Project Overview:
The ministry team in South Africa will be working with Youth Leaders and vulnerable children at Orchard Camp.  Our prayer is that we can show them the hope they can have only in Jesus Christ.
 

Ministry Description:
Our ministry will include the opportunity to work with groups of children and with individual orphans.  The program includes drama, music, climbing, crafts, sports, team work, horse riding and dancing.
 

- All volunteers must be between the ages of 17 – 65.
- Have a vibrant faith and a desire to share your Christian testimony.

The team members will be provided with accommodation in site. This will be a wonderful opportunity to get to know the culture and people of South Africa. The team will eat most of their meals with the youth leaders and orphans.

Dress Code:
Modesty is the key in all attire. No tank tops, cut-off sleeves, or halter-tops. Shorts must be modest to the knee or close. Remember you will be representing Christ and C4L Canada  and do not want to be a stumbling block.

Location Description:
South Africa is bordered on the north by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland; On the east and south by the Indian Ocean; and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided into nine provinces. The elevation ranges from 4000ft to 6000 ft. South Africa has large animals such as elephants, zebras, leopards, monkeys, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses and antelope. However, you mostly find them only in game reserves. 12 % of the land is cultivated and 7% is forested.

Weather:
January 21 to 27 C (69 to 81 F) in Durban; Johannesburg 16 to 26 C (60 to 79 F); Cape Town 16 to26 C (60 to 79 F); In July Durban 11 to 22 C (52 to 72 F); 4 to 17 C (39 to 63) in Johannesburg and 7 to 17 C (45 to 63) in Cape Town. Rainfall is unpredictable.

Area Attractions:
Kruger National Park; Government Pretoria; Cape Town (Historic, Tavern of the Seas); Durban (seaside city); Drakensberg Mt; Jeffrey’s Bay (has monster waves to surf)
 

Religion: 73% Christian; 15% Traditional ethnic; 1.45%Muslim; 1.25% Hindu; .17% Jewish; .03% Buddhist/Chinese; Baha’I .50% (Johnstone, Patrick and Jason, Mandryk. Operation World 21 Century Edition 576).

Official Languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Ndebele, Xhosa, Swati, North Sotho, South Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana and Venda. (Africa on a Shoestring “Discover the rhythms of Africa” London: Lonely planet, 2001)

For the time in South Africa see www.worldatlas.com

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 20.1% (2001 est.)
 

“The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910. A white minority parliamentary republic was created in 1961. The infamous ’apartheid’ system politically and economically marginalized non-whites and brought untold pain and suffering to the majority. A worsening economic climate, increasing political isolation, a deterioration security situation, and the ending of the Cold War all triggered rapid changes in the 1980s. The last laws under girding apartheid were repealed in 1991 and the country’s first free national democratic elections took place in 1994. Nelson Mandela’s government worked hard to set up a free, non - racial government and constitution and initiate the long healing process with commendable successes. Much disillusionment had set in due to the slow rate of change, limited economic growth and increasing crime and corruption” (Johnstone, Patrick and Jason, Mandryk. Operation World 21 Century Edition 576).

Economy: “The richest and most industrialized country in Africa. The world’s biggest exporter of non-petroleum minerals – especially gold, platinum, chrome, diamonds and coal.” Unemployment is at 25% in 2002 (Johnstone, Patrick and Jason, Mandryk. Operation World 21 Century Edition 576). (Africa on a Shoestring “Discover the rhythms of Africa” London: Lonely planet, 2001).