Conservation 

Travel and Life Experiences

Cultural Connections

If you have academic qualifications but lack job experience, or conversely have working experience but no formal qualifications, time abroad with MANGO can be very positively used. Our projects contain a mix of community, teaching, science and conservation working opportunities, your involvement in which can be formally recognised through the UK NVQ system (Vocational Qualifications at level 2 or 3). The process is simply to keep records of your work experience - diaries, photos, material produces, your host's comments/assessments of your skills - these build into a folder of evidence about your experience and skills. Qualified staff will help you build up your evidence, and this will be assessed on return to Europe. There is a small fee for the NVQ registration and assessment process.

On a more informal basis, the working opportunities on offer will help you build your basic skill and confidence in areas such as working with people, IT, scientific data collection, teaching and a foreign language. Importantly, you will be working alongside local staff, and your confidence and capacity will help them to work more effectively too.