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Volunteer with Africa’s Gift

Everyone who works for Africa’s Gift is a volunteer, including its trustees, so donations fund the work in Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda.

Teaching farms, community demonstrations and volunteer exchanges allow knowledge to be shared in both directions.

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Run by volunteersIncluding our trustees
Learning in practice at the Malealea Teaching Farm
A place of learningSchools and farmers
Malealea, Lesotho

Volunteers and local people work side by side.

Volunteers have worked alongside the people of Malealea in the fields planting trees, in their communities and schools demonstrating new ways of cooking with an Eco Cook Bag, or simply playing with the children.

Visits have been guided by Ken Dunn MBE, the charity’s founder, who believes some charity work promotes a culture of dependency. Africa’s Gift is named to dispel the notion that Africa is just a place that receives.

Beyond Lesotho

Working alongside partners in Uganda and South Africa.

  • Marian’s Eden, Uganda. During a visit in August 2023, members of Africa’s Gift worked alongside the local team to clear unwanted vegetation, mulch the ground and care for coffee and medicinal planting.
  • Hammanskraal, South Africa. Together with staff and students from Sheffield Hallam University, Africa’s Gift has worked on social care and community uplift projects.
  • The Karoo, South Africa. Africa’s Gift introduced Eco Cook Bags to a local kindergarten and held a cooking class and fabrication workshop.
Working alongside the local team at Marian’s Eden
August 2023Marian’s Eden
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Interested in volunteering?

Contact Africa’s Gift on info@africasgift.org.

Members receive advance notice of charity events, and of volunteering opportunities in Africa.

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Farmers learning conservation agriculture at the Teaching Farm
Conservation agricultureMalealea valley

Help this work keep growing.

Every donation funds the soil, water, growing and cooking work in Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda — delivered by volunteers, with the communities that run each project.