Volunteering With AYISE

What is it?

AYISE’s Youth Exchange and Work camp department deals with volunteer placements for both local and international volunteers wishing to get involved in community development projects here in Malawi. Local volunteers come from the University of Malawi, local private colleges, churches, and general school leavers who want to volunteer to get experience and increase their chances of employability. International Volunteers on the other hand come through partner volunteer sending organisations, educational institutes and Universities and sometimes as individuals with no specific affiliation. Volunteers may be professionals or non professionals, students or mere school drop outs.

AYISE realises that volunteering has multiple benefits. This means the person volunteering benefits, the receiving organisation and the community in which the volunteers work benefits too. However, hosting volunteers has a cost because there are a number of logisitcal and administrative issues that AYISE looks into inorder to successfully host a volunteer. This is more discussed on our MWAI web page.

Activities:

The range of activities volunteers participate in is broad. Some of the possibilities are:

1. teaching
2. childcare
3. healthcare
4. sports coaching
5. I.T training at AYISE’s Youth centre
6. administration
7. communications (included newsletter development and youth exchange correspondence)
8. Environmental and sanitation projects.
9. Programme areas of AYISE such as HIV and AIDS, child protection and oprhan care, Human rights among
10. Membership and placement coordination.

Duration:

AYISE has the capacity to receive volunteers staying from one week to two years. There are three categories that we use to define volunteers on different programmes;
Short term – one week up to two months
Medium term – three months to six months
Long term – any period above six months

How to Apply:

If you are an individual wishing to volunteer with AYISE, please contact us by sending an email to the Youth Exchange Coordinator

We encourage volunteers to go through volunteer sending and receiving organisations as this eases the process. If you are a volunteer wishing to got through a volunteer sending organisation you must first get in touch with a the respective Volunteer agency/organisation in your country. (A list of some of our partner sending agencies is listed below.) The sending organisation will be able to provide an application form for AYISE. Alternatively you can download the application form on this page.

PARTNER VOLUNTEER SENDING AND RECEIVING ORGANISATIOPNS

United Kingdom

Youth Action for Peace- YAP-UK

Service Civil Internationl (SCI)

Concordia UK in Brighton

UN-Exchange (Wales)

British Council -Connect Youth.

Student Volunteers Abroad- Glasgow University-Scotland

United Stated of America

Volunteers for Peace (VFP)- Vermont

Japan

NICE

France

Concordia France

Denmark

Mellemfolklight Samvirke (MS)

Danish Association for International Cooperation.

Canada

World University Service of Canada.

Southern Africa

Zambia Voluntary Development Association

Youth Action Zambia (YAZ)

AJUDE- Mozambique

Swaziland Workcamps Association

Zimbabwe Workcamps Association

Lesotho Workcamps Association

Botswana Workcamps Association

Quaker Peace centre -South Africa

East Africa

Kenya Voluntary Devolopment Association (KVDA)

Download Volunteer Application