Career Breaks & Grown Up Gap Years
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Projects Abroad - Gap Year Abroad - Over 100 generic projects for your gap year - volunteering work with local communities.
Travellers Worldwide - Time out? Retired? Kids left the nest? Are you after a Grown-Up Adventure? Look no further! From walking with lions, to teaching enthusiastic children, to care work or language learning programs or cultural courses from tango to meditation - have a life changing experience with Travellers! All ages welcomed.
Peace Brigades International - PBI has branches in 15 countries and recruits volunteers to act as international observers and to accompany local human rights activists in conflict areas.
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A Career Break - Less about travelling and more about negating the effects of taking a career break such as paying off the mortgage and keeping up your pension.
ACDI/VOCA - ACDI/VOCA has close to 40 years experience sending professionals overseas as volunteer consultants providing technical assistance with field projects in agribusiness, enterprise development, community development, food security and financial services. They seek mid to late career professionals willing to donate their time while ACDI/VOCA cover and make arrangements for travel and living expenses. While this website has Azerbaijan listed on its search facility at the time of writing there were no volunteer opportunities for the country.
African Conservation Experience - Varied conservation work on game reserves in southern Africa. Your tasks may include game capture, wildlife veterinary work and alien plant control. ACE welcome applications from people taking career breaks or sabbaticals or from retirees.
Beso - Shares experience and expertise with developing economies by responding to requests for assistance from private and public sector organisations unable to afford commercial consultants. For example, Derek Evans, a Beso volunteer with over 30 years' experience in the healthcare industry, helped a struggling Guatemalan company to consolidate and negotiate bank loans, rationalise its product line, improve its business plan preparation and resolve cash flow problems.
Breakaway - An amalgamation of opinions and ponderings on the topic of sabbaticals.
Briefcase to Backpack - Travel advice for career breaks and sabbaticals by a team of corporate America escapees.
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers - Week or weekend long conservation projects in Britain. Also international working holidays.
Cactus Language - Language courses, TEFL courses, homestays and community projects around the world. Not just restricted to students, the company offer programmes for both professionals and retirees. The website also includes examples of how to write your CV in a foreign language.
Careerbreakcafe.com - Advice and ideas for taking a career break in a magazine style format.
The Career Break Site - An independent career break website to search for a career break, get help and advice planning it, find inspiration, take a survey or enter competitions.
Cathedral Camps - Help to clean and restore historic cathedrals and churches in the UK.
Cuba Solidarity Campaign - Organises work brigades to Cuba twice annually and is for people who wish to experience the real Cuba and be more than just a tourist.
Earthwatch Institute - Promotes sustainable conservation of our natural resources. No age limits or special skill required to volunteer.
EF Education - Languages courses for adults and professionals.
Escape 101 - Sabbaticals, career breaks and lifestyle design.
Gap Year for Grown Ups - A division of the Work and Travel Company. From four weeks to 12 months.
Global Vision International - A UK based organisation which sources volunteers to international charities, non-profits and research organisations.
Global Volunteers - Send more than 1,500 volunteers to 21 countries. American taxpayers may deduct service program fees and expenses on their federal income tax.
Global Yacht Racing - UK based Global Yacht Racing is offering people with a passion for adventure the opportunity to experience ocean yacht racing. Raise money for charity by getting sponsorship for your crew berth and fund your yacht racing adventure at the same time.
Golden Gap Years - List specialist gap year and career break organisations that can help you plan volunteer placements, tours and treks, and tailor made holidays anywhere in the world.
Greenforce - Wildlife conservation projects to Borneo, the Bahamas and Fiji, Ecuador, Tanzania and Nepal.
HorizonCosmopolite - HorizonCosmopolite offers internship programs abroad, volunteer work opportunities on every continent and Spanish immersion in Central America. The programs are designed for any age groups, all nationalities and rarely ask for specific knowledge or qualifications.
Independent Travellers World - Large UK travel show held around January to March each year. The show usually includes talks, seminars and workshops, many of interest to gappers.
Inti Wara Yassi - This organisation runs a wildlife refuge in Bolivia where hundreds of volunteers from all over the world work each year. Minimum stay is 15 days.
i to i International Projects Ltd - Numerous and varied programmes in over 20 countries around the world for 18 to 80 year olds.
Language Practice - Language site where you can listen to different language stories. A good way to shape up your language skills before you go away.
The Leap - Varied programmes including voluntary placements living and working in eco-tourism, conservation and community projects for three months in Africa. The Leap encourages career breaks. Approximately 25% of 'Leapers' are over 30.
Madventurer - Combine award winning team development projects in rural areas with adventurous overland travel across four continents and build a Madventurer itinerary that fits into your time, budget and aspirations. Programmes for gap years, summer break or career breaks.
People Tree Gap Year Placement - Among the projects offered is elephant conservation placements for volunteers that want to learn how to become an elephant driver or a Mahout as it is called in India.
Peace Brigades International - PBI has branches in 15 countries and recruits volunteers to act as international observers and to accompany local human rights activists in conflict areas. They began working in Guatemala in 1983 and have run projects in El Salvador and Sri Lanka, Columbia, Indonesia, West Timor, Haiti, Mexico and the Balkans.
The Pod Site - Two week to six month career breaks undertaking voluntary work and personal development with charities, schools, hospitals, animal centres and other organisations in a developing world environment.
Projects Abroad - Over 100 generic projects for your gap year incuding volunteer work with local communities.
Travellers Worldwide - Time out? Retired? Kids left the nest? Are you after a grown up adventure? From walking with lions, to teaching children, to care work or language learning programmes or cultural courses from tango to meditation. All ages welcomed.
Travel Tree - Career breaks abroad.
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) - Skilled volunteers recruited to work in the developing world earning local wages.
WorkSmart - A site by the TUC covering our rights in the work place. Includes advice on career breaks and sabbaticals.
WWOOF Australia - Organic farming organisation. Other countries also available.
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