Gap Year 2008

Norny Merry and Olaf Williamson

We will be helping to improve marketing, communications and organisation within a NGO out there by using the skills we have aquired in the voluntary sector in Scotland.

Masoma Sherazi.

I will be working with all the UN agencies in Namibia to help inplement the three-fold objectives of health and education, access to food and HIV and AIDS.  

Francine Morgan

I will be assisting in schools, working with disadvantaged groups and am hoping to immerse myself fully in the local culture. 

Claire and Henry Johnson

Claire, as a professional musician, will be offering her skills on the musical front, whilst Henry will be helping with IT training, promotion and fundraising.

Hannah Pavey

I am heading to Bangalore for 6 months, one of India’s largest cities! There are almost 8 million people living in Bangalore and it is one of the fastest growing cities in Asia! The city may boast a relaxing ‘safe haven’ for travellers but is also home to over 800 slum areas. I am going to teach at one of four schools run by the Parikrma Foundation and this widespread poverty is

Helen Stockdale

I will be working with the Frontline Development Trust on helping to educate people about the HIV/Aids pandemic.

Michelle Clarke

I will be working in the Orissa area of India researching the situation with disabled people and how they can be integrated more fully into society.

Gap Year 2007

Tom Longden

I am the third Longden to go with PT following in the Footsteps of my father and my sister and I am going out to Chile for my Gap Year.

Lauren Harris

I will be working in a government run school in Sabah, East Malaysia, teaching English and helping out with extra-curricular activities. 

Alice Kirby

Alice is from Kent and is going out to Katy Allen's Village Education Project on the foothills of Kilimanjaro who HFT  funded in 2006 so that they could buy more text books for the sachool children.

Sarah Kier

Sarah, from Bedfordshire is going out to Malawi to teach English, Maths, History, Geography and Extra curricular activities in a rural area of the country. 

Tom Elphinstone

Tom has planned his Gap Year before going to Oxford with a trip to the Rift Valley area of Kenya and then, for a contrast, on to India for the rest of his trip.

Rachel Griffiths

Rachel has organised her own Gap Year in a school called the Monte Azul Community in the slums of Sao Paulo and heads out on Old Years Night for 7 months. 

Claire Law

Claire from Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders is going with GAP to Ghana to teach in a primary school having done a TEFL course in preparation of her trip.

Jenny Crisp

Jenny has decided to take a change in direction for a while after the tragic loss of her fiance in a car accident which of course is a decision we ourselves can relate closely to and are only too pleased to be able to give her some help.  

Ellie Baker

I am going to help with Art, Music, Sport and English at Otjikondo School where Hazel was a Gapper and HFT gives an annual donation to.   

Isabelle Coad

I am going back to Uganda where I was last year for six months to help set up a pre-school in the Amani Baby Orphanage in Jinja

Iain Marshall

I am going to Pune in the middle west of India to work in an orphanage village which translates as "City of Children".

Natalie Lovell and Morven Paterson

We both applied to HFT for funding and, as we are going to the same project, they have asked if we would agree to being "one" Footprinter!

Alice Arnott

I will be working in Bombita teaching in a school for Haitian refugee children.

Nicola Blackburn

With my Physiotherapy background I am going to teach and work with kids who are handicapped and have learning difficulties.  

Fiona Brown

I will be working in a local orphanage near the capital the capital Phnom Penh for HIV+ children and teaching English.