I have currently been volunteering in El Salvador, Central America from early January to mid March. There´s no internet here, so I´m not able to update but will fill you all in when I´m back!
But follow this link to a blog post I´ve written about my placement here and the company I did it with. Details for a trip like this will be in my archives, “How to do a gap year with little or no money”
http://www.progressio.org.uk/blog/empowered-blog/el-salvador-organically-does-it
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