Gap Year Volunteer Abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal!
Looking to take a Gap Year abroad? Volunteer in one of the many projects we support overseas in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal. We have many placements that offer a great opportunity for the gap year volunteer!
APPLY to Gap Year Volunteer Overseas and we will look for the gap year volunteer placement that suits you best. No application or registration fees!
Why Gap Year Volunteer Overseas with Openmind Projects?
Open your mind; grow a year in a month! The gap year, gap month volunteer work abroad experience gives you new overseas perspectives. In our constantly globalizing world cross cultural understanding is an increasingly valued skill by universities and employers. Volunteering puts you into the daily life of people in another culture providing an opportunity to experience and come to understand ways of life very different from yours. You not only observe another culture: you live it! You develop a deeper understanding as you develop lasting relationships in your placement. Return to your studies invigorated, challenged, with a fresh perspective on your career plans!Gap Year volunteering is possible all year-round. Volunteer projects include: education, environment, conservation, health care, eco tourism, and work with orphans, children, more. When you join our Gap Year projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal you will get more firsthand understanding about the world than you would at home or as a tourist!
When you APPLY to Gap Year Volunteer Overseas with us in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal, we will look for the project that suits you based on your background and interests and then send you detailed volunteer placement information. No application or registration fees!
Your first experience should be our acclaimed Cross Culture and Volunteer Training in Thailand, open to other volunteers, backpackers, and travelers, but free for Openmind Projects volunteers. You'll arrive at your placement with a good start at understanding how to work and live in a new environment, how to adapt to local conditions, how to maximize your effectiveness as a volunteer!
If you are looking for something extremely useful and a special experience on your Gap Year, Gap Month have a look below at some of the projects supported by Openmind Projects.
Spend your Gap Year Volunteer money wisely!
Openmind Projects offers low cost, affordable gap year volunteering abroad. Why pay US$60-90/€50-75 per volunteer day—the rates many European and US travel and volunteer organizations charge—when you can pay only US$22/€17 per volunteer day with Openmind Projects in Thailand for a two month period?Your entire fee goes towards supporting our grassroots projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal as well as our overseas volunteers, not to any administration, office, promotion or other costs elsewhere. Check our affordable Volunteer Fees.
Our Volunteer With Support option is a real bargain!
US$22/€17 is about 680 Thai baht. A room in a guesthouse in Thailand would cost you 400-700 Baht per day and would not include the Gap Year volunteer placement, meals, volunteer support, handbooks or training you get with us!
Teach English in a village by the Mekong River
In this small village sitting on the bank of the Mekong River volunteers work in the local kindergarten and school. It caters to the poorest families in the area and is poorly resourced so gap year volunteers make a significant contribution!
Volunteer at our Training Center
Our Training Center, the heart of Openmindprojects, is located in Nong Khai, in the Northeast, Isan, the gateway to Laos. Here we work with our local trainees and new volunteers. Read also about our popular Volunteer Training.
Responsible Eco/Conservation Volunteer in Laos
Interested in environmental issues? Studying in the sciences? Here's an amazing opportunity to explore your interests while volunteering in this eco project in Laos, learning about its unique culture while working in its beautiful natural surroundings. One of several gap year eco volunteer opportunities with us.
Teach English in South Thailand
Teach English on an island in the Krabi archipelago. For volunteers who want to experience authentic island and fishing village life.
Volunteer at an Orphanage in Nepal
Care for the children and teach at the nearby school. Small orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal. One of the Child and Health Care projects we support.
Nepal Elephant Gap Year Adventure
Volunteer work with elephants in Nepal. The main attraction in Chitwan is its wildlife including rhinos, tigers, leopards, bears, crocodiles and fresh water dolphins. And of course the elephants!
Marine Wildlife Conservation for Gap Year divers
Openmind Projects volunteers assist with surveys of the coral reefs in the Andaman Sea. Qualified volunteers may dive. One of many eco volunteer options.
Health Care Gap Year Project
Studying in the field of health care? Want to experience health care conditions in rural Thailand? At this village health center in northeastern Thailand you can help with medical tasks depending on your background and experience and teach English to the staff and in the nearby village school. One of our health care projects in Thailand.
Gap Year Volunteer in Child Care in Cambodia
For the gap year volunteer interested in children's issues this home for orphans and street children can be an eye opening experience. You'll gain a unique view into the tremendous challenges faced by underprivileged children trying to grow up in a society with few public resources available to support them. A learning experience you won't have in a classroom!
Affordable Fees for the Gap Year Volunteer!
Volunteer Holidays
Volunteer holidays with Openmind Projects offer an exceptional opportunity to volunteer overseas for a shorter volunteer vacation. We have volunteering programs in schools, conservation, child care and orphanages in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal. Students on holidays or looking for volunteer opportunities abroad in the summer or after graduation can find international volunteer opportunities combining worthwhile projects with internships, other training courses, adventure travel and more!Apply Online and ask us for more information about other Gap Year volunteer work abroad opportunities as well as travel and volunteer conditions.
Your Volunteer Gap Year Overseas: Lessons for Life!
Find yourself in unexpected situations, maybe even unsettling but you will learn to adapt, think and act within another culture. Gap year volunteer work abroad is a unique field learning experience. It will empower you: build leadership skills, maturity, empathy, tolerance and modesty, real, personal growth! During a gap year as a volunteer overseas you gain valuable cross culture experiences, make new friends abroad and increase your social skills as well as your university admission chances. You learn for life!Gap Year Volunteer now! Help us support the over 60 projects Openmind Projects supports overseas in Southeast Asia In Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.
Gap Year Volunteer Abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal!
