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Health Placements - Great Experience!
Health and medical projects can be a very challenging environment where volunteers work in local community clinics and day hospitals. Background or exposure in the medical field is required. Duties vary from day to day. It is important that volunteers...
Extreme Volunteering in South Africa: GoEco
GoEco offers many different volunteer programs in South Africa, including projects tailored to travelers looking for extreme adventures like diving with Great White sharks, raising lions and tigers, and learning to surf on the beaches of Cape Town. Get involved and begin the adventure of your lifetime with GoEco!
Affordable Volunteering in South Africa: From USD250
Volunteer in South Africa with International Volunteer HQ today! IVHQ is the most affordable volunteer organization in the world, sending over 5500 volunteers abroad each year. IVHQ South Africa is located in Cape Town, on the south coast of Africa. The area is well known for the dramatic backdrop of Table Mountain, and the all-year round surf locations. We have a wide range of volunteering opport...
Volunteering Solutions' Meaningful Programs
Volunteering Solutions has 47 programs in 15 different locations. Programs are offered in India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Philippines, South Africa, and Honduras.
Lend a hand in South Africa with Love Volunteers
Volunteering in South Africa is an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile experience. A country which is healing after years of division, South Africa offers volunteers a unique experience to live within the local community. Our South African partner is dedicated to providing high quality, affordable international volunteering. The well-established team has played a crucial role in helping the local ...
Volunteer Work in South Africa
Coastal regions, arid desert lands, mountain ranges and stunning wildlife reserves mean that South Africa offers a something of everything of Africa’s best. Whether you’re a wine lover, a curious adventurer or intrigued by culture, heritage and wildlife, South Africa is home to all this and more. Your journey begins here!
Connect-123 Volunteer Program in South Africa
A volunteer program in Cape Town can include caring for pediatric patients at local hospitals, teaching English, mentoring street children, and helping to build schools and houses in disadvantaged communities. Opportunities range from 2 weeks to 6 months.
ELI-Experiential Learning International
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NGO Internships in Cape Town, South Africa
www.eliabroad.org/index.php/africa/south-africa
There are literally thousands of NGOs in and around Cape Town that are working to provide services. Positions are available with literacy campaigns, HIV/AIDS clinics, orphanages, public health education programs, schools for street children, a charitable organization working with cancer prevention, youth programs, HIV/AIDS, an orphanage for refugee children, a children's home, a home for seniors,...
Volunteer in South Africa! Over 15,500 Volunteers!
www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/southafrica/youth
Participate in the social and academic development of young people in Venda, South Africa with a focus on teaching and childcare. Volunteers will contribute their valuable time as teaching assistants and tutors in primary and secondary schools, and childcare workers in day care centres in Venda, South Africa. They will have the opportunity to be directly involved in the motivation and developme...
www.crossculturalsolutions.org
As an international volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions, you're making a positive contribution, by sharing in the goals of a South African community that warmly welcomes you. You'll gain new perspectives and insight into the culture and yourself. It's an exciting and personally inspiring experience, and you'll develop memories that will stay with you forever.
Volunteer in South Africa with Projects Abroad
Projects Abroad is based in the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, located in the heart of the Western Cape. From it's beginnings as the first European outpost at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town has grown into the second largest city in South Africa.
International Student Volunteers
South Africa has a turbulent history, resulting in a great divide between rich and poor. Many South Africans live in poverty and struggle to meet every day needs. Carefully structured volunteer programs provide a means to make a real difference through community development.
Volunteer in South Africa with WAVA!
Volunteer in a culturally rich South African local township pre-school; Volunteer in a Big Five Conservation Project and make a real and lasting contribution to the local wildlife. Volunteering with children in Africa. Bringing warmth and tender care to little ones.
This is your opportunity to get involved in game reserve management working alongside top conservationists and wildlife, including Africa's Big Five species. You'll find your experience stimulating, challenging and an exceptional learning experience, that most people only dream of. The Volunteer Project is designed to offer volunteers the opportunity to be involved in all conservation related...
Volunteer in South Africa with GVI and join fully supported volunteer programs in this amazing and diverse country. Our volunteer placements ensure your trip is meaningful, safe and full of unique experiences unavailable to the normal traveler.
Frontier
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Volunteering Worldwide with Frontier
Explore remote and spectacular landscapes, work with deprived and deserving communities, or campaign for wildlife care and conservation on a travel adventure you’ll never forget.
