Volunteer work in Cape Town

Volunteer work in Cape Town

Most projects for volunteer work in Cape Town are situated in needy townships near to and in the surroundings of Cape Town. It's not just your helping hand that is desperately needed here: part of your programme fee will go to a volunteer donation fund, which will be used to directly help the volunteer projects.

Before you depart for South Africa to do volunteer work in Cape Town, you can list your volunteer project preferences, with the help of a detailed project list. Of course, your experience, language skills, and the current staff requirements in the projects will be taken into account, in addition to your personal wishes, as you are placed in a volunteer project.

Upon request, and if help is needed, you could possibly do volunteer work in Cape Town in a nature project.

Types of Volunteer work in Cape Town:

Social projects

In the Tenderton Place of Safety project, for example, you can help to care for mistreated, neglected, and abandoned children as a volunteer in Cape Town. You will support the children as they deal with their suffering and conflicting emotions. Other social projects assist in combating the lasting consequences of apartheid politics, helping to push the democratic development of the country forward. Some organisations train community representatives. Projects for children with disabilities and in orphanages are happy to accept volunteers.

Education

Various schools, ranging from kindergarten/pre-school facilities to high schools – in and around Cape Town, depend to a great degree on volunteer help. Here, your volunteer work in Cape Town will include teaching, helping with sport and play activities, and working in the school garden.

Please note that a school placement cannot be guaranteed during school vacations in South Africa.

Health

In the field of health care, volunteers work in hospitals, hospices, and HIV-prevention projects. They care for children and the ill, assist doctors and nurses, and organise workshops in schools.

Nature conservation and cultural protection

In this field of work, you can volunteer in nature reserves. Volunteers can also help in an organisation for environmental protection, removing non-native plants, in order to give the stock of native vegetation room to grow.