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Sport has a huge role all across Africa and is integral to building communities and encouraging confidence in young children. Based in Ghana and South Africa, our volunteer coaching projects have elements of community involvement, but the emphasis is placed on working closely with individual children, developing their skills whilst enhancing your own.
Whether you’re at the beginnings of a career coaching sports, or just want to make a difference, coaching abroad provides experiences and opportunities you’d be hard pressed to find at home. Choose from a number of different teach abroad programs including football coaching in South Africa or netball, hockey and rugby in Ghana. Develop your teaching skills whilst giving something valuable back to these communities.
Your role as a volunteer football coach in South Africa will be to run and supervise all training and football matches for the players in the local townships and schools in the surrounding area. Unless you are used to training young children this may sound like a daunting task however you will soon realise the local children whom you will teach are desperate to absorb your skills and knowledge of the game.
Find out moreWorking as a volunteer hockey coach in South Africa, you will run and supervise training and matches for local players from local townships and schools around Port Elizabeth. You will train players from all age groups, from junior to senior school. No matter what their age, you will find students are hungry to absorb your skills and knowledge of the game.
Find out moreOur Rugby Coaching projects provide you with the opportunity to work with local townships and surrounding schools to develop and improve their rugby players. The project is designed to develop alongside you – we’ll start you out helping to organise training clinics and building up to matches for the younger players, keeping in line with the development of your confidence and skills and building relationships with the players you will be coaching.
Find out moreOn this sports coaching project you will be working with Netball players largely centred around the local townships and surrounding schools. Netball truly is one of Ghana’s next up-and-coming sports and there has been a significant increase in the number of players joining the sport in the last few years.
Find out more“This trip was amazing, and I loved every second of it. Thank you to everyone who made this possible and helped with every question and query to such a high standard!
I want to thank everyone involved in making this trip amazing! I would recommend Gap Africa Projects to everyone and anyone. It is such an amazing service and will defiantly use them again! Thank you, Lorna”
Lorna Rudland-Wood – Shamwari Conservation Volunteer
“My entire experience with Gap Africa Projects and the staff, activities and accommodation at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre was fantastic! There is not one thing I can think of that I did not enjoy. Right from the beginning of my journey I have been highly impressed by the support given by the staff from before I went right the way through to when I came home again. It was the best experience of my entire life and I cannot wait to go back one day. I would highly recommend this to anyone and cannot thank the staff and coordinators enough for their brilliant support.”
Chloe Haines – Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre
“I had the most amazing time and can definitely say that I have made lots of friends and learnt so much about the game reserve whilst seeing all the animals. The level of advice and help we received from Gap Africa was amazing and they sorted out all our transfers and B&B accommodation. I would definitely recommend them and Kariega Game Reserve.”
Shannon Goss – Kariega Conservation Volunteer
“How do you put into writing the Shamwari experience and put across to others how exciting and challenging the project is? The truth is, you can’t! No two days are the same and the feelings and emotions you have when face to face with an elephant, following a pride of lions on a night drive and being lucky enough to see a leopard is out of this world.
Whilst working hard and helping with the Shamwari conservation, you are rewarded with amazing sightings, sceneries and watching your own personal development. From darting Impala, to camping out under the stars, this South African experience is one that will stay with me forever.”
Alison Summers – Shamwari Conservation Volunteer
“I had a totally awesome time at Shamwari, I think it was even better than I was expecting! Even though I am hoping to become a cow vet after graduation I still found the work on the reserve extremely interesting and very relevant; such a great opportunity to experience a completely different way of life and path of vet work! I also really enjoyed everything else not specifically vet related that we did at Shamwari such as the talks on game capture and anti-poaching, the visit to the day care centre in Paterson, rifle shooting etc. I would thoroughly recommend the trip to anyone considering it.
Thank you so much for organising it all for us!”
Christine Simons – Vet Eco Experience
“Georgina had a great time and as the weeks go on we are hearing more tales of her adventure, although the animals and the bungee jump will be a lot to live up to in her future adventures!
There are so many companies etc on the Internet that one can become a bit bemused by everything and your company has certainly proved to be a good one for her – so much better for her future career than simply just following a conservation project.
Thank you for your support and care for her welfare and enjoyment of the whole experience, I will certainly be recommending your company to others”
Liz Cave - Mother of Georgina Cave - Vet Shadow Experience
Let us know of any questions, and a friendly member of our team will soon be on hand to help – just fill out the contact form below!
Phone: +44 (0) 207 193 7819
Email: info@gapafricaprojects.com
Address: Gap Africa Projects, PO Box 198, Chessington, KT9 9BT, United Kingdom
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