Gap year & Travel News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jambo from Makongeni! The Kenya Team has had an exhilarating 2 weeks so far with lots of different activities and experiences.  After arriving at Mombasa we travelled to our first camp located in Shimba Hills in the Mwalunganje Elephant Sanctuary.  The camp far exceeded our expectations and it quickly began to feel like home. We [...]

Hi Guy, I’m on a role taking photos out here…so expect even more to come through soon! These we’re taken at Kipouvu ‘Taska’ childcare centre and there are also photos of the group making handcrafts at their homestay. More photos to come soon! Mel (Borneo Team Leader) x

Hola from Ecuador, Our biggest Leap team EVER arrived safely last week after a mammoth flight. Thankfully those coming from the UK avoided a couple of days of windy weather and lengthy delays (thank you Leap Gods!) and we volunteers flying in lots of other directions too – England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, Spain, Italy, Colombia [...]

This year The Leap celebrated our 6th year of gap year volunteer work in Costa Rica! Over that time Leapers have helped with a huge range of projects in the El Silencio Cooperative community, helping the village to unite and develop so that every family has comfortable living conditions and the next generation a brighter [...]

Hi to Guy and everyone in the office! Mbasaa here (Tanzania project co-ordinator), So far the September team have been working really hard and enjoying every minute! During the first and second week of placement the leapers have been volunteering at the Faraja Women’s Development Center, focusing on construction, as well as assisting mother’s at [...]

Hi Alice, Just wanted to give you a litte update. The leapers spent two weeks working in Jakera Club and found it challenging but rewarding. They did sports classes in Jakera club, and are also starting to turn our large teachers binder into a more formal typed up version so it is more user friendly [...]

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 [...]