filed in Announcements, Gap Year on Oct.26, 2011
The Leap’s Alice is now a featured columnist for First Eleven Magazine, giving expert advice about gap year planning. This edition she tackles the age old Long term/Short term volunteering debate… Voluntary work offers a dazzling array of opportunities for those planning a gap year and is undoubtedly one of the most impressive activities a [...]
filed in Costa Rica on Dec.15, 2010
Last month The Leap’s intrepid Alice headed back to Costa Rica (it’s a tough job!) to see how the projects and communities we’ve been working with since 2006 are coming along. For the past 4 years lovely Leap volunteers have been working at El Silencio community on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, helping the [...]
filed in Announcements, Ecuador, Gap Year on Dec.06, 2010
These are some of the new faces working out in Ecuador to make sure you get the most out of your gap year experience. Lucas Emmerson is the volunteer coordinator at Yanapuma Foundation in Ecuador. His main responsibility is organizing the volunteer and group placements. In 2007 he completed his studies in International Development with [...]
filed in Venezuela on Oct.14, 2010
A Word from the Project Leader: Hola, The Venezuela team are doing really good, missing Jen but besides that happy and healthy. We have spent the last week working on a project that I think really meant a lot to us, we have been building a kitchen for a school in Punto Morena, a small [...]
filed in Kenya on Jul.13, 2010
Jambo from Kenya! Just went through Makongeni to see the Leap Summer Team and everyone is on good form! Last week the volunteers worked a little on the nursery school classrooms that we have been constructing this year and spending their afternoons teaching or helping out with various different Rafiki Kenia projects such as at [...]
