VOLUNTEERING ABROAD IN NAMIBIA

The project takes place in the N/a’an ku sê area, near Namibia’s capital Windhoek, where several programmes are active. Namibia, a country in South West Africa, is distinguished by the Namib Desert, which lies along the Atlantic coast. The country is home to a wealth of wildlife, including significant numbers of cheetahs. It is a unique country, characterised by the influence of various cultures during the German colonisation and reborn from the ashes of Apartheid in the 1990s with a new sense of unity in diversity; the Namibian society is home to at least 11 major ethnic groups, who take pride in their traditions and are committed to working together to build a peaceful coexistence.

The arrival airport is Hosea Kutako International Airport, the main international airport in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. The medical project volunteers will need to arrange their arrival before booking their flight, as transfers to the Clinic take place every other Sunday.

The Medical Volunteer project volunteers stay in Omawewozonyanda, a rural village in the Epukiro area, about five hours from the capital, in a bungalow house with medical staff.

Below is an outline of a typical day for a volunteer.

09:00 | Breakfast

10:30 – 13:00 | School activities with children aged 1 to 5 years or support activities for clinic doctors

13.30 | Lunch

15:00 – 17:00 | Activities at school with children aged 5 to 8 years or activities in support of clinic doctors

18:00 – 19:00 | Dinner

Be at least 18 years old and have a good knowledge of English.

The minimum stay is 2 weeks. Volunteers can leave throughout the year and freely decide whether to stay at the project for a longer period. The advice of the YearOut staff is to stay at the project for a period of 4 weeks in order to make the volunteers’ intervention useful for both the community and themselves.

The donation varies depending on the number of weeks of stay and the project chosen.

Your donation includes: food, accommodation, transport costs (pick up-drop off from the airport and on-site transport for project-related activities), 24-hour staff support, financing of materials needed for activities. Transfer to/from the sanctuary is provided on Mondays and Thursdays, if you arrive on other days the transfer will be subject to a surcharge.

For more details about the donation please see the page DONATION.

Namibia is the perfect place for those who do not yet know Africa. The peoples who inhabit it are repositories of ancient and profound wisdom, and here you will find the world’s oldest desert, sand dunes sloping down to the sea, mountains with a German name, endless plains of golden grass, big cats, elephants, rhinos and wild animals in abundance. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to visit the famous red sand dunes at Sossusvlei.