Entries Tagged ‘Gap Year’:
filed in Announcements, Borneo, Gap Year on Feb.29, 2012
Hi Guy, Things have been great here, the boys (Tom, Tim and James) had fun exploring the island of Mantanani, making friends and learning a new game – sepak takraw. They had also worked hard on the kindergarten project finishing the main floor boards and the upper floor boards fixtures. All arrived in Kota [...]
Tags: beach, Building, community projects, Eco-Tourism, Gap Year, Volunteer, volunteering, Volunteers
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Feb.29, 2012
Hi Guy, Lovely to hear from you and i hope you’re well! We’re all having a great time here in the sunshine, hopefully England’s not too cold for you at the moment. The last 3 weeks have been fun as the volunteers have had the opportunity to do some more work on any of the [...]
Tags: adventure, Africa, animal conservation, community projects, conservation, Eco-Tourism, Elephants, Gap Year, safari, Safari Camps, South Africa, Travel, Volunteer, volunteering, Volunteers, Work experience
filed in Africa, Announcements, Tanzania on Feb.21, 2012
Tanzania, the land of the most specular safari on earth- the Serengeti, the highest mountain in Africa – Kilimanjaro, stunning white sand beaches and that warm African hospitality found nowhere else on earth….i’m so jealous of our leap team out there in the sunshine right now! Mathias and Mbassa our fanstic project leaders out there [...]
Tags: adventure, Africa, beach, climbing kilimanjaro, Gap Year, safari, Travel, Volunteer, volunteering, Volunteers
filed in Announcements, Asia, Cambodia, Destinations, Gap Year on Feb.16, 2012
Are you thinking of going on to do teaching at university after you A-levels and want to do something teaching related on your Gap Year? Or would you simply like to do something more rewarding with your summer? If the answer to either of these questions is a big fat YES, then look no further! [...]
Tags: adventure, Asia, Cambodia, Career Break, community projects, Credit Crunch, Family, Gap Year, Schools, Teaching, Travel, Volunteer, Volunteers, Work experience
filed in Africa, Announcements, Kenya on Feb.16, 2012
Our team who are out in Kenya at the moment are such a lovely group and they’ve been working really hard – building rooms, one brick at a time. The Leap x
Tags: Africa, Building, Gap Year, Kenya
filed in Tanzania on Feb.08, 2012
Guy (The Leap’s MD) has just returned from visiting the Tanzania Leapers for a week of their volunteering gap year. Despite a night flight, very little sleep and a bit of a shock coming from a climate of 35 degrees to minus 4 he’s just filed a quick report and some photographs to help with the [...]
Tags: Arusha, Building, Gap Year, Gap Year volunteering, gap year volunteers, hard work, Lake Manyara, massai, orphaned children, Painting, Primary school, safari, Tanzania, Tanzanian, team
filed in Venezuela on Feb.01, 2012
Hola from a gap year in sunny Venezuela, The team are happy and healthy, now into their 3rd week on the beach at Playa Colorado in Venezuela. Yesterday the final Leaper Sarah showed up and after recovering from her flight the team will be quitting the coast and heading for the hills to spend time [...]
Tags: all inclusive holiday, beach, Caripe, coffee, community work, Gap Year, hot, Isla Margerita, Jakera club, Painting, school, sunny, Teaching English, Venezuela
filed in Media, Uncategorized on Jan.30, 2012
The Leap featured about planning a Gap Year in the Observer.
Tags: Gap Year, The Observer
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Jan.27, 2012
Hi Guy, The leapers have been very busy during the last few weeks. The first week: They removed fences from the old horse paddock for the new elephant paddock. The started to build the dam in the elephant camp for the tame elephants going in there too. On Friday the leapers left for their excursion [...]
Tags: adventure, Africa, animal conservation, Building, community projects, conservation, Eco-Tourism, Elephants, Gap Year, Painting, safari, school, Teaching, Travel, Volunteer, volunteering, Work experience
filed in Announcements, Asia, Borneo, Gap Year on Jan.26, 2012
Hi Guy, Jan Leapers are all at Batu Puteh at the moment. All good. They left Kipouvo on the 24th of Jan. They should be there till the 28th and not depart for Bongkud till the 13th of Feb as planned. Over the last week the guys have been working hard and partying just [...]
Tags: adventure, animal conservation, Asia, beach, Building, community projects, conservation, Eco-Tourism, Gap Year, Painting, Schools, Teaching, Volunteer, volunteering, Volunteers