Teaching in South Africa
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Ended 03/31/2016"I want to volunteer teach in South Africa over the summer prior to beginning my Masters in Education at UCLA. https://hdtk.co/jHlT4"
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I just found out that I am being assigned to volunteer teach in Vrygond community in South Africa...below is some information regarding their need for volunteers like myself.
Vrygrond was originally a “coloured” community, where Afrikaans was the dominant language. Over the years there has been an influx of largely Xhosa speaking people from the Eastern Cape. This creates a language barrier between the language of education, as the majority of Xhosa and Afrikaans speaking parents request that their children be taught in English – the language associated with better jobs and education. Many children in the area thus require additional assistance apart from school in order to learn a language that is not their Mother tongue, and this is where volunteer organisations such as DTR lend a helping hand.
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