At Stellenbosch University the Centre for the Advancement of Social Impact and Transformation offers students opportunities through its extensive networks and partners, ranging from in-person to virtual volunteering opportunities.
Why Volunteer?
1. Fostering Skills for Meaningful Student Growth
Volunteerism presents an opportunity for students to have a co-curricular learning experience by developing and strengthening new skills. These skills are linked to the graduate attributes of Stellenbosch University. The graduate attributes are an inquiring mind; an engaged citizen; a dynamic professional; and a well-rounded individual.
2. Learning Beyond the Classroom
Volunteerism provides students with an out of class learning experience whereby student engage in relationship building with communities, share tacit knowledge, generate new knowledge, in a reciprocal way with communities. Students also learn new things about themselves.
3. Receive Academic Recognition and Expand your Horizons
Students are acknowledged for the hours in service which is recorded on their academic transcript. Students are also able to participate in an accredited course in community development as a co-curricular learning experience. Students can gain experience in a field, that might fall outside of their areas of study and will be exposed to an experience and skill set that assists with the creation of well-rounded students able to draw from these experiences and learnings when entering the working world or taking up leadership positions on campus.
4. Curricular Growth Through Real-World Experience
The type of initiatives they select to be committed to and serve the communities, enhances their curricular as well as the co- curricular learning. Whilst in other cases, especially on our Tygerberg campus, the opportunity to volunteer directly linked to their curricular course and improve on their clinical skills.
