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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.
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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. |
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Monitor crocodiles, track hippos and record elephant herds as you help to protect a unique eco-system. Learn basic Setswana, get to know the locals and visit a game reserve. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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This is for anyone looking to challenge themselves in spectacular surroundings. Learn to survive in the bush, sleep under the stars, climb Mt Kenya, trek by camel, kayak down the Nile and more. |
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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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