Internships in Livingstone, Zambia

Witness the impact of grassroots initiatives firsthand in Zambia, where this NGO Management Internship invites you to contribute to community-driven solutions. Based in a vibrant region of Southern Africa, this program allows you to support local communities while honing your skills in nonprofit operations, program coordination, and impact assessment. This hands-on opportunity offers a unique blend of office-based work and on-the-ground community engagement, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of nonprofit management. Interns collaborate with an established organization dedicated to addressing key areas like education, health, and family empowerment. By participating in tasks such as fundraising, project monitoring, and outreach initiatives, you’ll gain invaluable experience and professional development. This internship also includes regular mentoring sessions, providing tailored guidance to help you achieve your goals while contributing meaningfully to the lives of others.

Provide Zambian residents with vital medical care while immersing yourself in the unique culture. Volunteers are able to work with medical staff of local clinics that need extra hands in order to gain experience in the medical field. Volunteers are not required to have prior medical knowledge in order to help under-resourced medical clinics in and around Livingstone. During the project, participants will spend their mornings doing one of the following: assisting at a medical clinic, participating in home-based care, attending HIV education and health talks, visiting an elderly home, or spreading awareness of HIV/AIDS education in prisons.

Travel to Livingstone for this internship and gain an insight into public health issues from an African context. While immersed in this field for four weeks, you will be exposed to professionals working in local NGOs or clinics, run workshops, and conduct your own research. The Public Health Internship in Zambia helps step up your interpersonal and leadership skills while making a lasting impact on the lives of local community members. Ranked as a lower middle-income country, Zambia has big disparities to quality healthcare. Access depends on location, income, gender, and education. It faces numerous challenges, including increased workload with the HIV epidemic and shortage of trained staff. This internship was designed to assist in the initiatives taken to improve public health locally. Measures include implementing educational programs, promoting healthcare equity, promoting healthy lifestyles, and more. Working knowledge of computers, including some experience with Word and Excel, is essential. Fluent level of English is also needed. You don’t have to be a native speaker but must have a good command of the language. Positivity, flexibility, and passion are a must.

Volunteering in Africa takes you one step further than the average tourist into the true character of this unique continent. To us, volunteering is a two-way thing. It’s not only about the hands-on help and skills that volunteers bring, but also about what this magnificent continent, its warm people, and fantastic wildlife can give volunteers in return. African Impact is a multi-award-winning volunteer travel organization that runs and manages meaningful and responsible volunteer experiences and internship programs throughout Africa. Founded in 2004 in Zimbabwe, African Impact has grown into a leader in African volunteer tourism, having facilitated over 12,000 volunteers and interns in countries across the African continent. Our internship division is of great importance to us. We firmly believe that ethical internships can play a significant role in helping us achieve our mission of providing exceptional experiences that contribute to worthy causes in a meaningful way. With the nurturing of close partnerships across the continent, we have access to over 120 internship placements—all individually managed to match the applicant.