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Available Placements - Africa

View the placements we have in Ecotourism, Conservation, Humanitarian, Teaching, Research and Farms.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism in Cameroon
Placement number: 0196
Location: Cameroon
Our NGO aims at developing/promoting sustainable ecotourism in Korup National Park and its peripheral. She also work towards the improvement of the livelihood of the local people living in and around Korup National Park by empowering them with alternative income generative activities like snail, fish and cane rat farming respectively as well as Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) domestication.
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Community development in Cameroon
Placement number: 0215
Location: Cameroon
We work in a local reigion of Cameroon and help develop the community in many ways including introducing ecotourism, increasing schooling capacity and helath standards in the local villages.
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Lodge by the Sea
Placement number: 0079
Location: Egypt
Basata is an eco friendly resort by the Red Sea. Basata means " simplicity ". Everything is built by natural materials, by not having any artificial entertainment, our guests enjoy the underwater life, do safaris into the mountains with Bedouins, or just relax on the beach. Beside this we are self sufficient concerning electricity, water, education...
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Israel Community Inn
Placement number: 0178
Location: Israel
I am creating, for the first time in Nazareth (The largest Arab city in Israel) a new model of tourism and thus "break the wall" between Arab and Jews. At the same time, I am creating a model for new tourism along The Israel National Trail (Shvil Israel) and promoting the trail and its economic potential.
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Volunteer with the Masa i
Placement number: 0075
Location:Kenya
Volunteer at this exclusive community driven eco-lodge in the Masai Mara, the most important wildlife destination in Kenya. Help during game drives, game walks, visits to Masai cultural manyattas, birdwatching, bush dinners, bush lunches, bush breakfasts.
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Help Fight Poverty in Kenya
Placement number: 0171
Location: Kenya.
Skilled and unskilled volunteers urgently required on numerous projects including rebuilding after political upheaval, developing an Eco-lodge, Fundraising, Community Development and Crop preservation.
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Volunteer in the middle
of Madagascar in a tent!
Placement number: 0080
Location: Madagascar
Do you speak French? Yes! then why not volunteer at our rustic eco-camp! Help teach the local children, assist the tourists - make sure they enjoy themselves!! and just generally make sure the tents dont fly away! This is a great opportunity and is in one of the most remote places in Madagascar!
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Live with the Lemurs
Placement number: 0084
Location: Madagascar
Volunteer at this ecolodge which is situated in one of the last vestiges of dense rainforest on the high plateaux, which is a source of life for the population and harbours an enormous biodiversity: With its 11 species of lemurs(Indri, Propitecus Diadema, Microcebus.), 82 bird species (amongst which 43 are endemic), 423 plants (amongst 65% endemic), this forest is a dreamland for nature lovers.
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Lodge with the Lemurs
Placement number: 0181
Location: Madagascar
Our lodge is inside the forest corridor of Anjozorobe, north of the capital; it's a private conservation project offering 5 tented bungalows and a lodge for residents and tourists. Several trails in the forest, lemur and bird watching spot with high endemic biodiversity.
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Volunteer at the Beach
Placement number: 0078
Location: Malawi
We are situated on the lake in Northern Malawi. In our own private bay, we have 10 chalets and have a reputation for excellent food and service. There is abundant bird life and we offer vairous water sports and tours. We are involved in several different projects in the surrounding village.
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Great opportunity at the Forest Lodge
Placement number: 0109
Location: Malawi
Luwawa Forest Lodge is an International Guest House and Outdoor Adventure Centre in the Viphya Mountains of Northern Malawi, Central Africa. It has developed particularly good relations with local people through the initiation of eco-tourism projects, which are pro-poor and environmentally sustainable.
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Community help in the Sahara
Placement number: 0172
Location: Morocco
Our ecolodge is a traditional earth building with 18 rooms, situated in a village in the High Atlas, a 4 hour drive from Marrakech. Camp d¹Atta and Camp des Roses are 2 traditionnally built eco-camps with 10 Saharan tents and 7 ³caidal² tents respectively.
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Live on the Lake
Placement number: 0068
Location: Mozambique
This lodge lies on the Mozambique shoreline at one of the most beautiful points on the lake. It has been carefully designed to provide comfort and privacy for guests. With a maximum of only 14 people staying at Nkwichi, the lodge can offer guests the highest levels of service in a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere.
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Volunteer at my Safari Guest Farm
Placement number: 0059
Location: Namibia
I run this guest farm in an environmental friendly way and that is why I also received, as the only guest farm in Namibia, the newly introduced Eco Award. We only employ local staff and train some of them even without school education as much as possible. I like to make sure that all the kids will not only go to school but also finish the school.
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Help out at our Interpretive Centre
Placement number: 0093
Location: Senegal
Situated in the heart of a beautiful forest reserve situated in the immediate surroundings of the Saloum River Delta National Park. Superb mangrove covered creeks that constitute the specific habitat to a variety of bird species, fish, crustaceans and mammals. An old sacred grove covers half of the land property of 30 hectares. The taboos and myths surrounding the site have contributed to the preservation of a superb natural forest, one of the last remaining biological hotspot of the region.
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Volunteer at our Eco-Campsite
Placement number: 0106
Location: South Africa
We are a small, (2.5ha), fledgling, tourist resort, situated alongside near pristine sub-tropical riverine forest in Morgan Bay a small coastal resort just North of East London and immediately south of the transkei, South Africa. Our main asset is the riverine forest, trees, plants, birdlife and tranquility.
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Dive within the Marine Nature Reserve
Placement number: 0087
Location: Tanzania
Welcome to our multi-award winning lodge. We are located in the middle of a Marine nature reserve off the island of Zanzibar. Some say the diving here is th best in the world.
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Watch the perfect sunset every night!
Placement number: 0062
Location: Zambia
Volunteer at this near perfect local in the middle of Zambia. Our lodge has a German biologist as manager and we have a local trained guide and the other staff comes from the surrounding villages. Volunteers are warmly welcomed into this small close knit community!
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Conservation

