Gap Years

Every year, millions of young people take a break either between school and university or after university. The gap year is used by different people for accomplish varied objectives and aspirations. You may want to go on a holiday and re charge your batteries after the series of exams, take up a job to gain work experience, travel and volunteer abroad.

FutureSense works with young people to facilitate a gap year placement. Our company GapGuru (This is also the first brand of FutureSense) specializes in ethical gap year placements for students in developing countries across the world.

We speak to people, identify their needs, skills and match them with our partner charities for a short term volunteering assignment. The gap year projects last anywhere from 1 month – 12 month, though the average time spent is 3 months. Gappers live with a local host family, volunteer with a charity and also get the opportunity to travel and explore the country. Volunteers can choose from a variety of opportunities like

• Volunteer teaching in primary and secondary schools:
• Childcare volunteering in community centres and orphanages:
• Community development projects:
• Gap year sports coaching:
• Teaching arts and music:
• Wildlife and conservation volunteering:
• Gap year travel opportunities:

GapGuru also organizes paid work and intern placements for students looking to gain some international experience which will further help them in their university/job applications. The intern opportunities are around the area of communication, journalism, hospitality and medicine. Click here to know more about the programmes.

For those with the adrenalin rush, they can be part of our organized challenges, either to take up a challenge and raise money for a cause, or join the challenge as a pure test of physical spirit.

Over the years we have worked with hundreds of young people and helped them contribute their bit to the world while at the same time building a huge amount of confidence due to having traveled, lived and worked in developing countries.