Find childcare you can trust.
Aupa connects South African families with thoughtful, qualified au pairs. Real profiles, careful matching, and real conversations.
How it works
Three steps from sign-up to your first conversation.
- Step 1
Create your profile
Tell us about your home, your children, and the kind of help you're looking for. Au pairs share their experience, qualifications, and what they love.
- Step 2
Find your match
Smart matching highlights compatible profiles based on schedule, location, and preferences. You stay in the driver's seat.
- Step 3
Start a conversation
When two profiles match and both consent, messaging unlocks. No surprise contact details — privacy is the default.
Why families choose Aupa
Identity is verified once and stored encrypted. Counterparties never see the document number — only that it's been checked.
Hosted in the EU, POPIA + GDPR aligned, special-category data hidden by default. You decide what's shared, with whom.
We rank profiles based on the criteria you actually care about — never on data you didn't consent to share.
“We built Aupa because we couldn't find a service that took both childcare quality and data privacy seriously. We're parents first.”
Au pairs: tell your story.
Build a profile that highlights your experience, your love for working with children, and the families you'd thrive with. We charge au pairs nothing — and we won't share your details with anyone you haven't matched with.
Your data, treated with care.
Privacy isn’t a feature, it’s a foundation. Here’s how we live up to that.
Your data is processed in Germany on secure infrastructure. Cross-border transfers are documented and lawful.
Cross-border transfers →We follow both regimes by default. Information Officer, EU representative, and processor register are all public.
Read our privacy policy →Every consent toggle starts off. Withdraw any consent in one click and request your data at any time.
Manage cookie preferences →Built by parents and educators.
We started Aupa because we wanted a service we’d trust with our own families.
Founding member
Product & engineering
Parent of two. Cares about safe defaults and forms that don't bully you.
Founding member
Operations & compliance
Background in early-childhood education and POPIA implementation for SMEs.
Founding member
Design & research
Designed for au pair agencies in three countries before joining Aupa full-time.
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