Overseas Volunteer Programs

Ever wanted rather than giving donations, to do something a little more ‘hands-on’ to help make a difference?

Through its local partners Teach A Man To Fish is able to arrange volunteer placements - bringing needed skills to local communities, and offering volunteers a chance to immerse themselves in local culture for a unique life experience.

Volunteer at a Teach A Man To Fish School!

These schools are committed to transforming kids from some of the poorest backgrounds into young entrepreneurs - which means you can get involved with creating school businesses and pick up new skills in areas like organic farming as well as helping with regular educational activities!

> Bolivia, South America - NEW!

> Paraguay, South America

> South Africa, Africa

Teach A Man To Fish Partner Organization - Volunteer Opportunities

Bolivia, South America - NEW!!!

Centro de Educacion Alternativa Agricola, Bolivia - The CEAA Summer Volunteer/Internship Program offers a fantastic opportunity to make a difference and be part of an award winning education and enterprise model in one of the most fascinating and diverse countries in South America.

The CEAA is a new Teach A Man To Fish Self-Sufficient School project and represents an exciting opportunity for volunteers to get involved in the running of a pioneering Self-Sufficient School.

We are currently seeking two summer interns to participate in the summer programme, where you will be playing an integral role in the lives of these young entrepreneurs, by helping them achieve the skills and experience required for them and their communities to break out of the poverty cycle.

Project Areas

• Social Enterprise
• Education
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Sports coaching

Activities

• Business planning and strategising – Using your enterprise skills/knowledge to help maximise the profitability of school businesses.
• Teaching – Mostly English to students (depending on your level of Spanish).
• Agricultural involvement:  Participating in revenue-generating activities for the school such as tending the vegetable garden or milking cows.
• Sports coaching: Helping to build team-working skills among students and promoting a healthy lifestyle through sporting activities.

Duration of project : 12 -16 weeks

Language:  An Intermediate level of Spanish is required and this is a great opportunity to dramatically improve your Spanish skills to advanced level as no staff of the CEAA or residents of the village of Tarairi speak English!

Minimum age for volunteers: 18 years

Information Pack
For more information about this program please download the full information pack or if you have any questions about this program, e-mail: volunteer@teachamantofish.org.uk  

Paraguay, South America

Fundacion Paraguaya is one of the leading NGOs in Paraguay. Their pioneering work cuts across the fields of education and microfinance with programs supporting the development and needs of entrepreneurs from the classroom to the workplace.

Project Areas

* Entrepreneurship Education
* Environment
* Marketing
* Business planning

For more information on the range of available intern positions contact Sarah Hooper at the Fundacion Paraguaya: send mail now!

Eden Campus , South Africa

Situated in the small rural village of Karatara 12 kilometres inland from Sedgefield on the beautiful Garden Route of the Southern Cape lies Eden Campus. We are busily involved in a unique project to create the first green business school in South Africa. The project started in 2005, has spent the intervening time gaining a foothold in the communities that it serves and is now ready to become a force on the South African education scene.

We are desperately in need of volunteers who would like to spend some time in this idyllic surrounding and who would like to have a never to be forgotten experience. You will also have the great satisfaction of helping the impoverished youth of the southern Cape to become employable.

Students of Eden Campus spend two years learning entrepreneurial business skills first through the excellent programme offered by the international Junior Achievement organization and then by applying the skills learned in practical businesses.

Typical businesses include:

Karatara Nature Cycles – This already successful business will be expanded in 2008. KNC hires bicycles to tourists and takes them on guided tours into the indigenous forests of the Karatara area 

Gardens – In 2009 we are developing our gardens to provide herbs, vegetable and indigenous growth. The herb garden will produce herbs for resale, the vegetable garden for feeding the Campus and the indigenous garden as a tourist attraction and nursery.

Worm Farm – In 2009 we intend growing the size of our worm farm and from this we will produce compost for the gardens and become a reseller of worm farms on the Garden Route

The Karatara Shop – last year we were successful with our second hand clothing shop. In 2009 we intend to expand this to include general goods and even produce from our gardens and later the nursery.

