Gappers Voices

My overall experience was life changing. I am still the same me, but I look at things in a very different way. It was a huge insight into a completely different way of life that has enabled me to assess my own life back in the UK. It was an amazing opportunity to really experience another culture and interact with different, new people that simply visiting a country as a tourist would not allow.
Catherine O'Gorman, Costa Rica Volunteer

I think everyone should have the chance to have this amazing experience. I have learnt so many things and gained a lifetime of memories!
Hazel Dimmer, Brazil Volunteer

How can I even express how amazing it was in words? Since I got back, I was planning to go to Uni, but now I am trying to think of how I can carry on with the work that CCS does. I am now looking at things like studying Human Rights, [and I’m] hoping that it will take me back to Africa.
Ben Gerrish, Tanzania Volunteer

I feel I have learned more in my two months in Guatemala than I have in my 15 years of full time education, and I have certainly grown up a lot and become much more independent. I think I have developed emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.
Tansy Newman Turner, Guatemala Volunteer

It was amazing - and this is definitely an understatement. It has been deeply inspiring and eye-opening. It is so easy to believe in motivation, but much harder to be driven by it. Living in London is wonderful and at the same time, I found it vaguely suffocating. I always felt that I wanted to do something as meaningful as this, but something or other always held me back. Now that I have been out there, I have a strong motivation to do many other things like this in my life. I definitely acquired a "lust for life" whilst I was out there, and I caught the travel bug!
Suzannah Lim, Brazil Volunteer