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What is a Gap Year?
fter being involved in, taking part in or working in the Gap Year
Travel industry all my life, I decided to help people who want to take a Gap Year by setting up my new website: I Wish Gap Year. I visit schools & colleges, giving advice to parents and students
on all aspects of a ‘Gap Year’, and I often get asked, ”What is a Gap Year”? History
The first instance of volunteers being sent to a destination on an
organised program was back in 1967 by Nicholas Maclean-Bristol, who set up Project Trust(in the UK) and in turn created the Gap Year Volunteering Market. There are two really key points here; one being that this consisted of
volunteering and the other that it involved an element of ‘independent travel’ – not a tour or organised group trip from a brochure. Later, working holiday visas were introduced and became popular, thus adding “Working Abroad” to the Gap Year market. Want to read more from this article? Visit the full post on our website.
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