High in the hills above Achuapa, in one of the poorest most remote areas of Nicaragua, you could help bring clean and safe drinking water to rural village communties. Often local people get their water from the river which dries up in summer or comes from polluted water sources. Raleigh volunteers work with the local population to dam small streams, build tanks to collect the water from where it can run through pipes to all the local houses. Volunteers will be living directly with families in the village and will help out with their day to day tasks.

Living in the heart of some of the most remote and poorest areas in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, our community projects give volunteers a unique opportunity to work alongside members of the community to help provi de basic facilities such as clean water and schools. As a volunteer you will be helping to improve quality of life and provide sustainable valuable resources.

For further examples of volunteer projects you may be working on, please see our website. Please be aware that these may change and are just a guide to the types of community projects we work on during a Raleigh expedition.

Raleigh is a youth charity that inspires people from all walks of life, nationalities and ages to get out there and rise to the challenges of life on expedition. We run programmes in Borneo, Costa Rica & Nicaragua and India. Our expeditions are a challenging, but extremely rewarding combination of sustainable community, environmental and adventure projects.

We run different length gap year expeditions throughout the year to fit your study or work patterns. Choose from our unique 10 week (with 3 and a half and 7 week shorter options) or 5 week expeditions. You will be working with other young people from all around the world, our volunteer managers (aged 25+) and local skilled workers.

Combine your community project with an adventure and environmental phase on our challenging, unique 10-week expeditions!