Overseas Volunteer Placements
OVP
What is The Overseas Volunteer Programme?
Since the trust began, many young people from London have volunteered abroad through the trust’s unique offer which is the Overseas Volunteering Programme, previously called Young Worker Exchange Projects.
For some young people, they may not wish to follow formal academic routes to employment. The OVP programme has offered this opportunity to develop and empower the next generation of young adults in order to learn about community development in both a global and local context.
There is a separation between the planning and preparatory aspect that is prior to the trip and the actual stint abroad, which can vary from a time-frame of just one month to six months, or perhaps longer.
The period after the volunteer has returned to Britain is also important as this is the phase whereby presentations may be given to schools and youth centres. It is after returning that new global links can be formed between the volunteer within their home communities and those in which they volunteered abroad.
Our Overseas Volunteer Program always you to visit new countries while gaining experience and skills that you will keep for life.
Volunteering overseas can be an extremely rewarding experience. See what some of our previous overseas volunteering placements had to say about their experience below.
SOME OF THE COUNTRIES HOSTING PLACEMENTS
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