As an established volunteering company based in Cape Town, AVIVA is committed to supporting sustainable community, wildlife and conservation volunteer projects while providing international volunteers with a life changing experience in South Africa.

Our aim is to become the company of choice for international volunteers travelling to South Africa, and certainly we have gone a long way to achieving that aim since our launch in 2002.

AVIVA is now arguably South Africa's leading volunteer organisation, and regularly receives world wide recognition for the service we provide to volunteers. AVIVA has featured in many International Magazines, South African Television, and more recently in a fundraising video for SANCCOB which aired on the Animal Planet and National Geographic channels during 2009.

Our team is dedicated to making our volunteer's stay as enjoyable and rewarding as possible - in fact, AVIVA has South Africa's largest volunteer support team - no other organisation provides the depth of support or attention to detail that we do.

AVIVA volunteers leave their mark in South Africa, not only by dedicating their time and energy to their chosen project, but also through the positive contribution they make in supporting local businesses, tourism operators, craftsmen and women, and the many jobs that are created and sustained by purchases they make, and activities they take part in while they are here. So whilst volunteers directly affect their project, they also indirectly affected the lives of many more people in South Africa.

AVIVA is a case in point – In 2002 we had one full-time employee, and today we have the largest volunteer support team in South Africa with ten full-time employees, many of whom had never known permanent employment before joining AVIVA. None of this would have been possible without international volunteers.

We have seen projects thrive with the cumulative contribution of volunteers over the years, enabling them to help more children, care for more wildlife and conserve more environments than would have been possible without you.

Thanks to volunteers like you, AVIVA has to date contributed many millions of South African Rands directly to over twenty grass roots projects in the past seven years alone. During that time, AVIVA volunteers have contributed in excess of 500,000 hours of voluntary service in South Africa.

We are confident that we will be able to provide you with a rewarding and varied experience that will surpass your expectations, and hope we will have an opportunity to welcome you to our beautiful country soon!