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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 […]

Cyclone Idai hits parts of Mozambique (Beira)

Cyclone Idai is now recorded as the worst weather-based event to ever occur in the southern hemisphere. On 15th March 2019, Cyclone Idai made landfall in central Mozambique with its epicentre close to the 4th largest city of Beira.  The slow-moving cyclone continued across the country and into Zimbabwe dumping a catastrophic amount of rain […]