Volunteers


Our Volunteers

Our volunteers are the heart and soul of EPAfrica. They're involved in every aspect of the organisation, from running our summer programmes to fundraising, communications, finance and training. There are heaps of opportunities available, both within East Africa and the UK. We aim to give our volunteers an opportunity to push themselves, take on real responsibility and experience grassroots international development and charity management at its best.

EPAfrica is proud to be volunteer run. We offer fantastic opportunities for personal development, through extensive training, our professional development programme and working closely with our knowledgeable partners

Volunteers in East Africa

Project Workers
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Have the summer of a lifetime as a Project Worker with EPAfrica and experience grassroots development at its best. You'll spend ten weeks working with a rural East African secondary school, designing and delivering a tailored investment programme.

Investing in textbooks, installing water tanks, setting up health and careers initiatives, strengthening school organisation… our Project Workers have the flexibility to tailor our model to do what's best for their school. This is not a holiday. It's a challenge.

Summer Team
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Are you interested in helping run one of our project sites? Did you enjoy your time as a Project Worker? Or perhaps you are an external candidate looking to gain firsthand project management experience? Why not become a part of our Summer Team.

The Summer Team supports our programmes out in East Africa ensuring that they run smoothly and have impact. A variety of roles are available, from Project Manager to Pre-Summer Team Coordinator. It provides the perfect opportunity to gain experience in people and project management within a development context.

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Project Researchers
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Help EPAfrica to improve the way that we work by undertaking a research project for us. Go to East Africa and meet rural communities, live with our other volunteers in an East African town, and develop your research skills in order to answer key questions for EPAfrica's future.

You can also do research from the UK over the course of the year to support our motivated research team. Explore the literature on education and East Africa and help us to develop our knowledge of the area.

Volunteers in the UK

From Communications, to IT, to Training, to Programmes, our Central Charity has every position going. The Committee structure ensures that no matter your involvement, whether as one of the University Officers, a Manager, or an Associate, you're directly tied in to everything going on in your committee. You'll have specific responsibilities, while staying in touch with other EPAfrica friends across the UK, learn skills while seeing other positions you could grow into in the future, and make a clear contribution to the success of the summer projects in every role. 

 





Organisation is Key

The issue faced by St Mary’s was not predominantly a lack of resources (although, of course, both the library and laboratory are still in need of more resources), but rather an inefficient use of what the school already had at its disposal. Through the use of shelving over boxes for storage, resources are now stored in the open rather than out of sight. This facilitates easier access to resources and students can make more of what their school has to offer them.