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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.

Volunteering Updates from Sri Lanka

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It was in 2016 that we carried out our first 'donate and do' project in Sri Lanka with @knightsyouthcentre , London. They renovated and improved monastery and community buildings in a village, and made a huge impact on everyone. Since then, other groups, small and large have painted classrooms, and built toilets. You can also lay water pipe netwprks, dig wells, install domestic bio-gas units, and support organic agriculture. If you live making a difference, and if you have groups you'd love to see challenged and developed, contact us for details. We have projects in Ghana, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
One of the great things about volunteering is taking part in daily life, and finding out what everyday life is like for people in the countries you volunteer in. Here, farmers in Sri Lanka are taking their crops to market. You could volunteer with us in Ghana, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. Join us in 2019 - travel does broaden the mind.
For the best volunteering in Sri Lanka, teaching in schools, colleges, children's centres, and under trees in monastery grounds. If variety is the spice of life, and good food, accommodation, and support makes volunteering enjoyable and meaningful, and experiencing other cultures is the fireworks, then you'll love volunteering with us, and coming back for more.
Teaching English in village is always a great experience, and always appreciated by the children, and teenagers. Join us, and love volunteering.
Volunteer in Ghana in 2019. Teach English, maths, and science to children in a school supported by donations, and children's centre in a settled persons' (was a refugee) camp. Join or start a 'donate-and-do'. Donate the cost of a toilet, or bio-gas system, and build one in Ghana or Sri Lanka. Know you're making a difference with Give A Fig Volunteering.
One of us is not ready to be instafamous in this breakfast time shot. I need another coffee. Our centre managers have rescued this baby giant squirrel whose mother died. It'll love playing with the volunteers, we're sure, and hopefully it'll enjoy our HQ's wooded garden as much as our volunteers do.
This Summer we begin working with a Civil Society Organisation in Moulmein (Mawlamyine), Myanmar, where the red flowers have just started to blossom. We will be helping train local people to lead their village's development i . LýThey need English and German teachers support this, as well as teaching in schools. If you'd like to know more about this amazing opportunity, message us through Instagram, Facebook, or email
We love all the wildlife at our volunteers' accommodation in Anuradhapura. The little giant squirrel on the right, sat on our accommodation manager's arm, will grow to be about 1m in length. They are beautiful creatures, and when they are in our trees with the young langurs, I've seen them playing chase around the trees. This baby somehow became separated from his mother, and was found on the ground. He's growing well, and may well find our hostel as welcoming to stay at as our volunteers.
Wherever you volunteer, whenever you volunteer, you can enjoy your own adventure knowing we're by your side with our 24/7 in-country support. Join us in 2019, and make a difference to your life and theirs.
No better compliment than 2 guys joining us vilunteering again this year, and bringing friends with them. Thanks @rickyjuttner @suicidal_bartendencies . For the best in volunteering join us in 2019.
Downtime for the volunteers on sari night, with the guys opting to help cook the curries. Volunteering with us is so much more than just making a difference to others. Join us in 2019 in Sri Lanka, Ghana, or Myanmar.
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.

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