Why join a humanitarian organization during your gap year?

Cultural immersion

Participating in a humanitarian project during your gap year abroad means first of all benefiting from an immersion in the local culture, allowing you to discover a new way of life, and new traditions while practising the English language, or Spanish in Latin American countries in general.

Sharing and open-mindedness

The notion of sharing is particularly present when carrying out a humanitarian mission. Sharing is the contribution of knowledge and skills, but not in one direction only: this contribution goes both ways.

Through this sharing comes a certain open-mindedness from which the participants of the humanitarian projects benefit.

Skills acquired

Getting involved in a humanitarian association, through a gap year in humanitarian work, allows the acquisition of different skills. We are talking about transferable skills in particular, which will be useful to you in your professional or student life, beyond the mission itself.

International experience in NGOs

It is important to raise the international side of each of the humanitarian projects proposed by RealStep. Increasingly valued, a gap year abroad is now a big advantage on CVs in the eyes of employers. We are talking about internationalism here, and the Initiation program allows you to benefit from training or rather a professionalising experience at the international level.

Examples of humanitarian gap year projects

• Teaching and helping teachers in schools
• Setting up educational workshops for locals
• Raising awareness on topics such as hygiene, health, etc.

Program in Costa Rica

• Educational and teaching project in Costa Rica. Missions are English support in schools and help with educational workshops on various topics such as everyday topics, environmental protection, etc.

Program in South Africa

• The program focused on English lessons followed by a volunteer project in Cape Town South Africa. It is an opportunity to combine a language stay and a humanitarian mission.

Gap year projects are ethical, visited and certified.

RealStep has ensured the ethics of each of our projects and is committed to the professionalism of the host organisation, which we know personally.

RealStep is:

• A permanent follow-up
• A tailor-made investment
• Ethical projects visited and certified by our team
• Trusted partner organisations

Join humanitarian social and educational projects abroad!

RealStep offers such projects in Europe, Africa or America, and thus contributes to the well-being of local communities and therefore to sustainable development.