Jet-setters who plan to travel to locations such as Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines flights may be among those who are considering doing volunteer work while overseas.
Last month, Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, asserted that taking a year out to travel is better for a CV than sitting at home without a job.
Last month, Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, asserted that taking a year out to travel is better for a CV than sitting at home without a job.
In a piece for the Independent, travel writer Rhiannon Batten noted that those who want to help others while overseas could find that there is a demand for any skills they have, even if it is simply helping people to read and write or working on agricultural projects.
She noted that volunteer holidays are "no longer the preserve only of skilled medical or teaching professionals".
"Short-term 'voluntourism' trips often make use of everyday talents such as reading with children or … helping a school gardening project," she observed.
Figures from Unicef show that between 2005 and 2008, youth literacy rates in Ethiopia among females between the ages of 15 and 24 was less than 40 per cent
Mr Griffiths observed that graduates struggling to enter the UK job market could find that a stint working abroad might make them more employable when they return home.
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