filed in Africa, Announcements, Tanzania on Sep.23, 2011
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 [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Kenya on Sep.23, 2011
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 [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Sep.22, 2011
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 [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Sep.07, 2011
Hi Guy and everyone else in the office, All is going well here and the team have settled in really well! This past week the girls have been busy with conservation work. They have been involved in the following: •bush clearing of a burnt area after a bush fire that come through Kwa Madwala. These [...]
filed in Announcements on Aug.25, 2011
With University places getting more and more competitive as time goes on – more and more people are opting out of uni! With an accumulating debt of around £25,000 on tuition fee’s alone at the end of a 3 year course, who can really blame you. But don’t panic too much, it’s certainly not the [...]
filed in Announcements, Ecuador, Gap Year, South America on May.24, 2011
Izzy Talks began her journey out in beautiful Ecuador this January with one of our Leap teams, spending 3 weeks high up in The Andes, 3 weeks deep in the Amazon Rainforest and 3 weeks at the coast for the ultimate Latin American experience! Apart from wanting to experience the amazing environments, people and culture [...]
filed in Gap Year, South America, Venezuela on Jan.29, 2011
Hola everyone at The Leap! Since our last blog we have had a very exciting time here in Playa Colorada. It started with a big group of us from Jakera heading to Puerto La Cruz to watch the Caribes de Anzoutigue vs. Leones de Caracas baseball match which had an amazing atmosphere and we all [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Asia, Gap Year, South America on Aug.20, 2010
According to the daily telegraph Gap Year bookings for school leavers will rise by up to 150% this year! Applications to British Universities are up by £250,000 but with 6000 fewer places available than last year, it is believed that up to 200,000 British students may miss out on their places, despite having secured the [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Aug.19, 2010
Hi Guy, I hope your holiday was good! The past week was a huge success with loads and loads crammed in! The team did 4×4 driving, shooting, elephant groom day, micro lighting, horse back safari, survival night and Swaziland day trip all in the past week! We also went on a farewell game drive whilst [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Kenya, Solo on Aug.18, 2010
Hello all – here is my latest take. I’ll post some new photos on facebook shortly. Cheers, Moritz Well, it’s official…I’m completely caught in the tornado that is the Kenyan tourism industry in high season…’round and ‘round I go….where it stops nobody knows. The wind that whips through the Mara every morning starts the spinning, [...]
