Gap Year Sri Lanka
Volunteering as part of your gap year in Sri Lanka is an excellent way to gain a deeper understanding of this jewel of the Indian Ocean. Because you’ll spend a lot of your gap year living and working alongside local people, you’ll experience a side of the country that tourists, and even experienced backpackers, rarely get to see.
We’ve been helping people get involved with volunteering as part of their gap year in Sri Lanka for many years. We work closely with locally run projects to ensure that when you take a gap year with us, you will be in a position to make a real contribution to the project that you choose to work with.
We have many opportunities for volunteering in Sri Lanka on your gap year, so you could find yourself involved with conservation, teaching, community development or even building homes for orphans.
Take a look at the gap year volunteering projects and resources below to find out more about volunteering during your Sri Lanka gap year. Or visit our Sri Lanka Travel and Sri Lanka volunteer sections.
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Community work with children in Sri Lanka
Let your creativity run wild with children in Sri Lanka and get involved in singing, drama and dancing as well as vital English language teaching.
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Continent: Asia
- Type:Work with children
- Duration: 2 to 12 weeks
Latest trip review:
The most incredible 3 week holiday ever...
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Conservation at an elephant sanctuary in Sri Lanka
Help care for elephants and promote improvements to the lives of these majestic animals.
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Continent: Asia
- Type:Wildlife
- Duration: 2 to 12 weeks
Community work in coastal Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's southern coast was badly damaged by the tsunami. Volunteer in this beautiful region and you'll play a part in helping a local community get back on its feet.
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Continent: Asia
- Type:Community Work
- Duration: 2 to 12 weeks
Latest trip review:
Much much more than travelling….the most rewarding experience ever.
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Sea turtle conservation in Sri Lanka
This project, like most of the region, is still suffering the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004. Volunteering will help a badly affected charity continue to care for the island's turtles whilst allowing you to experience the beauty and simplicity that makes Sri Lanka what it is today.
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Continent: Asia
- Type:Wildlife
- Duration: 2 to 12 weeks
Latest trip review:
A trip that will stay with me forever!...
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Teach English in Sri Lanka
Be more than just a teacher when you volunteer on this project. You could be a sports coach, actor, entertainer and a friend as you become fully immersed in community life and get to live the 'real' Sri Lanka.
- Location: Sri Lanka
- Continent: Asia
- Type:Teaching
- Duration: 8 to 12 weeks
Latest trip review:
Hot country, fiery food, gentle people - a land of...
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If you’ve got a real desire to volunteer in Asia during your gap year but can’t find exactly what you’re looking for don’t fret, we work with a huge variety of projects in all sorts of countries like Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Nepal and Thailand.