Volunteer and Travel in South Africa with Kaya
Kaya aims to bring together the quality and impact of grass roots projects with the breadth of choice, quality of structure and organization and level of service that enables everyone the opportunity to contribute to positive action and enjoy traveling the world more responsibly.
Wildlife Conservation Volunteer in South Africa!
Memorable. That is a fitting word to describe South Africa. With its breathtaking natural beauty and the wildlife that will leave you awestruck, South Africa is rich in culture, adventure, and its diversity.
Community Service Africa by 360° Student Travel
www.360studenttravel.com/communityserviceafrica/index.shtml
Our community Service programs are a great way to give back, help those less fortunate and make a difference in the lives of others. Be immersed in the local culture and experience glacier hiking in Alaska, spotting the "Big 5" in Africa, surfing in Hawaii, exploring Machu Picchu in Peru and relaxing in mud baths and hot springs in Costa Rica.
Realize your Dreams of a Trip to South Africa
Enhance your resume and gain international work experience with Magister Student Placement Organisation. You will also learn a new language and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle in Cape Town.
Volunteer in South Africa through A.C.E.
African Conservation Experience organizes work placements for volunteers of all ages on wildlife conservation projects in Southern Africa. We pride ourselves on the quality, integrity and friendliness of the service that we provide. We ensure that volunteers understand fully what is expected of them and place particular concern on volunteers' security and safety.
Horse Riding Adventures - Working Horse Riding Holidays & Safaris in South Africa
www.wildcoasthorsesafari.co.za
Choose a horse riding adventure as part of your Gap Year travel plans. Have you always had a dream of riding horses day after day and being part of a fun fill team of horse enthusiasts? Eat, sleep and breath horses at Sunray Farm and experience the day to day life of riding and working with horses. * 2 weeks Riding Holiday at Sunray Farm * 4 to 6 Weeks Working Riding Holiday * 12 week...
United Planet
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United Planet's holistic approach integrates international, local, and online initiatives to facilitate ongoing engagement. All United Planet programs create points of access for people of all cultures, nationalities, ages, and socio-economic classes to participate worldwide. Each program feeds into and builds momentum for the other.
Cultural Embrace by API
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Volunteer in South Africa Accommodation Included
We share the same passions you have about traveling abroad. We treat you the way that we want to be treated, and provide the service that we hope to get on the road. We will assist you with ALL of your travel needs.
GapGuru
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GapGuru - Work, Volunteer, Travel Overseas
GapGuru is a specialist gap year programme that offers structured opportunities to volunteer abroad or Intern abroad to make the most of the time people take out of their studies for a gap year abroad.
A Broader View Volunteers Corp
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Volunteer Abroad in South Africa with A Broader View
If you're looking for a unique travel experience abroad, look no further! A Broader View's programs are the perfect way to meet new people, immerse yourself in new cultures and make a difference abroad.
Child Family Health International
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Child Family Health International
CFHI South Africa programs offer participants the opportunity to learn more about health issues that transcend national borders, class, ethnicity, and cultural divisions. By participating in CFHI’s global health education in South Africa, you will gain a unique insight into healthcare systems of developing countries and increase your cultural competency.
Good Hope Studies
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Vounteer and Internship Program in South Africa
www.ghs.co.za/en/south-africa/volunteer-work/
Are you ready for the experience of a lifetime? Want to work with disadvantage children in Africa? Make a difference in a community? Or help protect Africa's amazing wildlife? Good Hope Studies, a language school in Cape Town is offering its volunteer program to North American students. You can select from over a dozen community service programs in and around Cape Town - from 2 weeks to 3 months. ...
Earthwatch Institute
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Volunteer in South Africa and get to know the charming meerkats, help improve the odds for brown hyaenas and other wildlife in spectacular Pilanesberg National Park, and protect biodiversity at a World Heritage Site hosting the second largest colony of African penguins on the planet.
InterExchange
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Worldwide Volunteer Placements with InterExchange Working Abroad
www.interexchange.org/working-abroad/international-volunteer-opportunities
All Working Abroad International Volunteer programs include placements, housing and meals. Volunteer Abroad programs are an exciting way to learn about a new culture, meet new people, and make a positive impact on a community in need. Our partner organizations specialize in creating partnerships between international volunteers and local organizations. This allows for a structured and safe v...
