STAESA programs provide volunteers and interns with unique and exciting work placements in community projects, small scale industries, private institutions, public institutions and non-profit organizations. This program is a great opportunity for students, non-students, professionals and non-professionals to get hands-on experience, and helps them to see and understand more about African cultures.
PLACEMENTS: Teaching, Orphanage, Hospitals, Construction project, Human rights, IT, Micro-finance, wildlife program. Special school for physically mentally disabled children. HIV/AIDS program, Farming, day care centers, and Media
BENEFIT: Free airport pick up and drop Free WIFI and WIFI modem at host family Free local sim card Free mini-sight seeing on the first Saturday upon arrival Free language lessons for long-term volunteers. Discount on program fees. Discount on flight ticket.
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When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour posing as a volunteer programme.