Cheetah Experience
If you ever wanted to see wild big cats up close, then visit our Cheetah Experience in Bela Bela, previously based in Bloemfontein, and go on a once-in-a-lifetime educational tour to learn about our precious animals, see them up close, take some amazing photos and learn how you can join us in the fight to protect these precious species.
Our registered and recognized, non-profit endangered species breeding centre is home to a number of endangered and threatened species, including not only cheetahs but also leopards, male non-breeding lions, servals, caracals, African wildcats, wolves, meerkats and a Siberian tiger. Our project takes in rescued animals from the local area, so we also have various animals from time to time, such as a goat and chickens.
Our animals always come first, and everything we do is for their wellbeing. Our mission is to raise awareness of the vulnerability of South African species and other endangered species through educational experiences, as well as ethically breeding cheetahs in captivity and releasing them into a protected wild yet self-sustaining natural habitat where they are still monitored by researchers and medical experts but live free. Understanding their needs, behaviour and instincts plays a key role in saving animals from extinction.
Our current focus is to ensure that our breeding project aids in the conservation of the cheetah, by using the DNA samples taken from our cheetahs to maintain genetic diversity. We work along-side other ethical and responsible projects to help secure the cheetahs future survival. The global cheetah population is now confined to 9% of their historical distributional range.
We also offer a wide range of working holidays, volunteer and internship programs, which have seen over 1000 hard-working, dedicated, likeminded people from 33 countries come and be a special part of the Cheetah Experience Global Volunteer Family, who contributes to conservation in South Africa. This is your once in a lifetime opportunity to work closely with many African animal species.
World Unite! Kenya
Join World Unite! for volunteering or an internship in nature and wildlife conservation in Kenya. Work with rangers in the sanctuaries Lumo and Taita Hills, both bordering the Tsavo National Park without a fence. Accompany the rangers on daily safari drives and bush walks to register animal sightings and carry out maintenance work in the reserve. Also get involved in the ranger’s environmental education of pupils in 4 surrounding villages.
World Unite! is an organization that provides Intercultural Exchange and Global Learning opportunities. Since 2007, we have been organising Internships, Volunteering Assignments, Active Travel and Cultural Experiences in various countries. Many programs are available online and you can join remotely without travelling!
Personalised connections make us who we are! Many of our our former participants are still in touch with us, with their volunteering/internship project and with other participants, even after many years of their first travel with World Unite! Many participants have chosen World Unite! several times to travel to various countries.
World Unite! South Africa
In Cape Town and its surrounding areas you can teach, intern or volunteer in the field of social work, support an inner-city nature reserve, do a hotel internship, help at an animal shelter, complete a healthcare internship (elective placement) or psychology internship.
If you want to get involved in environmental and wildlife conservation and protection, we also arrange volunteer work with rangers in South Africa, for penguins and other seabirds, vervet monkeys and other animals. For ethical reasons, however, we do not work with any projects that keep large African wildlife in captivity.
World Unite! is an organization that provides intercultural exchange and global learning opportunities. Since 2007, we have been organising internships, volunteering assignments, active travel and cultural experiences in various countries.
You can also combine our programs in South Africa with our programs in Tanzania and Zanzibar. Our support team is happy to assist you planning your time as a volunteer or intern in Africa!
World Unite! Tanzania
World Unite! is one of the organisations that is active for the longest time and that is most established as a provider of volunteering and internship support services in Tanzania. Our head office is in Moshi at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Our programs in the Kilimanjaro region include healthcare internships (including elective placements), volunteering and internships in teaching in kindergartens, community centers, schools and special education, in social work, women's empowerment and capacity building, law internships, veterinary internships, and others.
In Mweka we run our own year-round Mother Nature environmental and climate protection camp on the grounds of a tree nursery. Under expert guidance, you can participate as a volunteer in reforestation work and in the promotion of indigenous seeds, energy-efficient cooking, and innovative concepts such as aquaponics. Another focus of the program is community work and immersion into the local Chagga village community, which is a unique cultural experience!
Other locations in Tanzania where we arrange various internships (e.g. media internships, medical internships, architecture internships) are Dar es Salaam and Mwanza.
You can also combine our programs in Tanzania with our programs in Zanzibar and South Africa. Our support team is happy to assist you planning your time as a volunteer or intern in Africa!
World Unite! Zanzibar
World Unite! is the largest and most established provider of volunteering programs and internships in Zanzibar since 2005. We are registered as an NGO committed to environmental conservation, sustainable rural development and cultural exchange. All our programs can be arranged at short notice and are flexible in terms of duration (usually from one to 12 weeks).
In Zanzibar Town we arrange a large number of possible options of volunteer work and internship in areas including healthcare (including medical electives), psychology, education (teaching in kindergartens, schools and youth work), culture (music, museums, fine arts), sports, social work, hotel and tourism internships e.g.
We run our own Mother Nature conservation camps in the Jozani Rainforest and on Matemwe Beach, where activities for volunteers include the relocation of sea turtle eggs to a protected area, monitoring coral reefs and coral farming, planting mangroves, waste management, permaculture farming, etc. Another focus of the camps is cultural immersion into rural Zanzibar.
In Kizimkazi we organize internships and volunteer work in the areas of women empowerment, educational work, social work and permaculture farming. Throughout the island we arrange hotel, water sports and tourism internships. We also organize Swahili lessons, courses in herbal medicine and courses in the construction of traditional wooden dhow sailing ships.
You can also combine our programs in Zanzibar with our programs in Tanzania mainland and South Africa. Our support team is happy to assist you planning your time as a volunteer or intern in Africa!
