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You are not alone! There are tens of thousands of others planning gap years, and there are many organizations and advisors to help you make yours the best possible for you. GapYearWiki is designed to focus the experiences of all those who have taken a gap year as well as those who help plan time off, so that you can pick and choose the international experience or focus year project that is right for you. Student travel during a year off or just a summer abroad should be one of the best experiences of your life, and GapYearWiki enables you to share in the insight of all those that have gone before you or may be planning to travel right alongside you. Take a look at what's out there.

TIME OUT ASSOCIATES

For anyone considering time off from school, either before or during college, I cannot recommend strongly enough Bob Gilpin and Time Out Associates (http://whereyouheaded.com). Bob is the former Chair of the History Department and head of college advising at Milton Academy outside Boston, and we sought his advice when our son decided to take a year off. It was one of the best decisions ever! Bob found three programs for us: Harvard summer school; the Oxford tutorial college in Oxford, England for the fall; and the John Hall Pre-University Course in Venice, Italy for the winter and spring. All were great experiences, but the last of these three was clearly a life-changing experience for our son. We should all be so lucky as to have an opportunity like the John Hall course at least once in life.

Anyway, if you are considering any time off at all, even just a summer out of the ordinary, you must contact Bob via the link cited above. Better yet, why not give him a call? 617-698-8977

Academictreks offers summer study abroad programs in a dozen locations around the world, that focus on the natural sciences, marine ecology and biology, language & culture and personal development. http://www.academictrekscollege.com

Action Aid relies on volunteer work for its community building projects in Cambodia, Nepal, South Africa and elsewhere. http://www.actionaid.org

Adelante Abroad Adelante offers low cost internship and volunteer programs based in cities around the world, with a focus on cultural immersion and real-life experience in an international setting. This program is for independent-minded people looking for a real living abroad experience.

Participation in this program will massively upgrade your Resume and provide the opportunity to become fluent in Spanish. All candidates have a local Supervisor at their work assignments, plus an English-speaking Intern Advisor living in-country. This is a fairly customized program and process, and includes airport pickup, Spanish classes, housing and intern/volunteer placement.

Programs are available in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Marbella in Spain, Oaxaca, Mexico, San Jose, Costa Rica, Vina del Mar, Chile and Montevideo, Uruguay. For more information, go to: http://www.adelanteabroad.com

Africa and Asia Venture offers five week to five month teaching and community placements in Africa and Asia. http://www.aventure.co.uk. 01380 729009

African Conservation Experience - conservation projects on reserves in southern Africa. http://www.conservationafrica.net

Americorps Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for adults of all ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups. Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, or helps protect the environment, you’ll be getting things done through AmeriCorps! Check out the listings at this site for possible programs to which you could apply. There are deadline issues here, mainly because Americorps takes forever to reply. http://www.americorps.org

Art History Abroad enables one to study Italian masters for six weeks in Venice, Verona, Florence or Rome. http://www.arthistoryabroad.com 01284 774772

Australian Trust For Conservation Volunteers offers a wide range of conservation efforts ideal for short term volunteering. The cost is slightly under $1000 Australian for six weeks. http://www.atcv.com.au

Blue Ventures specializes in marine conservation such as coral reef preservation off Madagascar. http:///www.blueventures.org

Boston University Internships Exceptional internship opportunities in the U.K, Australia, France and Spain The latter require language fluency. http://www.bu.edu/abroad/

Brown Ledge Gap Year provides a fall-semester program in documentary production and regional America. Students are trained in video, radio and digital photography, and then have residencies in New Orleans and El Paso, where they live together while doing half-time community service and making individual documentaries about stories they find in those cities. http://www.brownledgegapyear.org

BUNAC provides working programs ranging from paid summer jobs in the United States to volunteering in Cambodia. http://www.bunac.org.

