Gap Year Volunteer Overseas

Gap Year Volunteer Work

Gap year volunteer placements are a great opportunity to make a worthwhile contribution to communities less fortunate than our own.

Volunteering for all or part of your gap year in one of 24 third world countries will be a unique life and travel experience. At the same time as making a genuine contribution to the community in which you live, you will understand and fall in love with amazing countries, make friends for life and learn much about your self and the world around you.

Make your gap year a life changing experience

Volunteering while you travel is a wonderful way to experience different cultures, live like a local, while making a huge difference to the communities you are working in. You can work with deprived children in orphanages in Cambodia, teach English in schools in Nepal, help on conservation projects in the heart of the Amazon rainforest or build houses in rural African communities.

Gap Year Experience

If you are hoping to study medicine or law in the future, you can take part in placements in hospitals, legal firms and human rights organisations in the third world.

Many gap year students will gain invaluable experience shadowing doctors and watching procedures in hospitals and clinics in countries such as India or Mongolia.

Working with human rights organisations in Africa will give gap year law students an amazing perspective on the application of the law to the plight of refugees, victims of corruption, police brutality and election rigging. These are incredible experiences to have when embarking on your studies.

Gap Year Volunteer Projects – More Info

India Care project

To find out more about gap year volunteer experiences you can read some stories from previous gap year volunteers here and also follow the links to find out more about our work in these countries.

Projects Abroad was established in 1992 and in 2008 sent over 4000 volunteers to worthwhile and constructive placements around the world. We believe that a better understanding of the world out there is crucial to a more just and peaceful world for the future.

Projects Abroad offers gap year volunteer work which is constructive, rewarding, safe, well supported and valuable. We hope you’ll choose to join us.