Date: 19/8/2009
Author: Karen Fewell
Gap Year's have been Lattitude's thing for over 35 years. They are the original gap year charity, established since 1972 and have sent more than 20,000 young people around the world.
Lattitude has gap year projects in over 17 countries and volunteers come back from their gap year saying that the whole experience was so much better than if they had gone backpacking. When a volunteer travels on a Lattitude gap year they gain a deep understanding of the host country's culture and people. In addition to that volunteers learn new skills and return more confident and with a wider view of the world. Many of their gap year volunteers want to work where they will make a difference. They send volunteers on gap year projects that will have significant impact and where their presence is beneficial.
InDzine and Lattitude have been working together to produce website landing pages, concentrating on the two most popular gap year destinations, Australia and New Zealand. At this time of year young people around the UK receive their A level results and decide if they are going to take a gap year and if so where they would like to go. This in itself drove the need to raise awareness for gap year destinations in Australia and New Zealand.
To make a difference in the places where they will work on their gap year, volunteers are able to:
All this makes Lattitude one of the UK's top gap year charities, each volunteer is supported before and during their gap year travel to ensure that they get the most out of their gap year experience.
Find out more at the Lattitude website
http://www.lattitude.org.uk
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