Spend part of your gap year volunteering to change lives for the better.

Help reconstruct areas after natural disasters, increase awareness of HIV and AIDS or build wells to provide an entire community with clean drinking water. Each volunteer is sure to leave their mark on these amazing projects.

These are the projects where you'll really be giving something back to the world and enhancing the lives of others. It's not always going to be easy work, but it will be rewarding.

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Idea of the month Volunteer with one of South Africa’s biggest non-profit organisations caring for abandoned, abused and HIV-positive kids >> Working on a water relief project Gavin Lester shares his experience helping to provide communities with clean water in Kenya >> HIV/AIDS project Gilian McNicoll shares stories from her time volunteering at an HIV/AIDS clinic in South Africa >>