 cover the distance of 1,000 kilometres for away games during all the weekend of the season playing with 17 teams in the Southern Province of Zambia. The training for soccer/football is from morning sessions 7:00 am to 9:00 am and Afternoon session are from 3:30 pm upto 5:30 pm from Monday to Friday then weekend are for the games (Saturday or Sunday at 3:00 pm normal time or early kick off 1:00 pm ) depend on the team that we are playing. 3. Administration and fundraising program The work is to be stationed at the NGO office with the organization mainly to plan, revise and strategy with the team on the operations of the organization as well as to work on the day to day operations of the organization. The volunteer (s) will assist the organization working the team to look at the opportunities mainly on fundraising for the organization as the organization is still small and young organization needs finances and materials to meet most its goals through online fundraising platforms, grant writing and project proposal designing and finding the potential donors, partners and cooperating lead applicants for potential large grants and projects for any new and ongoing projects such as education, sports and the general operations of the organization. The volunteer (s) to conduct with the team capacity building training, nonprofit operations skills, resource mobilizations and manage the social media tools to create the publicity to increase our global present as well as design content for the organization videos, pictures and websites etc. The work schedule is flexible from 09:00 am to 1:00 pm from Monday to Friday free weekends and also you can have it done in any way that fits the volunteer in the program. 4.Girls and Women Empowerment program This newly started community based activities are aimed at empowering the vulnerable girls and women and their families through sustainable education, training and skills development for them. The program is working with vulnerable communities of Livingstone with girls and women who are affected by high unwanted pregnancies make teen mothers stay out of school and some end up to get married at a very tender age to stop school so we want to provide opportunities in primary, secondary even tertiary education, high levels of sexual transmitted diseases such as HIV etc, high level of poverty among the girls and women which make them to be prone to resort to sell their bodies as prostitutes. The volunteer (s) will assist the organization working them to look at the opportunities mainly provision of training in menstrual hygiene, prevention of sexual transmitted diseases, female oriented training in nutrition, family planning, economy training such as tailoring, knitting and food production, entrepreneurship and form cooperatives/support groups for them to support themselves after the training and provision of tools/equipment . The volunteer (s) to conduct with the team capacity building training, design and implementation of proposals for possible funding raising or crowfunding to provide tools and equipment for possible above training, resource mobilizations for girls and women empowerment activities and manage the social media tools to create the publicity to increase our global present as well as design content for the organization videos, pictures and websites etc. The work schedule is flexible from 09:00 am to 1:00 pm from Monday to Friday free weekends and also you can have it done in any way that fits the volunteer in the program.