Among the noblest of the gap-yearers (or do you prefer to call yourself gappers? Or gap-yearists? Gappies? Gapistas?) the months they spend between school and university or university and employment need to be used for one thing: changing or saving the world.

This type of gapista (we decided the last one sounded best) doesn’t want to waste their precious time on purely self-centred, hedonistic activities such as bussing it around Europe, frequenting the nightspots of the continent’s capitals by night and sleeping in at the youth hostel by day. Oh no. They know that they can make a difference to people and planet, and by jove are they going to do so.

Alright, this type of gapista is as rare as unicorns. Even the most selfless of us would permit ourselves at least a little bit of travelling purely for enjoyment’s sake on our gap year. But this doesn’t change the fact that many, many people taking gap years to have a healthy dollop of social conscience, and they’d love nothing more than to make use of it by helping other people for at least part of their gap year, preferably in a way that also lets them experience new places.

But the problem for such well intentioned people is that often it’s difficult to know exactly what to do. People with specific career ambitions have it easier. Medics, for example, can do volunteer healthcare work abroad. But those of us who want to help but don’t know how often end up being overfaced by choices and unable to decide what kind of overseas voluntary initiative to sign up to.

If all this sounds familiar to you then we may have the gap-year package provider that might just be able to soothe your tired decision-making muscles. May we present to you Camps International, a company whose volunteer packages will allow you to help out in all sorts of different ways at your chosen destination.

With ample experience in the gap-year game and a reputation built on providing ethically sound gap-year packages, Camps International are a great organisation to turn to if you know you want to help out abroad but don’t know what to do.

What we really like about their packages is the way that they combine lots of different voluntary activities, and even throw in a couple of cultural ones on top. So, for example, were you to take one of their longer-length South American packages, during your two- or three-month trip you’d be able to spend several weeks doing community projects with local people; carry out rainforest conservation work; help local endangered wildlife; and also take Spanish language lessons and guided city tours to discover the culture of the country you’re staying in.

Phew! That’s a fair number of experiences. Enough to fill any gap year, and as such a great idea for people who either want to do it all or can’t decide on one single thing to do.

Camp International have packages covering Asia, South America and Africa, and the longer the package you take, the more experiences you can do. Their packages vary in price between around £800 and £3000, and in length between two weeks and three months.

For more info, why not head on over to www.campsinternational.com?