Visit or use the Donald Woods Centre at Hobeni<\/h2>\r\n \r\n \r\n

The Donald Woods Centre is the headquarters of the Donald Woods Foundation\u2019s work in and around the Hobeni area in the rural Mbashe district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.<\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Not only does the Centre provide a comfortable base for accommodating conferencing, training, strategic planning sessions or conducting fieldwork and research in the wider area, but it is also located in a scenically beautiful area. The Centre is close to the famous Wild Coast, with the pristine Dwesa-Cebe Nature Reserve and its safe beaches, indigenous forests and waterfalls nearby.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Cape is a malaria-free area. The Centre is around a\u00a0one\u00a0hour drive from Nelson Mandela\u2019s birth and resting places, a 90-minute journey to the closest airport at Mthatha or a four-hour drive to the closest city East London with major air, bus and rail links.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”right-to-left”]The Donald Woods Centre functions as a training and resource centre as well as a development node for the surrounding area, affording NGOs, Universities, companies, government departments and other bodies comfortable accommodation, conferencing, training and meeting facilities in the fully equipped office and training block called the Wendy Woods House.<\/p>\n

The Centre can currently accommodate up to 30 people, visitors can choose to self-cater or catering can be provided by the Foundation by prior arrangement. For more information on options, current rates and bookings, mail Barbara Briceland on barbara@donaldwoods.org[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”3748″ css=”.vc_custom_1461343613854{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column]

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What you can expect at the Centre<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Donald Woods Centre is a safe and functional base with reliable power, ample and high quality water, security, good quality IT infrastructure and comfortable accommodation.<\/span><\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_tta_tour style=”modern” color=”green” active_section=”1″ css=”.vc_custom_1460447284059{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Office facilities” tab_id=”1457621774948-93247004-53ce”][vc_column_text]The main administrative block \u2013 Wendy Woods House \u2013 includes an air-conditioned main office for 25 professionals; several smaller offices; a large training and IT Room for up to 150 people; two smaller training rooms for around 25 people each; two server rooms; a library; a reception area; a staff room for drivers and community health outreach workers and importantly a sophisticated IT and communications centre with charging facilities for more than 100 devices for outreach work.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Accommodation” tab_id=”1457621775460-38f1dbc6-5459″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1477380052955{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”]On the accommodation front there are 30 rooms in a number of accommodation blocks with ample ablution facilities adjacent to the historic main house, where Donald Woods was born and spent his childhood. The well apportioned accommodation blocks are centred around two squares \u2013 The Old Courtyard and Lemon Tree Square – which are bounded by treed walkways and beautiful gardens.<\/p>\n

Social facilities include a recreational club for after hours relaxation \u2013 named Masumpa\u2019s after Donald\u2019s father Jack\u00a0 together with three spacious lounges (with satellite TV) and a small gym.\u00a0Bedding and towels are provided and there is a laundry facility.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Logistics” tab_id=”1457621841962-aaedabcb-b972″][vc_column_text]In terms of utilities and logistics, banks of harvested rainwater tanks provide good and safe water year round, generators provide constant power during outages, a multi-layered security system with access control, a diesel fuelling station, a fleet of 22 4×4 vehicles and a 14-seater minibus for transporting guests to and from regional airports in Mthatha and East London.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Associated facilities” tab_id=”1457621856850-25ea9478-f203″][vc_column_text]Directly in from of the main office block, are four large 85 square metre\u00a0thatched huts set within a landscaped\u00a0amphitheatre for traditional meetings, training and after-school clubs such as homework clubs as part of the Foundation’s\u00a0Schools Programme. The focal point of Heritage Valley will be an outdoor stage with a dedicated PA system for drama, music, school and community events for up to 2 000 people. The outdoor stage area is due for construction in 2016. There is a scenic, forested loop in front of the centre for jogging. Heritage Valley is the background photo behind these tabs.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tour][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Centre as a development node<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]The Donald Woods Centre, with its campus-like feel, has been designed as a development node aimed at catalysing project and small business start-ups in a deeply rural area with education, training and professional development being integral to the Foundation\u2019s approach to growth and community development.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]The DWC is a living memorial to Donald and Wendy Woods serving some of the poorest and least developed communities of the Eastern Cape. It is a vehicle through which the Foundation helps government and communities to achieve aspects of the SA Government\u2019s 14 point Programme of Action and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css_animation=”right-to-left”]We are headquartered in the heart of where the Foundation works precisely because Foundation trustees and management passionately believe in the principle of rural development programmes being run from the area in which they operate.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]In particular, it is the nerve centre from which the DWF strives to achieve its five strategic priorities of contributing to the fight against poverty and under-development in impoverished communities; promoting good health and well-being of people and households; enhancing education, training and awareness in targeted communities together with integrating development initiatives and facilitating economic opportunities and job creation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1460706638379{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-color: #ccd6dc !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”3412″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” css_animation=”left-to-right” link=”http:\/\/173.254.28.137\/~donaldwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vist-or-Use-the-DWC_general_low-res-spreads.pdf”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5\/6″][vc_column_text css_animation=”right-to-left”]<\/p>\n

Download<\/span><\/a> a brochure on the Donald Woods Centre here which includes a handy list of what to bring.<\/h3>\n

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