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 […]
Where are you from? I am from India What project did you sign up for? Build a future (Eswatini) What do you do for a living? I just graduated high school and I’m currently on a gap year before I head to university What does volunteering mean to you? Volunteering to me means taking out […]
By this point I had met a travel agent in Namibia who had told me that All Out Africa, my second project, was a youth thing. Gap year. She booked people from the British Isles into it. ‘The good news,” she said, ‘is that it is very solid.’ Worried, I used the erratic hotel wifi […]
Where are you from? I am from Belgium. What All Out Africa project did you sign up for? The Child Care Project in Swaziland. What do you do for a living? I am currently working but I am planning to go to Canada in September to follow 6 months of courses. What does volunteering mean […]
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them to become what they are capable of becoming” Goethe. The homework club is an initiative that All Out Africa set up help out the less underprivileged primary school learners. It is basically a free volunteer based service, providing academic […]
After diving for the first time in 2012, my whole future pivoted towards marine biology. I was in my first year of an ecology and conservation bachelor’s degree at the time when I completed both the Open Water and Advanced. Upon returning to university I changed my degree to Marine Biology. To say I was […]
As an intern from a local university, at All Out Africa, I have had the opportunity to work together with international volunteers. The exposure of working together from different cultural backgrounds is one of the greatest things to be exposed to. Sharing our stories on our different cultures, educational background and activities we engage in. […]
I embarked on my first volunteer abroad trip when I was 14 and since then, I am a firm believer that it is one of the best ways to travel. Now, 4 volunteer trips 38 countries and several years later, I am fortunate enough to be working for a volunteer abroad organization that allows me to […]
How to communicate your overseas experience to employers. Moving my entire life to South Carolina last August, I knew that there was an unpredictable, unfamiliar and exciting journey ahead. Having returned home to Leeds, England, a year later, I’ve been able to see just how much that exposure to unfamiliarity has made me a stronger […]
A day in the life of World Challenge 2018 – Tofo, Mozambique: Science on land – Beach plastic analysis (and clean up) There are very few places in the world that plastic does not affect negatively. Along the shores of Tofo and Tofino (a nearby beach) students go out and collect plastics off the beach […]