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i have a free gap year. anyone has ideas for me to do??

live in Northen irland but would travel.
age-24
male
did 2years of architecture degree
speak english and spanishand a bit of french.
strong and love being active.
artistic! do oil paintings, carvings, 3D models, use archecture packges.
like adventure and travel, been to South A, Peru, France.
love creating gardens for people designing and building them.
love working with kids
do stuff in my church

im in a small part time job at the mo, but would like to do somthing difrent!
any ideas or would u know someone that could use me?

You could volunteer with some organization. They probably pay for living expenses, but you’d have to pay for travel.
I am sure there are plenty, but as you mention gardening one option would be working on organic farms, there is an organizations which helps you finding places in different countries: http://www.wwoof.org/

I’ve also met people who helped monitoring biodiversity in tropical forest plots, they even got payed some kind of salary.

You can also ask your church if they know projects you could volunteer in.

A short google search gives these worldwide volunteer databases:
http://www.globalvolunteers.org/
http://www.travellersworldwide.com/
http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/Home/default

Another advantage of volunteering is that as you don’t get paid a salary you don’t have to worry about work visas which may be hard to get.

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