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Volunteer with us

and make a difference in your life and theirs

 
 

2019 Volunteer in Ghana and Myanmar

Volunteering in Ghana

Our Projects are based in the rural area around Accra, supporting a well established local NGO.

  • Medical Volunteering (qualifications apply): in 2 clinics and a hospital

  • Teaching English, Maths, Science in a school started and run by the NGO, for local children who are unable to afford an education

  • Refugee Camp, now a relocation camp for refugees granted residency in Ghana. You will working with children, some of whom have surviving relatives, on a family strengthening projects in the camp.

 
 
 
 
 

Volunteering in Myanmar

Our Projects are based in the urban area of Mawlamyine

 

We’re Recruiting

Gap Year, Interns, Internships, and Paid Posts

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a National Development Coordinator in Sri Lanka

Support our Sri Lanka Volunteering, and develop our Sri Lanka NGO.

Could we be a match?

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Join us volunteering from £110 / USD$139 / week

There is no registration fee, and no hidden charges

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Sri Lanka Volunteering
 

Alice volunteered with us in Summer 2017, and is a student at University of Oxford

listen to her Audio Review at   http://www.giveafigvolunteering.com/reviews/

Ricky and Niko volunteered with us in 2108. Read their review.

Government Partnered Education and Development Projects

  • The correct visas for volunteering in Sri Lanka (A Tourist Visa does not allow you to volunteer in Sri Lanka)

  • Volunteer with confidence - we give you 24 hour, 365 days, 360⁰ support in Sri Lanka.

  • UK Staff with you in Sri Lanka

  • No hidden costs, Affordable Volunteering: Priceless Opportunities

  • Take your TESOL Qualification with us, for fun, and for travel.

  • Our programmes are from 2 weeks - 1 year, from aged 16 - to over 60,

  • You'll stay with our staff in our own accommodation, the Fig and Gecko

About Us

Hi! We're Paul and Jane.

We pride ourselves in doing our best for you, so that you can do your best for the communities we work with.

Meet the Team

Your accommodation when you volunteer with us

Our competitive Pricing

 

 

Volunteer Projects

Aged 16- 60? Join us for the adventure of a lifetime and make a real difference in Sri Lanka.

All our volunteering, which you'll love, is community initiated - from teaching English in schools and orphanages, to working with turtles, to building toilets. All in a day's volunteering!

As an education company, we have a unique position of trust in Sri Lanka, and our range of professionally planned and supported projects, can be tailored to suit your outcomes. Discover Our Projects

Sri Lanka

Because of our close working relationships with the Sri Lankan people & government, with Give A Fig Volunteering (& Give A Fig NGO), you'll experience this beautiful safe and incredible tropical island, its people, vibrant culture, festivals, and unique environment from within.

Featured Project:

 Dienst als freiwillige und unterrichtet Deutsch in Sri Lanka

Coach / Teach German in Sri Lankan Government Schools

Volunteer with Confidence:

Volunteer with confidence

Give A Fig are trusted Volunteering partners of :

Sri Lankan government, Education Department:

German Government Volunteering Programme Hosts. 

Join us from 2 -52 weeks, teaching German Language in government schools to pupils aged 14 - 19. Support these pupils who have chosen German as a subject, and their teachers.

Run German language clubs for those younger than 14, and run German language holiday clubs in December, April, and August.

We welcome as volunteers complete beginners to those who are retired teachers.

 

For more information about our other projects, visit our volunteering project page.

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You can make a big difference to a life when you volunteer. These children are supported and cared for by an NGO in Ghana, when many other children from poor families are working. Volunteering with us changes lives, changing their world and ours. Join us in 2019 on our amazing projects in Ghana, Myanmar, or Sri Lanka.
A real pleasure to be visited by a Weltwerts organisation to our German language project at one of our schools. (Thank you @marwinmeier) The head of German and pupils welcomed them, and they chatted in German, before leaving to visit our project at a school for monks. If you'd like to join us and volunteer on a German language and / or English language project, get in touch about our amazing professional volunteering experiences in Sri Lanka.
With Give A Fig Volunteering, you'll have an experience this Summer that will start you in university with memories that will always remind you of what you can do, and the difference you can make. Your Instagram snaps of partying on a beach celebrating the end of Vith Form will remind you of something else you did that same Summer.
Your volunteering is central to our programmes that change lives. Join us in 2019, and make a difference by doing, and just by being you. Contact us for details and change your life and theirs.
On International Women's Day, it's good to remember that the successes of each day everywhere would not be possible without the women - unsung - who shape the lives of those around them. Join us volunteering. You'll be remembered for a lifetime, and remember for your lifetime. Contact us to make a difference this Summer 2019 in Sri Lanka, Ghana, or Myanmar.
Thinking of what to do this Summer? School's ending, university's beginning or maybe you're taking a year out. Whatever ypur plans, volunteering with us in Sri Lanka or Ghana will make a difference to your life and others. You'll get 24/7 support, and our fantastic reviews will tell you that people just like you had a great time. Explore the world safely with us. We work with turtles in Sri Lanka, and schools, villages, and children's centres, in Sri Lanka and Ghana. Join us in 2019.
'We're treated like movie stars by everyone!' Including by the staff of GAFV! This is one of my favourite photos: a volunteer with children at one of our government schools we work with. We have amazing projects in Sri Lanka and Ghana this Summer 2019. For groups and individuals, in education, conservation with turtles, in organic agriculture, and holiday clubs. Go online at https://www.giveafigvolunteering.com/apply and find out more.
At different times of the year villages, local businesses, and societies run stalls by the side of the road, flag down cars and buses and give out free drinks and sometimes food. There's always a warm welcome in Sri Lanka, and a very warm welcome with us for all our Give A Fig Volunteers.
The stupa with the broken spire was the third highest structure of the ancient world. I'm stood a mile away and these three stupas stand above the jungle like sentinels.it's only when you realise that these stood over mud huts until the 1960s (And some people still live in the huts), that you begin to realise how awe inspiring these giants must have been. Beautiful sunset too.
Just after sunset, the fisherman is casting his in line in one of the world's oldest continually used people-made lakes. Volunteering with us will make as much as a difference to you, as it does for the people you volunteer with. And this year, we're adding a village organic agriculture project. Call or email us to find out about our top rated projects.
100 posts, 450 followers. Thank you for following us, and supporting our work changing lives.
With the sun setting behind this 2,000 years old pond, the stupa glows orange, as Half Dome does in Yosemite. You'll need to be quick for a photo, as the tropical sun sets rapidly, then you can turn and run to catch it setting over the lake. Volunteer with us in the heart of Sri Lankan Buddhism. History, surrounded by nature. Book today.
It would be rude not to! Here I am out in the hill country looking at new projects to support and new experiences to be had. This roadside stop is a wooden and mud long kiosk, where the food is cooked on wood fires. The bus, winding up the mountain, stops and disengorges it's passengers so that the driver and conductor can stop for tea. Why wouldn't you? Then back on the bus and off you go. Join us in Sri Lanka volunteering. You'll only look forward afterwards.
Our volunteers always cause a stir. You will too. We don't just send volunteers on projects. Give A Fig Volunteering are committed to working with the NGOs and non-profits our volunteers go to, to make their work sustainable, to ensure people are able to earn a living, and to make a difference in the community. We're different! Volunteer with us with confidence in 2019.
Whether you volunteer with us in Sri Lanka, or Ghana, you can be guaranteed that your volunteering will make a difference, that the money you pay makes the projects sustainable, that the projects will be professionally managed, and you'll be professionally supported 24/7. Volunteer with us with complete confidence, and know you'll be making a difference to their lives, and yours.

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