Community voluntary work abroad for groups and individuals

Join our community voluntary work projects abroad and change lives

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

Community volunteering africa

Community voluntary work initiated and driven development projects

Sri Lanka Village Development

volunteer with communities

  • Location: Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura

    Weeks: 2 - 12 - 48

    Code: SL_CI_Vi

    Project Overview:

    join us in Sri Lanka where we have been working with communities since 2015. You could join with a Buddhist village community on a project tailored to your interests and length of stay. You could teach English in schools and to monks and villagers. Learn Sinhala, and Tamil, weaving, woodcarving, fishing, cookery, as well as supporting the villages to develop organic agricultural practices. You could also raise money and build toilets, and put in bio-gas cooking infrastructure

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Community Livelihoods: turtles│mangroves│tourism│ aquaculture

Female volunteer measures turtle on GAFV Project kenya

  • Location: Kenya’s East coast

    Weeks: 4 - 52

    Code: Ke_EC_EC

    Project Overview:

    Driven by the community’s vision to safeguard it’s coastline from rising sea levels and increased storm activity, conserve its natural treasures, develop food resilience, and grow incomes through tourism, this community voluntary work project offers volunteers and gap yearers a wealth of experiences. You could be preserving the nesting sites of turtles, planting mangrove trees, building tourist walkway infrastructure to view birdlife, through to website development, office work and management.

    This work is also close to other projects in Kenya, which you can also join

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Maasai* Community Development

Maasai men talking GAFV Kenya community project

  • Location: Maasai tribal area S Kenya

    Weeks: 2 - 12 - 48

    Code: Ke-CI-MCO

    Project Overview:

    This is a unique community voluntary work opportunity to spend time with one of the world’s best known tribes, not as a tourist observer, but as a volunteer engaging with them in their lives. You achieve this by volunteering with a Maasai community organisation, established in 1997 to address health, illiteracy, human-wildlife conflict, and to grow incomes, and deliver education to 6,000 Maasai tribespeople across their 700km² tribal area.

    Traditional ways of living are under pressure globally, and your volunteering with a Maasai community organisation supports them in adapting to those pressures so that they can continue living off their land in the future as they have for generations. Your role ranges from monitoring livestock movements to avoid habitat degradation and livestock predation, to identifying known medicinal plants for the pharmaceutical industry to analyse for their potential curative benefits, to teaching in schools.

    Teach in schools, learn traditional agriculture and animal husbandry, manage traditional medicinal plants, support habitat and wildlife conservation

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