A new opportunity has been introduced for gap year students in the Peruvian rainforest, working with local people on projects to help rare Amazonian Skimmer and threatened Spider Monkeys and on an internationally-recognised project growing medicinal plants. New projects in Senegal (teaching, orphanage work) and Swaziland (conservation in wild national parks) are being introduced in autumn 2004.

Existing projects for teachers and gap year students include:
Teaching English and other subjects worldwide
Organising fun activities in orphanages around the world
Helping with food aid in South African villages
Conservation in Chile, India, Mexico, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka
Archaelogy and palaeontology projects in Mongolia and Romania
Temping and casual work in Australia

A brochure, which includes ideas for raising the money to go, is available from: Teaching and Projects Abroad, Aldsworth Parade, Goring, Sussex BN12 4TX, tel: 01903 859911; 01903 708300; info@teaching-abroad.co.uk; www.teaching-abroad.co.uk