Gap Year 2010

Natasha Rodney

I've always wanted to travel and immerse myself in another culture whilst giving something positive in return  

Grace and Jason

Jason is setting up a cycle workshop training centre whilst Grace will be teaching in schools.

Sara Williams

I hope, through workshops, to be involved in helping with education in some of the most disadvantaged sectors within the country.

Sally Greenwood

I will be working with children in Ghana, particularily in orphanages and in their schooling. 

Kyle and Sarah

We are going to Kalimpong, West Bengal to help with English and sports lessons in a Dr Graham's Homes school

Rebekah Faldon

My adventure in Big Bend, Swaziland is about to start with a busy year ahead teaching in the High School, two primary schools and helping out in an orphanage.

Laura Brown

I will be working as an education consultant in the Ugandan PEAS office in Kampala and visiting their 5 existing schools.

Ysabelle Thackery

I will be working as a class room assistant in a disabled school working with small groups of children teaching basic maths, colours, art, sensory stimulation

Timothy Buchan

I will be teaching in the poorer suburbs of the city and living with a Chilean family who only speak Spanish.  I will be teaching 4-17 year olds in a school with around 550 pupils.

Keziah Berelson

I will be working at the Good Hope Initiative in Kisweera village, just outside of Mityana, where I will be teaching literacy and numeracy skills to 4-7 year olds.

Jordan Wilson

I am going to follow in Hazel's Footprints by going to teach art, music and sport at Otjikondo School in Namibia for my Gap Year.

Sarah King

When my team and I get to Brazil, we will be working in an already established Church centre in the slums, which among other things aims to get the children of Sau Paulo off the street.

Angus Yellowlees

I see this placement as an opportunity to share many of the skills and techniques that I have learned throughout my school years. A succession of brilliant English teachers has shown me the importance of communication, and I hope to pass this on to others.

Gap Year 2009

Patricia da Silva

I will be working within an Ugandan rural community helping to educate youth groups on general and sexual health. 

Jemma Collins

As well as teaching in a Secondary School there will be opportunities to develope extra-curricular work with the students.

Portia Bailey

I will be working in an orphanage for my year, many of whose kids are HIV positive and also liasing with others who are living at home whilst being monitored.

James Macrae

I am going to a school in the North of Thailand to teach classes of over 50 in a school of 2,700 pupils and hope to get up into the hills to help in some of the ethnic villages.

Kristina Dunning

I am going to Equador for two consecutive 4 month placements to teach in a Primary school in the morning and a kid's centre in the afternoon.

Alice Hunter

I am going to a school in Dingxi, north-west China to teach conversational English to 12 to 20 year olds.

Rhanna Wills

I am going to Durbanville in South Africa to help in a children's home for my year out. 

Kirsty Morton

I am a post-grad of Dundee and am taking a year out in Isiola, a town in Eastern Kenya teaching in a nursery.  Meanwhile a Kenyan volunteer will work in the UK as a reciprocal arrangement.  

Roseanne Rogers

I am going to Guyana to teach maths and science in a school in the town of Orealla.

Caroline Bewell

I am going to teach art, sport and music at the Stommel's Otjikondo Primary School in Northern Namibia.

Gap Year 2008

Susan Molloy

I am going to work in a shelter for abused and abandoned children in Umtata, South Africa.

Hazel Leslie

We wish Hazel well as she is off to well-known Otjikondo School in Namibia to take over from Ellie Baker

David Cartwirght

I am going to Thailand where I will be teaching children along with two side projects teaching English in the local community and in a minority village. 

Christopher Dunn

I will be going to Dora Secondary School in Guyana to teach maths and science subjects for my year.

Nicola Cameron

I am going to teach in Bulenga Modern Primary School just outside Kampala in Uganda and will also be involved in extra-curricular activities after school hours. 

Sarah Bennet

I will be teaching some of the most deprived children in Cambodia and also helping set up a curriculum and develope teacher training.

Janet Crossley

After 5 years at Edinburgh Uni, I'm ready for some real action and am looking forward to heading out to Nigeria under the VSO Youth fro Development Programme.

Rose Walsh

I have joined HFT as an honorary Footprinter so you'll be getting two reports from Otjikondo now.  One from Hazel and one from me!