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FAMILY

If you are looking to do something a little different with your family this summer, why not volunteer with Kaya on one of our family overseas wildlife, conservation or community projects.

Family Volunteering Abroad

At Kaya, we know families have individual requirements, which is why we have put together a range of options that offer experiences to suit different needs. Projects are specially designed to cater for a range of ages and interests, with exciting ideas about ways to spend your free time. Whether you have young children, teenagers or pre-teenagers, we have projects that are suitable for your family! VIEW PROJECTS

What is Family Volunteering?

Family Volunteering Abroad is your chance to travel with a purpose as a family, in an off-beaten track location, while remaining in a safe environment.

If you love to travel abroad, consider yourself a little adventurous and would like your children to experience the world surrounding them in a meaningful way, family volunteering abroad might be for you. It’s an out of the ordinary experience that allows families to contribute to sustainable local projects and make a positive impact altogether.


Why Volunteer Abroad as a Family?

Volunteering is a unique way to spend time together away from your daily routine while teaching your children from a young age to be compassionate and generous while helping others. Not only that, being abroad will take your entire family out of their comfort zone and as you learn along, your children will learn to be flexible and adaptative, which can be very valuable skills to acquire for the future.

Whether you’re involved in a conservation project, a community project or working with wildlife, there are educational themes running through all of our projects including respect for others and their cultures, understanding the challenges facing millions of people every day, as well as the specific objectives of your chosen project.

Kaya’s projects offer each member of the family the opportunity to get involved in a range of activities, tailored to the age of the children. For example, in childcare projects, younger children can join local children in activities while older children will be able to help local teachers lead songs, art activities etc. As a result, every member of the family gets their own experience from their volunteering placement This allows for a family to participate even with children of different age group.

Family volunteering abroad is the opportunity to share a rewarding experience by creating a positive impact in an impoverished community.

What can you do?

Kaya offers a variety of project you can get involved in as a family including childcare, teaching, sports, building, and even diving!

For older children, they may be interested in gaining some work experience. A career in conservation or community work can be kick-started by experience on voluntary projects like the one’s Kaya offer. Participating in a project as a family will help them gain the confidence to pursue the career they have interest in. And it will allow you to help develop their passion creating tighter bonds with your children.

Tailor-made placements

Our family programs are designed to be short-term and fit in around your holidays, as we are aware family time can be limited. You can join any project for 2 weeks, and several have the option to add on extra weeks.

Working with you to find out your expectations and desires, Kaya’s advisors will make sure to find the adventure that best suits your family, where you can make the biggest difference.

The projects featured on this page are those which we feel are suitable for family engagement. If you are keen to volunteer but cannot see a package that best matches your travel plans and interests, then Kaya will be happy to try and put together an individual package for you.

We understand that different families have different requirements and so our selection has a variety of arrangements, including for accommodation. If you really want to get to grips with the country, you can choose a project where you can live with a local host family. This way, you’ll get to become immersed in the living habits of the locals, learn the language and get your children even more engrossed. If you need a little more comfort – no problem! We have projects where your whole family can share separate volunteer accommodation.

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How much will it cost?

Families come in all shapes and sizes, and as a result, some of our family projects can’t give a one-size-fits-all quote. But we have included some guidelines of the costs for others depending on your children’s ages under details and costs. For other more detailed information and a quote, please contact one of our placement advisor.


Find out more

Click here and request your copy of our family brochure to get started.

If you’d like to hear what it’s like to volunteer as a family, read the Clark family blog here – The Clarks volunteered with us in the Galapagos.

Our family volunteering abroad projects

Family Community Development Volunteering in Morocco

Volunteer as a family in Morocco and give back to your local hosting community through teaching women, children from impoverished areas or children with special needs.

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Family Kruger Adventure Volunteering in South Africa & Eswatini

Bring your whole family and engage in volunteering within a friendly community, and have the adventure of a safari experience in South Africa’s best known National Park

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Elephant & Community Water Access Volunteering in Namibia

Use your passion for elephants and observe them in their natural habitat and work on a project that is providing solutions to the elephant-human conflict.

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Family Ecotourism & Community Development Volunteering in Ecuador

Volunteer in Ecuador and the whole family will enjoy living in a tight-knit community, working on small conservation projects in the misty cloud forest.

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Family Community & Development Volunteering in Costa Rica

Despite being derived from the Spanish for “Rich Coast”, Costa Rica still endures relatively high poverty levels, especially in rural areas.

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Family Child Development Volunteer Project in India

The purpose of this project is to allow education centres to increase their resources via the help of volunteers.

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Family Wildlife Rescue Sanctuary Volunteering in Zimbabwe

Protect indigenous African wildlife and have up close encounters with animals such as lions and leopards to monkeys, antelope and birds in a responsible way.

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Family Game Reserve Wildlife Research in South Africa

Volunteer as a family on a research and conservation project in the famous Kruger area home to the Big 5; lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard, and many more.

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Family Community Child Support Volunteering in the Philippines

Volunteer with your family in the Philippines and work on community child support activities targeting those that survived the devastation brought by Typhoon Haiyan.

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Easy 4-step application process

APPLY ONLINE

Apply online and pay your application fee to apply for your space on your chosen project. Our advisors will then contact you to guide you through the next steps.

TELEPHONE INTERVIEW

Once we’ve received your application, we’ll review your details and be in touch to arrange your informal telephone interview with your Kaya Placement Advisor.

CONFIRMATION

Following your interview, we will provide you a placement offer. Once you are ready to confirm your placement and dates, you can pay your confirmation fee to book and secure your space.

GET PREPARED

When you have confirmed your project dates we'll send you your Welcome Pack and lots of other helpful information to assist you with preparing for your placement.