Volunteer schemes in Africa
Placement number: 0055
Location: Europe, Africa and South America
16 volunteering projects (8 in France, 2 in Europe and 6 in Africa and South America) for protection of nature, from one week (in France) to more than 12 weeks (out of France), for any adult without skills, only motivation.
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Volunteer in Ghana - Vast range of projects
Placement number: 0162
Location: Ghana
The Learning Helping Living (NGO) is a community based, non-profit and nongovernmental organization recognized by the Department of Social Welfare in 1984 and Registered with the Registrar Generals Department in 1989. It has branches all over the country particularly Greater Accra Region, Northern Region, Central, Volta, Ashanti, Eastern and Brong Ahafo regions.
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Volunteer in Kenya
Placement number: 0046
Location: Kenya
A Non-Government, "not for profit" registered community based organization(CBO) which aims to find volunteer placements and provide support for individual volunteers in our country, Kenya.
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Kenyan Eco-work camps
Placement number: 0144
Location: Kenya
Volunteer throughout Kenya on one of 6 different 2 week long work camps.
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Elephant Conservation
Placement number: 0219
Location: Kenya.
Volunteers required to work with this HIV/AIDS charity. Many different projects including working with orphanages, health clinics, teaching in schools, building and elephant conservation.
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Volunteer at this Conservation and Rehab Centre
Placement number: 0025
Location: Nigeria
Work at our centre long or short term! work daily with our many animals that have been rescued, some cant return to the wild.
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Help conseve the Seychelles!
Placement number: 0010
Location: Seychelles
This conservation project aims to protect forest environments and to restore them to a near-natural state. A large part of the conservation work involves research into the diversity and ecology of the forest animals and plants. Another important aspect is the control of invasive species. The island is also the base for the Seychelles Giant Tortoise and Terrapin Conservation Projects, which are breeding these animals for re-introduction to the wild. Volunteers are expected to help with research projects and habitat restoration work.
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Work at an African Game Reserve
Placement number: 0020
Location: South Africa
South African conservation project that gives volunteers the opportunity to be involved in a range of activities.
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Bam

Help orphaned bush mammals and primates
Placement number: 0160
Location: South Africa
Help us at our wildlife centre and make new furry friends in a once in a lifetime opportunity!
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Humanitarian

International Youth Organisation
Placement number: 0217
Location: Worldwide
Age Restriction: 18 to 25

