Khama Rhino Sanctuary
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About the project
Khama Rhino Sanctuary
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Khama Rhino Sanctuary is located around 25km north of Serowe and 320 km Northwest from Gaborone, capital city of the Republic of Botswana. Khama Rhino Sanctuary is a conservation park for the endangered white and black rhinos. It also hosts a wide range of animals including kudus, impalas, gemsboks, giraffes, and a variety of small animals and birds.
Volunteers at the nature reserve can enjoy day and evening game drives and some educational lectures on some days. Volunteers can also arrange to join the rangers for their animals’ counting exercises and patrols along the park fences. The Khama Rhino Sanctuary is having an active working partnership with BWA. BWA had committed itself by assisting to sustain the ecosystem of the reserve.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will assist in the maintenance of the footpaths, park fence, fire breaks and trails and helping in day-to-day business maintenance of the park. The volunteers will participate as a team in the whole duration of the camp. Volunteers can share and exchange different cultural forms during the workcamp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Khama Rhino Sanctuary provides accommodation in camping sites. Volunteers must bring their own tents, sleeping bags, mosquito nets or repellants. A 15 heavy blanket can of great assistance as Khama Rhino Sanctuary experience very cold winters, with temperatures reaching lows of -5 at night.
Internet, supermarkets and banking are available in Serowe town, which is 20 minutes’ drive form the sanctuary. Network reception for three network providers, Mascom, Orange and BTC is relatively good in the park. Volunteers in possession of sim cards of their network providers from their countries can be able to roam. Note, volunteers should check and plan with their respective network providers before departure to Botswana. Roaming is convenient though very expensive. Thus, volunteers should be ready to buy local sim cards at nominal price of 1 US$ or 2 US$ if they opt for a more conventional way of not roaming.
📍 About the location
It is very important to know that Botswana is the semi-desert country and has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring (August, September, and October), summer (November, December, January,) and Autumn (February, March, April) are hot seasons and cold season is Winter (May, June, July). Volunteers are therefore reminded to bring required materials as per season, e.g., sun block creams for hot seasons and warmer clothes for winter times.
⚠️ Requirements
Skills of the individual volunteer
• Commitment of volunteers; Project or work camps are not just cheap holidays; hard work and full participation is required. Volunteers should be self driven, adaptable, people oriented and tenacious,
• Specific motivation may be required for some projects.
• ENGLISH is the medium of communication in work camp. Participants who are not good in English are also accepted to participate as BWA encourages non-discrimination.
🤝 Meeting point
An orientation is normally organized a day before the start of the work camp with the intentions of briefing participants about BWA as an organization, Botswana `s socio-economic background, cultural issues etc. In fact, the orientations shall be held on Sundays before departure to the workcamp sites and the participants must arrive on the Fridays or Saturdays to have rest time and to get to know each other, as well to get knowledge of the host village before the orientation. The orientation is the first contact between volunteers and BWA to discuss the preliminary workcamp programme, workcamp menu and expectations. The local culture is also presented to the volunteers through showcasing traditional music, food, dress, language and architectural structures in the village of Mochudi. The understanding of Botswana culture is a journey such volunteers will keep learning about cultural items and values as they maneuver with workcamp programme. Participants will also have a chance to go the city, Gaborone from Mochudi and to do their necessary travel and camp logistics before they depart for the camp. All workcamp orientations are held at BWA head offices. Please, ensure that your travel arrangements would allow at least two days 10 of reaching BWA head office, rightly so, in lieu of rest and orientation before leaving to the workcamp.
ℹ️ Additional information
The work camp participation fee is US $250 per participant, which covers simple and affordable work camp meals, arrangements for the whole work camp preparation in terms of communication, electronic mailing and transport for meeting with different stakeholders. BWA organizes transport for participants from the airport in Gaborone to Mochudi (BWA Head Office) at a nominal fee of US$ 40 per participant, where participants are inducted prior to departure to work camps destination.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
BWA 01 KRS
08/05/2023 at 00:00 → 15/05/2023 at 00:00
BWA-01-KRS
16/05/2022 → 27/05/2022
BWA-02-KRS
13/06/2022 → 24/06/2022
BWA-05-KRS
11/07/2022 → 22/07/2022
BWA 04 KRS
12/06/2023 at 00:00 → 23/06/2023 at 00:00
BWA 07 KRS
10/07/2023 at 00:00 → 21/07/2023 at 00:00
BWA-07-KRS
12/09/2022 → 23/09/2022
BWA-08-KRS
12/12/2022 → 23/12/2022
BWA 11 KRS
28/08/2023 at 00:00 → 08/09/2023 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
250.00 USD ≈ 224 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
QP8C+62F, Paje, Botswana
Botswana
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Botswana Pula (BWP / P)
Exchange rate
1 BWP = 0.064229 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Central Africa Time
Local time: 21:19 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken