Why Taking a Gap Year is Transformative
Through Beyond Boundaries Abroad, participants can unlock their potential and discover what they are capable of. It offers an exciting and unique way to begin the next chapter of life after high school, combining personal growth with community support.
A gap semester abroad can be tailored to your interests and goals, allowing you to explore careers like medicine, law, or accounting and gain relevant experience. We support students who’ve deferred college or aren’t ready for university, helping you find the right path regardless of your motivation.
A Pause That Can Propel Your Future
Volunteering abroad during your gap semester offers opportunities to protect ecosystems, support children's education, and promote sustainable, long-term solutions. Whether short or long, you'll contribute to meaningful, ongoing efforts for real impact.
Why Should I Volunteer During My Gap Semester?
We want you to get the most out of your Gap Semester. So, depending on your goals, we’ll help you put together a travel program that will benefit you the most.
Still Need Convincing?
Here are six of the most popular reasons our previous volunteers chose to volunteer abroad for their Gap Semester:
1. Explore a career path: Explore potential career paths and discover what you’re passionate about. It’s also a great way to find out if you have what it takes to pursue an especially challenging career, like medicine or law. If you’re not sure what you want to do, you experiment and spend time on various programs and internships.
2. Gain practical experience: Get your career off to the best start with global experience. You’ll learn directly from local professionals by working alongside them. For example, you can shadow doctors in in India, or sit in on meetings with lawyers in China. With real-world experience under your belt, you’ll give your resume an extra edge over the competition.
3. Get an international perspective: People around the world are struggling with different challenges and issues every day. You’ll gain a deeper insight into these global issues, and you’ll learn about different ways to help people where it’s needed most.
4. Become a part of positive change in the world: At Beyond Boundaries, our first goal is to benefit the communities we work in. Each of our volunteer projects and internships is ethical, well-supported, and part of a better future. We work with continuing management plans to make sure our impact is sustainable. We track our impact using resources like our own Global Impact Database. You can read about our impact to find out what you’ll be a part of.
5. Travel and tick cities off your bucket list: Use your Gap Semester to broaden your horizons, immerse yourself in new cultures in different regions in Tanzania, and explore breathtaking landscapes. It’s an opportunity to see the world as a new classroom!
6. Discover what you’re capable of: Travel can be a transformative experience. Seeing a different part of Tanzania will give you a fresh perspective of who you are in the Tanzania, how you can help others, and what your strengths are. Beyond Boundaries will support you every step of the way. We can help you choose where to go and which projects to select. Wherever you go, our staff will be available to make sure you have the Gap Semester of your dreams.
Okay, I'm Convinced! What Are My Options?
Great news! Our Gap Semester programs are individual plans designed specifically for you. You can choose to gain experience on an internship, or do service work. And also, we can help you customize the perfect Gap Semester for you. You can choose different projects to do such as:
Medicine and Healthcare: During gap semester volunteers can take their chances in different medical programs for pre-med and nursing looking to gain experience overseas.
Conservation: Volunteers can get to do conservation activities that can help support the environment and the community as a matter of fact learn more on how to overcome challenges facing the environment in the 21st century.
Childcare: Volunteers during their gap semester they get to have the chance to give child care indifferent places such as school, orphanage and hospital in order to get more experience to how to care for a child.
Teaching: Volunteers can earn money and boost their teaching CV by attending to volunteer in different schools, where by volunteers can teach the subject, they want and learn new things from the students and know what challenges facing them inorder to overcome them.
Expeditions: Volunteers during their Gap Semester they can try thrilling activities on an expedition to remote destination, explore mountains, forest, lakes and more.
Sport Coaching: Volunteers can teach sports on their Gap Semester by joining an adventure organization summer camp or training scheme, in order to help increase your skills in coaching.
Learning: During Gap Semester volunteers can choose to learn new things such as language example Swahili, art, traditions, music, drama, dances and culture of a certain tribe and sports. In order to make your stay much enjoyable, fun, and filled with new knowledge and excitement.
Community Projects: Volunteers can engage themselves in community project on their Gap Semester and bring can incredibly reward for their selves.