Voluntourism in Southern Africa

• Aviva
• Voluntours
• Siyafunda Volunteer Project
• Moholoholo
• Daktari Wildlife Orphanage
• Klipkop Wildlife Sanctuary
• Enkosini Eco Experience
• Centre for Rehabilitation Of Wildlife
• Elephant Human Relation Aid (EHRA)

Voluntourism - worldwide

• Voluntourism
• Ecoteer
• African Impact
• i-to-i
• Volunteer Abroad
• Global Vision International

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Travelling through Southern Africa means travelling through a developing part of the world. South Africa might be an exception in some areas, but definitely not everywhere.

Supporting community projects, ecotourism or fair trade tourism projects can be a very important contribution to the environment.

But why does this become a topic for backpackers and individual travellers?

Backpacker are normally people, who are travelling on a budget going to places off the main road. This is making backpackers precursors for "normal" kinds of tourism. This is a problem on the one hand, but on the other hand it is giving us the chance of supporting alternative tourism projects.

Most of the tourists in Southern Africa are coming from overseas - Europe, the US, Oz, New Zealand and Asia. Travelling by air is almost the only way to get to Southern Africa, but flying is also the biggest contributor to one of the most serious environmental threads - the rapidly changing climate.