Gap year & Travel News

Panic…Rushing…. Confusion!!!! On your Gap Year and suddenly realized its almost the beginning of 2012, and you haven’t got it sorted yet?????….. If this is you, look no further; we at Leap Towers have got it covered!! Our January teams are filling up nicely and some of them are now at full capacity but it’s [...]

I’m happy to announce that here at The Leap we are in engaged in a long-term love affair (entirely platonic!) with the East African Country of Kenya. It’s where the big boss Guy grew up and where I spent 5 incredible and life changing months of my gap year as a Leaper. Kenya is an [...]

Overview of Solo Botswana Trip 03 July – 27 September 2011 – Elise Shaw The tangerine coloured sun rose magestically over the Makgadikgadi National Park waking the animals, birds, guests and staff from their slumber. So began another day in magical Botswana. The three months as a solo volunteer placement with Desert & Delta Safaris [...]

Hi to Guy and everyone in the office! Mbasaa here (Tanzania project co-ordinator), So far the September team have been working really hard and enjoying every minute! During the first and second week of placement the leapers have been volunteering at the Faraja Women’s Development Center, focusing on construction, as well as assisting mother’s at [...]

Sophie Mara – Serian Camp, August – October 2011. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SERIAN VOLUNTEER 6.30am Wake up to the sound of the Mara river flowing at quite a pace just feet away from my tent, It has rained every night since I arrived at Serian’s mobile camp, so the river is [...]

Hi Guy and all in the office. Its been another successful week with community work. The girls taught at Shama College and spent some time at Sivudendela home based care. This week ahead is conservation week and they will be doing a few mixed projects including bush clearing after the fire that come through just [...]

Hi to Guy and everyone in the office! The girls are doing really well. They are now about to finish their third week and are now doing painting work at the Moshono government school. Last week they finished doing construction work at the Faraja Center. Mbasa and I are putting an impact report together with [...]

Hi Guy, Hope you’re well back in the UK office! The entire group have been in Mwaluganje (the elephant sanctuary) this week and just spoke to their Program Coordinator. It’s been a great week as they celebrated Peace One Day on the 21st September at Ngonzini Primary School with the idea of human-wildlife cooperation and [...]

Hi Michaela, All is going well here and the group have just returned after the mozambique excursion. It was a fantastic trip, everyone had the most amazing time and as always Mozambique is just as beautiful as i remember!! In the week leading up to mozambique the group where in the community at a school [...]

HI Guy, The group are all getting on really well and everyone’s mixing really well too! We are focusing on two main projects right now in Muhaka – finishing desks for a little nursery school that we just finished renovating and the other group is focusing on making an eco-house on our new and most [...]