Volunteer Work Africa

Welcome to the African Volunteer Network, your #1 resource for free and paid volunteer work in Africa. Searching online for volunteering opportunities on the continent can be confusing as you will find many adverts offering all sorts of volunteer programmes and jobs from teaching to working with animals. Be careful though, as many of these adverts are for big, for profit, businesses who take a large cut of your volunteer fee to pay for their advertising, plush offices and staff in UK cities. The African Volunteer Network is run and managed by volunteers who have worked and continue to work in Africa and is a directory of volunteer and charity work programs run and managed locally in Africa itself.

No-one pays to be listed here and any money you pay for your volunteer work goes 100% to the project itself and the community within which it operates. But the African Volunteer Network isn't just a directory of free and paid voluntary work in Africa, it's an online community where you can share experiences, tell others what worked and what didn't, advice and tips, as well as a social media forum for discussing ssues, finding jobs in Africa and even placing adverts for projects and products of interest to the volunteer work community. So, if you're an African project offering safe volunteer and/or charity programmes, claim your free listing at the Network here. Volunteers looking for work opportunities can browse our listings by country below or follow our Facebook page. Make the African Volunteer Network your first choice for African volunteering because you're amongst friends who work out there!

You really can make a difference to people's lives when you sponsor a child or volunteer, including your own. Below are listed some of our popular content, while the bottom of each page showcases the main categories of the site for your easy navigation.

Lives of African Children

Find out more about the lives and challenges the children of Africa face in a series of articles and videos where you mightbe undertaking your volunteer work.

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African Country Profiles

Explore each of the countries of Africa where you might volunteer in our detailed African country profile pages with information, facts and videos.

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African Street Children

About street children in Africa who have often left home to escape poverty and violence in facts, figures and videos complete with details of volunteer work and programs working with street children in each country.

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Volunteer with Africa Animals

All (ish) the information you need to know about the animals of Africa you could volunteer with including live webcams of the animals in their natural habitats.

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The Lighthouse Project

A compelling novel written by workers at the African Volunteer Network about the joys and pitfalls about volunteering in Uganda. Buy in paperback or eBook or read for free on Kindle Unlimited. "A real insight into the life and times of those living in rural Africa. A must read for anyone travelling there to better undertstand its customs and culture. In fact, it should be required reading!"

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Volunteer Work Africa

Free and Paid Volunteer Work Africa