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    Food and Accommodation - Africa and Asia Venture

    Food and Accommodation

    Photograph of AV accommodationAV house with fellow volunteers

    Whilst on the coast you will live in a designated AV house with fellow volunteers, not far away from the school where you will be helping. An important part of the AV venture is to live in local accommodation, shopping at the markets and helping where you can. The house will probably have a bedroom(s), a communal/cooking area and somewhere to wash. Electricity is intermittent at best, and you may not have running water or flushing lavatories. Instead there will be an outside pit latrine or ‘long drop’. Wherever you will be staying, you will grow to love it and soon feel very much at home!

    Photograph of AV accommodationWe encourage independence; you will be doing your own washing, keeping your new house tidy and help to prepare meals. This is the best way of getting to know people, being involved in the community and gaining the best possible understanding of living there – you are not a bystander watching from afar.

    For the adventure activities phase of the venture your accommodation will mainly be on camping standards and you will have all food provided for you. You will need to boil water from a local source or purchase bottled water.

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