Castle Rock Institute Study and outdoor activities in North Carolina and Australia. http://www.castle-rock.org

Changing Worlds offers paid and voluntary placements from farming to orphanage work. http://www.changingworlds.co.uk

China Prep provides small groups of U.S. students with dynamic learning experiences in China. Designed for students with a broad range of Mandarin skills, participants learn about China through customized programs of site visits, language classes and travel. Contact: http://www.chinaprep.org 1-888-481-4878

City Year offers the chance to work in a number of cities across the United States, doing some form of community service, usually with a component that involves working with students in primary schools and in after school programs. http://www.cityyear.org

CSV offers volunteer placements in Great Britain, including summer renovation of cathedrals. http://www.csv.org.uk

COMUNIDAD CONNECTWe are a non-profit in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua devoted to community development. This is a big undertaking and we need your help. So what we can do is help you have the vacation of a lifetime in the surfing capital of Nicaragua, less 2 hours away from the natural wonders of Ometepe Island, and what you can do is help us add sustainability to tourism in Nicaragua. VolunTourists, as we call people who seek a different type of a vacation stay with local families, giving them an extra source of income, and participate in projects that include small-business development, mobile library, appropriate technology, teaching English, and volunteering at the local health clinic. We can find projects that match your interests and expertise with the needs of the community. Spanish classes as well as guided excursions for groups are also available. Visit our site to learn more: http://www.comunidadconnect.org/programs_voluntourism.htm

Cool Works Cool Works® is about your finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on Earth. Get a summer job in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national park. Find a summer job as a camp counselor. Ski resorts, ranches, theme parks, tour companies and more are waiting for you. Let Cool Works.com® show you the way to live out your own amazing adventure! http://www.coolworks.com

Coral Car Conservation gives opportunities to preserve coral reef and rainforest environments. http://www.coralcay.org

Cosmic Volunteers This American-based program offers volunteer programs in Africa, Asia, and South America. Programs include teaching English, orphanages, healthcare, journalism, HIV/AIDS, conservation and more. Volunteer abroad and contribute to the world in a meaningful way.http://cosmicvolunteers.org/index.html

Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound School Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound inspires and develops leadership, compassion, responsibility, respect for the environment and commitment to serve through adventure-based wilderness experiences led by the most skilled, safety-conscious staff.(CRROBS) http://www.crrobs.org

Cross Cultural Solutions For those who want something different, something akin to a mini-stint with the Peace Corps, there is Cross-Cultural solutions. http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Cultural Homestays International internships in France and EnglaServes students in over forty countries and provides group homestays, academic high school placements, au pair opportunities and internships. http://www.chinet.org

Dynamy Internship Year Dynamy Internship Year is the oldest and only residential internship program in the United States. Their mission is to offer young people, ages 17-22, a transformational gap year (or semester) opportunity. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Dynamy Internship Year integrates full-time mentored internships in over 240 organizations with urban and backcountry leadership experiences, personal and college/career advising, city apartment living, optional college seminars and the company of a remarkable group of peers. Phone 508-755-2571, http://www.internshipyear.org

Earthwatch offers 120 research projects in 50 countries from marine conservation to archaeology. http://www.earthwatch.org

Eco Africa combines conservation and community projects with adventure. http://www.ecoafricaexperience.com

EL CASAL is a gap year program in Barcelona, Spain, offering Spanish language, art history, travel, community service, outdoor adventure. [1]

Flying Fish Training and jobs in water sports and winter sports Professional training for Yachtmasters and instructors. Join Flying Fish for a lifetime of adventure. This is a sailing license qualification program, plus Windsurfing, Scuba Diving and now winter sports as well. http://www.flyingfishonline.com

Frontier Conservation offers conservation projects from Madacascar to the Amazon. http://www.frontier.ac.uk

Gap Guru runs volunteering trips across India, including teaching and community work. http://www.gapguru.com 0800 032 3350

Gap Kenya offers a directory of projects in Kenya, from healthcare to horticulture. http://gapkenya.com 01686 412042

Gap Year South Africa offers sports coaching, HIV awareness programs and environmental work in South Africa. http://www.gapyearsouthafrica.com

Global Crossroad . offers travel and volunteer abroad experiences to thousands of volunteers/travelers. Whether you're looking for a volunteer abroad experience, career break, or just a meaningful travel experience, Global Crossroad offers a variety of volunteer abroad programs to match your varying interests. http://www.globalcrossroad.com

