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Gap Year

Gap Year

See more. Do more. Want a break from studying? Want to do something different? Can't decide which degree to do at University, or what career path to embark on?
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Career Break

Plan the experience of a lifetime and figure out what you really want to do.

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Internship

Broaden your horizons with professional as well as personal development

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Medical

Support under-funded medical centres and hospitals, and play a key role in day-to-day patient support and essential medical procedures.

Adequate medical expertise in developing countries is often lacking because of the absence of qualified practitioners and effective and well-organised facilities in developing countries around the world.

Our medical programmes allow volunteers to share their medical knowledge and expertise to communities, and become actively involved in turning around how poor nations are cared for.

Projects can involve providing assistance to HIV/AIDS patients and working with victims of disease and malnutrition.

Photo taken by WAVA staff in 2010, India.
See the full flickr photostream from our Medical projects here.

Medical Programmes

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Child painting at the HIV hospice centre

HIV Hospice and Children's Home Volunteer, South Africa

This exceptional volunteer project located in the Western Cape of South Africa is ideal for gap year or career break volunteers looking for a life-changing volunteering experience working with disadvantaged children.

Trip types

Career Break | Gap Year | Medical | Orphanages / nursery age children | Volunteer

Destination

South Africa, Africa

From

£1,350

6 weeks minimum

Community Slum Volunteer, India

Take part in volunteer activities that range from instilling self-confidence and independence in adolescent girls and women, to caring for disabled or dispossessed children.

Trip types

Destination

India, Asia

From

£760

Medical Volunteering at HIV and TB Clinics

Volunteer in a mobile clinic, helping Tuberculosis and HIV patients.

Trip types

Career Break | Gap Year | Medical | Volunteer

Destination

South Africa, Africa

From

£800

Community Volunteer Mozambique

Volunteer with the coastal Mozambican population, aiding them in construction, agricultural work, teaching children, young people and working in the local hospital.

Trip types

Destination

Mozambique, Africa

From

£650

HIV Orphanage Programme Uganda

Volunteer with a programme that provides basic education, shelter, medication, food and clothing to orphans suffering from HIV/Aids. Focus your energy on giving the much needed love and care to orphaned children whose parents have died from the illness.

Trip types

Gap Year | Medical | Orphanages / nursery age children | Volunteer

Destination

Uganda, Africa

From

£690

Limatambo Orphanage & Medical Clinic Peru

Supporting the children and people in the rural village of Limatambo

Trip types

Gap Year | Medical | Orphanages / nursery age children | Volunteer

Destination

Peru, South America

From

£1,090

4 weeks minimum

Neurological Institute Peru

Dedicated to the rehabilitation of children who suffer from a variety of cerebral conditions

Trip types

Gap Year | Medical | Volunteer

Destination

Peru, South America

From

£990

4 weeks minimum

Community Volunteer - Hospital & School, India

Make a lasting difference giving valuable help to community projects based in one of India's impoverished neighbourhoods

Trip types

Gap Year | Medical | Orphanages / nursery age children | Volunteer

Destination

India, Asia

From

£1,010

4 weeks minimum

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