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Gap Year - Placements

World Horizons teams are at work in 37 countries, on a wide variety of projects. If you don’t see something that catches your heart in the placements listed, let us know where and what you are interested in, and we will seek to link you up.

All placements are with existing teams and involve sensitive outreach to the local people you will be living and working alongside.

Scroll down the page to view all placements, or click on an area of the world to view relative placements:

asia africa middle east europe

Asia top
India
  • Care work in an orphanage.
  • Teaching assistant at small Tibetan school.
  • Literacy work.
  • Local Outreach: including Children's work, mums and toddlers, Youth work – clubs, events or sports.
Mongolia
  • Care work in a children’s hospital ward.
Far Eastern Nation
  • Set up a sponsorship scheme for orphans.
  • Small Engineering/ Metal Work Business.
  • Assist with new Data Processing business.
  • Training young people in computer skills/ drawing /pottery /art skills.
  • Local Craft Business - Work alongside nationals.
  • Care for poor families.
Central Asian Country
  • Assistant to a physiotherapist for a community health project for disabled children.
  • Teaching small class Key Stage 1.
  • Set up an English Library facility .
  • Teach English as a foreign language.
  • Work in a local computer centre.

 

Africa top
North African Nation
  • Working with an adventure tourism company- outdoor pursuits and/or admin.
  • Hospitality work in a Centre.
  • Working with a church planting and evangelism team.
  • Help with accounts /computer in a Centre.
West African Country
  • Working with a church planting and evangelism team.
  • Assist on community health project.
Saharan Region
  • Teach English as a foreign language.
  • Childcare assistant

 

Middle East top
Middle Eastern Nation
  • Student Campus ministry - outreach and discipling.
  • Learning Arabic/ Muslim youth evangelism.
  • Classroom assistant in a small school for disabled children.

 

Europe top
UK
  • Camps and Youth Outreach -includes training in outdoor pursuits and youth outreach both in the UK and overseas.
  • Sparkies - develop a new project that links prayer, home groups and mission amongst the poor. Involves creative presentation on the road in Europe
  • Hospitality /Admin /Building / Decorating / Prayer at lively British Base.
Spain
  • Hospitality/Outreach -'San Roque' Centre.
  • Childcare assistant
  • Admin assistant -'International Team Office'.
France
  • Youth Outreach /outdoor activities in the Ardeche, Southern France - Outdoor qualifications advantageous.
  • Catering /Hospitality/Building restoration /Local Outreach - 'The Chateau' near Lille.
  • Study at a Lille University /Vibrant Student Outreach programme.
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gap year student with moroccan children
 


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