The Volunteering Experience in November / December 2022

The Young Leader Expedition was a 2-month trip to South Africa, where a group of four youth under 25 explored and experienced the real South Africa. They stayed at a family-oriented foster care facility, helping with kids, working in food gardens, and collaborating with the Boost the World South Africa team. The expedition focused on […]
7th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Hi everyone! This is our final week here in South Africa. We’re really enjoying it and getting close to finishing our garden project. This week’s blog is a bit bigger then the others because we left on Thursday, so we thought it would be best to extend this week’s blog. This week Tijn wrote the […]
6th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Nice to have you back for another weekly blog from us and if you’re new, welcome! This is a series of blogs, every week we write a blog of what we did and what we experienced that week. We are Willemijn (18 years old), Tijn (19 years old), Quinn (20 years old) and Declan (24 […]
5th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Hello everyone, we’re back with another blog of our 2 months trip to South Africa. This time we just got back from Cape Town and we needed to go back to work. We got back on a Monday evening and got back to work the next morning. The first thing that needed to be done […]
4th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Day 1: Monday On Monday Declan and I went to help the site team clean up the village. On Tuesday the former founders of Liv Lanseria came by so everything had to look neat and tidy. After 2 hours of cleaning up rubbish, we moved pebbles from the workshop to pre-school to finish a project […]
3rd Update 8 weeks expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Awesome that you are reading our next week blog! If you didn’t check out our previous blogs of our South Africa trip, please do that first. Then you have our whole story and some things make a lot more sense if you read all the blogs in chronological order. The beginning of week 3 started […]
2nd Update 8 weeks expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

2nd Update 8 weeks expedition South Africa 2022 Thank you for checking out our blog of our trip to South Africa. If you read the previous blog, welcome back and if you didn’t be sure to check that one out first. Then you can follow our hole story from start to finish. In week 2 […]
1st Update 8 weeks expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022

Thank you for checking out our blog! This is a blog about our two month trip to South Africa and we are Willemijn (18 years old), Tijn (19 years old), Quinn (20 years old) and Declan (24 years old). Declan is the group’s facilitator. All 4 of us were ready to go on Friday, October […]
Workshop for the lower primary school classes: “Play without stuff”

Education is primarily aimed at obtaining diplomas (preferably the highest diploma). BOOST The World Foundation focuses on intrinsic motivation. Our lectures and workshops are in line with the natural motivation of children to discover the world. During our sessions they don’t learn “for later,” but they learn what is later. In particular how they should […]
Creche South Africa 2018

Our first project starts with a future offering for children aged 1 to 5 in South Africa. Children who have no money, no materials, as we do in the Netherlands. Building a creche for an average of 70 children also offers immediate prospects for an entire community. Teachers are trained, parents can bring their child […]