Volunteer

Volunteer Mentor

Walk a journey with a young person, a journey that will not only change their life, but yours too. Teach life skills through simply sharing life together; experience a connection and a bond that can never be removed.  If you are interested in becoming a mentor download our application form and an outline of what being a mentor entails.

Being a LifeXchange mentor requires you to live in the nearby community that we work in, which at present is the Cape Peninsula, and be currently involved in a church group.

Share your skills

Activities:   LifeXchange uses extreme sports and adventure activities as a way of, 1) connecting with the youth  and, 2) as a shared learning experience between mentor and mentee.    Extreme sports ranges from anything such as scuba diving, rock climbing, surfing and hiking to activities such as squash, golf and Frisbee.   Although adventure and extreme sports are our “tools”, the same experience can be had by doing anything that is out of the ordinary to e what is ‘normal’ in the lives of our youth.   It also serves as an opportunity to be out of the destructive community in which they live.   

Education:  Developing the educational level of our young people. It is a crucial part for them to reach the next ‘level’ of public integration.  We desire anyone who can teach something on any level! 

Trade and Expertise: This is a sharing of your career; allowing LifeXchange to send young people to job shadow you for a day. Or, you can offer your field of expertise to LifeXchange.  For example, if you are in a print media company, you could offer printing or space in your print media publications.  Or, if you are a graphic design company maybe you can offer access to designers from your company. 

Skills:  We believe everyone has a talent to share; you can share your talent in sewing, pottery, tying knots, driving, cooking, welding, brick laying, editing photo’s. Any expertise that you have you can share it!

Join our support network:  We depend heavily on having a broad support network so even if you’re not sure how you can tap into LifeXchange, join our network, tell us what you do, what you enjoy and we can add it to our database.  The broader and more established our support network, the more effective we can be when we work with our youth. Because of you we could have a wealth of connections at our finger tips.  It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!

Become an activist:  Click on this link to become an activist for LifeXchange.  Encourage your friends, families, grannies, grannies friends to follow and support LifeXchange too. 

1.     Sign up as an ‘Activist’

2.     Click 'create your first fundraising project'

3.    Type LifeXchange

4.     Start campaigning on our behalf

Do something extreme:  Running the Comrades? Cycling the Argus?  Kayaking to Betty’s Bay?  Hiking the Grand Traverse? Growing a beard? You may already be doing something extreme so why not slap on a LifeXchange label and do it for a good cause? Maybe put together a challenge with you and your friends and see if you can raise enough money to buy one wheel for LifeXchange’s new vehicle!  Become an activist!

Awareness:  It’s very simple;   spread the word about LifeXchange through your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace connections.  Forward or post links to our newsletter, blog and events.  Become an activist!