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Why Volunteer Abroad?

Volunteering opportunitites can be found everywhere you look so why travel abroad? Culture, adventure, excitment… need more reasons? Read on…
If we’re honest we can’t think of many reasons not to volunteer abroad, but then we’ve read all the volunteer stories and seen what a great experience everyone has had! There aren’t too many things that [...]

How Much Cash Can I Make Teaching English Abroad?

First up, we’ll let you in on a secret: unless you win the lottery while you’re doing it, teaching English abroad will never make you a millionaire! What it will give you, however, is a different kind of wealth – the chance to live and work in amazing destinations all around the globe, the chance [...]

Why Volunteer Through a Travel Company?

Going off intrepidly on your own might have that extra tinge of freedom if you’ve arranged it all yourself, but going through a company can save you a lot of hassle!
With planes flying to the four corners of the Earth in the time it used to take to get to the seaside on the train, [...]

Teaching English Abroad Offers an Escape Route From the UK Jobs Crunch

With UK unemployment at a 12 year high, widespread redundancies and thousands of graduates lining up to collect degree certificates that by no means guarantee a job, the opportunities offered by teaching English as a foreign language are becoming increasingly attractive.
While TEFL was once seen as a niche area only for linguistics experts, the recent [...]