Global Experiences Global Experiences is an international education programs provider, specializing in international internships and work experience abroad, summer internships, fashion internships abroad, volunteer programs, teaching English as a second language, foreign language training, and similar programs. http://www.globalexperiences.com

Global Quest GlobalQuest offers motivated, mature, and adventurous young adults a unique possibility: the chance to step beyond familiar territory, explore another place, people, and language, apply classroom learning to real-life situations, and grow personally in a small, supportive community where teachers and peers are trusted partners. http://www.gquest.org

Global Routes will permit you to do a semester in Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Ecuador or Kenya http://www.globalroutes.org

Global Sports Xperience has 18 placements from sports coaching to turtle conservation and building in Costa Rica, South Africa and Canada. http://www.gapsports.com 0871 221 2929

Global Vision Global Vision International (GVI) was formed in 1998 to provide support and services to international charities, non-profits and governmental agencies, through volunteering opportunities and direct funding.

Greenforce provides one to six month environmental expeditions worldwide. http://www.greenforce.org

GVI offer four week volunteer programs that address iliteracy in Nicaragua. http://www.gvi.co.uk

Helps International HELPS International, organized in 1984, is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that partners with individuals, businesses, corporations, local and national governments to alleviate poverty in Latin America. HELPS integrated programs include: medical care, education, community and economic development, and agricultural innovations in order to improve the quality of life for the indigenous people of Latin America. Read more about HELPS projects and check out the site links for volunteer opportunities, success stories and the needs of families in Guatemala and Mexico. http://www.helpsintl.org/

Hidden Villa Hidden Villa is a nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. Hidden Villa stretches over 1600 acres of open space in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. Hidden Villa's mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through our programs, land and legacy. http://www.hiddenvilla.org

Institute for Cultural Ecology The Institute for Cultural Ecology was founded on the conviction that visits to exotic destinations imply a commitment to cultural sensitivity and environmental stewardship. Our programs match the interests, academic goals, and passions of the participant to select host organizations and researchers. Once you connect with a place and its people, they become a part of you. Forever. Look here for a chance for a semester in Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, etc. Also internships in New Zealand. http://www.cultural-ecology.com

Institute For Experiential Learning Learn about your field! Explore the nation’s capital! Achieve your goals! Discover your potential! The Washington Internship Institute (WII) is an educational nonprofit organization that provides college students and recent graduates, from both the US and abroad, with internship opportunities in Washington, DC. Our programs deliver a perfect combination of experiential learning principles and academic rigor, resulting in a semester that is both challenging and memorable. http://www.ielnet.org/

Institute For Tropical Marine Ecology The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology (ITME) is a not-for-profit organization focusing on the biological investigation of tropical marine environments in regions where such work has not been carried out, only marginally, or not in recent times. The principal objectives are to generate and compile environmental baseline data relevant to local conservation initiatives and to make them accessible to a broad audience in order to facilitate monitoring and research ventures. Projects are designed to deliver technical and educational consultancies while incorporating academic/research training and community outreach where requested. http://www.itme.org/

International Partnership for Service Learning Opportunities for academic work combined with service abroad. http://www.ipsl.org

Internships at Spannocchia The Internship Program is dedicated to enriching the lives of young people by providing them with a unique educational experience on a community oriented organic farm in Tuscany, Italy. Tenuta di Spannocchia’s 1100-acre pastoral estate serves as an active model for responsible stewardship through collective effort. http://www.etruscanfoundation.org/programs.html

Internship in Francophone Europe Through IFE you’ll find that France today is much more than just a nation-sized museum, and Paris more than "old stones". Enrolling in one of IFE’s programs, you come to Paris not simply to study in France but to study France. http://www.ifeparis.org/

Interspeak Interspeak has been arranging work placements/internships in Europe since 1981. We have the experience and the knowledge to help you achieve a good standard of foreign language ability, which will be of immense use to you in your future career. http://www.interspeak.co.uk/

Involvement Volunteers Involvement Volunteers Association Inc (IVI) helps you to make a difference in the world. They organise cost-effective, international volunteering opportunities. http://www.volunteer.org.au

John Hall Pre-University Course Put simply, the Course is a nine-week introduction to some of the finest and most thought-provoking achievements in the Western World, from the Classical past to today. The Course, conducted through a series of lectures and visits by a team of world-class experts, includes not only painting, sculpture and architecture but also music, world cinema and literature as well as practical classes in studio life drawing and portraiture, photography and Italian Language.