Personal Overseas Development (PoD)
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Volunteer in South Africa with Personal Overseas Development (PoD)
Despite the diversity of culture and numerous languages, the nation is fanatical about sport, most notably rugby, cricket, golf, swimming, athletics, and, of course, football. Football is sometimes called soccer and colloquially referred to as 'diski'.
Sporting Opportunities
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Volunteer Sports Coaching Projects in Africa
www.sportingopportunities.com/goabroad
Coach sports to disadavantaged kids in this amazing continent and help us improve health, education and build life skills through the power of sport. Projects range from 4 to 12 weeks so are ideal for a summer project or gap year experience. The African Continent. From the baking desserts in the north to the cool beaches in the south, Africa is a continent of spectacular landscapes, awesome...
AIDE Abroad
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Our volunteer program in South Africa provides participants the chance to contribute their skills and knowledge in significant ways. Participants are given the chance to make a difference in the world they live in by supporting an environmental cause, improving impoverished communities, or educating children and youth. We offer a variety of projects throughout the Cape Town area, where participant...
AVIVA - Volunteering in South Africa
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AVIVA - Volunteering in South Africa
AVIVA offers international volunteers the chance to make a vital contribution to underprivileged children and endangered wildlife while having a hands-on, life changing experience in South Africa.
Great White Shark Volunteer Programme - Marine Dynamics
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Great White Shark Volunteer programme-Marine Dynamics Shark Tours
Shark populations worldwide are increasingly threatened, and in scientific circles there is still research needed to fully understand and interpret shark behaviour. Shark education features as a prominent part of the programme. It is only by getting to know these complex creatures more intimately, that we will understand the impact of their current continuing decline. Therefore the programme...
All Out Africa
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South Africa is emerging as a rainbow nation from it's apartheid past. The country boasts some of the world's most exciting attractions ranging from natural scenery, beaches and wildlife to bustling cities rich in cultural diversity.
Malaika Orphanage Center
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Volunteer with Orphans & Vulnerable Children at Malaika
Malaika (Angel) Orphanage Center was established in 2005. The Founders with the community members wanted to do something for underprivileged children in the area after seeing the hardship first-hand when caring for an abandoned child Amina Mathoho. Amina was severely disabled and left to fend for herself. Osman Ssengendo and his wife took her in and have been caring for her in their home ever si...
Dyer Island Conservation Trust
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Marine Volunteer and Internship Programs in South Africa
Dyer Island Conservation Trust, with our eco-tourism partners Marine Dynamics Tours and Dyer Island Cruises, is offering unique year-round opportunities to work with Great White Sharks, Southern Right Whales (from July-December) and the other marine species in the seas at the southern tip of Africa. These programs include significant time spent on our three boats: - Shark Fever (a cage divin...
Eko Tracks
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Waterberg Biosphere Reserve in South Africa
This exciting internship project is part of a larger, ongoing monitoring and research project focusing on habitat and wildlife fieldwork, as well as conservation management. Under the guidance of highly experienced field guides and a scientific coordinator, ensuring a high standard of the project and quality of data collected, the work conducted by interns is being used by reserve management to ma...
Ecoteer
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No Cost Volunteering with Ecoteer
Joining our volunteer job or volunteer work opportunity abroad will allow you to become one of the community at your project. Volunteers have the opportunity to learn new languages and embrace different cultures perhaps changing their way of thinking.
ESL - Language Studies Abroad
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ESL - Volunteering Programmes Abroad
The volunteering program is available after a minimum 4-week Spanish course and an intermediate level in Spanish is required. The volunteering program lasts at least 2 weeks and offers the possibility to work in a national park, a social institution or a farm.
Travellers Worldwide
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Volunteer in South Africa with Travellers Worldwide
Join us for an exciting, never-to-be-forgotten adventure with the many diverse cultures in South Africa. Earn new skills, more confidence, a greater understanding of a different culture, invaluable personal and professional development.
i-to-i TEFL Courses & TEFL Jobs Abroad
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Volunteer Abroad with an i-to-i TEFL Certificate
We provide industry leading TEFL qualifications which are globally recognized. We offer a number of TEFL courses to suit your needs, a classroom TEFL course will qualify you with all the essential skills you need to teach a class overseas!
