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One of the most rewarding experiences about being a gap year volunteer in South Africa is helping to coach local adults and children in rural South Africa in sports. Being a developing nation, South Africa has limited resources at hand for the development of sports. Hence, the country is sorely lacking in terms of sporting facilities as well as qualified coaches. You can help put a smile on the face of the South African children by volunteering to be a coach in a sport that you are skilful in during your gap year.

Sport Coaching Program Details

As a gap year volunteer coach, you can be involved in the coaching program as a sports coach or fitness coach. As a volunteer sports coach, you will be working on honing the skills that are required for the elected sport. This involves either coaching at the local schools, or at the community level. At the school level, your task will be to deliver a well-planned and structured coaching session to encourage positive results from the class. At the community level, you will work together with the local coach and community leaders to train the local teams.

As a gap year volunteer fitness coach, you will be working on the fitness of the players. Your task will be to help them improve their health through structured exercise and fitness programs.

In addition to coaching, you will also be involved in organising friendly matches, which assists in getting the children to be interested in sports. Most of your time will probably be spent with children from orphanages and the pre-school and primary school level. At the community level, you might be involved with cleaning up the pitch, setting up games or refurbishing the old club houses.

Although it may seem like there is a lot on the plate of a gap year volunteer sports coach, most activities are undertaken during the working week. You will still have time to pursue your own leisure activities during the evening and some weekends. Due to the nature of the work, you will get to foster extremely close relationships with the local community, and you won’t have any difficulties in making new friends.

Not only will you be contributing towards the development of sports in rural South Africa, as a gap year volunteer coach you will also get to put a smile on the faces of many of these underprivileged South African children.

Mark Bottell is the General Manager for Worldwide Experience, an online tour operator offering extended breaks on gap year and other wildlife conservation holidays for adults.

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