The Course begins with a week in London and ends with a week in Florence and six days in Rome. The heart of the experience is Venice - being genuinely resident for six weeks in Venice, arguably the most beautiful city and one of the most historic in the world. The calm enjoyment of living in Venice, being able to let the many new things sink in, is a vital ingredient of the Course. It is essentially a laying of cultural foundations, an inspirational experience, not a tour.

The majority of students on the Course are from British schools, mostly coming as part of their Gap year. Together with students from many other countries: the United States, Holland, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, the John Hall community offers an interesting international dimension. http://www.johnhallpre-university.com

L’Abbaye Possible choice for study of literature in France http://www.theabbey.usm.edu

Latin Link sends teams to work with Christian missionaries in Latin America. http://www.stepteams.org 0118 957 7114

Lattitude offer volunteer placements worldwide in teaching, medical and conservation work. http://www.lattitude.org

Lexia International provides Latin American and other study abroad programs. http://www.lexiaintl.org

Living Routes Bring your education to life by studying in Ecovillages around the world. Ecovillages are ecological communities that provide ideal campuses for students to learn about real-world issues including sustainable development, green building, organic agriculture and women's empowerment. Learn to live in harmony with local environments as you investigate personal and community based solutions to real world issues with one of the most innovative environmental study abroad programs. http://www.livingroutes.org

Madventurer offers two to six month volunteer work and expeditions such as six weeks' teaching and building in Asia. http://www.madventurer.com

MAGIC CARPET RIDES

Are you a high school graduate ready for adventure? Experience Magic Carpet Rides. Our fall semester, based in Guatemala includes one-on-one conversational Spanish instruction, volunteer opportunities aligned with your interests, and fun activities such zip-lining, salsa dancing, climbing active volcanoes, and exploring caves by candlelight. Our spring semester is designed to broaden and deepen the experience in the form of service or research projects throughout Central America. Students may participate in either semester or the entire academic year.

According to the Lonely Planet, if continents had their own ecosystem of gap-year opportunities, this region quite possibly offers the richest, most abundant and varied of them all. The majestic scale of the area, the extraordinary variety of the terrain and its amazing creatures, and the history of its inhabitants lend themselves perfectly to a grand adventure. To learn more about Magic Carpet Rides, please see http://www.MagicCarpetRides.org

Maine Photo Workshop Photography, film-making, design and book arts in Maine. http://www.theworkshops.com

National Outdoor Leadership School is an outdoor experience focused not just on endurance but the development of leadership skills as well. Not just individual survival skills but group interaction: how to survive, lead and thrive. http://www.nols.edu/NOLSHome.html

Nonstopsail offers sailing trips worldwide. http://www.nonstopsail.com 0845 365 1525

Northwest Boatbuilding School After building wooden boats in the Puget Sound area for more than fifty years, master shipwright Bob Prothero had learned a lot about the business that wasn’t in any textbook. It was his dream to find a way to pass this lore along to new generations of wooden boatbuilders and help keep his craft alive. He came to the Olympic Peninsula from Seattle and founded the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in January, 1981. http://www.nwboatschool.org/

Operation Crossroads Africa The programs of Operation Crossroads Africa are designed to promote understanding of Africa and the African Diaspora based on the belief that one can truly enter another culture only by living and working in it. Called the "progenitor of the Peace Corps" by President John F. Kennedy, Operation Crossroads Africa has sent over 11,000 persons in the last 49 summers to more than 40 African countries, 12 Caribbean countries, and Brazil in pursuit of its goals. http://www.pamwe.org/

Organic Farming and environmental work and worldwide volunteer work, mostly organic farms. http://www.organicvolunteers.org http://www.interexchange.org/

