Our Scouts & Guides expeditions to Africa provide an eye-opening and immersive volunteering experience
With our tailor-made expeditions, your young people can make a meaningful difference at our partner schools in Ghana, Kenya or Zanzibar. At the same time, they’ll learn new skills, explore a new culture, and increase their understanding of global citizenship.
On your trip, your Scouts or Girlguides can help teach in lessons, run sports sessions, or build new facilities at our partner schools. Whatever they choose, they’ll be helping to improve the quality of education that our partner schools provide.
We make organising an expedition as simple as possible, so you can focus on making a difference.
From helping to launch your trip to your safe return home, we’ll look after you from start to finish.
Travel Safely
We’ve organised youth expeditions to Africa over the past 16 years, and know what it takes to deliver a safe experience.
Create Global Citizens
Your young people will be taken out of their comfort zone during their trip, returning home as more knowledgeable, understanding and mature young adults.
Make an Impact
After safety, the most important part of your trip is the work you do at your partner school, and this is central to how we plan your trip.
Build Long-Term Relationships
Long-term sustainable development doesn’t happen overnight. Many of our groups want to build something long-lasting, and we lay the foundations to help make this happen.
Why Scouts and Girlguides Choose Us
Scouts and Girlguides Trip Package
What's included?
- Free leader place for every 10 travellers
- Promotional support and information presentation to your target volunteers
- Personalised Group Travel Co-ordinator to organise your trip
- Access to our online portal, fundraising t-shirts & fundraising ideas
- ATOL protection
- Return flights
- Orientation upon arrival, 24-hour in-country support and dedicated Trip Host
- All in-country transport
- All accommodation
- Three meals per day (except adventure weekend & transit days)
- Pre-planned project work and charitable donation to make it happen
- Cultural activities
- Adventure tours (if selected)
What's not included?
- Visa
- Drinks, snacks and general spending money
- Travel vaccinations and anti-malarial tablets as advised by your doctor/ travel clinic
- DBS check (or your national equivalent) over 18s
- Additional excursions may incur a small fee
- Individual pop up mosquito net (optional)
- Partner school gifts and/or donations, and other tips (optional)
Adventure Activities
Our Scouts and Girlguides trips proudly focus on volunteering, but you can make your trip extra special by choosing from an exciting range of extraordinary adventure activities to embark on during your downtime at the weekend.
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"Back in 2018 Kent Scouts were looking to do some projects in Africa and working with African Adventures proved to be just the right stepping stone for us. Ghana proved to be a fantastic first country to introduce young people from Kent Scouts to the African experience. The staff and people have been supportive and welcoming. The in-country projects that we have had have been solid projects where you feel you are making a difference to the local community. We have since been back to Ghana in 2022 and also to Zanzibar in 2023. We are already planning two more trips to build our partnership with African Adventures. We would highly recommend African Adventures to anyone considering volunteering abroad."
Alan Noake MBE, Group Leader