For each of the case studies listed below we have included the name of the gap year organisation that provided the project which the young person had signed up to. Unfortunately a small number of these organisations have recently ceased providing overseas gap year projects. This applies to Raleigh International, Latitude Global Volunteering and Outreach International. Their decisions to cease trading were in no way a reflection of their management or the quality of their programmes, but rather they were the consequence of COVID and the resulting lengthy restrictions on overseas travel, from which the gap year market is gradually recovering.
Anna Garrett
Teaching blind children, India
Type 1 Diabetes
Project TrustGrace Law
Teaching: primary and university, Chile
Oyster WorldwideRosie Bancroft
Conservation work in Game Park, South Africa
Lower leg amputee
Outreach InternationalTyler Stutzman
Sports coaching, Peru
Projects AbroadCallum Russell
Music teaching, community work, Peru
Blind from birth
Quest OverseasBen Weeks
Defence technology company
The Year in IndustryHannah Dunton
Volunteering in rural communities, Venezuela
The LeapRachel Bermingham
Wildlife & horseback projects, South Africa
Asperger’s and Tourette Syndrome
African Conservation ExperienceLucy Caton
Conservation and construction work, Ecuador and Galapagos
The LeapSally Cervenak
Teaching in rural boarding school, Kenya
Bipolar II and Anorexia
Africa & Asia VentureCharlie Lane Fox
Art history courses, Italy
Art History AbroadEmma Walton
Care work with young adults, UK
Cerebral Palsy
Volunteering MattersElinor Raeside
Community and medical work, Ghana
GAPFORCEJasmine Chopra
Volunteering in rural communities, Costa Rica
Raleigh InternationalClare Deal
Teaching: English, French and Sport, Vanuatu (Pacific island)
Latitude Global VolunteeringThomas Howell
Support for pre-primary children, Sri Lanka
Autism and Cerebral Palsy
Projects AbroadJosef Baines
Reflections of a Gap Year Traveller
Independent