A levels results tomorrow, and if you students out there (or indeed anyone else) are keen to bolster your CV and/or conscience without costing the earth, you could do worse than sign up with CSV, the UK’s leading volunteering charity.
CSV offers UK-based gap years lasting 4-12 months. Volunteers still get to live away from home and are provided with free accommodations, food and travel expenses, plus a weekly living allowance.
And VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas) has slammed plenty of the ‘volunteerism’ industry, which it says is there to cater for the needs of gap students keen to visit far-flung shores rather than the communities they are meant to serve, and there is an environmental cost to foreign travel.
Is Szoneberg (a name not a statement), CSV director for gap year volunteering, told the PRSD: ‘We are becoming increasingly aware that young people are looking for more from a gap year than just a 12-month beach holiday.
‘As well as comcern about the impact of flying, rising university costs mean young people are also really keen to get experience that will help them land their dream job. Volunteering with CSV not only gives them immense life experience but provides them with skills in communication and problem solving and team building that should help them with any future job interview.’
And we at the PRSD say, the rest of the world starts right on your doorstep. Now, step to it.
Posted by Cptn
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