Gap Year 2011

Susannah Morcowitz

I will be working for a year in Bangalore helping to teach people with disabilities.

Katie-Mairi King

I will be teaching on the small Pacific island of Vanuata in the Primary School.

Rachel Taylor

I am going to the shanty town of Pachacutec to help in two scools and the local church with youth work.

Kemi Ami-Agbaje

I hope to make a difference for the Fijians by offering help in broadening their leadership and training skills.

Emma Campbell

I am going to be spending a year volunteering at Thembelihle, a place of safety providing critical love, care and rehabilitation for over twenty abused and abandoned children from 6-16 years of age in Mthatha, South Africa.

Kirsty Butt

Our main role is to help with the running of the children's home, looking after the kids, whilst organising different activities to keep them busy (and out of mischief!).

Astrid Wells

I will be using my medical skills in a totally new environment and educating health to children.

Maya Walker

I will be spending 12 months volunteering in Thembelihle; a home of safety for 25 children, in Mthatha, South Africa, with the charity Project Trust.

Amy Sked

I am going to Durbanville to help out in a children's home with general care, homework, activities and behavioural needs.

Hannah Moffatt

I'm going to Peru to help look after children in an orphanage.

Gap Year 2010

Caitlin Ripley

I will be teaching English for my Gap Year in Mea Sai in Thailand - scary thought!

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.

Natalie Smyth

Coincidentally, I'm taking over Alice Hunters project, who was a footprinter last year, so I'll be taking over teaching conversational English lessons in Dingxi No.1 Middle School in Gansu

Anna Seymour

I am going to Chile to teach in a school in Santiago.

Sophie Bryant

I will be helping to teach pre-school children in North East Brazil in a project set up by PEPE.