5 Reasons to Volunteer Overseas

1. Meaningful travel – make a real difference!

2. Live & work alongside local people.

3. Gain work experience – great for your CV.

4. A unique & positive experience.

5. Accommodation, meals and airport pick-up all provided, and a local support team on-hand.

Volunteering Overseas

Volunteer travel allows normal people to make an exceptional difference to the planet in a safe, responsible and supported way. Volunteers can enjoy an exciting travel adventure abroad while assisting vitally important environmental and community projects. You can volunteer all over the world from as little as two weeks up to several months! You'll engage with a local community in a unique way and experience parts of another country not easily accessible to tourists.

You'll immerse yourself in local culture in a way backpackers can only dream of, meet lots of new people, and come back having contributed to the long-term goals of locally run projects. Our volunteers are from all walks of life – students, Gap Year travellers, employees taking annual-leave, school and company groups…… if you've ever thought about making your mark, now's the time !

Travel Partners

i-to-i Volunteer & Adventure Travel

After 17 proud and successful years helping people like you go i-to-i with new cultures, communities, mountains and erm... lions, it's safe to say we're experts in the meaningful travel field! As a globally recognised responsible travel organisation, each year we place over 6,000 volunteers on projects to assist in the development of overseas local communities. We provide fulfilling and life-changing travel experiences to anyone with a desire to get out there and make a difference for the better.

When you travel with i-to-i, you'll experience a truly unique travel adventure which will change your life forever. We're all different, which is why we'll all experience a unique voyage. In addition to gaining a deep immersion into a new culture, you'll learn valuable skills for life which will open-up your eyes to the world and warm your heart in the knowledge that you're giving something real and lasting back to the places you visit.

All of our projects overseas are based in the local community and are local initiatives. When you travel with us, you will stay in locally run accommodation and travel on locally owned transport. In this way we can ensure that the part of your placement fee assigned for transport and accommodation goes directly into the local economy. That means that before you've even lifted a finger on your project, you've already made an important contribution to the local economy.

We appreciate how special our volunteers are and offer our full support every step of the way. Our in-country coordinators are on-hand for you while you're in-country, providing airport pick-up and arrival orientation while we also provide 24/7 support for all our volunteer travellers.

Real Gap Experience

Real Gap Experience is a specialist in experiential travel aimed at students and young people, whether travelling on a Gap Year or looking for something a little bit different for their vacation. Real Gap offers gap year travellers and career break explorers a diverse range of experiential travel options to over 40 countries. These include volunteering (including community work and conservation), paid working holidays, English teaching, learning a new skill, sports coaching and adventure travel.

Why travel with Real Gap Experience?

• Experience – over 9,000 travelled with us in 2010
• Expertise – our customers give us an average "Overall Satisfaction" rating of 92%. Enough said !
• We Make It Easy for you – accommodation, meals, airport pick-up, arrival orientation are all provided - and a genuine, safety-assessed, locally-run community project as our partner
• In-country Support –
• Flexibility – go for 2 weeks or 2 months... all projects have a choice of duration, so no matter how long you have available we can make it work
• No specific skills or previous experienced are required – enthusiasm and a desire to make a difference are all that matter !
• Free-time – all work and no play make ... well, you know the story – your weekends are your own to explore all that your destination has to offer. Safaris, local markets, beaches, adventures...