Community voluntary work abroad for groups and individuals
Join our community voluntary work projects abroad and change
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
Community voluntary work initiated and driven development projects
Sri Lanka Village Development
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
*dependent on the activities selected
Community Livelihoods: turtles│mangroves│tourism│ aquaculture
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
Maasai* Community Development
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
Maasai (Ke_Cl_MB)
*external link to read more about the Maasai people
