Volunteer Stories
- What's it really like to be a volunteer with Teaching & Projects Abroad?
- Where can you go travelling and what's the food like?
The stories below are open and honest, written by our volunteers - while away and once they have returned.
And there are lots of photos!
You can also call us for e-mail addresses of past volunteers, and chat to them yourself!.
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Cambodia
- China
- Costa Rica
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Teaching - Matthew Baker
- Teaching - Michelle Cadby
- Teaching and Care & Community - Susanna Mullard
- Teaching - Mark Braude
- Teaching - Amy Bell
- Teaching - Ruth Bowling
- Teaching - Jan van Hovell
- Care & Community - Tracy Maryan
- Care & Community - Rebecca McKeown
- Culture & Community - Ansh Johri
- Care & Community - Anna Marianetti
- Care & Community - Alyssa Jones
- Care & Community - Rachel Macklin
- Care & Community - Sarah Foley
- Care & Community - Catherine Hughes
- Care & Community - Helen Baines
- Journalism - Cassandra Zoro
- Journalism - Victoria Warr
- Journalism - Guy Bloembergen
- Radio Journalism - Steven Poulton
- Radio Journalism - Sinead Garvan
- Medical Elective - Louise Darvill
- Medicine - Reuben Shin
- Medicine - Melissa Tan
- Medicine and Care & Community - Sarah Miller
- Medicine - Shayan Shakeraneh
- Medicine - Ruth Malthouse
- Medicine - Sarah Lownsbrough
- Law - Danica Mullarkey
- Sports - Scott McQuarrie
- Sports and Care & Community - Peter Gwilliam
- Sports - Alice Wonnacott
- India
- Teaching - Kevin Emery
- Teaching - Fiona Campbell
- Teaching - Jonathan Galton
- Teaching - Jessica Hills
- Care & Community- Hannah Headden
- Care & Community- Heena Gudka
- Conservation - Brock Phillips
- Medicine - Michael Rowe
- Medicine - Claire Bailey
- Medicine - Jenna Pyper
- Medicine - Laura Nicell
- Medicine - Reesa Simmonds
- Medicine - Claudia Raperport
- Medicine - Karen Slevin & Michelle Terheege
- Medicine - Lianna Hulbert
- Mexico
- Teaching - Robert Johnson
- Teaching - Andrea Martins
- Teaching - Tessa Adamson
- Teaching - Sarah Reid
- Care & Community - Francesca De-Felice
- Care & Community - Morgan Hoder
- Care & Community and Teaching - Stacy Edwards
- Care & Community - Laura Bradford
- Care & Community - Eleanor Smith
- Conservation - Zoe Carrol
- Conservation - Jim Kelly
- Conservation - Sophie Woodard
- Conservation - Charlotte Forsdick
- Medicine - Erica Munoz-Fitch
- Medicine - Nina Pauly
- Medicine - Olivia Raglan
- Staff stories - Andrea Martins Assistant Manager
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Peru
- Teaching - Natalie Cook
- Teaching - Ben Peers
- Teaching - John & Susan Keane
- Teaching - Katherine Shirtcliffe
- Teaching and Care & Community - Joanna King
- Teaching - Anna Keenlyside
- Teaching - Richard Bartlett
- Teaching - Tom Bennett
- Conservation - Ben Lane
- Conservation - Claire Elphick
- Conservation - Laura Poe
- Conservation - Alex Prior
- Conservation - Richard Breakspear
- Inca Projects - Duncan Hewitt
- Inca Projects - Dave Rogers
- Inca Projects - Eleanor Fry
- Inca Projects - Jasper Oshun
- Romania
- Archaeology - Louise Benson James
- Care & Community - Addison Fickas
- Care & Community - Laura Parker
- Care & Community - Jo Cope
- Care & Community - Chris Wyatt
- Care & Community - Laura Parker
- Care & Community - Richard Edney
- Drama - Sam Lasman
- Journalism - Kayleigh Moore
- Journalism - Amy Sable
- Journalism - Rebecca Mckeown
- Journalism - Sophie Warnes
- Journalism - Amelie Schlingmann
- Teaching - Lara Hogg
- Teaching - Paula Willars
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Conservation - Margaret Holding
- Teaching - Fleur Harris
- Teaching - Natalie King
- Teaching - Tom Bartlett
- Teaching - Vicky Higgs
- Care & Community - Emma Dewe
- Care & Community - Georgina-Kate Adams
- Care & Community - Lauren Daniels
- Conservation - Adam Neeld
- Conservation - Liz Hall
- Sports - Melissa Kroslak
- Sri Lanka
- Teaching - Victoria Plume
- Teaching drama - Rosanne van Herksen
- Teaching - Helen Poole
- Teaching - Claire Blakemore
- Teaching - Fiona Whyte & Ash Morton
- Teaching - Claire Fuller
- Teaching - Adam Kessler
- Care & Community - Patricia Bardin Dit Courageot
- Care & Community - Ruth Malthouse
- Medicine - Jackie Kopelman
- Medicine - Kurt Schapira
- Medicine - Alexandra Grundy
- Physiotherapy - Chloe Paddock
- Physiotherapy - Tom Goom
- IT Projects - Gemma Morgan
- IT Projects - Lee Mallon
- IT Projects - Roland Eikenroth
- Tsunami Recovery - Mick Gillies
- Tsunami Recovery and Care & Community - Katie Finlay
- Tsunami Recovery - Simon Cawley
- Tsunami Recovery - Jessica Bailey
- Thailand
