filed in Announcements, Asia, Cambodia on Feb.02, 2012
There’s a magic about Cambodia…or the Kingdom of Cambodia as its more formally known, which casts a spell over many of the people who visit. It’s an incredibly beautiful country with a history both saddening and inspiring where the future is waiting to be shaped! Become a Cambodia volunteer and discover all of this for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
filed in Leap Giving, Venezuela on Dec.22, 2011
2011 has been a huge year for the Leap in Venezuela. On a year which saw our largest ever team descend on the Caribbean coast to volunteer, dozens of energetic volunteers conquering the highest table-top mountain on Earth, and untold friendships forged for life. However it’s the glorious season of giving, so lets recap all [...]
filed in Announcements, Ecuador, Gap Year, South America on Oct.11, 2011
Hi everyone! Yesterday concluded our time in the Tsachila community of Búa, located just outside of Santo Domingo in the Rainforest. Last week was spent helping various local families with different farmwork including planting yucca, corn, plantain, and achiote as well as clearing fields of yucca for future planting. We also continued painting and rust-proofing [...]
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 Tanzania on Aug.01, 2011
Mambo from the July Summer Team in amazing Tanzania! Sorry it’s taken us so long to update you all on how we’re getting on but we’ve been kept very busy. So here’s what has happened on our African Adventure weeks 1-4… We arrived in Dar es Salaam and our base in Mbezi Luis on the [...]
filed in Ecuador on May.26, 2011
Last week, hot on the heels of the Ecuador Team, The Leap’s Alice trotted off to South America to see the volunteers in action! It was a frantic 7 days in Ecuador whizzing between Quito (where she was visiting some AMAZING new projects for 2012), the Andes community of Chilcapamba and the Tsachila tribe in [...]
filed in Venezuela on May.06, 2011
Greetings from Venezuela where the team are going into their 5th week on the Caribbean coast before hot-tailing it up to the mountains for some jungle projects. Over the past few weeks they’ve spent their free time on Saturdays and Sundays exploring the local area, brushing up on the Espanol and generally enjoying the beach…now [...]
