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 teachers, especially in the rural areas, have not been sufficiently trained to teach complex subjects. 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 teach conversational English.

Preschool program development: The community teachers have requested help to create a formal learning program and to procure materials and lesson guides. This assignment is especially suited for creative volunteers with good listening skills to help develop an early childhood education program.

After school English instruction: A nearby orphanage wants to teach English language skills to abandoned and displaced kids and AIDS orphans after 3 p.m. each day.

Building repair: You're needed to help renovate the community center, 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 micro-business management, marketing, project development and fundraising can help business leaders plan in these areas:

• Brick making
  
• Poultry and hog farming
  
• Baking
• Catering
• Community Gardening
  

"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