Responsible Holidays in Africa

You’ll receive training in sanctuary management and come away with an in depth understanding of chimpanzees. Based near Kruger National Park, you’ll learn about the history and habitats of chimpanzees, sustainable tourism and more.

Teach children who often make do with carrier bags for balls and inspire them to play football or take up other sports. You’ll combine much needed sports coaching with academic tuition.

Volunteer in a desperately underprivileged township and set children up for a better future. Give them some individual help with English, maths and basic skills – you’ll be amazed at the difference you can make!

Get close to the fastest mammal in the world! Monitor cheetahs and leopards and help restore the plains back to their natural state. You’ll play a vital role in preserving African wildlife for the future.

Get yourself on course to manage a game farm or nature reserve. Surrounded by the Big Five and other African wildlife, you’ll learn about educational bush walks, how to identify animals, game tracking, navigation and more.
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Get stuck into the demanding but highly rewarding work of caring for sick animals, building enclosures, darting and relocating animals, and helping release them into natural surroundings.

Go back to basics in the Namib Desert as you take part in projects that help elephants and landowners to live together in harmony. You’ll go on a unique elephant patrol and get involved in building projects.

Take part in projects aimed at helping children and adults in rural Mozambique. They could be fun days, English lessons, HIV/AIDS workshops, football tournaments, craft workshops, cooking lessons or house rebuilding for disabled villagers.

Nurse injured and orphaned monkeys, plus baboons, snakes, crocodiles and any other animals needing attention. Longer-staying volunteers have the chance to work on sites that release monkeys back into the wild.
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Use your love of football to inspire and educate children from disadvantaged backgrounds. You’ll work on a street project or a talent academy, organising training sessions and tournaments, refereeing, advising on tactics and teaching new exercises.

Help give young people a decent start in life. Teach English and other subjects to children who have very little, but are always polite and keen to learn. Run extra activities and you’ll be even more popular!

Pass on practical or academic skills to vulnerable children, and improve their chances of finding work. Help with vocational workshops, school lessons, extra curricular activities, classroom building or raising awareness of HIV - you will make a difference.

Dedicate your energy and skills to helping some of the world’s poorest children. Assist with home visits and needs assessments, compile reports on the children or come up with new ways to raise funds.

A rewarding experience in an awe-inspiring setting. Your time in Ethiopia will involve helping children transform their lives through education. Your role offers diversity ranging from teaching English at an elementary or secondary school to supporting community activities.

Live a horse lover’s dream! Help with the day-to-day care of neglected and abused horses and build up their confidence. You’ll be able to ride the Wild Coast’s spectacular beach and bush trails too.

Offer vital support to young boys in Tanzania – AIDS victims, and those who have been neglected or abused. Teach them the skills and show them the affection they’ll need to lead happier lives as adults.

Dedicate your skills, experience and enthusiasm to a very worthy cause. Teach in under funded schools, set up a sports programme, counsel those affected by HIV or AIDS – your work will be much appreciated.

Choose from a huge range of projects set up to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and adults. You could teach in primary or secondary schools, raise awareness of AIDS, get involved in handicraft projects, or help build new facilities.

Simple things are appreciated at the Blantyre orphanage. Play games with the children, many of whom are AIDS victims, and see them smile. It’s a challenging but unbelievably rewarding project, which also gives you the chance to explore Malawi.

Help provide AIDS victims with food, shelter, emotional support, education and increased awareness of the disease. Children who have lost their parents to AIDS are given the chance of a better future through this programme.

Get up close and personal with Africa’s wildlife, from Black Mambas to Baboon Spiders. As a reptile centre volunteer, you’ll be involved in research, feeding, building enclosures, demonstrating and much more.
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Immerse yourself in a very different, very welcoming but very poor community and help with academic lessons and sports coaching. Perfect for people wanting to put their interest in a range of sports towards a worthwhile use.

Huge amounts of emotional and practical support are needed in Kenya. You can get involved in two of these projects – bringing new ideas to an orphanage and taking relief supplies to poverty-stricken families.

Study the fascinating workings of the savannah and help protect its fragile ecosystem. Work with elephants, rhinos, lions and smaller species in different areas, and get hands-on lessons in conservation.

Help relieve the crippling effect of AIDS on the Kenyan district of Busia. Projects include supporting the older orphans who are left to look after their siblings, improving sanitation and running vocational schemes.

