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Meet The Volunteers- Amy Simon

Where are you from? I am from The Netherlands, I live near Amsterdam What project did you sign up for? Kruger to coast (4 weeks) What do you do for a living? I am currently on a gap year and I want to study Tourism ???? What does volunteering mean to you? That is such […]

Meet The Volunteers- Liesbeth de Vink

Where are you from? Hi, I’m Liesbeth (in Africa better known as Lizzy) and I’m from the Netherlands. What project did you sign up for? I signed up for the childcare project to help at the NCPs (Neighborhood Care Points) in Eswatini. Because of school holidays, while I was there, I also joined both the […]

Meet The Volunteers- Lisa Roesch

Where are you from? Germany What project did you sign up for? Childcare, Wavecrest Educare and Ikhaya le Themba What do you do for a living? Working in a little shop (sells tea/coffee), I want to study when I’m back home What does volunteering mean to you? It means to help people in their work […]

Trip for a trip with the NCP children

The utmost purpose of an adventure is to experience and learn new things with the hope of enhancing your knowledge. Trip For A Trip has been more than an adventure for these unprivileged children from Neighborhood Care Points (NCPs) informal preschools which are supported by All Out Africa. These children have learned a lot from […]

Meet The Volunteers- Ella Van Ginkel

Where are you from? Hey, my name is Ella. I am 17 years old and I’m from the Netherlands. What project did you sign up for? I signed up for the project Kruger to Coast and I participated for 6 weeks. In Swaziland, I participated in the Childcare program at the NCP’S. What do you […]

Meet The Volunteers- Annabell Katrine Vinther Madsen

  Where are you from? Hello, I’m Annabell and born and raised in Denmark. What project did you sign up for? I sign up for working with children and luckily, I ended up doing sport with the Swazi kids at different NCP’s. What do you do for a living? For a living, I’m head of […]

All About Stingrays

  Stingrays have had a bad reputation; Steve Irwin’s fateful interaction and the menacing barb on their tail does not comply with their docile, relatively quiet existence. It is actually the last resort for a stingray to use its barb, they would much prefer to take flight than fight. Stingrays (in their current form) have […]

My Reflection Of My Day at All Out Africa

My Day at All Out Africa was arguably the most wholesome days I have had in 2019 so far. With the welcoming and warm emails of Tjengisa, I was comfortable with the hospitality that was at All Out Africa Offices. However, I was overwhelmed by the spirit of the staff at All Out they treated me […]

Ecosystem Services in Southern Africa and Volunteer Tourism

“Ecosystem services” is a fancy word for the benefits people get from nature. These benefits are often overlooked because they have always been there and are a part of everyday life. Clean air for example, or clean water, or insects that pollinate our crops. Usually, we take these for granted until they are suddenly no […]