Travel For Teens
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Travel for Teens believes that teen travel should be both fun and enriching. Our programs feature choice in what you do, see, and experience, a dynamic that sets us apart from superficial tours that herd large groups from one site to another. Travel for Teens has grown exponentially over the years, from one trip to Paris in 2003 to 35 programs covering 24 countries on 4 continents today. In Eu...
Edge of Africa
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Various Volunteering Programs in South Africa
Make a difference to the people and wildlife of our beautiful country and volunteer in South Africa. Our projects are established and coordinated by EDGE of AFRICA and related professionals, making sure that the work is continued year round. We need assistance with all our projects in the form of dedicated, hard working and enthusiastic volunteers.
International Volunteers
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NGO Internships-Volunteer programs in Cape Town! - South Africa
www.internationalvolunteers.org
Volunteer abroad in South Africa! There are literally thousands of NGOs in and around Cape Town that are working to provide services. Positions are available with literacy campaigns, HIV/AIDS clinics, orphanages, public health education programs, schools for street children, a charitable organization working with cancer prevention, youth programs, HIV/AIDS, an orphanage for refugee children, a chi...
WorldTeach
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Summer Volunteer Teacher in South Africa
www.worldteach.org/site/c.buLRIbNOIbJ2G/b.6150641/k.FB94/South_Africa_Summer.htm
Volunteers in the WorldTeach South Africa summer program will have the opportunity to work in a variety of capacities: as teaching assistants in elementary and secondary schools as well as a community college and as planners and teachers in a local NGO's business education program and computer education program. All sites will be in and around Cape Town. For the last five weeks, volunteers will...
Arcadia University: The College of Global Studies
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Arcadia University: Community Development in Cape Town, South Africa
www.arcadia.edu/abroad/default.aspx
Are you inspired to teach, participate in community development, or just give back? Ever thought of doing it abroad? If so, then consider spending six weeks in Cape Town this summer, tutoring school children in reading, mathematics, science, or information technology. Arcadia is offering this once in a lifetime opportunity to students for this summer! Arcadia University has teamed up with SHAWC...
Voluntour South Africa
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For a unique and very real life experience, join us on a journey that will open you to new realities and take you inward to experience the tangible soul and the warmth of Africa. A voluntour is an opportunity to combine meaningful skills exchange with adventure and sight seeing on a grass roots level.
Real Gap Experience
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Play a part in protecting South Africa’s beautiful Wild Coast. Nurse injured and orphaned monkeys, plus baboons, snakes, crocodiles and any other animals needing attention. Pass on your computer and sports skills to deprived children in rural South Africa. You’ll stay just two minutes from the beach, surrounded by some of Africa’s most spectacular scenery.
AmeriSpan Study Abroad
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AmeriSpan - Volunteer in South Africa
www.amerispan.com/landing/volunteer-programs-worldwide.asp
South Africa is a country of extremes: It is a country of arid semideserts and subtropical coastlines; of fertile vineyards and barren snow-capped peaks; of isolated Zulu villages and world-class cosmopolitan cities. This beautiful stage is set for the daily drama of "one of the world's greatest experiments in racial harmony," a post-Apartheid world. It is likely to be not only eye opening and fas...
Daktari Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
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Educating Children About Environment and African Wild Animals
Would you like to get hands-on experience with injured and orphaned wild animals whilst educating local underprivileged children, perhaps giving both of them a brighter future? At Daktari Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage, this is exactly what you can do! Every Monday Daktari welcomes a new group of 8 local under-privileged children for a week. As a volunteer your main tasks will be teaching the...
Global Leadership Adventures
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Global Leadership Adventures offers two high school summer trips in South Africa, one of the most dynamic places on the African continent. The breathtaking natural beauty, recent abolition of apartheid and the subsequent attempts at reconciliation make this country an exciting classroom for teen trips.
Volunteers for International Partnership
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Volunteers for International Partnership
Volunteers for International Partnership. The mix of language immersion, homestays, and host project placements with local co-workers and international volunteers, makes VIP distinct among international service programs. Contribute your time, talent and skills while learning about the people and culture of South Africa!
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Why Volunteer Abroad in South Africa
So it looks like volunteering abroad in South Africa has caught your eye. This is the type of opportunity that you don’t want to turn away from, because South Africa is a magical country where your work as a volunteer will help to benefit the locals for many years to come. And don’t forget to spend a little time exploring the country in between your service hours. There is more than... Read More
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