Volunteer with Children in South Africa

This project involves providing a safe, fun and creative environment for local South African children, providing them with an educational foundation and assisting them to develop to their full potential.

Durations: 1 - 12 weeks
Fieldwork hours35 hrs of fieldwork per week
Participant ratio1:6 staff to participant ratio
GVI experiencesIncludes GVI Experiences
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Travel flexibility, because life happens! Modify your booking, even up to 48 hours before departure. T&Cs apply.

Program information

Collaborate with us and our community partners in providing children with educational training through games, arts and crafts, and help create a fun, safe and creative learning environment. On top of this, you will experience the sights and sounds of one of the most beautiful regions in the world in your free time.

Included in your program, at no extra cost.

Make the most of our unique programs with these exclusively curated local adventure and wellness experiences.

Offered once a month, expand your adventure with GVI Experiences. These are just some of the activities offered on your program!
Experience a shisa nyama
Visit Africa's largest art collection
Take a sunrise beach yoga class
Snorkel in a kelp forest
Paddle with endangered African penguins
Try a sunrise cold-water immersion
Visit UNESCO World Heritage Site Robben Island
Hike up Table Mountain
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