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Volunteer Work in Tanzania

Khaya is proud to announce their new projects in Tanzania from August 2011.

We have partnered with several projects in Arusha and Zanzibar where you will have the opportunity to volunteer in an orphanage, work with streetchildren, teach at a school of support a sea turtle conservation project.

Arusha is situated close to Mount Kilimanjaro and the magical plains of the Serengeti and the Ngorogoro Crater. So combien your volunteerin period or gap year experience with a safari or climbing the highest peak of Africa. You will live and work with the local community and experience Tanzanian life.

Zanzibar is the tropical island in the Indian Ocean where white beaches, blue seas and year through high temperatures will make your volunteer work a dream come true!

Come and experience East Africa with Khaya and support the children and community of this warm and beautifull country.

More news about these projects soon.

Wildlife Research and Conservation Gap Year Project

The newest Khaya project is online! After a pilot we can now proudly offer this unique experience for volunteers!

This project is located in the Great Karoo, a landscape of immense plains and dramatic mountains. Prior to European settlement 200 years ago, great migrations of springbuck, black wildebeest and eland passed through this area. Fenced farming relegated these migrations to the story books, and denuded the land. This reserve is now pulling up the fences, rehabilitating the land and reintroducing the game, in an attempt to return this land to its former glory. The volunteer programme offers you the opportunity to contribute to this ambitious and worthy cause and experience the incredible and unique landscape of the Great Karoo. As a volunteer you will be directly involved in our reserve rehabilitation and research, including monitoring our two most charismatic creatures: cheetah and aardvark. Our research is in collaboration with various conservation organizations and universities and we teach volunteers to be competent in all required field techniques, meaning the data collected can be used by management and affiliated organizations. The reserve is also home to a tracking academy run by one of only two Master trackers in South Africa. As a volunteer you will have the opportunity to join the tracker students for a day in the field, seeing how they follow animals and interpret their behavior by the signs they leave behind.

You will leave the Wildlife Conservation and Research Project with a deeper understanding of the bush, as well as useful skills and techniques used in current scientific research, conservation and wildlife management. We also hope you will leave energized by the experience of living so closely with nature.

Nurses needed at Missionvale

As the clinic at Missionvale has taken its final shape they are in big need of qualified nurses or nurses still in school.

The daily home visits into the townships where the caregivers offer basic nursing included dressing wounds, talking to people, education new mothers and checking up on the babies, caring for the elderly and those infected by HIV/Aids.

The eye clinic and TB clinic also could use the extra hands from volunteers and we therefore welcome everybody with a medical background to help this community and its residents.

Khaya Volunteer Work on Facebook

As we all know; Facebook is a fast growing medium to share, learn and find things about friends, lost friends, groups, projects and much more. Khaya Volunteer has its own that can offer you a way to ask questions, find previous volunteers and have an open forum to learn more about th eporjects that interest you, so please have a look and support our Khaya Volunteer Work page!

New Volunteer Work Projects coming soon

New volunteer work projects that will follow soon:

- A Wildlife Conservation and Research Project where volunteers will track cheetahs on foot, research vervet monkey behaviour, monitor aardvark populations and much more in this huge 25.000 hectare wildlife reserve. Gap year students en volunteers will live, work and be part of this unique part of Africa. The project is linked to the Nelson Mandela Bay University and several scientists within their field.

- Door of Hope Orphanage; after the pilot with 3 volunteers we are proud to continue with this project were 38 orphans live together and where extra hands are needed. Play and care for these children, help them with home work, give them much needed individual attention and be part of this large extended african family for some time.

- Lofdal community projects in Capetown; this beautifully situated project on the outskirts of Cape Town has a home for abandonded babies, feeds thousands of people on a daily basis, has a detox clinic for drug and alcohol addicts, offer schooling to hundreds of children, offer the terminally ill a dignified way of leaving this life and does much more for one of the poorest communities in Cape Town. Especially older volunteers are needed as tuitors, mentors and extra hands within the several projects they run.

Khaya Volunteer Work Projects is slowly growing and not by adding hundreds of projects worldwide, but by being personally involved with our projects and to offer them what we promise; help and financial support!