Volunteer Placements in Rwanda: Go Volunteer Africa

Subject: Feedback on Voluntary Work for RSDO in Rwamagana. Dear RSDO and mister Faustin, I want to thank you for the opportunity to be part of this project in Rwanda. It was a meaningful experience, and I truly enjoyed working with the children and young women, especially in encouraging their participation in sports. Seeing their enthusiasm and being able to provide sports equipment to schools was incredibly rewarding. The housing arrangements were good, and I appreciated the balance of staying with mister Faustin while still having my own privacy. It made me feel welcome and comfortable throughout my stay. One aspect that could be improved is the pace of the work. At times, I felt that things moved a bit slowly, and having more structured activities could enhance the impact of the program. However, I also understand that this might be part of the local culture and way of working. Overall, I am grateful for this experience and would love to stay involved in any way I can. Thank you again for all the support! Best regards, Sol van Berg

Go Volunteer Africa team led by Anna did such a great job, communicating with us via email and gave us the encouragement we needed to take this step with our family. Thanks so much. It was great to have Emily at the airport to meet us. The school and Head teacher Moureen - all were excellent. Thank you for being so flexible with us and providing such a fantastic experience for our family. We will remember it for the rest of lives! Gorretti does a good job cooking for us and taking great care of the house. We felt very fortunate to be well taken care of. We look forward to keeping in touch with them and the projects they are helping. We are now in Uganda, working on a construction project and we shall also share our volunteering experience. Our children are involved in tree planting project, very amazing experience so far and they love it, and every day is great.

I volunteered in Rwanda for 2 weeks with Go Volunteer Africa. Paul was our coordinator and he did a fabulous job with everything planning. He was very supportive and always available for help. Before I made my decision to volunteer I managed to talk with some of the past volunteers through a connection. I received varieties of feedbacks some were very positive and some were partially positive. But one thing I learned from all participants is that the projects associated with GVA are positive life changing and the hosts are very nice and honest. They will go out of their way to help you and make your stay smooth. I really enjoyed my hospital experience because I got to rotate through all the different departments in the hospital on different days including surgery, pharmacy, pediatric care, primary care etc. It was great to have this hands on experience. Since I had already traveled to Uganda and Kenya for safari, I spent the weekend volunteering with children. It was a lot of fun playing with the kids. Our host family was great. I shared a room in the same host family with another volunteer. It was also pretty easy to navigate the bus system between the family, the school and the hospital.