On our teaching placements you can expect to live with local host families. The accommodation is basic but adequate with access to toilet and shower. Take a torch as the electricity supply can be intermittent.

You can expect to share a room with another Changing Worlds volunteer. You will be able to lock your room and keep your valuables safe during your teaching days.

You will enjoy a breakfast and evening meal with your family. The school will feed you lunch during school days. During the holidays the family will feed you when you are not out and about exploring the local area and beyond.

We suggest you take a mobile phone with you – put a SIM card in it on arrival to South Africa and that way you can keep in touch with family and friends.

You will be able to walk from your home to the school or you might choose to get a bus (at less than GB£3 per day for the return journey)

On our marine research project in Gansbaai volunteers live in a fully furnished house called the ‘Great White House’ – five minutes walk to the harbour.

The house caters for a maximum of eight people.

The house possesses shower facilities and toilet. The volunteers can expect to share a room with another volunteer.

There is a living area, satellite TV and internet. Outside there is a BBQ (brai) area. The house is fully alarmed.

Each volunteer has their own key for access.

There is a fully equipped kitchen with a fridge and freezer. Coffee, tea, cereal and milk are provided.

Volunteers are expected to cook for themselves.

There is a strict no smoking policy in the house and on board boat.

There is a strict no drugs policy throughout the programme. Anyone caught involved in drugs can expect instant dismissal from the volunteer programme and will be told to leave South Africa.

The house has a cleaner come in to clean every week – volunteers must wash and dry up there own used cooking utensils.

Laundry is taken to a local laundry service on a daily basis. There is no cost for laundry.

The supermarket is in Gaansbai – the volunteers should NOT walk there because the road passes through a poor area of town.

Volunteers need to budget for food and their own activities for their free time. We suggest GB£40 per week for food. We suggest GB£15 per week for entertainment.

If you want to go off and do other activities (for example bungy jumping) then there is a further expense.

We suggest GB£500 should cover absolutely everything (excluding the bungy, skydiving and other more dangerous pursuits!)

Water is safe to drink in Gansbaai. Drinking water is offered on the boat.