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Oyster review: 2 weeks as volunteer with bears in Romania
A lovely message received from Martin and Marion Sausins after their 2 weeks as a volunteer with bears in Romania. “Bears and Romania were brilliant. We had a fantastic time and enjoyed out time at the sanctuary. We hope the … Continue reading
Posted in Bears Romania
Tagged Bears, career break, gap year, responsible travel, Romania, Volunteer
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Oyster review: my first day at a Romanian bear sanctuary
Many thanks to Natasha Chow for her fantastic blog about her first day at the bear sanctuary in Romania: Earlier this year I was incredibly luck to win a trip with Oyster Worldwide to volunteer at Eastern Europe’s largest bear … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Welfare, Bears Romania
Tagged Bears, break with bears, career break, gap year, responsible travel, volunteering with bears
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Work with sharks off the stunning coast of South Africa
Are you a shark lover? Join our Oyster program and you can be up close and personal to them on a daily basis. This is no ‘water park’ experience – you will be working with wild sharks as they dominate … Continue reading
Prize-winning travel blogger off to help at a bear sanctuary in Romania
As an official sponsor of the first ever Travel Bloggers Unite conference in Manchester in March 2011, Oyster offered one lucky travel blogger the opportunity to experience first-hand one of our projects. Natasha Chow, known in the world of twitter … Continue reading
Animal welfare projects for annual leave with a difference!
Here at Oyster we not only provide lengthy ‘gap year’ experiences, but also specialise in responsible career breaks and annual leave holidays off the beaten track. We want to give everyone the chance to experience life as a local in some fascinating parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Welfare
Tagged animal welfare, annual leave, career break, responsible travel, short term, volunteer holiday
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Silence the critics and do good on your gap year…
Gap years, and the people who take them, often get bad press for being lazy and disruptive to local communities. Here at Oyster, we were pleased to read a recent article by Rosamund Urwin in the London Evening Standard, this cut the criticism … Continue reading
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Tagged animal welfare, childcare, conservation, constructive gap year, local communities, media, paid work, responsible travel, teaching
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Teach, trek and visit Tibet this September!
Here at Oyster, we are prepared for anyone deciding to take a last minute gap year or career break, for whatever their reason. As a specialist company we are flexible to individual needs and able to organise projects only weeks in advance … Continue reading
Strapped for time? Don’t worry, many of our project lengths and departures are flexible to suit your needs!
Are you facing a fairly common dilemma – want to take a career break or gap year but are faced with limited availability and time constraints? Here at Oyster we are concerned that due to other commitments, people are prevented from … Continue reading
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Tagged career break, flexible departures, gap year, paid work, responsible travel, short term volunteering, year out
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Volunteering with monkeys – some of the world’s most intelligent creatures
If you go to the zoo or to a wildlife park and stare into the large eyes of a monkey. you often get a soulful gaze in return. Recent scientific research and findings actually … Continue reading
Release abused baboons back into the wild – volunteer with monkeys
This summer you can take part in the important and moving process of reintroducing a troop of 24 mistreated and orphaned baboons back into the wild after years of careful attention and care. The 11 females and 13 males are … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Welfare, Monkeys South Africa
Tagged baboons, career break, conservation, conservation volunteer, gap year, make a difference, rehabilitate wild animals, responsible travel, South Africa, Volunteer, volunteer holiday, volunteer projects animals, volunteer work, wildlife, wildlife conservation, work with monkeys
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