Get hands-on with orphaned and injured animals. The centre cares for big cats, baboons, crocodiles and many others, and is also working to tackle the problem of wild animals attacking farmers’ livestock.

Help the children of Hout Bay in Cape Town, whose families have been deeply affected by these problems, by providing them with the much-needed attention they deserve and teaching them invaluable life skills.

Riding and caring for horses and learning about African wildlife are at the heart of this unique experience. At night, you’ll shower in the open air and sleep in a bush lodge.
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Whether you work in an orphanage, women’s centre, school or clinic, you’ll be giving something back to an underdeveloped but extremely friendly community. Living with a local family will give you extraordinary insight into Ghanaian life.
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Help out overworked teachers and spend time introducing children to games and sports. Based in an idyllic but desperately poor country, you’ll make a real difference to young people’s lives.

Capture the animals of Greater Kruger National Park in new ways. You’ll be taught new techniques, instructed on bush safety then taken on game drives. Come home with the holiday photos of your dreams!

Choose from teaching, health care, orphanage, community development or AIDS prevention projects, in rural and urban areas. You’ll work and live with local people, giving you a unique insight into their lives, and take a tour of Ghana.
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Help relieve the pressure on teachers who have up to 200 children to look after! Any assistance with core and creative subjects, and sport, will be much appreciated by everyone in the community.

Put your medical experience to use by working at hospitals in one of Africa’s most beautiful but deprived countries. Non-medics can make an equally worthwhile contribution in orphanages, teaching and making the children smile again.

Live on the banks of Lake Malawi while you work to stop the dramatic decline in hippo numbers. You’ll count and map hippos, educate school children and help protect crops – and have time for exhilarating excursions.

Enrol on one of many challenging but rewarding projects in Senegal - teaching English, looking after orphans, caring for the disabled, increasing awareness of HIV and AIDS, building schools or teaching vocational subjects.

Help soothe the effects of abuse, poverty and neglect. Lend a hand with schoolwork or computer skills or just arrange games and activities that will let them enjoy being children again.

Help children develop a love of reading with one-on-one sessions. Read with them, and work in the library, and also get involved in teaching, running garden projects and more besides.

Help to take the fight against poverty and AIDS to the very heart of the Wild Coast community in South Africa; make a huge difference to the long-term prospects of the village and its people.

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.
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Put your interest in rugby to good use and develop talent in a country becoming more and more interested in the sport. Coaching is needed at all levels – you could teach beginners or the international team.

Do the unthinkable - walk with lions! Collect data, carry out research and watch as the lion cubs learn to hunt. You’ll also educate local children, and pay a memorable visit to elephant orphans.

Netball is growing quickly in Ghana and you’ll work with the children to develop their skills. They face a lack of resources and coaches but some of them have massive potential – you can help release it!

Gain invaluable experience through coaching cricket to children in schools, clubs and townships, under the guidance of the highest level instructors - plus get paid for the privilege! Have the rare opportunity to play local league cricket for a South African side, and practice two evenings a week with your new team mates.

Get a feel for Zulu culture and help counteract the effect of AIDS. Play games with orphans, raise awareness of HIV and AIDS and destroy the myths surrounding them, visit sick people at home and help build classrooms.

Volunteers with medical qualifications assist in hospitals while those that don’t are just as valuable in the orphanages. Plus, you’ll be involved in tough but very rewarding work to improve life in Nairobi slums.

Let sport work its magic on enthusiastic but deprived children in Swaziland. Organise sports days and run training sessions in football, tennis, netball and volleyball – or all four. Don’t be surprised if the children mob you!

Give vulnerable children what they crave – love and affection. By organising games, teaching them basic English and maths, and helping build profiles of deprived children, you’ll play a vital role in improving their quality of life.

Make a difference to a country crippled by AIDS and unemployment. Help teachers with English classes or give your own lessons, set up new sports clubs, put on plays or get involved in building new facilities for the schools.

Handle rhino, train elephants and make a real difference to the future of endangered species in Zimbabwe. Living close to the animals will give you a unique insight into their lives and make for fantastic photos opportunities.

Get a one-off insight into life on Zimbabwe’s top nature reserve, home to buffalo, elephant, lions and more. You might be involved in darting animals, checking for snares, studying elephants or checking for poacher activity.

