Environment

Countries: Cambodia, Malaysia
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

This activity-packed one-month gap expedition is ideal for volunteers who are keen to take on a challenge and support this very special community project alongside other international volunteers. This programme gives you the chance to live as part of a Khmer community and work on ongoing projects to improve the standard of living for the villagers. Current projects involve supporting an orphanage, construction, teaching and sustainable farming initiatives.

Countries: Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Months

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.

Countries: Ecuador
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Your Ecuador gap year volunteer programme offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to work and make a difference in some of the most striking and unforgettable locations on the planet. Nowhere else in South America can you do and see so much in such a short amount of time. Every South America gap year programme includes time in the Andes as well as the chance to learn (or brush up on your) Spanish. If you stay with us for longer than a month, you will also get the chance to work on the stunning Pacific coast and visit the Amazon. Our main camp is based in tropical cloud forest and all our locations offer you the perfect mix of community, wildlife, environment, culture and adventure, all within a day’s drive of the capital. There are unlimited optional activities for the adventurous, from trekking through volcanic foothills, exploring the Amazon by canoe to surfing the waves, or scuba diving.

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.

Countries: Guatemala
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: Madagascar
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Join the Azafady Pioneer programme and help some of the poorest communities on earth. Be prepared for adventurous journeys, long walks in remote forests and beautiful project sites. The work may be tough at times but rest assured it is incomparably rewarding – we invite you to be more than just a tourist!

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Winner of Best Gap Year Company - Sunday Times Combine life in the saddle searching for wild game through the african bush with helping on life changing conservation and community projects.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Experience the best that Kenya has to offer. This gap year programme offers a great mix of community and wildlife conservation activities for those volunteers that are keen to take on a challenge and support our ongoing projects.

Countries: Nepal
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Volunteering with Letz Live allows you a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a culture unlike anything you have experienced before. As a Letz Live volunteer, you will live and work alongside locals and learn to understand their way of life. With continued and unending support from the Letz Live crew you can rest assured that your contributions are going to a worthy cause.

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.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 2 Weeks

In rural Kenya, around 70% of people are living below the poverty line and access to proper sanitation, clean drinking water, healthcare and an education are often limited or non-existent. Based from Camp Kenya’s original camp in the village of Makongeni, this trip gives those in the medical profession a chance to experience caring for people in a new and challenging environment.

Countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Russia
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 24 Weeks

Volunteering abroad is a plan many people have for their Gap Year. Like many companies ESL Language Travel offers the chance to take part in a wide range of volunteer placements all over the World. The different with our programmes is that you also take an intensive language course before starting your volunteer placement. This means you have a far greater degree of fluency in the language of the country you find yourself in, and therefore are able to contribute more to, and get more out of your volunteer placement.

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.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 5 Weeks to 5 Weeks

Today 1 child dies from a water related disease every 21 seconds. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Be part of the solution volunteer with Quest Overseas and help in the construction of a life changing sand dam providing 2-20 million litres of clean water.