CAREER BREAKERS

Thinking about a change in your career or bored at work & just need a break from your old life? Then why not volunteer with Kaya on a project around the world.

Borrower and volunteer sitting Microfinance Ghana

Helping with a puzzle Classroom and Childcare Assistant Cambodia

Career Breakers Volunteers

If you are thinking about taking a career break, then why not travel the world and volunteer on a conservation or community project with Kaya. Whatever your reasons for taking a career break we have plenty of options for you to choose from in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Your motives for taking a career break may be due to being bored at work, needing a break from your old life, being about to change in your career or even taking a sabbatical as a reward for long service by your company. Spend your career break finding out who you really are, where your interests truly lie or doing something you have always dreamt of by volunteering on a project abroad.

While you may still be considering your options, taking a career break doesn’t need to ruin your career and a sabbatical can actively enhance your skills and employability in the workplace when you return. After all, in those all important next interviews, which of the many candidates all with equally impressive work credentials, will be remembered? The one that worked with elephants in Namibia, that helped empower women in India, developed a microfinance programme in Ghana, and helped teach children of the market workers in Ecuador. That’s who!

Don’t let your successful career close doors for you. Whether you choose to work in your field of training, or want to do something entirely different to get away, there are projects out there where the help of a mature career breaker is invaluable. Kaya is here to offer you career break advice and help you kick start your new life today. You will be working with a local team and this will allow you to develop your cross-cultural team working skills, and in many locations your language and communications skills.

Career breakers are ideal for many projects as they bring a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience with them as well as a level of maturity that is essential for some of the projects focusing on quite hard hitting issues. As an established worker you will have skills such as planning, working in a team, budgeting, and career planning all of which can be very useful to help projects organize themselves or to train people in communities. If you have other skills and experiences in areas such as nutrition, fund-raising, training, teaching, health, physiotherapy and many others you will also be highly desirable.

If you’re unsure where to start with your travel ideas, we’ve hand-picked our top projects for volunteers who are taking a break from their careers. Alternatively, give one of our Kaya advisors a call and they will help you to narrow down your choices.

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