Lattitude Volunteers on their Gap Year
2009 Graduates have a golden opportunity, despite the economic situation, to take a gap year volunteering project and make a positive difference in the world.
Whether you are a lawyer who has been asked to defer your career or are about to graduate, Lattitude has volunteer gap year opportunities around the world for you.
What Could you do?
Each Lattitude gap year program offers the kinds of challenges and experiences that can be worthwhile (and life-changing) for graduate volunteers. However, we have here picked out certain programmes where the additional skills picked up at university can be particularly useful.
English Teaching in Malawi: Malawi is able to offer graduate volunteers a range of placements where their specialised skills will be fully utilised. Volunteers undertake whole-class teaching in both primary and secondary schools. We also have placements in a refugee camp and in schools for children with special needs.
Community Care placements in Mexico: A certain number of our caring placements in Mexico are reserved for graduate students who speak Spanish to a high level.You will be teaching English in a University and working with disabled children. This is a perfect opportunity for language students to get to know Mexico, working in a role where your language skills will be fully utilised.
Science Teaching in Tanzania: We are able to offer a unique teaching program for science graduates and specialists. You will be teaching in primary and secondary schools, where you will teach the whole cirricullum but be concentrating on the teaching of science.
English Teaching in Vietnam: We have a number of programs where our volunteers teach English to University and School pupils. This will give you the opportunity to teach English at a high level.
Many employers see travel and the life experience gained from projects like Lattitude as a positive additional benefit to a graduate’s CV. Volunteers also develop new skills such as leadership, learning a new language or teaching English, not to mention a wealth of knowledge about the culture they have lived in. Taking part in such projects demonstrates so many qualities that can boost employability."
*The survey was carried out by independent market research company, High Fliers.
Other placements that may be of interest:
Summer placements: Our shorter, summer placements are ideally suited for graduates who wish to take a placement between academic years. We have departures in May to Vietnam, and in June to Tanzania.
Other Physiotherapy placements: Physiotherapists will be able to use their skills and training to offer vital help in schools, hospitals or with non-governmental organisations. We have physiotherapy placements in South Africa and Tanzania. We will also be able to discuss possible arrangements with hosts in other regions, so if there is a particular country that you’re interested in, please get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can organise.
Graduate support: We’re aware that placements overseas can be a brilliant way to test out or develop a new career by seeking work experience overseas. We are committed to helping graduates on our programmes to achieve their goals, and are happy to discuss what support from us would help you in your placements. For example, should you require additional mentoring in your role, or help with references for after your placement we’ll be more than happy to help. Just drop us a line to discuss what help you might need, and what your interests are.
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