The participants had to travel across 3 countries using buses as way to promote green travel and this is normally the African day to day experience. During this, they also had to experience volunteers' mobility on the boarders. This workcamp was very diverse, rich with energetic and enthusiastic youths from different voluntary organization around the world, namely:

• UVIKUITA- Tanzania

• ZWA- Zimbabwe

• SAVWA- South Africa

• KVDA- Kenya

• SCI- France

• NICE- Japan

Tanzanian phase: 1-10 july 2024

The aim of UVIKUITA is to promote Youth Empowerment and to contribute to built a sustainable world.

We have learned that the eco-village project is focusing on three dimensions:

• Promoting community living because the garden is shared with people from the local community

• Modernisation of technics with the use of permaculture methods

• "Ubuntu": a philosophy for Africa meaning that you can not be satisfied by yourself instead of capitalist philosophy that is always looking for profit.

Urban organic gardening

Through the act of planting medicinal plants and organic vegetables during this workcamp, the idea was to raise awareness to young people and people in the community about the impact of fast food on our health and on our environment and to return to spiritual connections to the earth and remember that whatever we do has an impact on our environment. The urban gardening is very environmental friendly as it is a form of recycle of empty plastic containers which are then filled with manure and soil, this type of gardening save space and keeps the environment clean.

Zimbabwean phase: 13-24 july 2024

The second phase of the camp was hosted by Zimbabwe Workcamps Association in Goromonzi. The voluntary organisation had recruited local participants across Zimbabwe to join the caravan participants and the camp started with posivite energy with a diverse group of youth volunteers.

The Zimbabwean phase covered a number of topics such as:

• Environmental conservation

•  Peace and Social justice 

•  Cultural Heritage

Volunteer and Dembere communities

The camp activities were community oriented, whereby the Demberere Village, Goromonzi worked together with ZWA and come up with activies which the community needed the most, to ensure local development and cultural exchange through the participation of both parties.

Besides clean-up campaign, as part of environmental conservation, the participants were invloved in making Fire guard within the village. This was to prevent vield fires in destroying the natural forest of Dembere Village. Participants were very energetic in practicing this interesting activity of using traditional knowlage to protect the environment. Fire guards are commonly used in many areas around Zimbabwe and because of its simplified traditional technique in nature, it is vey sustainable and many 

communities can practice this method since there is no special knowlage or technical resources required.

South African phase: 25 july-4 August 2024

The South African phase ran with 2 main themes which are Organic gardening and the after school kids program.

Every morning then, we took part to activities in the garden such as preparing the ground for the organic garden using the no-dig method and fixing the garden fence. The volunteers had to learn the advantages of organic gardening which includes: 

• Chemical-free produce, this avoids the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, 

ensuring healthier produce.

• Environmental friendly, this method promotes soil health, conserve water and reduce pollution.

• Reduces soil erosion among many other advantages.

Organic gardening- Permaculture

This garden is use for pedagogical activities but it also produce vegetables that are shared with kids and youngsters in the local community.