Projects Abroad

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Projects Abroad is a UK company that arranges volunteer placements in 22 countries worldwide. Volunteers teach conversational English or gain experience in medicine, conservation, journalism, business and many other professions. Volunteers range in age from 16-75. The projects have proved popular with gap year students, undergraduates, graduates and career breakers.

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[edit] History

Projects Abroad [1] was founded in 1992 then known as Teaching Abroad by Dr Peter Slowe [2] a geographer. After a few years just sending volunteers to Eastern Europe teaching the company expanded to sending volunteers around the world doing a wide range of projects. [3] It was one of the first companies to organise gap years for volunteers overseas in large numbers. After becoming Teaching & Projects Abroad it became simply Projects Abroad in August 2007. Projects Abroad now has recruitment offices in Australia [4], Canada [5], Denmark, France [6], Germany[7], Netherlands [8], South Africa and USA [9].

Projects Abroad was a founding member of the Year Out Group[10] and is a member of the IVPA [11](International Volunteer Programs Association).

Over 18,000 volunteers have joined Projects Abroad on programmes around the world at a rate of over 3,500 a year today. Volunteer projects run from 2 weeks to a year. Volunteers choose how long they want to join a project. Projects Abroad employs 250 staff worldwide[12] to support the programmes.

Projects Abroad is affiliated to the Reconstruction Project which was set up following the Tsunami. Funds from the Reconstruction Project go towards projects in Projects Abroad destinations around the world.

[edit] Projects and destinations

Projects Abroad has placements in Africa (Ethiopia[13], Ghana[14], Morocco[15], Senegal[16], South Africa[17] and Togo[18]), Asia (Cambodia [19], China [20], India [21], Mongolia [22], Nepal [23], Sri Lanka[24] and Thailand[25]), Eastern Europe (Moldova[26] and Romania[27]) and Latin America & the Caribbean (Argentina[28], Bolivia[29], Brazil[30], Costa Rica[31], Jamaica[32], Mexico[33] and Peru[34]).

Projects Abroad has projects in the following areas; Teaching[35], Care[36], Conservation & Environment[37], Culture & Community[38], Sports[39], Medicine & Healthcare[40], Journalism[41], Business[42], Law & Human Rights[43], Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care[44], Dissertation Projects[45] and Language Projects[46].

[edit] Projects Abroad in the press

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