Outreach International serves up volunteer projects in the Americas, Sri Lanka and the Galapagos. http://www.outreachinternational.co.uk

Outward Bound is the original wilderness survival course, emphasizing the development of individual survival and endurance skills. http://www.outwardbound.org

Oxford Tutorial College is a program in Oxford, UK, that offers coursework led by Oxford dons, although it is not formally part of Oxford University itself. http://www.oxtutor.co.uk

Oyster provides teaching, child care and conservation placements. http://www.oysterworldwide.com 01892 770 771

Pacific Challenge offers unique and extensively researched study abroad and experiential programs to the most exciting places on earth, carefully blending adventure, cultural immersion, eco-tourism ideals, personal and leadership development, and bundles of fun! The option to combine this with up to a semester of US college credit gives you an unbeatable travel/study experience. Since its inception, in 1985, Pacific Challenge has taken over 1000 students and graduates on our unique experiential travel programs, utilizing a staff of experienced and qualified leaders and faculty. http://www.pacificchallenge.org/

PASSAGE PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION -

Unlock, Explore, and Understand New Cultures and Communities. Passage Project is a study abroad organization that creates dynamic opportunities for students to live and learn abroad by placing a strong emphasis on experiential education and cultural immersion. In each of our programs students are immersed in new cultures through group and self-directed methods, including carefully picked home stays, internships, seminars, cultural excursions and language study. All of these are supervised by our professional leaders chosen for their knowledge of the host countries and their experience with cross-cultural education, and for their enthusiasm and good judgment. The programs provide an encompassing yet flexible curriculum in a safe environment, creating genuine integration and understanding between the students and their host communities.

Passage also offers experiential and cultural adventures in South Asia for adults, families and educators.

Passage Project Contact: Vidhea Shrestha GPO Box 8974, CPC 373 Kathmandu, Nepal Email: programs@passageproject.org & vidhea@gmail.com Phone: 977-1-4434602 Web site: www.passageproject.org Join the Passage News Mailing List - click link below. http://www.passageproject.org/passage-news-mailing-list.html

Pine Mountain Settlement School offers volunteer internships with environmental site based work in rural Kentucky. http://www.kih.net/pinemountain/

Project Use Project USE works with almost 10,000 young people and adults from all over New Jersey and the northeast. We provide experiential education programs to public and private schools, state and municipal agencies, community groups and corporations. Our offerings emphasize developing character, building community, enhancing curriculum, and connecting with the natural world. We use a variety of methods to achieve outstanding results including single- and multi-day outdoor adventures, a residential community home, high and low challenge courses, after-school academic programs, and consulting services. http://www.projectuse.com/grow.htm

PROJECTS ABROAD

Are you interested in getting out and seeing the world while also helping others? Projects Abroad offers you the ability to do just that, through hundreds of voluntary internships and service projects in 22 countries! We have even created two-week summer specials specifically for volunteers between the ages of 16 and 19. Since our founding in 1992, we have grown to a team of 200 people that sends more than 3,500 volunteers annually. Our most popular programs include: environmental conservation, archaeology and cultural preservation, teaching English, care work in orphanages, as well as business and journalism internships.

Queenstown Resort College Located in Queenstown, New Zealand, this educational facility offers hospitality management training, adventure tourism education, internships, English language, short courses for visitors, personal and leadership development courses, customised programmes and more. http://www.queenstownresortcollege.com/

Round River Round River is dedicated to conservation strategies that preserve and restore wild places; to that end, we strive to develop and support traditions that sustain wildness. These efforts are anchored in the principles of conservation biology, supported by field research and community planning. http://www.roundriver.org

Santa Reparata Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) is a non-profit American art school located in the center of Florence. SRISA offers students the opportunity to study abroad in semester or summer programs, for college credit. Courses of study include: Photography, Fashion Design, Printmaking, Book Arts, Painting, Drawing, Art History, Museum Studies, History, Politics and Social Science, Literature, Creative Writing, Italian Cinema ,Digital Imaging, Journalism, Jewelry Design, Textiles Design , Italian Language (All Levels), Intensive Italian. Perhaps the best art program in Florence, including photography. http://www.fionline.it/santareparata/welcome.html

