About GapGuru
Gap Year with GapGuru, travel, teach English abroad with the perfect gap year programme.
Whatever
gap year challenge you undertake – daring to go to new countries by yourself, working with local communities, taking up assignments that you have never done before, whatever dreams and aspirations drive you, GapGuru creates the perfect
gap year programme for you.
We invest a great deal of time and effort in researching and identifying
gap year projects. These projects are doing some amazing life changing work to benefit local communities. They are selected for the work they do and the opportunity they provide for volunteers like you to contribute
on your gap year abroad.
We meet or chat with you to know what you are looking at from your
gap year abroad. Accordingly, the destination and project that suit you are identified. The experiences add tremendously to your personal attributes and give a great amount of achievements to include on your CV. The
gap year opportunities we offer vary – you could be doing voluntary work with children, community or youth groups, participate in conservation, in journalism or gain experience in the medical sector. You, might prefer paid work or training in Hotel Management for example. Maybe you fancy some time off lying on a beach in the beautiful Puerto Lopez in Ecuador or the adventure of trekking in the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro or the Andes or seek spiritual sanity in Buddhist temples.
TESTIMONIALS
“ I am really thankful to GapGuru
who gave me chance to see the other side of the world. My entire perspective changed
towards life has changed after my trip to India and especially after spending time
with kids out there in Chennai... ”
Imma Ramos
GapGuru believes in providing the best possible service to its
gap year volunteers and to this end, is affiliated to a number of external bodies to ensure that these high standards are maintained.
BETA is a not-for-profit trade association founded by some of Britain's
biggest and best-known travel and educational organisations.
BETA's objective is to be the leading association for those who operate in, or supply
services to, education and or youth, student and educational travel. It has already
received many indications of support from its members and
GapGuru is proud to be
one of them.
Partnering with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Keeping our
gap year travellers up to date and safe is our highest priority and the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) campaign 'Know Before You Go' aims to do just that.
GapGuru is proud to partner with the FCO to ensure travellers are properly prepared
before leaving home to help them have a trouble-free and enjoyable time abroad.
Working with the City & Guilds to recognize your achievement
City & Guilds is the UK's leading vocational awarding body, offering more than
500 qualifications over 28 Industrial sectors, through 8500 approved centres in
around 100 countries worldwide.
In conjunction with City & Guilds, GapGuru has developed a 'Profile of Achievement'
which will provide you with formal recognition of your achievements while on a
gap year abroad.
Doing our bit for the environment with Climate Care
On your
gap year abroad you are likely to travel, whether it be by plane, car or train.
As you do so, CO2 is added into the atmosphere. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that is
released when fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are burnt.
GapGuru in partnership
with ClimateCare, enables you to offset your flight emissions, caused by
your gap year travel, by contributing
to the funding of sustainable energy projects.
To offset the CO2 generated by your international flight say UK to India, will require a contribution of £17.25. Please do check with us for the contribution you need to make for your
gap year destination and simply tell us if you would like us to help make your
gap year carbon neutral.
Asian Achievers Award (AAA) 2006 Winner -
Innovation in Business
The Asian Achievers Awards, now in their 7th year, aim to recognize, honour and
reward the outstanding talent and success within the Asian community. The unique
feature of the AAA is that the readers of Asian Voice and Gujrat Smachar make the
nominations while an independent panel of judges selects the winners.
Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the Olympic Oraganising Committee, London 2012,
was the chief guest for the 2006 awards.