Volunteer work abroad, whether you teach English, care for children in an orphanage, or help the elderly, is very well received in Thailand and is an extremely rewarding experience.
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An excellent opportunity to teach Thai children and contribute to the local communities in a positive way – they’re really keen to learn English as this enhances their future employment opportunities.
Spread a little happiness through Thai orphanages. Give informal English lessons, work with the children in the garden, run sports and craft sessions and generally show them compassion and enthusiasm.
Help mahouts (elephant riders) in the ecological centre as they take care of the elephants. Join them for weekly exercise in the national forests of Thailand!
Work with the traditional hill tribes of northern Thailand, teaching, building and getting involved with new projects. If you’re patient, compassionate and creative, and interested in new cultures, this is an ideal project.
Spend the night in a Buddhist temple, take part in a community project or trek through a national park, watch some fire dancing and snorkel off the island of Koh Samet. An unforgettable introduction to Thailand! Project Video Now Online
Learn the techniques of Muay Thai, discover the culture and language, visit a temple, meditate with Buddhist monks, and lounge on the famous Thai beaches. An excellent, unusual introduction to Thailand, with various project lengths available.
Choose a diving programme to suit you and learn or hone your skills in Thailand’s beautiful blue waters. Take the instructor programme and gain the necessary qualifications to work in a scuba diving centre.
Get involved with innovative and highly successful work to return gibbons to the wild. Study them, help care for them on a daily basis and just enjoy watching them interact against a stunning natural background.
Help with the day-to-day care of sick and disabled wild animals. You might be preparing food for bears, crocodiles, big cats or other animals, or assisting with building enclosures. You might even get to go on a night safari!
Experience Thailand through a unique combination of activities. Take a PADI scuba diving certificate, trek through jungle and rainforest, stay in a Buddhist temple - a rare privilege for travellers - and get to grips with the Thai language.
Dive around Koh Tao, develop your media skills and earn money! You’ll be taught to record, edit and produce DVDs of the dive centre’s customers, and then to sell them to the customers.
Earn some money, help out others and experience three very beautiful countries. Get everything you need to find work in Oz and NZ and discover the real Thailand through volunteer placements, trips – and time on the beach!
Discover why so many travellers love this part of the world! Volunteer in India, spend eight weeks in Thailand and work with the wildlife in Malaysia. You’ll get to see things many people miss.
Combine paid work, volunteering and travelling into one fantastic gap year. Everything from flights to job offers is included – that means less hassle, and more chances to get the best out of Africa, Australia and Thailand!
Real Gap Year Experience provides rewarding gap year jobs and volunteer gap year projects, for students, career break and grown-up gappers in many Asian countries. The best sources of information on Asia and Asia gap year ideas are:
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