Programmes are now being arranged for the 2008 to 2009 period. Well organised voluntary projects to needy communities. No special skills needed other than plenty of enthusiasm and the desire to help. This will be a life changing experience.
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Youth Centre
Placement number: 0060
Location: Cameroon
United action for Children is a child and youth centered organisation operating in the South West Province of Cameroon.
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School Child Care Project
Placement number: 0149
Location: Cameroon
The Unique School Child Care Project is a comprehensive daily childhood care and special educational institution, created for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged rural children, {street children, orphans, poor children}. Most especially an attempt to eliminate gender disparities in Education in these villages - Batoke, Sokolo, Mukondange, Ngeme, Bobende, Idenau and the environs, with a focus on ensuring girls full and equal access to an achievement in essential life skills.
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Women and Youth Project
Placement number: 0150
Location: Cameroon
Reach Out is a women and youth centered organisation operating in the South West Province with the main office in Great Soppo Buea, and field offices in Kumba, Boa Balondo, Mamfe; focal points in Limbe and Mundemba.
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Help give street children a chance!
Placement Number: 0071
Location: Ghana
Our aim is to provide education for street children, not only in the usual school subject, but also in any skills they might need in order to start living self sufficiently. We are therefore fighting to help alleviate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition and drug abuse, unemployment.
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Clinics in Ghana
Placement number: 0126
Location:Ghana
Help in the rural clinics of Ghana. HIV/aids, diarrhea, malaria and typhoid are strife in this area of Africa and with your help we can try to control these epidemics.
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Help the people of Ghana
Placement number: 0142
Location:Ghana
We support people with HIV/AIDS by supplying them with drugs, councilling and take care of the orphans of aids. We also help by teaching in schools about the disease and assist doctors in hospitals. We also donate to local orphanages with the supply of clothes and many more!
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Construction of Recreation center
Placement number: 0168
Location: Ghana
We are constructing a new recreational center for the under privileged youth of Ghana. The construction of the center will start in 2008 and once finished will house computer and game facilities for the children of Roforidua
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Sport Youth Camps
Placement number: 0108
Location: Kenya
A local organization has started 10 soccer teams. The aim is to have youth engage in wholesome activities and teach them life skills. To safeguard the continuation of the soccer teams and extend to educational activities a Sports Foundation needs to be set up.
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Help needed in Kenya
Placement number: 0203
Location: Kenya
We are listening to the needs of the generally poor and unfortunate people in the community. We visit the sick, train the people about community health and development; we have the chance to go to the community and see their needs and to meet their needs through trainings, advocacy, teachings and demonstrations.
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Help teach and care in Kenya
Placement number: 0205
Location: Kenya
Our care centre is a charity that runs a local Kindergaten and Primary School. We were set up in 2004 to provide education for orphans and children from the local Mtongwe area of Mombasa, Kenya, many of whom have been and still are affected by HIV/AIDS. The school has grown from just 10 children to 249 children today. 50% of these children are orphaned, many living with extended family or friends. More

HIV/AIDS Charity and Much More
Placement number: 0219
Location: Kenya.
Volunteers required to work with this HIV/AIDS charity. Many different projects including working with orphanages, health clinics, teaching in schools, building and elephant conservation.
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Small scale community projects
Placement number: 0069
Location: Mozambique
Volunteer with one of our many small scale projects which include schools, construction, medical care and agrculture.
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Help South African NGO
Placement number: 0145
Location: South Africa
Help us to reduce poverty through health care and education.
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Self-help community project
Placement number: 0182
Location: Uganda
Our Self-help Community Project is a non governmental, non profit, non denominational, community based project that was initiated in 2004 as a response to the overwhelming challenges faced by the community namely; HIV and AIDS, Child abuse, domestic violence, Poverty, Illiteracy, environmental degradation and unemployment.
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Uganda NGO in need of YOU!
Placement number: 0198
Location: Uganda
We are a voluntary child-focused organization caring for over 400 orphans and other vulnerable children including children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, children living in poverty, abandoned, physically, child parents, children affected by armed conflicts, sexually and mentally abused and children who come from single parent families.
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Help the people of Uganda
Placement number: 0200
Location: Uganda
We were established to offer grass root activities that promote self-help social-economic development. The Direct beneficiaries of our work are children, youth and adults who are living in hazardous conditions.
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Child Care centre - Uganda
Placement number: 0204
Location: Uganda
Our Child Care Centre is in Lukaya, Uganda has grown since it opened in January 2005 to care for and educate over 270 children, ages 3-8 years, most of whom are orphans (children with only one parent or none). We are a registered community based organization.Through the support of our nonprofit partner in the United States, Real Partners Uganda, Inc.
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Work camps - help orphans
Placement number: 0210
Location: Uganda
This project is a registered, non-profit, voluntary community based organisation founded to address the problem of the over growing number of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) of Uganda in Particular and the World in General.
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Teaching

