Combo Placements
Combo placements are usually a combination of a language course, volunteering, and travelling. It combines a number of activities on your gap year to give you a unique insight to a country.
Combo placements cater for people who want a little bit of everything on their gap year. The volunteering can be in any field, from volunteering with animals to working with children.
Combo placements are fantastic for personal development, especially as you learn the basics of a language. Once you have completed your language course and volunteering placement, you are free to travel around and get to know the area, putting your new language skills into action.
Combo placements really give 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...
Volunteering is an amazing experience, not only for you, but for everyone you work with.
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.
Costa Rica Experience
Countries:
Costa Rica
Duration:
from 4 Weeks
Explore Costa Rica’s most incredible sights and get first-hand experience of local life! Take in everything from the Arenal Volcano to the idyllic Bocas del Toro islands and get ready for a truly Costa Rican adventure...
Community, Environmental and Adventure Projects
Countries:
Costa Rica,
Nicaragua
Duration:
from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks
Raleigh is a youth and sustainable development charity that provides adventure and challenge expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages. Our unique expedition to Costa Rica & Nicaragua offers the opportunity to visit and contribute to the communities of two very different Central American countries. You will combine first hand experience of remote community life in Nicaragua, one of the region’s poorest countries, with the rewards of worthwhile environmental projects and challenging treks in the amazing bio diverse area of Costa Rica.
Call: 0845 344 7600
Volunteer in stunning national parks in Central America
Countries:
Costa Rica,
Nicaragua
Duration:
from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks
Join an incredible Raleigh International expedition and work in Costa Rica's National Parks, volunteers live and work alongside park rangers to help maintain and improve the national parks. These environmental projects are hugely important in helping to preserve natural resources and habitats and protect important species of plants and animals.
Over 30’s Rural Teaching and Community Project, Thanda Game Reserve South Africa
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
Change the lives of people in a rural community through teaching, building projects and sustainability initiatives while living in the heart of a Big 5 game reserve! You'll also get plenty of time to go on game drives and see some of Africa's famous wildlife.
Harare Street Children Outreach Programme
Countries:
Zimbabwe
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
This street children outreach programme provides basic education and day-care services for children and young people living on the streets of Harare. We aim to develop relationships with these children, to encourage them to go to school, assist them with leaving the streets and provide a safe place for them to get food and shelter.
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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.
Kariega Game Reserve
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
The Kariega Conservation Project is designed to offer volunteers the opportunity to be involved in all conservation related projects on the reserve. You may start seeing yourself as “assistant conservation managers” as all of the work done by you will improve the quality of the reserve. *Please note – all prices for this placement programme have been held for 2013!* The data collected by you will be utilized by Kariega management in making important conservation decisions for the reserve. As a volunteer you therefore derive a good deal of satisfaction from your work, as your efforts directly contributes to improving the reserve.
Guatemala House Building Volunteers
Countries:
Guatemala
Duration:
from 2 Weeks
Help to change the lives of entire communities building homes in Guatemala. You can help to provide impoverished locals with safe and secure accommodation that will give them a better standard of life.
Volunteer in Peru with Kiya Survivors from just £665!
Countries:
Peru
Duration:
from 1 Weeks to 24 Months
Volunteer with Kiya Survivors, an Anglo-Peruvian charity which supports abused, abandoned and disabled children in Peru. Our well-established volunteer programme is the perfect opportunity for you to gain further experience working with children and young people with special needs while discovering a new culture and practicing your Spanish! In your free time, you'll also have the opportunity to explore this beautiful country through our optional organised excursions!
Volunteer on Community Projects in Bali
Countries:
Indonesia
Duration:
from 1 Weeks to 3 Months
Unique to the International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) Bali program, volunteers can join Healthcare Education or Environmental Education projects, working in local schools and educating and engaging the children in basic hygiene practices or clean-up activities.
Turtles +Tribes + Teaching
Countries:
Costa Rica
Duration:
from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks
Winner of Best Gap Year Company in the Sunday Times "tour op challenge"
Zimbabwe Elephant Conservation and Wildlife Research
Countries:
Zimbabwe
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks
Get involved with on the ground field research and experience the sights and sounds of Africa's wilderness right outside your tent! Help monitor some of Zimbabwe's most remote and beautiful areas and work amongst one the highest concentrations of elephant in Africa. A magical, off-the-beaten track experience not available anywhere else! If you're a keen photographer, this is definitely the programme for you!
Masai Mara Lion, Wildlife Research and Conservation Project
Countries:
Kenya
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks
Most volunteers embark on their projects with the hopes of experiencing real community life in their host countries and to make an impact on their environments. This project does both things in a unique way. It is based in Kenya's finest Safari locations; The Masai Mara, which is home to the gentle Masai Community and it aims to reduce conflict between the people living on the land and the wildlife in the area. Volunteers work to preserve the culture, the land and the vast array of species living together in this region.
South Africa Wild Dogs Conservation Project
Countries:
South Africa
Duration:
from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks
Volunteer in the South African Bush and help protect the fascinating wild dog species from extinction
