Volunteering with Dramatic Need is a life changing experience.

We send professional actors, artists, musicians, dancers,

film-makers, photographers, (anyone in the creative arts) from all over the world to South Africa or Rwanda to conduct workshops in rural schools and community centre.

Volunteers can go for a period of between three weeks and three months*, either individually or in companies. Workshops are based around the particular expertise of the volunteer, be it drama, visual arts, music or dance etc.

Volunteers are billeted within the local community or on site at community centres and will usually workshop at two to three different primary schools during their stay. We encourage volunteers to stay as long as their work/study schedule permits, so both students and volunteers can get as much out of the programme as possible.If this all sounds like just your thing, then you can read more details about the programme, request a digital volunteer pack (without any obligation, of course) or hear stories from volunteers and students.

Hear from previous Dramatic Need volunteers.

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