Testimonials
Melissa A. Butler from the US
Continues to volunteer every year
"I began working with Mdumbi and TransCape in January 2008. Kathryn supported and opened a space for me to learn alongside her and three amazing teachers (Nolutho, Kholiswa and Nokubonga) as we worked together to create a curriculum and programs for Mdumbi Preschool.
My experience with this work has been nothing less than one serendipitous moment after another. I feel I am doing work I am purposed to do and learning more than I ever imagined learning. The process for volunteer learning work at this site is organic and meaningful (not like many cookie-cutter volunteer programs). I will be returning soon to continue learning and working with this fabulous group of people. I do not see this work as "something I did once as a volunteer" but rather, as something that I am part of and is part of me."
Alice Clarfelt from the UK
Volunteered for two years
"My experience volunteering with TransCape has given me great insight into the complexity of poverty in the rural Eastern Cape, and also the diversity of ways that people living here are challenging it. TransCape's overall approach of supporting communities to run their own activities has allowed great potential to rise from the ground. To have engaged in part of this process of change has been a hugely rewarding experience ."
FAQs
- Do I need to worry about malaria?
- Do you have an unanswered question?
- What if I can't afford it?
- Where your money goes?
- Can I create my own community project?
- What recreational activities are there?
- Is there hot water?
- Is there electricity?
- What is included?
- Do you accept people for periods less than 4 weeks?
Quotes
“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” – Marian Wright Edelman
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.” – Maria Mitchell
“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.” – Heraclitus ca. 500 BC
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” –Gloria Steinem
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” - Georg C. Lichtenberg
“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer
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