Gap Year & Voluntary Work in Bulgaria

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
BTCV works with partners in Bulgaria to provide conservation working holidays.
www.btcv.org.uk

Challenges Worldwide
Challenges Worldwide matches the business skills and experience of volunteers to the needs of their partners around the world to help them deliver better services for their local communities. CWW typically works with volunteers who have a minimum of three years work experience and is always on the lookout for volunteers with backgrounds in law, finance, accounting, communications, marketing, HR, IT, business planning, management and administration.
www.challengesworldwide.com

Child and Adult Support Team
Created in 2003 in order to support orphaned and abandoned children in Romania, CAST has expanded to a number of other countries including neighbouring Bulgaria. Both students and specialist volunteers are welcome to participate.
www.cast-uk.com

Ecovolunteer
The Bulgarian programme involves travelling to the Pirin mountains to help in the marking, measuring and photographing of sheep, horses and dogs that belong to the Karakachan people, a group of Balkan nomads and one of the oldest ethnic groups in Europe. Volunteers also help to take care of the animals, especially when there are lambs, foals and puppies. Additionally your help is appreciated in preparing food for the winter, cutting hay, feeding of and caring for the young animals etc. Assistance is mostly required from January to March, when the young animals are born, and the work is almost 24 hours a day.
www.ecovolunteer.org

UNA Exchange
UNA Exchange promotes and supports international understanding, cultural exchange and community development whilst at the same time enabling volunteers’ personal growth & development.
www.unaexchange.org

Volunteer Action for Peace
A UK based charity organisation which works towards creating and preserving international peace, justice and human solidarity for people and their communities. At the time of writing no projects were found in Bulgaria but the situation seems to change fairly often.
www.vap.org.uk

Volunteers for Peace
An American international volunteer organisation that sometimes has placements to Bulgaria.
www.vfp.org

WorldTeach
WorldTeach Bulgaria volunteers will spend the summer in urban and rural areas, teaching teenage and younger orphans English, computer literacy, and practical life skills. The programme runs from mid June to mid August and volunteers should be fluent English speakers between the ages of 18 and 74. Interest in working with underprivileged youth, teaching, community participation and development are musts, as are flexibility and patience.
www.worldteach.org

Youth for Understanding
YFU is a non profit NGO that offers young people around the world the chance to spend the summer or school year living in another country.
www.yfu.org

WWOOF Bulgaria
Part of the WWOOF network that helps volunteers to work on organic farms.
www.wwoofbulgaria.org

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