Help doctors with sick children in the mornings and get involved in building and painting schools, AIDS support and an education centre in the afternoons. You’ll make a difference and have time to explore Cape Town’s sights.

Help provide vital teaching assistance at two schools within underprivileged communities of Fish Hoek, on the outskirts of Cape Town. Assist in community work and development initiatives and gain an insight into the lives of underprivileged individuals in Cape Town.

Become a hero to young footballers. Coach youngsters from orphanages and schools and develop their talent, or just make them smile again. You can also help build and paint schools or get involved with an elephant project.

Channel the enthusiasm of poor but extremely eager children into learning. Teach English, run after-school activities, organise sports lessons and give them a chance to make a success of their lives.

Give some much-needed assistance to medical staff. Help out at a hospital or clinic in the mornings, then dedicate your skills to playing with children, renovating schools or the Elephant Pepper Project in the afternoons.

Keep young people off the streets with sports sessions. Coach football, netball, rounders or whatever you fancy – even the simplest drills will fire their enthusiasm! Get involved in successful conservation and construction projects, too.

Put your love of photography to good use on a World Heritage Site. Photograph elephants, rhinos and many other creatures for a database, and possibly magazines. You’ll also teach local children about their surroundings.

Learn to build houses the Swazi way! Get hands-on construction, painting and repair experience and provide children with secure shelter and proper facilities. A great project that desperately needs volunteer support.

Swim with great whites…in a cage! Sail through Sharks’ Alley, among seals and penguins, while you record shark activity. Tuition on shark behaviour, underwater filming and lots more will give you an in depth understanding of these magnificent creatures.

Play a part in protecting South Africa’s beautiful Wild Coast. Work at a lion cub centre, sleep under the stars, learn about wildlife management, go on game drives and bushwalks, and more – perfect for outdoor people!

Experience life in Kenya from the inside with the Kenya Gap Experience. It includes community work, a wildlife safari, a snorkelling excursion, visits to Diani, beach parties – and an overwhelming sense of achievement.

Enjoy the best bits of Tanzania, hand-picked by Real Gap staff. Carry out rewarding project work on a community project, trek Mt Kilimanjaro and go on a camping safari in some of the best scenery in Africa!

Take an unforgettable tour of southern African, getting close to game in South Africa, working with orphans in Swaziland and snorkelling with whale sharks in Mozambique. Indian Ocean beaches provide a paradisiacal finale!

Improve your cricket and get paid to coach others. Work on your fitness and skills at the academy, with help from past and present cricket stars, and earn some cash by running sessions for school children.

Experience raw Africa through the plains of Kenya. You’ll cross its breathtaking landscapes by camel, visit nomadic cultures, help refurbish a village school and see a colourful array of wildlife.

Sample some of Africa’s exhilarating highlights. Camp in Kruger National Park with the big five, do a volunteer placement in Swaziland and learn to scuba dive in Mozambique. An adventure with a bit of everything!

Draw and paint South Africa’s wildlife and tap into your creative side. Visit Big Five reserves, go on bush walks, learn to see the animals differently and take a look at art history.

Learn and build on your medical skills at a large practice, before using them at a rural Bushman clinic. There’s also the chance to nurse animals at a wildlife sanctuary – your patients could be baby baboons or tamed cheetahs.

Get up close and personal with whale sharks – they eat plankton, not humans! Learn to dive in tropical waters and collect data on whale sharks, coral reefs and turtles.

Walk with lions and watch cubs hunt their first prey. This is a rare opportunity to get close to wild animals while contributing to valuable breeding and release work. Explore the grasslands on horseback or elephant-back, too.

Walk with lions and carry out hands-on work with rhino and elephants in Zimbabwe. Canoe the Zambezi River, stay in national parks and take the chance to observe numerous native species.

Soak up Africa’s fascinating culture as you volunteer in Arusha and Dar es Salaam, go on a four-day safari, live alongside the Maasai near Kilimanjaro, learn about Africa’s history and pick up a few phrases of Swahili.

Combine paid work, volunteering and travelling into one fantastic gap year. Everything from flights to job offers is included – that means less hassle, and more chances to get the best out of Africa, Australia and Thailand!

Spend up to 12 months on an amazing Gap Year in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the USA.

Need a career change? Want a qualification? Always dreamt of working alongside the wildlife of Africa? Then this is field guide course in South Africa is the ideal programme for you!