Rural Teaching
The rural teaching offers a volunteer a real African experience.
A volunteer teaches at rural community school based 70km from the town of Livingstone.
The volunteer stays with a host family in a village located 4km from the local school. A volunteer lives in a hut with the host family.
Volunteers are expected to help the local teachers at the primary school to teach children English, Science, maths and recreation activities.
The Host Family Stay:
- The volunteer will stay in their own room but within the same house as the host family.
- No electricity in the house just small lights to light up the place
- No flushable toilet they use pit latrines
- No running water for shower, volunteers use bucket to shower
- No internet at the village.
- The meals you eat what the locals are eating. Mainly local meals made out of corn powder maize (called nshima) usually served with vegetables and proteins like beans, soya meat, fish or chicken.
- Volunteers have an opportunity to share in the Zambian culture and also learn the local languages.
