Perhaps you have set your sights on a new career or are just looking for a new and exciting challenge in warmer climes…teaching abroad is a fantastic opportunity not to be missed. Whether you are looking for a qualification or just want to donate some of your time to a great cause, this is definitely worth some serious consideration.
Where can I teach abroad?
With Gap Year for Grown Ups, you can teach abroad as a volunteer throughout Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. There are also some paid teach abroad placements available in Asia.
Take a look below for our complete teach abroad listings:
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Volunteer in Moldova and you can make a positive contribution to communities within this unexplored and undeveloped country. In this rewarding programme volunteers are needed to assist teaching English to primary and secondary Moldovan school children.
Channel your creative energy into community centres and make a huge difference to their users. Whether you make puppets, play Simon Says or organise a sports day, you’ll make a valuable contribution.
This volunteer programme provides an excellent opportunity to work with Mongolian children and adults and contribute to the local communities in a positive way. Volunteering and traveling in Mongolia will provide you with a truly eye-opening journey as you experience one of the few authentic places left to travel.
Pass on the basic skills many people take for granted, and make a difference to young lives. Give lessons to children and help local staff develop their leadership skills so they can benefit future generations.
Brighten up the lives of children who are largely left to fend for themselves. Organise activities, encourage them to keep healthy and show them someone cares. You’ll also be supporting children who attend school.
Give orphans and vulnerable children the chance of a better future. Work at a centre and help them learn vital skills such as English, manual labour and sports – essential if they don’t go onto university.
Help children in Ecuador acquire the skills and knowledge they need to secure a job. Work with other volunteers to develop lesson plans, then give your own lessons in English, sports or the arts.
This is an opportunity for volunteers to help educate, play and entertain these children using your creative skills. Volunteers are needed to simply provide the love and attention that these children crave.
Children in rural Sri Lanka are eager for education. Volunteers will be teaching English to children aged between 1 and 13 years old. There are also opportunities to organise extra-curricular activities in the afternoon such as music, drama, arts and sports.
Make a difference to the lives of underprivileged communities in Nepal. This volunteer project gives you the chance to work as a volunteer in Nepal in schools, monasteries and orphanages giving children opportunities they may not have had before, or, work alongside local builders on vital construction projects.
As an English teacher in Buenos Aires, you have the unique opportunity to really make an impact on the lives of disadvantaged children of the city. They will look to you not only as a teacher, but also as a mentor, making this an extremely important and rewarding volunteer role.
Work with children from the local Pavão – Pavãozinho community in the South Zone of Rio. The education centre cares for 353 children from ages 3 months to 18 years. The centre aims to deliver education and medical care, to children and their families who are living in social risk situations.
Help brighten up the lives of underprivileged children in Rio. Whether you teach them English, play games with them or run arts and crafts sessions, you’ll improve their self-confidence and social skills.
Help take children off the streets of Quito by arranging football coaching and competitions. Watch as the magic of sport interests and enthuses young people with very few advantages in life.
Help meet the need for teachers on a spectacular island. Teach English and music, crafts, sports or foreign languages – whatever you feel comfortable with. A great way to contribute while learning about a new culture.
Behind the glamour of Cape Town's centre, there are many underprivileged townships that are in great need of assistance in many different infrastructural areas. This is the perfect project for anyone who is looking to help improve the education of underprivileged children, in a way that will make a difference to their lives.
Sri Lanka may be a leading cricketing nation, but sports education is non-existent in many parts of the country. What little does exist is confined to the larger cities and more prestigious schools. This project brings volunteers to local community schools out in the more rural areas of Sri Lanka.
Teach English, take part in vocational and health workshops, organise leisure activities and help with fundraising. You’ll give people of all ages the chance of a better education and a better life.
Put your love of tennis to a worthwhile cause and coach underprivileged children. Help out with sessions, organise your own classes and competitions, umpire in the community – you’ll be amazed by what sport can do.
Find yourself in the ‘off the tourist radar’ China, experiencing one of the world’s oldest, most interesting and unique cultures. You may be teaching some of China’s huge population, but you’re bound to learn a thing or two as well!
