A Year Off Before College Isn't A Gap, It's A Launching Pad

By Denise Restauri. In August 2012, my daughter Ally was in India, spending the first half of her gap year at Shanti Bhavan, a boarding school for the most vulnerable children of India’s “lowest caste.” After five months at Shanti Bhavan, Ally would head off to Nepal to join (then 25-year-old) Maggie Doyne who runs a home for over 50 orphans and a school for more than 300 children. More...