Global Volunteers' unique philosophy of service ensures your work projects help advance the host community's current development vision and goals. Always serving at the invitation and under the direction of host community partners, each Global Volunteers team member works alongside local people, and personally contributes to needed project financing through their service program fee. Our long-term commitment to work in partnership on sustained community development projects enables you, in just a short time, to serve as a critical link in a chain of lasting community enhancements.

The major projects in Malungeni are teaching, labor, and capacity building. The needs are immediate and enormous, and the opportunities to make a genuine difference are many!

Teaching in the primary school: One of the tragic legacies of apartheid is that many rural classroom and teachers have not received the resources needed for a thorough curriculum. Here's how you can help: Trained general elementary educators (kindergarten through grade nine) as well as professionals working in or retired from the following fields can teach at the elementary school:

• English (writing, spelling, speaking, composition)
  
• Math (all areas)
  
• Natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, physics)
  
• Social sciences (sociology, politics, history)
  
• Life skills (health, personal development)
  
• Economics and managerial sciences
  

Moreover, native English speakers, regardless of background, can provide drills in conversational English.

Building repair: You're needed to help renovate community buildings, including painting interior and exterior walls, repairing the water tank, windows, and ceiling. It's not difficult work for anyone handy with a hammer or paint brush!

Capacity Building: Volunteers skilled in agriculture, micro-business management, marketing, project development and fundraising can help local leaders plan enterprises in areas such as community gardening, retail baking, sewing and brick-making.

"Many of these projects can benefit from skills development and logistical training. We have many people eager to be involved but lacking basic skills in the project areas. Since Global Volunteers is involved in similar projects in other developing countries, we hope that you can help train our community members." - Tribal Chief Ngubesizwe Madikizela