• You don't need to worry about all the problems (time wasting, frustrations, and lack of knowledge of where you are going) involved in finding a sustainable, safe, working environment, project, or organization in Africa, and finding the right people to live. ARA takes care of it all for you.
• ARA's warm and wonderful program makes you feel at home.
• ARA takes extensive safety and security measures.
• Affordable and organized programs and projects.
• Highly qualified staff services.
• Direct contact with the community and projects.
• ARA's host family program establishes a very good international family relationship.
• ARA helps you create another home in Africa.
• Automatic ARA membership.
• Lots of other benefits upon arrival and during your stay.

For the community/institutions:

• The community receives relief from the services provided by the program participants.
• The community receives relief from the services ARA provide in the communities.
• The presences of program participants help the community establish international family relationships.
• The community gets to know and learn more about a foreign culture.

For the host family:

• Part of the program fees go into the host family program.
• Host families are automatic ARA international family relationship members.
• The host families are part of the community, and hence benefit a lot from the community projects.
• Host families participate in ARA's outbound program.