Voluntary Placements and Work Experience Internships Overseas
Volunteer Abroad - YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE! Make a difference! Help children, animals and entire communities in less advantaged countries. Learn about their culture from the inside! Have a unique experience that is fulfilling, very worthwhile... and lots of fun and adventure.
Travellers is a leading international provider of voluntary placements and work experience internships overseas. Choose from over 250 voluntary projects abroad in 20 countries, including Care and Community, Teaching, Sports, Work Experience Internships, Conservation, Marine, Language Courses, Cultural Courses, and Drama, Dance & Music plus some study abroad courses and projects abroad that are, well, different!
Who can apply?
- Everyone is welcome - gap year, undergraduate, on a career break, or even retired!
- All ages and nationalities welcome: From 17 to 70 or more. Our programmes are also open to all nationalities.
- Flexibility: Short-term and long-term, from two weeks up to one year. Tell us when you want to start and finish.
- No qualifications required: Only a spirit of adventure and a sense of humour!
- Support and Backup: We have 15 years' experience and over 100 staff overseas who are there to look after you.
Website: www.travellersworldwide.com
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TYPES OF VOLUNTARY PROJECTS AND ACTIVITY, CULTURAL AND STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMMES AND WHERE YOU CAN DO THEM
All our placements are suitable for gap years, bridge years, grown-up gappers, career breaks, students, internships and retired people.
VOLUNTEERING, ADVENTURING, STUDYING AND EXPERIENCING WORLDWIDE TRAVEL WITH TRAVELLERS:
Many volunteers combine volunteering projects with additional travelling and tours to have a life-changing experience that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This type of experience sets you above the rest by enhancing your CV, giving you valuable personal and professional development and adding to your understanding of different cultures. Our huge selection of projects abroad are located in Africa, Asia and the Orient, South and Central America and Australasia. You can do whatever you want to do and whenever you want to do it!
Gap Year AND BRIDGE YEAR Projects
Our voluntary projects, work experience, study abroad courses, internships, immersion programs and research programs are open to gap year and bridge year students, undergraduates, graduates; interns, people taking a career break (‘career breakers’), grown up gappers and retired people - as well as people who are on holiday and want to have fun and do some worthwhile activities at the same time!
Volunteering Overseas
Volunteering abroad is extremely worthwhile and there are many different types of volunteer work you can do, such as teaching, care and medical, sports coaching, animal conservation, marine conservation, work experience and internships, and community development are available, working with underprivileged children, adults or endangered animals in developing countries. For a full list of the different types of voluntary projects you can do, please go to our Projects page.
You can volunteer overseas in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Teaching Abroad
Voluntary teaching abroad changes lives. You don't need qualifications or TEFL to teach, for example, conversational English, nor do you need any knowledge of the local language. The variety of subjects you can teach is almost endless, here are just a few: English, Maths, Music, IT, Sports, Drama, Dance, Design Technology, Geography, Life Skills, and more. Teach in orphanages, care homes, street kids, schools, adults and children. For the complete list, please go to our Teaching Projects page
Teaching placements overseas are available in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Zambia.
Conservation Projects Abroad
There are many ways you can assist with conservation, from working in animal rehabilitation sanctuaries, to research and monitoring on game reserves and with marine wildlife like whales and sharks. You can help orphaned, abandoned or endangered animals, such as dolphins, elephants, orang-utans, monkeys, sharks, birds, whales, penguins, wild dogs, lions, cheetahs, leopards, deer ... and the list goes on!
* Rehabilitation conservation work with animals
* Research work
* Marine Conservation
* Ecology/Environmental work projects
* Animal care/veterinary work projects
Voluntary environment and animal conservation work projects are available in Australia, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. For the complete list, please go to our Conservation Projects page
Work Experience interships Overseas
Travellers is the largest provider of work experience placements abroad, with over 25 different sectors and types of experience available in many of our destination countries. So if you have to do an internship, practica / practicum or a work experience placement as part of your degree, or whether you just want to make yourself more marketable in the workplace, an overseas placement in your sector will benefit you tremendously.
The various types of work experience project you can do include Journalism, Law, Medical, Adventure Tourism, Care, Media (TV, radio production), Design, Physiotherapy, Veterinary, Tourism, Architecture, Archaeology, Pharmacy ... and many more. For a full list of our work experience volunteer internships, please go to our Work Experience opportunities page.
STUDY ABROAD, RESEARCH PROGRAMS and CULTURAL COURSES
If you want to add an extra dimension to your studies, we have lots of different types of courses you can do, either as full-time placements or as additional Specials alongside your main project. As well as our Language Courses (see below), these range from Tango and Salsa to Martial Arts, Private Flying Courses and Wildlife Conservation Management. To see the full list, please go to our Something Different page.
Language Courses Abroad
The best way to learn a language is to live, eat and breathe it. Study Spanish in Argentina or Guatemala, learn Portuguese in Brazil. Take language lessons in Tamil in India, Mandarin in China or a Swahili course in Kenya. Structured credible language courses for all levels, beginners to advanced. Language classes take place at University language centres, accredited language schools or via qualified private language lessons. For the complete list, please go to our Language Courses page
Sports Overseas
Travellers is a leading provider of Sports placements around the world. We have over 35 different sports that you can coach in 16 countries, and many different sports that you can also play competitively. To see the full list of sports available, please go to our Sports Coaching page. e also have placements where you can do Sports and Sports Management Work Experience. Or how about Sports Physiotherapy? For example, on our Coaching Cricket course in Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa, you can coach underprivileged children at local outreach schools, Train, Play and Gain an ICC level 1 cricket coaching qualification, and receive one-on-one coaching from a former international cricketer!
"I LOVE IT AND I'M GOING TO TRAVEL WITH TRAVELLERS NEXT YEAR!! Thanks for the best experience ever!" Kim Lister
Dance, Drama, art and Music projects overseas
You can teach Drama, Art or Music to underprivileged children in third world countries. Many of our Travelers volunteers have used their voluntary teaching opportunities to help the children put on plays, shows and music recitals. Some have used their time to help the children produce murals on the school walls, thus brightening up their school environment.
If you prefer to practice or learn Music or Dance, you can take courses in some of our countries. To see the full list of Drama, Dance, Art and Music opportunities that are available, please go to our Dance and Drama page.
SPECIALS AND ADD-ONS
We have arranged many Add-Ons that will add excitement to your project without the hassle of arranging them yourself. These include weekend trips such as going on a safari to the Masai Mara or taking a surfing course, or extra weeks that you can add to the beginning or end of your project, such as a 5-day Marine Adventure Tour to watch whales and dolphins. Other Add-Ons include short language courses, such as Swahili in Kenya or Mandarin in China.
Where can you go?
* Volunteer in Africa: voluntary work in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe (conservation, teaching, sports, work experience projects, language and cultural courses)
* Volunteer in Asia: voluntary projects in Brunei, China, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand (conservation, teach, sports, work experience projects, language and culture courses)
* Volunteer in South America / Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru (conservation work, teaching, sports, work experience projects, language and cultural courses)
* Volunteer in Australia and New Zealand: (conservation projects, teach, coach and play sport projects, work experience projects, adventure courses)
Short-Term Holiday Breaks
We have summer placements, summer and holiday camps and shorter projects (2 weeks) available in most of our destination countries. Please browse through the different countries and if you can't see anything that fits in with what you want to do, please contact us because we can probably arrange it for you.
Website: www.travellersworldwide.com