I was working for 8 weeks at the Somali Association of South Africa and I enjoyed the time very much. In the morning there was the children’s class where I could help out the teacher. After the class there was always some office work to do and in the afternoon there was the adult English …
My name is Michaela, I am 24 years old and I live in southern Germany. In summer 2015 I decided to visit South Africa and to work for SASA in Bellville. It was my first time in Africa and I have to say I don’t regret a day over there. The cultural differences were so …
I participated at the Somali Association of South Africa for 4 weeks. In the beginning I did some office work with another volunteer, which was quite interesting. I get to know how organizations like the Somali Association work, as I did some office work like putting the refugee documents in order or sitting at the reception. …
During my time at SASA I got the opportunity to get a lot of new experiences. Working with the refugees was quite new for me and meeting a completely different culture made my work so interesting. I did some office work, e.g. writing descriptions and proposals, creating a newsletter or sitting at the reception. But I was …
My experience at SASA was very memorable. I enjoyed working and supporting the organization with the knowledge I have gained throughout my years of education, however due to certain issues I wasn’t able to fully support and end the job that was given to me at the beginning of my internship, which was organizing a …
I am writing you this letter to say Thank you so much for letting me be part of your NGO in the month of February 2016. It was a really interesting month, in which I learned many things about the work in a NGO, the work in South Africa, about different people with different cultures …
I had a great time during my work at SASA. In the few weeks here I collected many different experiences. I supported the organization in the daily office work. Furthermore I was allowed to go to plenty meetings, for example with the UNHCR and CTRC. I am glad that Abdikadir and Abdikarim gave me a …
Frederike’s experience 6 Dec, 2017, No comments I wanted to start off by writing „I can still remember the thought I had when I entered SASA the first time“ ´- but isn‘t that ridiculous? My first day at SASA Western Cape is just 10 weeks ago, anyway, entering now feels so completely different compared to that …
The first day of work was full of surprises for a person who had just stepped out the plane coming from Munich, Germany. The Minibus I took to the office did not hold at any formal bus stops or even at any scheduled time. You just waved for the next passing bus to stop, jumped …
