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Via our exhilarating Zimbabwe National Parks Big Five Wildlife Conservation Project, you can join us on an expedition where you can get involved in wide-scale conservation whilst learning about the African bush.
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Volunteering on this programme will allow you to work very closely with the wildlife at the reserve and help with the protection of an endangered species. You will have the unique chance to see an animal that is only just being held back from the brink of extinction in the wild and to witness and study its herd interaction and behavioural patterns in a safe, controlled environment. |
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This is a unique programme, which offers you the chance to get up close to some of Africa’s most incredible wildlife. The Okavango Delta in Botswana is the largest of its kind in the world, and as with other precious ecosystems, is reliant on volunteers to ensure its survival.
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This project is your opportunity to work with girls between the ages of 3 and 19 years who have spent the first part of their lives living in extremely difficult situations. By helping them with their educations and to gain self-confidence you can help them move away from their background of poverty, abuse and neglect towards a future in which they can go well for themselves. |
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This programme offers crucial assistance to the doctors and nurses of Cape Town's clinics. Volunteers will be able to work on various community projects and development initiatives, which will provide them with a varied and challenging experience as well as a glimpse into the lives lead by the underprivileged around Cape Town. |
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Join this project and help to coach sports to disadvantaged children in a Township on the suburbs of Cape Town. With Table Mountain as your backdrop, you will be able to offer local children structured sports coaching and games, whilst also providing additional support to the Township school. |
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Many children in the suburbs of Cape Town live in poverty, and are not receiving the education or childhood that they deserve.This project provides vital teaching assistance, at two schools within a particular underprivileged community. You will also be assisting in various community projects and development initiatives. |
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By participating in one of these volunteer projects you will provide priceless assistance to children and adults in deprived parts of the community. Choose from a range of social voluntary projects and stay in with a local family in the beautiful Cape Province of South Africa. |
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This programme gives you the chance to spend time at a Chimpanzee Sanctuary, assisting experienced handlers and experts in Chimpanzee behaviour. |
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Join this programme to help coach sports and teach English in schools next to Lake Malawi. Your main role will be to help take the burden off under-staffed schools and help to provide a better learning environment for the children. Coaching sports will help to develop better health and wellbeing amongst local children, in a fun and productive way! |
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Senegal is a great place to volunteer. Gap Year for Grown Ups have a wide variety of worthwhile projects which you can join, giving you a close insight into the West African Country's unique culture. Through helping disadvantaged communities, you will receive an enriching cultural experience. |
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Ghana remains largely undeveloped in terms of responsible tourism and international volunteering. Because of this, Ghana maintains a strong authentic culture and presents many opportunities for volunteers to assist in this African developing Nation. Choose from a range of Healthcare, Orphanage and Teaching Volunteer placements. |
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This programme is perfectly suited to sports enthusiasts looking for a challenge during their time out. In a month of unique and life-changing experiences, you will spend individual weeks doing different activities and assuming new challenges.You learn bush survival skills; climb Mt Kenya; Camel Trek across the Samburu lands; and traverse the white waters of the source of the River Nile. |
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Based at a beautiful Private Game Park in South Africa, this one year Nature Guides Development Programme aims at providing you with a year of practical conservation and wildlife experience in South Africa with various qualifications. |
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Join this programme and help to coach football and teach English to school and street children in Ghana. Sport, particularly football, has been an excellent medium to alleviate the financial and educational hardships that many children in Africa face and has been the perfect way to encourage children to interact and develop on a day-to-day basis. |
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As a community volunteer, working and living amongst the Ghanaian people, you will have the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the wonderful culture of the country, and experience firsthand what life in these communities is like. As a volunteer, you will also be taken through a comprehensive and detailed orientation, as well as a week long guided tour around Ghana. |
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Get involved in developing Ghana’s grassroots netball talent, it’s one of their best female participant sports! You can improve your coaching skills by coaching all different levels, depending on how much coaching experience you’ve got. |
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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. |
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Volunteer in Zimbabwe’s Big 5 Hwange National Park in an exciting wildlife conservation programme. As a volunteer you will have access to remote parts of the park and have access at night, which are prohibited to other tourists. |
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This programme offers a uniquely rewarding life experience and the chance to give something back to underprivileged rural African communities who really need your help. |
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This project is in the early stages of development and provides a unique opportunity to experience rural Kenya and to help people who are truly in desperate need. The project needs pro-active, enthusiastic and independent volunteers to work towards the development of these vital community schemes to give all those concerned a much brighter and hope filled future. |
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This is a shining example of a successful community upliftment programme. The programme is situated in the small West Kenyan town of Kimilili and aims to help those who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. |
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Set at the foot of the breathtaking Mount Kilimanjaro, this is the ultimate back-to-basics bush adventure. Alongside the traditional Maasai tribes people, you’ll take part in vital conservation work for the elephant and big cat populations while experiencing the magnificent wildlife of Tsavo-West National Park on daily safaris. |
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Volunteer in the Nairobi slums and nearby schools, orphanages and hospital. Volunteers will be deeply affected by their time spent assisting doctors in understaffed hospitals and the possibility to give orphaned children much needed attention and love. |
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This project is a great way to really contribute to the deprived families and orphans living in Kenya. You will mostly be working with children ranging from the age of 3 to 16 years old, all of which have already seen a great amount of suffering in their lives. |
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This project will have you volunteer teaching and sports coaching, a great way to develop the education and to have fun with underprivileged children. You will teach in the mornings and do sports coaching in the afternoons allowing you to make an impact on the lives of the disadvantaged people in a neglected region of Kenya. |
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Set on the outskirts of the majestic Kruger National Park, you will be working in the heart of South African rural communities helping change the lives of some of the country’s most underprivileged children. |
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This Field Guide Course is perfect for anyone who wants to work as a field guide or nature guide in a National Park or African reserve. This is a great chance for anyone who wishes to take some quality time to live in South Africa and for people who wants to learn more about South Africa, its wildlife, flora, fauna and history, as well as helping to pass that knowledge on to others. |
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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! |
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