Sargent Camp Boston University’s Sargent Center for Outdoor Education takes great pride in its range of innovative educational programs in, about, and for the outdoors. Every year they welcome groups of all kinds—from college students to corporate and non-profit organizations to summer campers—to a woodland setting in New Hampshire’s beautiful Monadnock region. http://www.bu.edu/outdoor/employment/internships/index.html

School For Field Studies Since 1980, The School for Field Studies (SFS) has been teaching students to address critical environmental problems using an interdisciplinary, experiential approach to education. They take their students out of the classroom and into communities around the world to explore and examine the interdependent cultural, economic, and ecological aspects of real-world problems. In the end, their students leave the SFS program with a deeper understanding of the complexity of environmental problems, and a unique perspective on what it really takes to develop long-term conservation solutions. http://www.fieldstudies.org

School For International Training World Learning is a global non-profit organization with operations in more than 75 countries. Through its international education programs – The Experiment in International Living, SIT Study Abroad, and SIT Graduate Institute – World Learning fosters global citizenship by connecting over 3,000 young ambassadors annually across cultural differences and social barriers. Through its International Development Programs, World Learning practices what it teaches, undertaking community-driven international development, training, and exchange projects in 20 countries. Over 75 years, World Learning has built a deep and diverse array of offerings and services that transform lives and strengthen the capacity of communities and institutions to address pressing global needs. http://www.sit.edu

Sea Education is a marine program out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, headquarters of the National Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. SEA Education Association (SEA) offers college students a study abroad that challenges them intellectually and physically by combining a sailing adventure of a lifetime with the study of the deep ocean. http://www.sea.edu

Seamester provides a semester of sailing in the Caribbean, with marine biology and potential college credit. http://www.seamester.com

Siena Italian Studies Siena Italian Studies is an abroad program based in Siena, Italy. SIS strives to offer students an environment where they can become both interculturally competent, and function as global citizens. It teaches culture and language courses using full-immersion techniques that combine service with classroom time, creating a unique, rich learning environment. Classes are taught using a method developed over the years, known as FICCS (Full Immersion : Culture Content and Service). Using this combination of guided and spontaneous learning acquisition, students are asked to employ new language skills both in the classroom and service situations giving them a learning experience like no other. http://www.sienaitalianstudies.it

Siena Sojourn With sessions in the fall and spring, Siena Sojourn is for culturally curious young adults 18 and older. It is particularly for those who want a very special international Gap Year adventure or break from the college routine. The extraordinary support, the global citizenship focus and the numerous and varied activities make Siena Sojourn unique. Highlights of Siena Sojourn are the homestay with an Italian host family, intimate Italian language classes, social service internships, midweek excursions, weekend trips and outdoor adventures. The diverse menu of other activities includes intermittent art and cooking classes, wine and cheese tastings, a journal writing and a digital photography workshop, an Italian film series, engaging cultural seminars, concerts and sports events. All this in a small, perfectly preserved medieval city in the cultural heart of Italy. The number of participants is intentionally limited to 12 in order to provide very personal and individualized experiences. http://www.sienasojourn.com

SOLO http://www.stonehearth.com and Wilderness Medical Institute http://www.wmi.nols.edu and Wilderness Medical Associates http://www.wildmed.org These are the WEMT programs.

Speos : In 1984, French photographer Pierre-Yves Mahé, passionate of innovative techniques, founded Spéos, a dynamic photography school with international vocation. He created links with the best universities (RISD, Hamilton College, Chicago Art Institute, RIT, ...), who recognized the importance for their students to study abroad as part of their program. http://www.speos.fr/

SPW has health, education and environmental programs in Africa and India. http://www.spw.org 020 749 00100

Student Conservation Association The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is a nonprofit organization that offers conservation internships and summer trail crew opportunities to more than 3,000 people each year. SCA members complete projects in every conservation discipline - from archeology to zoology - and everything in between. SCA is focused on developing conservation and community leaders while getting important work done on the land. Founded in 1957 to restore and protect America’s public lands and preserve them for future generations, SCA remains committed to this goal today. http://www.sca-inc.org