Project Areas

* Education
* Agriculture
* Environment
* Running business ventures

* Teaching - English, Maths, IT, the environment and facilitating the Junior Achievement Programme
* Environmental conservation – indigenous gardening, water storage and electricity generating
* Livelihoods – Mentoring students so that they are able to run their own businesses

Getting There & Costs
Getting to Karatara from outside of South Africa involves flying into either Johannesburg or Cape Town and then taking a flight to George. The airport at George is 45 minutes from Eden Campus by car. You can either hire a car at George Airport or we will pick you up but remember this could leave you in a rural community with no way of seeing other gems of the famous Garden Route. Airfares can be found on the Internet. No financial contribution towards project costs is expected however you will be required to cover your own living costs. The average daily cost of a B&B or Self-Catering unit that sleeps two (and we really welcome couples) is R300 and car hire for a small car is about R160 per day.

To download our plans for 2009, click here

For fuller information on any aspect of Eden Campus please contact Sandy Ueckermann at sandy@edencampus.co.za or directly on +27-44-356-2789.

Teach A Man To Fish Partner Organization - Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer at a Teach A Man To Fish Partner Organization

These organizations carry out a wide range of work in sustainable development. We're not directly involved in their work, but we admire what they do. Take a look at the list below for more current opportunities:

> South Africa - NEW!!!  

> Ghana, West Africa

> Tanzania, East Africa

South Africa - NEW!!!

Voluntour South Africa. For a unique and very real life experience, join us on a one month journey that will open you to new realities and take you inward to experience the tangible soul and the warmth of Africa.

Come and volunteer your own skills and time on alternative social, rural and wildlife projects, while travelling 1700km along the incredible and diverse East Coast of South Africa.

Voluntour South Africa offers you a holistic, ethical travel experience that combines meaningful volunteer work with adventure and guided travel.

Our aim is to enable great community and wildlife projects to become self sufficient through opening their doors to overseas travelers, giving them an opportunity to experience and work with people from all over the world.

Volunteers in turn will enjoy a vacation with meaning and purpose while boosting income and resources for the projects.

VSA is managed by proud South Africans living and working closely with the projects, and we look forward to hosting you on your journey of self discovery, service and adventure.

Our guides will travel with you every step of the way and will introduce you to projects where the people want and benefit from your presence. We see this as an important aspect of the tour we offer, because we have all travelled ourselves and understand the cultural diversities that you are exposed to can be challenging.

For more information and to reserve your place visit www.voluntoursouthafrica.com or email info@voluntoursouthafrica.com

Ghana, West Africa

The Gate of Hope Foundation is a small local NGO working in agriculture, education, environment, healthcare and livelihoods programs for women.

For volunteers who are looking to escape from the comforts and routines of their world to assist the poor and the disadvantaged in society Ghana represents a fascinating option.

Ghana is a country of beautiful landscapes, huge smiles and great possibilities. The people are extremely friendly and hospitable and Ghanaians are proud of their culture and love welcoming people from outside to integrate and mix in with their local customs and way of living.

It is a fantastic place to experience Africa's culture and take part in an international volunteer programme.

GAHOF volunteer projects are based on the idea of providing service to disadvantaged people and communities. It is also about exchanging knowledge and cultures, both for the locals and for the volunteers.

In  Twi  language Akwaaba means welcome. In Ewe they say Woezor.

Project Areas

* Education
* Healthcare
* Agriculture
* Environment
* Gender Inequality

* Teaching - English, Maths, Science or Arts
* Agricultural training - outreach work with farmers and communities
* Environmental conservation - from tree-planting to working on alternative energy sources
* Livelihoods - assisting local women's group to expand their businesses and product range
* Public health work - from disease prevention to vaccination work (according to experience)

To download a full description of the program including logistical arrangements, click here

For fuller information on any aspect of this program please contact Newton Agbley at our local partner the Gate of Hope Foundation directly: send mail now.

Tanzania, East Africa

Tanzania EcoVolunteerism is a small local NGO working in education, environment, microfinance & women's empowerment.

Tanzania is an amazing country renowned for its wildlife, spectacular landscapes and endless beaches.

It is also however a country where widespread poverty persists, limiting the opportunities for its people to access basic services and to lead the lives they would choose.

By volunteering on a project in Tanzania you can play a part in helping communities to lay the foundations for a better future - and experience the richness of this country and its people in a way tourists never can.

Project Areas

* Education
* Environment
* Microfinance
* Gender Inequality

* Teaching
* Building classrooms
* Environmental conservation work
* Developing eco-tourism initiatives

To download a full description of the program including logistical arrangements, click here

For fuller information on any aspect of this program please visit the website of our local partner Tanzania ecoVolunteerism or email them directly: send mail now.