Teach and care for disadvantaged youths
Placement number: 0060
Location: Cameroon
UAC is a caring organization for children and youths. Our main goal is to provide affordable quality education to the children and disadvantaged youths of Buea, Cameroon.
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Teach in Ghanian Rural School
Placement Number: 0091
Location: Ghana
The primary school lies in the Ashanti region in rural Ghana. The local village is known for its friendly people, juicy mangoes, and busy Monday Market. There are currently 150+ students there, from kindergarten to the Junior Secondary School level (grade 7). The children range from about 3 to 19 years old, so it is common to have students of various ages and abilities in the same class.
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Ghanian Kindergarten
Placement Number: 0120
Location: Ghana
This is an early childhood development center that provides nursery and kindergarten level classes to children 2 to 5 years old on weekdays. Currently about 40 children from the surrounding neighborhoods attend the center.
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Help at Boys school in Ghana
Placement Number: 0121
Location: Ghana
Mr. Kofi Boafo Charles, began an initiative called Operation Catch Them Young to help assist the street children realize their talents and get back to school. He established Tintinto Boys' Project to train street boys in a game they love to increase their skill and provide them education and counseling.
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Help at drama and Cultural Center
Placement number: 0122
Location: Ghana
Help teach the chidlren of Ghana through Drama and cultural lessons!
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Childrens Center Female Volunteers Only
Placement number: 0123
Location: Ghana
Currently the center cares for 8 girls, 12-18 years old. It also runs nursery school in Korlegonno and a children's library at the center.More

School Teaching
Placement number: 0124
Location: Ghana
We have a current population of 167 students and 8 teaching staff. The grades range from nursery level to grade 6.
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International School
Placement number: 0125
Location: Ghana
Help teach at our International school
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Childrens Home
Placement number: 0139
Location: Ghana
The Children's home was built by Trips With a Mission, a service-oriented Christian group. The organisation has engaged in various types of projects from establishing a pre-school, providing a community center in South Andros to annual volunteer medical camps in Nepal. 2006 saw Trips with a Mission redefine their focus to work exclusively with children, specifically the Least of These.
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International School Female Volunteers Only
Placement number: 0140
Location: Ghana
Established in 1996 as only a pre-school Nursery with 5 kids, 2 female teachers and the Headmaster, Golden Era has come along way since then. The brainchild behind the school was then Accountant, Charles Kofi Aboagye, and his accomplishments are nothing less than altruistic.His efforts have meant that each year 300 children are taught in proper class rooms with a proper standard of teaching!!
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Teach in Ghana
Placement number: 0161
Location: Ghana
Teaching brings so many delights to the teachers and children alike. However at this school the smiles and laughter will last a life time!!
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Church school
Placement number: 0183
Location: Ghana
Church of Christ Experimental School is Founded in the year 1986 by a Church group, (CHURCH OF CHRIST). It is located in the suburb of Kumasi. It was started as day care center with 20 pupils. Almost eleven years now the school is ranging from nursery to Junior secondary level with 300 children enrolled.
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Corps in Kenya
Placement number: 0171
Location: Kenya
Ours is a Long and Medium Term Volunteer (LMTV) project. This is where we provide volunteers from across the world with an opportunity to work with community based organization (CBOs) and NGO, whose focus is on issues that address poverty, youth, gender empowerment as well as other development issues.
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Teach in the middle of Madagascar in a tent!
Placement number: 0080
Location: Madagascar
Do you speak French? Yes! then why not volunteer at our rustic eco-camp! Help teach the local children, assist the tourists - make sure they enjoy themselves!! and just generally make sure the tents dont fly away! This is a great opportunity and is in one of the most remote places in Madagascar!
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Teach with the Lemurs
Placement number: 0084
Location: Madagascar
If you can speak some french then why not help out at our nearby schools and ecolodge. In your spare time explore one of the last vestiges of dense rainforest on the high plateaux, which is a source of life for the population and harbours an enormous biodiversity: With its 11 species of lemurs(Indri, Propitecus Diadema, Microcebus.), 82 bird species (amongst which 43 are endemic), 423 plants (amongst 65% endemic), this forest is a dreamland for nature lovers.
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Teach 4-6 year olds
Placement number: 0078
Location: Malawi
We are looking for some volunteers to teach our 4-6 year olds starting in January 2007!!! Volunteers would need some formal teaching qualifications!
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Teach English, catering or conservation
Placement number: 0068
Location: Mozambique
We need people who have the relevant qualifications/experience to teach in the following fields:- English, catering and conservation
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Teach at our local primary school
Placement number: 0069
Location: Mozambique.
We need volunteers to help teach at our local school. Funds were raised through schools in London to pay for the construction materials for the new school. The Governor of Niassa donated a roof and the community have made bricks. The Trust used the funds to buy cement and to pay for professional builders.
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Help to start a new kinder garden!
Placement number: 0059
Location: Namibia
We need volunteers to help start a kinder garden school and then help to train local people how to run the school. We also need volunteers to help improve our local guides english.
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Teach in the African Bush
Placement number: 0020
Location: South Africa
Are you interested in teaching school children and visitors about wildlife and conservation? Yes, then volunteer here!
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Help Children Abroad
Placement number: 0141
Location: South Africa
Help teach the children of Africa or perhaps help the many orphans!
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Help South African NGO
Placement number: 0145
Location: South Africa.
Help us to reduce poverty through health care and education.
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Teach English
Placement number: 0087
Location: Tanzania
Help teach our local people to speak better English!
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Help the orphans of Tanzania
Placement number: 0128
Location: Tanzania
Defesco's mission is to empower orphans and destitute children through academic excellence and vocational training so that they are able to face the challenges of life and grow into responsible, generous, loving, and industrious adults. We provide services to orphans, the disabled, and destitute children who are in secondary school, high school, and colleges.
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Children of Africa
Placement number: 0129
Location: Tanzania
Watoto Wa Africa means "Children of Africa." The project is currently home to over 45 orphans and street children. At Watoto Wa Africa children are provided with their human rights: food, water, shelter, clothing, education, and - most importantly - love.
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Help teach orphans, widows & aids/HIV victims
Placement number: 0117
Location: Uganda
FOWAV has provided orphans and children from poor families with subsidized education and educational materials, as well as basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing. Other activities include increasing awareness about HIV/AIDS among students and the community in order to reduce transmission and the stigma attached to those with HIV/AIDs and providing counseling for those affected by HIV/AIDS
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Help the Kids of Uganda
Placement number: 0118
Location: Uganda
Located near the source of the Nile River in east-central Jinja, Uganda, El-Shadai Family Foster Home provides a healthy, nurturing family environment to ~30 former street children and orphans, aged ranged from 3 years - 18 years, as well as supporting an extended family of abandoned and abused children with counseling, mentorship, and school assistance.
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Ugandan Primary School
Placement number: 0119
Location: Uganda
Located in Uganda's Rakai district, the region hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, near the Tanzanian border, the Kabira Adult Attention and School of Orphans (KAASO) also known as St. Paul's, provides support for: approximately 420 orphaned and needy children via a year-round primary/elementary level boarding school.
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Teach Orphans in Uganda
Placement number: 0127
Location: Uganda
The Foundation for Education and Development (FED) project in Jinja, Uganda aims to provide education to needy and orphaned children. Currently 126 children's school fees are sponsored, but there is a waiting list of many more.
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Help Children Abroad
Placement number: 0141
Location: Zimbabwe
Help teach the children of Africa or perhaps help the many orphans!
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Research

