Sports Travel in Africa

This is a unique opportunity to reach and experience the heart of real South Africa in a small community near Cape Town and get involved with the children as you help with their sports activities at the school, one thing is for sure, their enthusiasm will be unbelievable!

Learn to surf at one of South Africa's best surfing beaches and then and then use these great new skills to teach some of the amazing local children.

Help Coach and play football with keen young players in a country where the sport borders on religion by assisting with well thought-out training and matches. Encounter Ghana’s other undiscovered marvels including rainforests, golden beaches and some of Africa’s friendliest people!

This worthwhile project gives volunteers the opportunity to work in sports organisations and community clinics in Ghana. You will assist in providing physiotherapy treatment to West African athletes and local patients whilst experiencing a different culture and way of live in this beautiful country.

Embark on a life changing marine odyssey and feast your eyes on rare and beautiful species as you travel from the shores of Mozambique to coast of Costa Rica. Mozambique – Sri Lanka – Peru – Costa Rica

Use your football knowledge to help coach these children in a country where football fever is building as it prepares to host the World Cup in June 2010. You will be running coaching sessions, organize tournaments and share your passion for football with African children.

Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!

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.

Help run training lessons and matches for township children in Port Elizabeth and give them the chance to play the game in a fun and rewarding environment.

Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!

Spend your time in Malawi introducing children to community sports and getting involved with community projects. Based in an idyllic but desperately poor country, you’ll make a real difference to young people’s lives.

Improve your cricket skills at world class facilities in South Africa with help from some of the game's greats including past stars. This is a great opportunity to raise your cricket game to new heights as well as discover a magnificent country.

If you’re looking to play rugby abroad, then there are few places that surpass South Africa as the ultimate rugby destination. With first class facilities this is quite possibly the best place to train and play rugby anywhere in the world.

This intensive hockey programme involves individual skills training, fitness work and plenty of competitive match play, all in one of the world’s strongest hockey nations, South Africa.

Learn to Scuba dive at one of the best locations in the world, South Africa where you can swim with amazing marine life, including dolphins and seals. Whether you’re a beginner and just want to learn the basics or you’re thinking of starting a career in the industry, we have the course available to you!

Coach young, enthusiastic rugby players in the townships surrounding Port Elizabeth and experience the passion of South African rugby. The players you coach could form the next generation of Springboks and you will also have plenty of time to play rugby against local club teams yourself.

Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!

Learn to ride the waves at the surfing Mecca of South Africa (Jeffrey’s Bay) with some of the world’s top instructors. This course is open to complete beginners as well as those wanting to improve there skills and is endorsed by the South African Surf Association.

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!

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!

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.

Take this amazing opportunity to coach netball to young and often gifted players at the townships surrounding Port Elizabeth, also known as “The Friendly City". You will be helping to introducing the basics of the game, run fun training sessions, which will help these children play a sport they love.

Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!

Address your weaknesses, perfect your strengths and lower your overall handicap as you develop your ability at one of South Africa’s leading golf clubs.

Take this great opportunity to coach hockey to young and often gifted players in a great location. You will be introducing the basics of the game, run fun training sessions, build close friendships with your players and possibly even play for a local team!

Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!

Help teach the children in the areas surrounding Port Elizabeth the abiltity to swim. Not only is this a hugely gratifying experience, you will also leave a lasting impression on the children you meet and teach them a skill that could save their lives!

Join the Tanzania Street Children Sports Experience to enhance the lives of many Tanzanian orphans and street children in this incredible project. Your efforts will help to promote essential lessons and life-skills and will also give some orphans and street children the opportunity to train and play sports at a much higher level.