Volunteer Accommodation 

The TRAVELLERS AFRICA in each country is either one of our own houses or a third-party hostel that we use as our orientation and intake center. TRAVELLERS AFRICA provides a safe and comfortable environment where our volunteers can meet other like-minded travellers while they learn about essential health, safety and cultural information that will help ensure that each placement is a success.

Volunteers will begin their programs at the TRAVELLERS AFRICA. During orientation and language training, volunteers will live at TRAVELLERS AFRICA. (For volunteers who are not comfortable in dormitory accommodations, arrangements can be made for private rooms in a hotel by completing a custom/group program request).

Following orientation, volunteer accommodations will depend largely on the location of the placements that volunteers select. If the placements are within a 1 hour commute of TRAVELLERS AFRICA then volunteers can choose to stay in TRAVELLERS AFRICA or with a host family. However, if the placements are further than 1 hour from TRAVELLERS AFRICA, volunteers will live either with a host family or in a volunteer lodge or ranger station depending on the placement.

When we work with host families our team on the ground personally visit each home, conduct a home-stay inspection and obtain a criminal background check (or local equivalent) for each family.

Living in TRAVELLERS AFRICA

Each TRAVELLERS AFRICA provides hostel-style accommodation for our volunteers. Most rooms are dormitories that are divided by gender. Most bathrooms are shared. Each centre has one or more common areas where volunteers can hang out and an orientation room for the sit-down components of our orientation workshops and language training.

A video tour of each TRAVELLERS AFRICA is available on our YouTube channel and on each of the location pages on this website. These give a great sense of what living in TRAVELLERS AFRICA is like.