Community Projects
Community projects are a great way to spend your gap year. There are hundreds of opportunities abroad; you can help build a school in China, teach children in India, volunteer on community health projects in South Africa or on women's development initiatives in Tanzania. The only thing that’s limiting you is your ambition and imagination.
Whatever your skills or amount of time you have available to offer, there are children who will benefit from you volunteering.
Community projects can be an amazing experience, not only for you, but for everyone you work with. Not only will you experience local life that only backpackers and tourists can only dream about, but you’ll contribute to society and make a difference to people’s lives.
Volunteering really gives you the opportunity to get to know a country, to become a part of a community and to learn valuable skills for life. You’ll gain a lot more through volunteering in a country than just passing through it...
Nursery & After School Club in Tanzania
Countries:
Tanzania
Duration:
from 2 Weeks
Volunteer in a nursery in Tanzania and help young children with the early development of social skills and learning. Lead a wide range of activities including singing, arts & crafts and sports games with a local after school club.
Call: 08452178220
Combine Internship + Volunteering in Ecuador
Countries:
Ecuador
Duration:
from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks
Winner Best Gap Year Company - Sunday Times. Combine a 6 week internship in either medicine, teaching, care or business based in Quito, Ecuador + 3 weeks of volunteering + 1 adventure week.
Call: 0845 344 7514
Community Projects in Borneo
Countries: Malaysia
Borneo community projects are based in some of the remotest and poorest parts of Sabah. Volunteers will live and work amongst rural communities on worthwhile sustainable development projects.
Law & Human Rights in Mongolia
Countries:
Mongolia
Duration:
from 4 Weeks
Projects Abroad Law and Human Rights placements in Mongolia are based in the fascinating city of Ulaanbaatar, one the most remote capitals in the world.
Local community Volunteering South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 3 Weeks
Volunteer with underprivileged children in the local community. Our unique, all-inclusive programmes give you the opportunity to make a difference, whilst experiencing the beauty South Africa has to offer with our activity filled programmes.
Coach sports abroad
Duration:
from 2 Weeks
You can help improve the lives of disadvantaged people all across the developing world by joining a Projects Abroad Sports placement. Volunteers will be responsible for making sport available to all. This placement is ideal for anyone with a passion for sports, regardless of previous coaching experience.
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Kenya medical and community Volunteering programs.
Countries:
Kenya
Duration:
from 2 Days to 8 Weeks
Kenya medical and community Volunteering programs.
Help protect turtles on Costa Rica’s tropical beaches
Countries:
Costa Rica
Duration:
from 1 Weeks to 3 Months
Patrol the Pacific beaches at night, watching for mother turtles to come up the beach to lay their eggs. Help baby turtles scramble back to the sea after their hatching- hundreds of baby turtles is a sight to behold! Volunteer in the local community, teaching or looking after the kids while conserving the paradise of Costa Rica.
Call: 0845 344 7615
Environmental or Community volunteering projects, Borneo
Countries:
Malaysia
Duration:
from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks
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Teach in Bangalore
Countries:
India
Duration:
from 4 Weeks
Teaching in India as a community school teacher in Bangalore, gives gap year volunteers an opportunity to help children from the poorest backgrounds to learn and develop to their fullest potential. As a volunteer travelling to teach English in India you have an opportunity to make a real difference in Bangalore. There are a number of social and economic factors that keep local children from school, and the very presence of gap year volunteers teaching English abroad, motivates students to attend.
African Wildlife Photography & Conservation, South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 4 Weeks to 12 Weeks
This project offers volunteers the opportunity to enhance their wildlife photography skills whilst contributing to vital conservation within the reserve. Our constantly growing photo database helps with education initiatives and proceeds go directly back into our core projects. Based at Thanda Private Game Reserve in South Africa.
Volunteer in Kenya
Countries:
Kenya
Duration:
from 14 Days to 365 Days
Helping Kenya is offering £20 off the application fee if you mention this listing on gapyear.com.
Teach English in South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 4 Weeks
Join a Projects Abroad teaching placement in South Africa, and gain invaluable teaching experience in a challenging yet rewarding environment. We offer opportunities to teach English, IT, Literacy and Maths in the beautiful city of Cape Town. Teach in South Africa, and leave with an outstanding CV and unforgettable memories.
Building for communities in Thailand
Countries:
Thailand
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
Have the chance to really flex your muscles and put them to good use on this building project in the heart of Thailand knowing that at the end of it you will have been part of making a dream come true for 40 children when they move into their new home!
Call: 0845 344 7592
Gap Wrap India
Countries: India
Leave London and spend four weeks volunteering with underprivileged children in the stunning, coastal town of Goa.
