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Africa

Africa is an excellent destination to take a career break or to participate in volunteer work. With a diverse range of programmes available, voluntary work in Africa is both challenging and rewarding.

Our voluntary work in Africa involves helping animals, children or community volunteering. We offer a vast amount of wildlife conservation work projects, community volunteering projects and work with children in Africa.

We now have a range of exciting sports programmes in Africa. You can volunteer by coaching sports, develop your own skills on a training programme, or take part in a sports adventure programme. 

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Big 5 Wildlife Conservation Experience
Work with elephants and rhinos and walk with lions! Get an in depth insight into Zimbabwe’s wildlife and bush, and make a valuable difference to the efforts to protect them.
From £2299

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Black Rhino and Elephant Conservation Zimbabwe

Live and work on a safari ranch, helping with efforts to protect black rhino, elephants, buffalo and more. Assist with anti-poaching measures, look after rhino, help with training elephants and get a feel for the real Africa.

From £1299

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Build a Future in Swaziland
Put your DIY experience to good use – or learn as you go. Help build and repair homes and other facilities, get involved with painting projects and generally give underprivileged children a safer, more secure environment.  From £1395

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Cape Town Home For Girls
Give some much-craved attention to girls from a township. Help them with their schoolwork, teach them vital computer skills or direct them in a play or dance show. They have few possessions but lots of enthusiasm. From £699

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Cape Town Literacy and Language Project
In the typical over-crowded conditions of most schools in Cape Town pupils often find it difficult to excel in their learning due to the lack on individual attention. This teaching initiative takes children away from the classroom environment for one-on-one tuition sessions. Not only will you see the pupils reading and writing improve but through the interactive and varied teaching methods their awareness of language will develop, providing them with a vital life skill. From £1099

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Cape Town Medical and Community Programme
Put your medical skills to use in area with many sick children. Help out at a clinic, or, if you’re not medically qualified, get involved with education, building or community projects. From £1299

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Cape Town Sports
Set up and run sports and teaching sessions for children with virtually nothing. Introduce them to sports they don’t know, like rugby, netball and cricket, or help them improve at football. Use your initiative and you’ll be well rewarded. From £1099

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Cape Town Teaching and Community Development
Get involved in several projects, based around two schools. Run craft and sports sessions, work with orphans, pass on vital skills and generally help lift the area out of poverty. A varied and rewarding programme. From £1295

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Cape Town Volunteer Projects
The time you give to these projects will benefit Cape Town’s underprivileged communities tremendously. Live with a local family and choose from projects including Healing Through Horses, Marine Conservation and Penguin Rescue and Cape Town for Orphans. From £949

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Volunteer
Get to know the ins and outs of this South African sanctuary. Study the history and behaviour of chimps, sanctuary management, environmental issues and sustainable tourism. You’ll take home a recognised sanctuary management certificate. From £649

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Coach Sports and Teach Malawi

Make a vital contribution to a beautiful but impoverished country. Give the teachers a much-need hand with English and maths, and help set up sports training sessions and competitions. A little time will make a lasting difference.

From £949

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Community Voluntary Projects Senegal
Work on one of several projects and help a country ravished by AIDS. Get involved in teaching English to children and adults, building facilities, assisting in an orphanage, improving health education or raising awareness of HIV. From £949

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Community Voluntary Work Ghana
Sample Ghana’s fascinating and largely undeveloped culture. Take part in projects that provide medical care and tackle the AIDS epidemic, improve education and leisure activities in orphanages and schools and build new facilities for the community. From £899

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Ethiopia Community Volunteers

For a nation recognised as one of drought and famine, the inspiring natural beauty of Ethiopia will surprise any visitor. Volunteers are needed in the northern city of Gondar to assist with education and community initiatives. Your role may vary from teaching basic English to primary school children, developing language skills with secondary school pupils, offering IT training and coaching sports.

From £849

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Field Guide Training Course South Africa

Spend a year in South Africa and become a fully qualified field guide. Learn about field research, game capture, patrolling and more, through practical tuition and on-the-job training. You’ll then be eligible to work all over Africa.

From £7559

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Football and Teaching Project Ghana
Put your passion for football to good use and coach disadvantaged children – enthusiasm is more important than expertise. Give them vital English lessons, and show them much-needed care and attention. From £799

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Ghana Community Development Project
Match your skills to one of several worthwhile projects. Get involved in teaching, orphan care, HIV projects and health care, construction, community development, ecotourism and more. Whatever you do will be much appreciated. From £999

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Ghana Netball Coaching

Give disadvantaged children in Accra the chance to develop their netball skills, and, in some cases, introduce them to the sport. Coach at different levels and unleash masses of young potential.

From £1249

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Hockey Coaching Project Ghana
This programme is currently unavailable; to find out about similar projects, please contact us. Sport is a terrific way for people of all countries to find common ground, and hockey is now one of the fastest-growing games played in schools and clubs throughout Ghana. This programme is ideal for anyone with a good grounding in hockey who wants to share that skill and enthusiasm with some of the more deprived children of West Africa. From £799

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Hwange National Park Wildlife Conservation
Get to know the park in a way most tourists don’t. Monitor the elephant population, carry out snare checks, help look for signs of poaching, learn about research methods and take a bush survival course. From £1299

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Kenya Camp Life Volunteer
Immerse yourself in Kenyan life and become part of a three-year plan to improve life in a rural village. Live and work with the community, helping with tasks such as construction, teaching, landscaping and painting. From £892

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Kenya Community Development Busia
Dedicate time and energy to children orphaned by AIDS. Teach them the skills needed to raise a family, give out food, build shelters, help with training and workshops – there’s a huge range of things to do. From £899

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Kenya Community Outreach Volunteer
Get involved with successful projects that aim to give children and families the means to sustain themselves. You can help provide food, shelter, clean water, training and health care – and most valuable of all, emotional support. From £899

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Kenya Family Life Volunteers
Family Friendly! A rewarding ten-day community development experience for families looking to give something back to underprivileged African communities. Plus, you’ll experience the beauty of Kenya through a varied activities programme. From £680

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Kenya Maasai Wildlife Conservation
Go back to basics and help some truly magnificent animals. Observe and collect data on elephants and big cats, often on safari. A fantastic opportunity to experience the sights, sounds and smells of rural Kenya. From £1599

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Kenya Medical and Community Programme
Make a small but meaningful difference to people in Nairobi. Work in a hospital or orphanage, reaching out to people who live in poverty. You can teach and care for the children, help repair infrastructure and learn Swahili too.  From £1295

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Kenya Orphanage and Community Outreach
Orphans in Kimilili get very little love and attention because there simply isn’t enough staff. This is where you come in. You’ll divide your time between teaching and caring for the children – both equally worthwhile tasks. From £899

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Kenya Sports and Teaching Programme
Teach English and computer skills in the morning and organise sports sessions in the afternoons. The lessons will greatly improve the children’s prospects, while sport will keep them fit and give them a chance to enjoy themselves. From £899

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Kruger to Coast Volunteer Adventure
Get adventurous in Africa with the Kruger to Coast adventure, packed full of the best of what southern Africa has to offer. You’ll get the wildlife, the people/culture and the beaches as you intrepidly venture through South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique, interspersed with exciting game drives, worthwhile volunteering and chilled out beach time! From £1595

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Kruger Wildlife Conservation Course