January 2025 @ Makunduchi
28 participants
from Zanzibar
7 days
full of courses, evening activities and practical sessions
unique experience
leadership training alongside practical permaculture lessons in nature
all-inclusive
includes accommodation in shared rooms with private bathrooms built out of natural materials, and three meals per day
The Venue
The training will be held at Ali's Acre, transformative 1-acre project in Zanzibar. Here, Shan Ali and his team are dedicated to cultivating a self-sufficient food system, aiming to grow all the calories required to sustain four people on just one acre of land. His innovative approach bridges ecological harmony and practical living, inspiring others to embrace sustainable solutions.
Participants who pass the application can attend the training free of charge and stay in shared rooms built without cement out of natural limestone with private bathrooms and receive three meals by day cooked with ingredients from the farm.
Deadlines
| Step | Deadline | ||
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| 1 | Application opens |
Monday 9th December 2024 |
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| 2 | Application closes |
Sunday 15th December 2024 |
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| 3 | Interview Candidates get selected |
Sunday 22nd December 2024 |
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| 4 | Virtual and physical Interviews will be held |
Wednesday 25th - Friday 27th December 2024 |
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| 5 | Selected Participants will be communicated |
Saturday 28th December 2024 |
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| 6 | Selected Candidates decide whether to attend camp or not |
Sunday 29th December 2024 |
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| 7 | Training Camp |
Monday 30th Dec 2024 - Sunday 5th January 2025 |
Application Questions
apart from personal data like name and age, the following free-response questions are part of the application form:
| Question | Explanation | ||
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| 1 | If you could design and run a camp from scratch, what would it be about? | Write a few sentences about your dream camp including the name of the camp, the parameters (camper's age group, number of campers, location, number of days), topics, structure, goal. |
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| 2 | In a few sentences, describe your experience working with children (this can include siblings). | Make sure you mention how you connect with children, and what motivates you the most to work with them. |
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| 3 | Share an example of how you have demonstrated leadership in the past. |
This can be at your school, university, community, social change project, family, friends or anywhere else. | |
| 4 | What motivates you to participate in this training? | It can be a plenty of different reasons and motivations. | |
| 5 | Where do you see yourself in 5 years time? | It's okay to dream big here :). We want to know what makes you passionate, what you burn for. |
Your Contributions to the Training (Optional) - because we want our training to be practical and interactive, participants can offer Evening Activities, TED-style talks ("Camper Talk") or even Courses. If you have anything you want to offer, please briefly share what you have in mind below. Offering activities can increase your chance to be selected for the program. However it is up to our decision whether we include your proposal into the schedule or not.
| 6 | if you want to run a Course, share the contents here | a course is a 90min classroom-style session where you introduce a topic (usually one which has something to do with leadership) and then do exercises or practice with the participants | |
| 7 | if you want to run an Evening Activity, share the contents here | a course is a 30-90min fun activity which is held in the afternoon or evening. Some examples include: improv-theatre, social deduction games, economic simulation games, word games, sports, yoga, martial arts, terrain games | |
| 8 | if you want to hold a Camper Talk, share the contents here | a Camper Talk is a 10-15min TED-style inspirational talk |
We recommend that you ponder on the questions offline in a text editor and then - once you answered them - copy and paste them to the application form. That way you prevent your responses from being lost in case your internet connection breaks.
Time until Camp
30th December 2024 - 5th January 2025 @ Makunduchi
Are you ready to apply?