Instead of just spending time on entertainment,why not sign up for a life-changing gap? Football Coaching,Ghana Gap Sports has a wide programme of coaching place-ments,but one of its best is in Accra,where volunteers work in schools and youth clubs coaching under 12s,with the choice of also helping out in hospitals,orphanages,schools and care homes.No coaching experience required-enthusiasm is everything. Details:?995 for four weeks(minimum), ?1,895 for three months, ?100 per week thereafter,departing on July 14,September 1 or October 13.Flights not included. Teaching,Tanzania Primary-school teaching is a tiring,testing,absolutely redeeming(补偿的) crash course(速成班) in local culture,and this really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.Based in the village of Mshiri in northern Tanzania,you will be staying in a house with two other volunteers but teaching alone in village schools.This eight-month placement was set up by Katy Allen,who taught here in the early 1990s.School outings to the coast and to national parks are part of the placement. Details: ?2,750 for eight months,excluding food,departing in January 2008,including 12-month,flexible scheduled air tickets and two weeks" language/ teacher training in Kent in November. Marine Conservation,Thailand Here"s a bite-size adventure to fit between Thai temples and Brazilian beaches:a 10-day project in southern Thailand,surveying fish numbers and coral cover on reefs in the Gulf of Thailand of the Andaman Sea,bumping into whale sharks and turtles on your daily dives. Details:?1,495 for 10 days,excluding flights,from November to June; some departures require an open-water diving certificate. Journalism,Honduras Based with a local family in the capital,Tegucigalpa,you"ll be working on an English -language newspaper,reporting on politics,sport and current affairs.Basic Spanish is a must,while school-newspaper experience,though not essential,will help your application. Details:?1,195 for six weeks(minimum),?130 per week thereafter,excluding flights. |