What can you do on your Career Break
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What you can do
Careerbreaker offers a wide variety of volunteer and adventurous travel opportunities all over the world. We can help you to combine different placement types or destinations to create your ideal career break.    
Volunteer on a Community Development Project
Careerbreaker brings you the opportunity to volunteer, as a part of a team, on one of our fantastic Community Development Projects, helping indigenous people to help themselves.

This kind of volunteer placement offers a really fantastic combination of working and living with an indigenous community, giving a sense of really developing together, coupled with the chance to meet and team up with other careerbreakers. We build schools, renovate clinics, establish clean drinking water supplies, operate tree planting programmes, assist with healthcare programmes, teach in schools and improve facilities at orphanages. More>>

  Community Development Projects
Volunteer Work Placements
Careerbreaker offers the opportunity to use your work skills and professionalism, in a completely different environment, allowing you to gain alternative experience; giving you the opportunity to really contribute to the progress of the developing world by skill sharing.

Volunteer Work Placements usually last a minimum of two weeks and last up to a year or more. The key areas we’re involved in are medicine and healthcare, teaching, social care, conservation and journalism but we can often arrange Volunteer Work Placements in other sectors. More>>

  Work Placements
Volunteer Sports Placements
With Careerbreaker you can take up the opportunity to coach and play both individual and team sports in some of the world’s most fascinating destinations. Sports Volunteer Placements are designed to allow individuals to positively contribute to sports development in some of the less privileged corners of the globe, whilst engaging in their own development through interaction with new communities and cultures.

This is a great opportunity to really focus on the sport you love whilst contributing to sport development. Depending on your standard of expertise and skill you can coach and play from grassroots to international level, in some of the most vibrant and enthusiastic countries. More>>

  Sports Placements
Learn New Skills
Careerbreaker can help you to arrange a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course or an intense Spanish or Portuguese language course, prior to your volunteer programme to ensure you get the most out of your career break. More>>
  Learn New Skills
Adventurous Travel
Many of our Careerbreakers choose to begin or end their volunteer placement with some adventurous travel and sight-seeing and for some this is exactly how they want to spend their career break – this can be a great way to see more of the world, try something new and exciting or simply take some time out to relax.

Careerbreaker can provide you with thousands of trip options; flights and insurance policies through our ABTA bonded in house travel agency. More>>

  Adventurous Travel