Our accommodations in comparison

What awaits you at Volunteer House:

• big community
• fast connection to other participants
• familiar language (German)
• Carpooling to the project
• cooking together and eating

In our Volunteer Houses you usually live together with five to twelve other RGV participants. Immediately after your arrival, you will meet other like-minded people. In this way you will find fast connection on site. You can cook together in the house, talk about your projects, drive together to the employment sites or take trips together in your free time.

That you spend some time alone in the accommodation, is unlikely. Here you sleep in sexually separated shared rooms. As a rule, there is at least one shared bathroom, kitchen and lounge in the volunteer / student house. Either there is WiFi or you have internet access on your mobile phone via the SIM card you purchased on site.

While you are at the RGV Student House in Mtwara for example lukewarm Tanzanian summer evenings under palm trees on the roof terrace, you can in Cape Town consider common barbecues, called Braai there, review your day. In Sri Lanka are you not far from the beach, so you can go for a swim before dinner. There are a lot of cool ones in Hungary Things like table football, table tennis and pool offered.

Two things you should remember in your choice: In Volunteer House you are mostly with German-speaking volunteers together, so less the foreign language English or the local language. Furthermore you don't get to know the way of life of your host country so intensively, as might be the case in a host family.

If you volunteer for example in Windhoek or on Tenerife decide, you are with me Volunteers from all over the world accommodated – and thus forced to speak a lot of English.

What awaits you in a host family:

• deep insight into culture and lifestyle
• more individual experience
• Communication in the foreign language
• short journey to the project

You want to immerse yourself in local life and be part of a become family? Then decide to stay with a local host family! Here you can experience a different culture up close and maybe even learn a new language. Regardless of whether you are with our family in Peru, with host mother Caroline in Tanzania or with one of our host families in the small village in Nepal live - each of our host families welcomes you with open arms!

In the host family you are also not alone, but if possible together with at least one other volunteer, Depending on the destination country, living in a host family can be a bit easier by standard than it is in the Volunteer / Student House. But it offers you the unique opportunity to get a deeper insight into the lifestyle on the ground. The close contact with the locals is one unforgettable cultural enrichment, Here you will get to know the everyday life of local people, eat local dishes and may even be invited to one or the other festivity. Since you also bring your own culture, you can all of them intercultural exchange benefit.

Through the conversations with your native host family you improve also yours Foreign language skills and expand your vocabulary daily. In addition to English, Spanish or French, maybe you are even learning a word or two of a national or local language?

As a rule, you have host families in the RGV running water and electricityHowever, you should be prepared for a power failure or the tub shower.

Of course, the Volunteer / Student House is still yours central point of contact and meeting point for excursions and activities available!

What awaits you in our other accommodations:

• Proximity to the job site
• partly adventurous locations
• mostly surrounded by nature
• the opportunity to live as a couple

Our accommodations are just as diverse as our locations! In some locations, such as in Uganda and Hungary, there is the possibility directly at your place of employment to live, This saves you the travel path to your project and you are right in the middle of it all.

For example, in South Africa you can do it in one Volunteer Apartment on a horse farm make yourself comfortable and also in Thailand we offer you the option of moving into an apartment near your place of work. Apartments are a popular alternative, especially for couples who want to do voluntary work together or do an internship abroad. Here you can enjoy togetherness in your free time!

You prefer to go outdoors? It gets adventurous tent camp of elephant project in Namibia - because here only your tent wall separates you from the wild Namibian desert. Or you learn the Way of life of the Maasai get to know you better and live side by side with Maasai Mica and his family in a boma! In Nepal you can in a hotel in the immediate vicinity of the jungle live! in the farmhouse in the middle of Big Five Game Reserve in South Africa you will be woken up by the lion's roar in the morning and experience spectacular sunsets in the savannah!