Community Project

Lion Encounter offers two options for people wanting to volunteer with us. For those with only a few days in Livingstone or Victoria Falls, why not volunteer with us for a few days as a Short Term Volunteer.

People wanting to get more involved and spend 2 to 6 weeks with us, living on site, have our long term volunteering option.

Volunteer Project Mission

Victoria Falls Zimbabwe: Interact with the local children and assist at an orphanage, making a positive impact on Zimbabwe’s youth. You will also have the opportunity to help the community with their vegetable gardens, implemented with the aim of helping those living with HIV/AIDS. Classrooms are full to the brim with children eager to learn! Teachers are hardworking and dedicated but are under-resourced and overstretched. Assist them with teaching classes, marking work and lend a hand where needed. You will also be introduced to our Lion Rehabilitation Programme, and get the opportunity to walk with these amazing creatures! There are plenty of  opportunities to enjoy the wide range of adventure activities  available around the Falls, which is one of Africa’s adrenaline capitals.

Livingstone Zambia: Contribute to the education and welfare of the local Zambian communities on the outskirts of Livingstone, an area rife with poverty and hardships; provide education and guidance to communities on greener living and the importance of wildlife and habitat protection; assist with a variety of community – benefitting projects such as life skill classes, HIV workshops, adult literacy, reading classes, and more; have a chance to walk young lion cubs, as part of the projects 4 stage rehabilitation and release into the wild program.

Project Highlights:

• Spend your time helping to provide local schools much needed support working with the teachers to give children a better chance for a fuller education
• Join the conservation education team in local schools giving you a wonderful insight into the community, as well as giving you a chance to help save the future of the African environment by educating the local children;
• Use your skills, and interests to offer extracurricular classes to widen the knowledge of local people;
• Be based on the world’s leading programme for the release of lions back into the wild;
• Experience the African bush in a very special way as you spend time out in the bush at the projects.
• Immerse yourself in local culture;
• Enjoy the many adventure activities available from white water rafting on the mighty Zambezi River; bungee jumping from the Victoria Falls Bridge or taking to the air for a helicopter flight over the Falls giving a bird’s eye view of this natural wonder;
• Take advantage of optional trips to see more of the areas spectacular wildlife areas in Botswana or Zimbabwe. Chobe National Park is just an hour or so away, and you can also visit the lion rehabilitation programme’s breeding base at Antelope Park;
• Make friends for life with the other international volunteers on the programme as well as those on the lion project.

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