Regions: Southern Africa

World Challenge offers long and short term adventure travel expeditions. Expeditions take place all around the globe, and range from one to four weeks. While short term expeditions focus on adventure travel, long term expeditions incorporate volunteer com ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

The Peace Corps provides Volunteers for nearly 70 countries that request assistance in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. Since 1961, more than 215,000 Americans of all ages have serve ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

With BVOL, you'll work across different Game Reserves, each unique in their own way. You'll work with a professional team (who are supported by WWF amongst others), with Cheetah, African Wild Dog and Black Rhino, as well as priority species like Elephant ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

Ready for a different kind of travel experience? Developing World Connections is a non-profit organization that offers individuals and groups of any age and background the opportunity to help those in need in the developing world through International Vol ...
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World Endeavors offers international internship, volunteer, and study abroad programs in 30 countries throughout the world. Since 2002, our organization has partnered with and brought meaningful experiential learning opportunities to countless univer ...
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Community Development Road Trips; 2 week, 4x4 journeys through rural South Africa combining volunteer work, cultural experiences and adventure activities. Global Handprints is a small Social Enterprise run with the objective to enable travellers to r ...
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COOPI is committed to fighting against social injustice and poverty in the global South and to building a future that guarantees everyone adequate living conditions, equal opportunities and respect of their rights. In order to carry out its development pr ...
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Taking Off is a placement agency that works with the student and their families to facilitate a gap year experience for each participant. Taking Off works to clarify, define and prioritize the parameters that will come to shape each participants' experien ...
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GVI project opportunities range from wildlife research projects to care for abandoned street children. Operating across several continents GVI offers a variety of programs with well known organizations such as the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and South Africa ...
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Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc. offers a seven week volunteer project- The Africa Programme. The Africa Programme has three components: three orientation days before departure, six work weeks on a development project in the host country, and one travel ...
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Askari Wilderness Conservation Programme offers the experience of a lifetime - the chance for volunteers to make a real contribution to conservation and wildlife research in Africa. Askari is based on 'Pidwa Wilderness' and volunteers become part of the f ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

Volunteers for International Partnership (VIP) offers volunteer opportunities for individuals or groups to do international community service in health, social services, environment and education. Work with a rural development project, volunteer in a heal ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

The Wildlife Conservation Program is focused on giving students and volunteers the experience necessary to be able to work on a wildlife reserve while making an active difference in the future of key African species. Students are exposed to the daily runn ...
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Blue Ventures is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to marine conservation, education and sustainable development in tropical coastal communities. Through marine expeditions, volunteers from around the world participate on career breaks, student gap ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

- Non-profit program fees for fun, rewarding, safe and affordable volunteering opportunities in developing countries. - Volunteer in Africa, Asia, Europe and Central & South America - Teach English, healthcare and medical, community development, anima ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

Arm-In-Arm Volunteers is a Canada-based international non-profit organization that provides safe, effective, and responsible volunteer opportunities through partner organizations in developing countries at very reasonable rates. These opportunities are su ...
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Category Volunteer Abroad

The programme is based in the beautiful coastal region of Sainte Luce which is surrounded by extremely rare and threatened fragments of littoral (coastal) forest. It integrates practical hands-on conservation research on endangered flora and fauna, in par ...
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The aim of AJUDE's volunteer workcamps in Mozambique is to rebuild social cooperation and create economic stability to provide people with access to health care, sanitation and education. Workcamp projects include environmental conservation, AIDS awarenes ...
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We encourage early career scientists, post grad marine biology students and anyone with a burning passion for ocean conservation to join our research team to get hands on experience in the various research projects we conduct. From our dorsal fin identifi ...
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Category Oceans / reefs

ThinkImpact Institutes are summer and winter programs that empower students in rural communities to be catalysts of lasting change through social innovation. In collaboration with locals, students identify opportunities and co-create products and services ...
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