Volunteer without cost in Namibia - Work at our Ecolodge and Help Teach the Local Children

  Namibia

Windhoek

Durations of Program: 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-2 years and over 2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: all year

Description: I run this guest farm in an environmental friendly way and that is why I also received, as the only guest farm in Namibia, the newly introduced Eco Award. We make use of only local staff and train some of them even without school education as much as possible. I like to make sure that all the kids will not only go to school but also finish the school. Our Kindergarten for employees' children is up and running and has been since June 2006. Apart from that I moved away from cattle farming towards practically only game. Here we have 4 Cites listed species which are to be specially protected: Cheetah, leopard, rhino and Hartmann Mountain Zebra. That is what we do.

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Highlights:
Role of Volunteer

1. Running the kinder garden and teaching our local staff how to run a kinder garden. As a sideline , in addition, teaching any other skill they are good at, an advantage would be on the computer side: Word, Excel, email, Powerpoint, Publisher, but also any other skill, anything: communication, how to answer a telephone professionally etc.anything in a business or tourist environment or even beyond, music, singing.

2. Teach local guides and other employees practical English in relation to their tourist or wildlife activity.

3. On the wildlife side: research on leopards or other animals in our area.

4. Rhino tracking. We like to do some rhino tracking with tourists by foot, car or on horseback. For that we need to find out more about their home range. The volunteer should be good on foot or horseback and must be prepared to also sleep a few days in the field in a tent and cater for himself/herself. He/she will not be alone. GPS knowledge would be an advantage.

5. Ecotourism. Fine tuning, monitoring and extending our ecotourism project especially in relation to waste management, water management and energy management and non indigenous plants.

6. In general I am also always looking for volunteers who like to work with horses. This could be ideally combined with rhino tracking. (western style, but any knowledge and experience is good).

7. Continue a study about bush encroachment. We have started a study, and measured the density of bushes in different areas . Last year we had a big field fire and it would be interesting to measure the effect on the density of bushes.

8. Conduct personal research for your course back home Subjects include:- Conservation of wildlife, Ecotourism in Namibia, Sustainable development, Effects of tourists on local habitats (foot impacts, horse riding, tyre impacts etc)

Qualifications: All volunteers must be over 24 years of age.

Cost in US$: Free

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Namibia Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Ecoteer's Mission Statement: To help locally run grass root organisations to achieve their aims via attracting paying volunteers and tourists. Plus we personally help develop and improve the projects we work with to help them to achieve their objectives.

Year Founded: 2005