Put your passion for football to good use and coach disadvantaged children – enthusiasm is more important than expertise. Give them vital English lessons, and show them much-needed care and attention.
Uganda has one of the highest populations of orphans in the world. This volunteer project is based at a community training centre that has been established to teach vocational skills to orphaned, vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
Offer much needed assistance to staff at a school located in rural southwest Uganda aimed to provide young people of the area with a higher level of learning, as well as offering orphaned and the most susceptible youth access to a free education.
For a nation recognised as one of drought and famine, the inspiring natural beauty of Ethiopia will surprise any visitor. Volunteers are needed in the northern city of Gonder to assist with education and community initiatives.
Teach English and computer skills in the morning and organise sports sessions in the afternoons. The lessons will greatly improve the children’s prospects, while sport will keep them fit and give them a chance to enjoy themselves.
Ever wanted to travel to China but do more than scratch the surface as a tourist?
This rewarding programme is a great way for you to discover China, its culture, customs
and people. You will be teaching in schools in the stunning province of Guangxi. As a
volunteer your time will be spent mainly teaching conversational English.
This project offers a terrific opportunity for an enthusiastic volunteer to make a real difference to the future of a group of Venezuelan children. Teaching English in the local school, you will have the chance to experience the rich culture of the region and improve your own communication skills at the same time.
This programme gives you the exciting opportunity to experience
learning, paid teaching and living in China. You will start will a week orientation
course aimed to develop your teaching skills and then you’ll go on to teach
English to Chinese students on their Summer Camp Programme.
Make a vital contribution to a beautiful but impoverished country. Give the teachers a much-need hand with English and maths, and help set up sports training sessions and competitions. A little time will make a lasting difference.
Schools in Malawi are seriously under funded with little resources and a lack of trained teachers to educate classes of sometimes up to 200 children. Volunteer help is desperately needed.
Take part in a truly unique project. Give English lessons in the morning, help build the touring, floating school in the afternoon then learn capoeira from locals in the evening. No experience needed, just enthusiasm!
The project is in need of volunteers with a love of books and children! This teaching initiative takes children away from the over-crowded classroom environment for one-on-one tuition sessions. See the pupils reading and writing improve, providing them with a vital life skill.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at Thailand with one of three tours. Learn about the country’s language and culture, work with elephants and train as a mahout or help out in an orphanage or school.
Put something back into a country that desperately needs volunteers. Whether you help out in an orphanage, a school or a centre for disabled children, your time will be gratefully received.
Give some valuable assistance in a day care centre or school in Himachal Pradesh. Teach English or other subjects, lead creative activities or help decorate the buildings – whatever you do will be greatly appreciated.
On this volunteer programme, you have the opportunity to work with African children and contribute to the under-privileged communities in a positive way. Join this programme and really make a difference by sharing your skills through sports or computer literacy training.
Give disadvantaged children in Accra the chance to develop their netball skills, and, in some cases, introduce them to the sport. Coach at different levels and unleash masses of young potential.
Help develop rugby in Ghana, a sport that is in its early stages of growth. Help to raise its profile as a genuine national sport by coaching at grass roots level. If you have experience and coaching qualifications, it is even possible for you to help coach the National sides.
Schools in Swaziland are in desperate need of your support, where you will get out as much as you put in. Challenging teaching projects make fun, rewarding and totally worthwhile experiences. Most importantly they give a lot of disadvantaged children a much better chance of a better future.
Incorporate education and conservation as you travel by boat around the islands of the Tinhare Archipelago raising environmental awareness amongst children. You will also be involved in tree planting, assist with local environmental research and even producing a theatrical performance to raise environmental awareness!
This India volunteer programme allows you to experience the essence of India. Our Goa volunteer project offers the opportunity to make a contribution to socially deprived areas whilst exploring the Indian mainland in a diverse range of activities.
Get involved in several projects, based around two schools. Run craft and sports sessions, work with orphans, pass on vital skills and generally help lift the area out of poverty. A varied and rewarding programme.
Work as a classroom-teaching assistant, or as a sports coach in Zambia. The aim for both of these projects is to take children from the streets, improve their educational and social skills to give them more opportunities for the future.
