Over 18? Want to make a difference to the world?

Maybe you’d like a ‘gap’ year before starting tertiary studies. Or perhaps you’d like time out from your daily routine in New Zealand. If you have an active interest in development or environmental issues, why not use your skills to enrich the lives of others as well as yourself?

Be a part of positive change, gain work experience, confidence, maturity and a global perspective on our six-month Community Service Programme.

Throughout this life-changing experience you will strengthen old skills, learn new ones, contribute to a community in need and become fluent in a foreign language.

Below are the countries AFS New Zealand offers, but others may be available on request.

Community Service Programme:

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• Miriam in Tunisia
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“Honestly at times I feel so intrepid in Tunisia. It’s always a surprise, too. No-one can explain to me where we’re going or what we’ll be doing so I’m just bundled into the car and I never know where I’ll end up.”

Miriam Walker, AFS Community Service participant to Tunisia, 2006-2007