Gap year & Travel News

Hi Alice, The leapers have been doing great and for a smaller group they are incredibly motivated and positive. It has been a pleasure working with them the past three weeks and we have acoplished a lot. Week one the group jumped right into to beach clean ups, one at Playa Melissa and one at [...]

Hi Guy and everyone else in the office, We finished up the cabin! Yeah! And just in time for some tourists who stayed the night in the cabin the same day we finished it. This last week has been a whirlwind of work with hammers flying (not literally, don’t worry) and saws cutting, as well [...]

Hi Michaela, The leapers have just arrived at Camp Mantonani (well actually on the 24th May). They have started working on the Kintergarten where their tasks were to put up the post structures for the building. They’e also taking part in our Marine Conservation Program and English teaching at the primary school this week. Everyone’s [...]

Hi Guy, Thanks for this. I feel that everything has gone really well with this group as far as the volunteer work is concernd and I think we did some really great projects that made a difference here in Venezuela. I feel that the project on Punto Morena had the biggest impact on the community, [...]

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 [...]

Hi Guy, The group are doing really well and are all in Zanzibar at the moment, i believe they will be back with us on Thursday. Over the past weeks they have been working at the Neema Children’s Centre and will be working at Don Bosco Centre starting this week. Verena will be coming home [...]

I had a dilemma during my A levels earlier this year. My previous plans which would have filled up the entire summer were cancelled unexpectedly and I had 2 months free with nothing to keep me busy before university. Being in the middle of revision and A levels, I didn’t have the time to plan [...]

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 [...]

As we move on from Makongeni we are all reflecting back on the great times we have had over such a short space of time. Our imaculately constructed quarter-finished floor could have been tainted by no other than our leader Muse who absent-mindedly tiptoes over it not so like a delicate mosquito but more so [...]

If your in your last year at school or college this year then your Gap Year is getting nearer and nearer (yayyyyyy)!! And if like me your not one to lay by a pool all day everyday whilst overseas (although a good few days on a palm fringed beach never goes a miss), then id [...]