Gap Year & Voluntary Work in Turkey

Adventureworks
Take a short walk in the Aladaglar Mountains.
www.adventureworks.co.uk

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
A Jewish humanitarian assistance organisation that provides assistance to Turkish Jews. As part of the year long Jewish Service Corps volunteers will work to promote Jewish identity and community development by organising and guiding others in Jewish educational, cultural, social, and religious programmes. Volunteers should ne mature self starters with a strong Jewish background. In return JDC provides round trip travel expenses, housing, health insurance, a monthly stipend for basic living expenses, and a small end of year bonus. Volunteers participate in an orientation programme in New York in June and in a mid year seminar overseas in January.
www.jdc.org

Bridges for Education
Teach conversational English in Turkey. An American organisation, teachers must have state certification or have successfully taught in a private school or college. Teaching assistants may include educated adults, student teachers and college students.
www.bridges4edu.org

Bugday Association for Supporting Ecological Living
A WWOOF group member with over 65 organic farms, requiring volunteer workers. You can volunteer and stay for free or pay a small fee and stay without working.
www.bugday.org

Conservation Volunteers Australia
Gallipoli has an emotional resonance for Australians and Kiwis and this is an opportunity to not only visit and pay their respects but to also make a contribution. Volunteers, who need not be from Australia and New Zealand, will assist with site preparation and crowd management, are involved with the Dawn Service near Anzac Cove, the Australian service at Lone Pine and the New Zealand service at Chunuk Bair.
www.conservationvolunteers.com.au

EKAD
An inexpensive volunteer programme in Belek, the second largest known sea turtle nesting area in the Mediterranean, that covers food, accommodation, transportation expenses within the project and from and to the airport. Volunteers are needed for between 15 days and three and a half months, and duties include monitoring sea turtle populations, determining and minimising the negative impacts on nests and hatchlings, providing tourists and the local people with information about sea turtles, creating a public awareness about the conservation of sea turtles, and encouraging contributions to the conservation studies.
www.ekad.org

English Language Teaching Assistant Program
ELTAP offers individuals, who are fluent in spoken English and willing to help people in another country learn English, the opportunity to volunteer as an English language teaching assistant in Turkey.
www.eltap.org

Experiment in International Living
EIL need people with English as their first language to volunteer 15 hours a week helping a host family with conversational English in exchange for food and accommodation. A range of other volunteer projects are available including environmental community work, agricultural work with Turkish villagers, working in a primary school or building a playground. Basic Turkish language classes are included during orientation to enable communication with the locals. EIL also have a homestay programme.
www.eiluk.org

Genctur
A local Turkish based organisation offering volunteer work on workcamps and organic farms.
www.genctur.com

GSM Youth Services Centre
Volunteer workcamps.
www.gsm-youth.org

Involvement Volunteers
An Australian organisation that places volunteers around the world including to Turkey. Non Australians welcome to apply.
www.volunteering.org.au

Operation Mobilisation
A Christian organisation, Operation Mobilisation works in more than 100 countries, motivating and equipping people to share God’s love with people all over the world.
www.uk.om.org

UNA Exchange
UNA Exchange promotes and supports international understanding, cultural exchange and community development whilst at the same time enabling volunteers’ personal growth and 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. Typically the work will involve either social work with the elderly, disabled or teenagers or renovation work.
www.vap.org.uk

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

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