Help with group in Ghana
Placement number: 0186
Location: Ghana
We deal solely with one small village in the Central Region of Ghana and have two different schemes,
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Research sustainable agriculture or reforestation
Placement number: 0069
Location: Mozambique.
We would like volunteers to formally research the recovery of our savannah and forest and sustainable agricultural practices.
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Research ecotourism and tourist impacts
Placement number: 0059
Location: Namibia
Research topics include:- Conservation of wildlife Ecotourism in Namibia Sustainable development Effects of tourists on local habitats (foot impacts, horse riding, tyre impacts etc)
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Research top Predators
Placement number: 0020
Location: South Africa
We welcome research into predator monitoring. But we also judge all proposals on there own merits!
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Farms

Community development in Cameroon
Placement number: 0215
Location: Cameroon
We work in a local region of Cameroon and help develop the community in many ways including introducing ecotourism, increasing schooling capacity and health standards in the local villages.
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Riding Camp
Placement number: 0094
Location: South Africa
Join us for a wonderful learning experience at our Farm, open to adult horse lovers over 16 years of age. At the farm they offer a unique working riding opportunity on the Wild Coast of South Africa. You will have the opportunity to work with young foals & yearlings, possibly help start 3 year olds and be able to exercise and school our other riding horses.
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Help teach Organic farming- Uganda
Placement number: 0204
Location: Uganda
Our Child Care Centre is in Lukaya, Uganda has grown since it opened in January 2005 to care for and educate over 270 children, ages 3-8 years, most of whom are orphans (children with only one parent or none). We are a registered community based organization.Through the support of our nonprofit partner in the United States, Real Partners Uganda, Inc.
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