Tante Marie teaches cookery skills for work in ski and beach resorts. http://www.tantemarie.co.uk 01483 726957

Teaching and Projects Abroad Teaching Abroad is the leading global organiser of overseas voluntary work placements. They offer a wide range of projects, including teaching abroad, care, conservation, medical and journalism, that are designed specially for the many communities where they work and also to give the best experience to everyone volunteering abroad. http://www.projects-abroad.org/

The Leap offers volunteer living alongside indigenous tribes with projects that include orangutan conservation in Borneo and reforestation in the Peruvian Andes. http://www.theleap.co.uk

The National Trust preserves Britain's history and provides conservation projects, such as dry-stone walling and reforestation, across Britain. http://www.nationatrust.org.uk

Tuk Tuk provides two and three week experiences in Sri Lanka. http://www.tuk-tuk.org.uk

USAC offers summer, semester and year long study abroad programs in some twenty-four countries worldwide. http://www.usac.unr.edu/usacweb/intro.php

Venture Co To travel to adventurous destinations is a privilege: the opportunity to work closely with indigenous communities is a revelation: the experiences you earn and memories you return with will become part of who you are. Giving something back is at the heart of VentureCo's ethos and their objective is to work in partnership with responsible travellers to achieve a mutual exchange between the traveller and the host community. http://www.ventureco-worldwide.com

Wells College in Paris The unique attraction of this program is its focus on the arts. It is designed for students wishing to develop their interests and talents in areas such as the studio arts (drawing, painting, bookbinding, engraving, photography, fashion design illustration, ceramics, sculpture, etc.), the performing arts (dance, theater, acting, music), and art history while experiencing another culture. The success of the program is intimately linked to its location: Paris. http://www.wells.edu/academic/paris.htm

Where There Be Dragons Dragons programs are authentic, rugged and profound learning adventures that expose the beautiful and complex realities of the countries in which one travels. Featuring extended itineraries, Dragons programs encourage deep immersion into strikingly different physical and cultural landscapes, combining the best in experiential education, travel, service learning, and physically and intellectually challenging experiences. While programs vary in their focus - with some trekking and wilderness intensive, others strong on service and development studies, and still others language-oriented - all Dragons journeys are designed above all else to be fun, safe and honest educational experiences. http://www.wheretherebedragons.com

Wild Rockies Field Institute The Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI) is a unique organization offering extraordinary experiences for university students and non-students interested in an educational adventure. WRFI courses explore the complex cultural, political and natural histories of some of the most interesting and beautiful landscapes in North America. Every WRFI course is set up so participants can earn college credit through the University of Montana in one or more of the following disciplines: anthropology, English, environmental studies, forestry, geography, Native American studies and science. http://www.wilderockies.org/wrfi

WorldWide Volunteering offers a database of more than 1,600 volunteer organizations and over a million placements in 214 countries worldwide. http://www.wwv.org.uk

YOUTH INTERNATIONAL (EXPERIENCE THE WORLD), INC.

Help build an orphanage in Bolivia, live with a tribal family in Thailand, meditate with Tibetan monks in the Himalayan mountains, do conservation work in the Ecuadorian rainforest, visit the Taj Mahal, search for wild animals on safari in the Kenyan savanna or while sailing through the Galapagos Islands, help build clean drinking water tanks for African tribal families, hike the Inca trail through the Peruvian Andes to Machu Picchu, and much more!

Youth International is an experiential education program that combines international travel, inter-cultural exchange, adventure, community service, and home stays. Teams of up to 14 people between the ages of 18 and 25, along with two group leaders, travel together to different regions of the world for a 12 week semester. One program travels to Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, and India). A second program travels to Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, and Namibia). A third program travels to South America (Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador--including the Galapagos Islands). Each program is offered twice a year: Sept.-Dec. and Feb.-May.

Visit our website for full program information and itineraries: www.youthinternational.org [2], or call 1-416-538-0152 to talk to Brad Gillings, the Director of Youth International, about upcoming programs.