Volunteer Programs in Gobabis, Namibia

I volunteered for 2 weeks I found the whole experience to be fantastic and can't thank them enough for making my time in Namibia both useful and rewarding. Chris and the team made us feel very welcome and safe throughout the whole two weeks, even when we had an elephant banging his trunk on the front of the pick-up during patrol week! One of my most memorable experiences was during patrol week whilst sleeping under the stars and watching the space station flying overhead and seeing shooting stars. It was breathtaking. Our time out on build week was amazing and it was so rewarding after 4 days of hard work when the farmer came out and was genuinely grateful for all our hard work. This alone made the trip and hard work worthwhile. I would thoroughly recommend volunteering and wish them lots of luck in the future.

This project is not for work shy people, the build week is hard graft in hot conditions but it is well worth it. The patrol week is a fantastic insight as to how elephants live, one day you won't see any, but the next it seems like they are tracking you. All in all this is a very enjoyable and worthwhile project to be on.