Social Work

Countries: Ecuador
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Our Projects Abroad Care placement in The Galapagos will provide volunteers with a hugely rewarding experience in a spectacular environment. Your role may involve practical care activities like washing and dressing the children, or playing games and sports. You might find yourself helping older children with their homework or even taking a group out on a trip.

Countries: Zimbabwe
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 20 Weeks

Be inspired and uplifted by the amazing children you will meet at this home for abandoned and abused children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Help create a safe, secure and loving home and give them the confidence to build a bright and hopeful future.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 3 Weeks

Spend your Gap Year with Gap Year South Africa raising an awareness of the importance of marine conservation as well as motivating behavioural change amongst young people in South Africa. Volunteers will learn to freedive in the ocean and take back their underwater experiences to our under-resourced partner school. Volunteers will be empowering peer educators and children through marine education and raising the awareness of the current and impending threats facing our oceans and environment.

Countries: Ghana
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Get involved and help improve conditions for local children on our Projects Abroad Care placement in Ghana. As a volunteer, you can provide much-needed love and attention, and put a smile on the face of a child.

Countries: Malaysia
Duration: from 1 Months to 3 Months

Explore jungle, beach and mountains on this exotic tropical island. Assist local communities in their day-to-day life, whilst being enriched by their culture and traditions that are unique to this island. This gap year expedition has been designed for volunteers who are keen to take on a challenge and support our ongoing community and environmental programmes alongside other international volunteers.

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: India
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. We don't believe you should pay a fortune for volunteer opportunities!

Countries: Kenya
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Flex those muscles and wok with impoverished communities in stunning Nakuru. You can help to give impoverished communities a brighter future building new homes and lending a hand with development projects.

Countries: Ethiopia
Duration: from 2 Weeks

Snow-capped mountains and smiling faces. Multi-coloured lakes and world-renowned churches. Welcome to the real Ethiopia – a far cry from the parched and barren land it’s portrayed as on the news. This is a vibrant and exciting country, where the locals are waiting to welcome you. Projects Abroad volunteers work with orphanages, day care centres, kindergartens and care homes in and around Addis Ababa.

Countries: Swaziland
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 4 Weeks

Although Swaziland is one of the smallest African countries it has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS and unemployment thus having a devastating effect on its people – many families have been left with the eldest child to cope with the task of bringing up their siblings in many cases in inadequate shelters. Help this project as it strives to build decent shelters for these children to live in.

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.

Countries: Nepal
Duration: from 1 Weeks to 24 Weeks

Volunteers working in the Orphanage Work Program in Nepal will render invaluable help by giving love and affection to the children, act as an older sibling to the children, teaching them basic conversational English, helping them in their school subjects, guiding them about personal hygiene and sanitation, taking them out on small excursions and engaging them in extracurricular activities and doing administrative work with the Orphanage staff.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Countries: Thailand
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Join this unique project in Northern Thailand that works with Hilltribe communities to educate families about the realities of Human Trafficking. Help within the camp that houses young girls (8-15 yrs old) who have been released from the industry, providing education, support and working on building and farming for the camp. Volunteer from 3 weeks to 3 months. For those interested in Photography, the project leader, who is also a photo-journalist, is running a 15-day photo-jourmalism camp and trek into the hilltribe communities that teaching technique whilst promoting the cause in February - a must-do for any photography enthusiasts. You can combine both or choose one to get involved with and make a real difference.

Countries: Cambodia
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Winner Best Gap Year - Sunday Times. Best of Both... live and work in Cambodia’s hippest town, Siem Reap + on the idyllic beaches at Sihanoukville - tackling conservation and community projects in each place.