Volunteer with the Giant Panda in China is a wonderful experience. The Giant Panda is one of the most endangered animals in the world. With our program you can help in the conservation work of the Giant Panda by volunteering at the Bifengxia Panda Base in China!
Are you traveling through Asia ? How about combining some of our volunteer programs ? We have several programs available in Asia and combining these wonderful destinations would give you an amazing meaningful travel experience!
Our programs in Asia are very well suited for combinations especially with the cheap connections between the different countries by bus or low costs airlines. We have programs in Cambodia, China, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
You can do any combination from one week in one location, such as 1 week in Thailand, followed by 2 weeks in Cambodia. You can combine as many combinations as you wish. You can build in some time for sightseeing between the different combinations.
5 Reasons to choose WLS International
1. Quality Programs
Our main focus is to provide quality programs which benefits the local projects and our volunteers
2. Individual Programs
Every schedule of every volunteers is tailor made based upon the volunteers skills & preferences and the needs of the projects
3. Great Service & Support
We offer great service to our volunteers before and during their program
4. Flexibility
With our programs you can start on any date of your choice throughout the year
5. Affordable Prices
Our prices are some of the most reasonable in the industry
What can you do on a Gap Year ? Well there are many things you can do. Some gap year travelers spend time just travelling around. Others spend their time working, and many combine these into an international working holiday.
A popular option for gap year students, also known as “gappers,” is international volunteering. In the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, a great number of the volunteers who helped in South Asia were on a gap year.
Another growing trend for gappers is to enroll in global education programs that combine language study, home stays, cultural immersion, community service, and independent study.
A gap year is a refers to a period between two major life stages such as after graduating or a career break or a longer holiday. The most popular gap years are taken after graduating, between college and graduate school, during a career change or break.
Originally the ‘Gap Year’ concept came in the decade following the Second World War when youth travel and cultural exchange was discussed amongst governments as a useful tool to create more of a global understanding to prevent future global wars. The first ‘Gap Years’ actually started in the UK in the 1960s, when the baby-boomer generation in the midst of the ‘Swinging sixties’ headed off to India on the infamous Hippie Trails, inventing the ‘independent travel market’.
The demand for what was essentially new ‘Independent Travel’ continued through into the 1970s and resulted in the pioneers of the independent travel market establishing businesses to satisfy this demand.
In the UK in the 1980s the baby boomers were settling into family life with their young children and so traveling less and the next generation were influenced by the obsession for money, careers and wealth generation. A combination of the baby boomers’ children reaching 18, the UK coming out of recession and new, exciting, colorful media channels to bring gap year products to market resulted in an explosion of activity in the UK as Gap Year Travel and Gap Year Volunteering took off.
Today the Gap Year growth is accelerating across all age groups in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
