The UWCSEA Gap Year programme offers you unrivaled opportunities to put UWC values into practice in South East Asia before going to university.
You can have a once in a lifetime opportunity to with hand-picked human rights, environmental and child protection NGO's, all of whom have direct connections to UWCSEA, either through Global Concerns or SeaLinks. Currently UWCSEA volunteers are engaged in lasting and mutually enriching projects with the communities with whom they have been working. Click here for access to their blogs:
There is a whole range of opportunities. Our most established partner is Bridges Across Borders South East Asia (BABSEA), an NGO promoting sustainable development and human rights advocacy. With them you can:
teach English at children's centres in Phnom Penh,
work on rural development programmes in Kep, Cambodia. teach on one of several initiatives supported by the BABSEA Community Legal Education programme in Chiang Mai, Thailand
undertake a placement with the Law faculty at the University of Vientiane in Laos
work as an NGO intern with local staff and international volunteers in a dynamic and stimulating environment. Alternatively you can work as a primary assistant, teach on a scholarship programme at the award-winning Mercy Centre in Bangkok, Thailand most respected and long-established children's home and HIV hospice. If you prefer, you can teach at the Lamdon school in Ladhakh or the UWCSEA funded schools in Banda Aceh. Interested in conservation? We have now successfully piloted an eco-project project on one of the Gili islands, Lombok where one of our volunteers has been working on turtle and reef conservation as well as assisting at the local school. We may also be able to offer placements at the TAT Turtle Sanctuary on Tioman. In 2009 we started additional Gap Year projects with community groups at Widhya Asih children's home (Singaraja) and at Lihuk Panaghuiza (Cebu), - projects sponsored by two UWCSEA groups Bali Bridges and PACE. Currently we are negotiating additional partnerships with Mahindra UWC (Pune, India), Child Workers in Nepal - CWIN - (Kathmandu), Candle Aid (Sri Lanka) and Initiative For Peace - IFP- (East Timor). These projects should be available from June 2011. In order to prepare you we have collaborated with the British Council - the most respected provider of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses. This exciting partnership has enabled us to set up a unique, affordable and accredited TEFL-certification programme for those wishing to take a gap year. Follow this link for details: http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/uploaded/images/Dover_-_Senior_School_Portal/files/Gap_Year/elt_bc_course_presentation_parents_mar07.pdf
For the application form, click here:http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/uploaded/images/Dover_-_Senior_School_Portal/files/Gap_Year/ELT_Form.pdf
