Volunteering in Botswana! Go Volunteer Africa, the leading and largest volunteer travel organization in Africa welcomes you to Botswana. Blessed with some of the greatest wildlife spectacles on earth, Botswana is one of the best volunteer safari destinations in Africa.
Go Volunteer Africa offers so many unique volunteering in Botswana safaris where you can give back and experience the highlights of this beautiful country. Go Volunteer Africa works closely with each volunteer to ensure comprehensive preparation, including both an understanding of the people with whom you will be working, and all considerations necessary for travel overseas.
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VOLUNTEERING IN BOTSWANA PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Get involved with childcare project
- Work with medical/healthcare project
- Learn more about wildlife and conservation
- Work with a construction and building project
- Participate in our HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
- Participate in our education and teaching project
- Save, rehabilitate and help wild animals back into the wild
- Work with lions, elephants, leopards, rhino and buffaloes and more
- Live right in the middle of the game reserves, surrounded by wildlife
In general, you can do many things. Some volunteers have a very clear idea of the skills they bring and the activities they would like to engage in. Others only have a strong desire to help and interact with our people, wildlife and the environment. No matter which category you feel you fall into, we are here to help you get ready to jump in and work on meaningful projects in Botswana.
BOTSWANA FAST FACTS
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is connected by the Kazungula Bridge to Zambia, across the world’s shortest border between two countries.
A country of slightly over 2.3 million people, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. It is essentially the nation state of the Tswana, who make up 79% of the population. About 11.6 per cent of the population lives in the capital and largest city, Gaborone. Formerly one of the world’s poorest countries—with a GDP per capita of about US$70 per year in the late 1960s—it has since transformed itself into an upper-middle-income country, with one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
The economy is dominated by mining and tourism. Botswana has a GDP (purchasing power parity) per capita of about $18,113 as of 2021, one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Botswana is the world’s biggest diamond producing country. Its relatively high gross national income per capita (by some estimates the fourth-largest in Africa) gives the country a relatively high standard of living and the third-highest Human Development Index of continental Sub-Saharan Africa (after Gabon and South Africa).
The country has been adversely affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2002, Botswana became the first country to offer anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to help combat the epidemic. Despite the launch of programs to make treatment available and to educate the populace about the epidemic, the number of people with AIDS rose from 290,000 in 2005 to 320,000 in 2013. As of 2014, Botswana had the third-highest prevalence rate for HIV/AIDS, with roughly 20% of the population infected. However, in recent years the country has made strides in combatting HIV/AIDS, with efforts being made to provide proper treatment and lower the rate of mother-to-child transmission.
WHY VOLUNTEER IN BOTSWANA
Botswana is reported as having 17% of its population in poverty, this places Botswana 37th of the 78 countries which have people living in poverty. Even though this shows an improvement in the poverty eradication efforts, 17% national poverty rate is still high for a country that has been experiencing an impressive economic growth.
Go Volunteer Africa’s Botswana volunteer program focuses on conservation work and poverty eradication initiatives. Sustainable income generation and employment initiatives, capacity building and skills development and tourism development are among our top priorities.
Apply to join projects where you can help the wildlife, environment and the people. There are so many amazing volunteer opportunities in Botswana and it’s not every day that you get to live and help in a country that is awash with exotic wildlife and natural beauty. Many people that participate are forever changed by their experience – not only because you get to take part in inspiring projects that help, but because you are able to soak up the lifestyle and the culture.
BOTSWANA VOLUNTEER PROJECTS
There are currently no openings for volunteering in Botswana. New volunteer projects will be announced here when available. We are not accepting volunteers at the moment for this destination and it’s not available as choice in our volunteer application form.
If you have any questions about volunteering in Botswana, simply Make an inquiry here and we will guide! If you are running, know or involved with a meaningful development project in Botswana that needs volunteers’ support, then Go Volunteer Africa is here to help them, visit our host volunteers page.
