Projects Abroad is a profit UK company that arranges volunteer placements in 24 countries worldwide. Volunteers teach conversational English or gain experience in medicine, conservation, journalism, business and many other professions. Volunteers range in age from 16-75. The projects have proved popular with gap year students, undergraduates, graduates and career breakers.

History

Projects Abroad was founded in 1992 (then known as Teaching Abroad) by Dr Peter Slowe. a geographer. After a few years just sending volunteers to Eastern Europe teaching the company expanded to sending volunteers around the world doing a wide range of projects.http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/projects/ It was one of the first companies to organise gap years for volunteers overseas in large numbers. After becoming Teaching & Projects Abroad it became simply Projects Abroad in August 2007. Projects Abroad now has recruitment offices in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

http://www.projects-abroad.com.au/, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 http://www.projects-abroad.org/, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 http://www.projects-abroad.fr/, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 http://www.projects-abroad.de/, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 http://www.projects-abroad.nl/, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 http://www.projects-abroad.se/ and USA http://www.projects-abroad.org/.

Projects Abroad was a founding member of the Year Out Group and is a member of the IVPA(International Volunteer Programs Association).

Over 18,000 volunteers have joined Projects Abroad on programmes around the world at a rate of over 3,500 a year today. Volunteer projects run from 2 weeks to a year. Volunteers choose how long they want to join a project. Projects Abroad employs 250 staff worldwide to support the programmes.

Projects Abroad is affiliated to the Reconstruction Project which was set up following the Tsunami

Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...

. Funds from the Reconstruction Project go towards projects in Projects Abroad destinations around the world.

Projects Abroad has projects in the following areas;

• Teaching
• Care
• Conservation & Environment
• Culture & Community
• Sports
• Medicine & Healthcare
• Journalism
• Business
• Law & Human Rights
• Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care
• Dissertation Projects
• Language Projects