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Overview

Frontier has over 400 projects in countries throughout Africa, South America, Europe and Australasia, giving you unlimited adventures and excursions in beautiful locations. We have used our wealth of experience and knowledge in the field of ethical and gap year travel, wildlife conservation and community development to ensure that we find you the perfect project. With Frontier you can be sure that you will get the best projects at the most competitive prices. You can learn a multitude of skills, discover hidden talents, challenge your preconceptions, gain qualifications and make lifelong friends.

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Types
  • Volunteer Abroad
  • Intern Abroad
  • Teach Abroad
Activities
  • Health & Medicine
  • Education & Literacy
  • Alternative Break
  • Children & Youth
  • Internship
  • Community Development
  • Study Abroad
  • Teach English
  • Ecotourism
  • Animals
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Intern Abroad
  • Environment
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Countries
  • Brazil
  • Bangladesh
  • Venezuela
  • Oceania
  • Maldives
  • Gambia
  • Honduras
  • Bolivia
  • Belize
  • Laos
  • Papua New Guinea
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Chile
  • China
  • Senegal
  • Fiji
  • Canada
  • Colombia
  • Ethiopia
  • Mongolia
  • Greece
  • Dominican Republic
  • Kenya
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Uganda
  • Zimbabwe
  • Italy
  • Ecuador
  • Sri Lanka
  • Spain
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37 Participant reviews

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Anna Morris

8 Apr 2023

Careful, this is corruption to the core and if you raise any questions you are full on in a whole load of dreadful trouble, proper food being witheld. or extortionate prices like $20 being demanded for two bog standard normal sausages.Thats because questions were raised about this company selling medicine to locals or 'exchanging' for sexual exploitations of locals when its all meant to be free for locals. Paid £2000 for this utter disruputable company that needs shutting down for the locals safety, and stop exploiting us volunteers. Try VSO or Kibbutz

Abdul

8 Apr 2023

Late to review but duty bound to forewarn Fraud'corruption & exploitation, this is an established fraud "Aid" company that preys on young volunteer girls. Its essence is corruption and fraud of funds, that do not go near any aid, and predatory environment for young girls far from family. Think Haiti...essential supplies exchanged for 'favours'. Staff exploit locals and volunteers. There are serious charity companies out there, this is NOT one. You are funding and supporting exploitation and corruption. STOP

Nick Cook

20 Jul 2022

Very late review and the dates may not be exact but I thought it necessary to share my experience with Frontier in Cambodia. It was a total scam: we went on the pretense that we would be assisting the ministry of environment on a conservation project, this was not the case and in fact the two government reps with us were at a loss as to what we were doing there. We were told that one day a week we could go to the local town and mingle, to buy supplies and interact with the community; in fact we were banned from leaving the site and forbidden to interact with villagers. We were even told not to use our medical kits to help the local rangers, and kids who would stop by from time to time to say hello. The work we did was a total farce and served no purpose whatsoever besides providing graduates with something to put on their CV. Myself and a friend wrote letters to head office explaining our disappointment which were taken from our hands by staff who then refused to mail them. The company, sorry, the non-profit organization profits by diverting the income to sister companies owned by the same people. Eg, Frontier Marketing Ltd will receive a nice big invoice that happens to be the same as the NGO's income... see how it works? They are a total scam, don't give them a penny or a minute of your time.

Sarah Lane

13 Jun 2022

Not great - I attended the teacher training the month before, in a rather hard to find location and they know I was going in July. Arrived in Bangalore on 1st July - no one there to pick me up from the airport. Stranded. I didn't know what to do, so I rang my sister in London who got in touch with them and read the riot act! The training itself wasn't really that helpful and I was lucky enough to have already taught in a different situation in another country so I used that to help me.

Tom Brown

19 Nov 2020

DO NOT USE FRONTIER - UNETHICAL SCAM I worked for Frontier as a staff member on the Madagascar project until evacuating under the advice of the UK embassy in April due to Covid-19. Frontier then refused to pay mine or my colleagues contractual wages and flight contributions once we had got back to the UK. I had worked for them in-field for 4 months and had received less than 1 month's pay. We each also had to cover the high cost of the evacuation ourselves. Furthermore, mine and one of my colleagues' personal camera equipment was stolen in-field by one of the camp security guards hired by Frontier, for which I received no sympathy, support or compensation from Frontier. This supposedly-paying job, which I had hoped would kick-start my career in marine biology and diving, has instead left me severely out of pocket and feeling taken advantage of by Frontier. I urge all prospective employees and volunteers to avoid this unethical company. Do not fall for the marketing, Frontier is a scam!

Bill Bright

10 Oct 2019

It was an overall complete scam. I paid almost $2,000 USD for 3 weeks in Bali. I signed up for 3 weeks volunteering at the sea turtle conservation, come to find out I only get 2 weeks working at the conservation because the first week is an "intro week" of basically doing nothing. I met other friends there who went through a different program and paid around $1100 for 4 weeks!! They paid way less than I did for a longer stay. What a rip off. Staff was horrible and barely spoke English. I know it can be hard to find within foreign countries, but these people were extremely difficult to understand. The staff is supposed to "take us on a tour of the nearby town." No, the woman giving me my tour just randomly left me in an alleyway and ran away from me? It was really confusing and I was left alone in the dark. Extremely scary. The program ended up working out okay, however it's really dumb to hear that other people doing the same exact activities as I was paid WAY less through other programs. Also, the room was extremely small, it's meant for 4 people but we could barely fit any of our stuff in it. We also had to share a bathroom with 9 other girls, while some boys' rooms got their own bathrooms. Extremely poor planning with the accommodation. The accommodation was WAY better on the island of Nusa Penida even though they told us it would be "worse." (?) People spoke better English and we had some really good food. I guess it just depends on where you go. Overall, do NOT go through Frontier, it is a waste of your money. Go through programs like IBHQ. Cheaper and better.

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