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In this section you can find information about volunteer positions in Latin America. Volunteering is not only a cultural exchange to learn from each other but also an effort to help building a better world. Work on social areas with children or nature conservation in Ecuador and Chile or help with an ecological project in Uruguay and Costa Rica. Volunteer positions in South America exist in various areas and we would be glad to help you find one

What we want to accomplish is that a volunteer not only sees and helps the poor people, as poverty exists around the world. What we want from the volunteer is his/ her understanding, especially the process and value towards the poor people of this part of the world. Volunteering with Latin Horizons is a cultural exchange, so that both parts learn from each other and so giving to the volunteer the satisfaction of supporting this idea, and giving the local people of Ecuador new ideas to improve their organizations. Our volunteers contribute much-needed skills to local communities as they strive for self-sufficiency. Volunteers work side-by-side with local people on locally designed and driven projects

Some fields where volunteers can help are
  • animal welfare
  • biological research
  • childcare/children
  • community development
  • community health
  • community organizing
  • community tourism projects
  • conservation
  • culture
  • eco-tourism
  • education
  • environment
  • handicapped
  • health care
  • human rights
  • medicine
  • nursing
  • organic farming
  • orphans
  • public education
  • reforestation
  • social work
  • street kids
  • teaching
  • tourism
  • translation
Latin Horizons arranges volunteer placements all over Ecuador; in the Highlands, on the Coast, in the Amazon region and the Galapagos Islands.
 
Below you can find some examples of the kinds of projects we offer. If you are interested in volunteering in an area you don’t see below, please e-mail us. We do our best to accommodate all requests.

 

HEALTH CARE & MEDICINE

 

Medical Foundation LHVPHC-01

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Volunteer Position Description 

FHN is an international organization with programs in both Ecuador and Ghana. Their goal is to provide quality and continuous health services to those in need and to improve education and environmental practices in local communities. more details

There are four different positions available;

  • Medical professionals or Med-Students in their final year provide
    care in a number of isolated communities alongside an Ecuadorian rural doctor.

  • Volunteer works with teachers in the region to assess the state of education
    and designs/implements a plan for improvement. Also works alongside the community library to promote literacy and education among all age groups.

  • Volunteer works with local communities in the development and maintenance of waste management facilities, community gardens, and environmental education.

  • Volunteer helps the Quito office staff with project development, management, fundraising, and promotional material.

 

 

 

Volunteer Requirements

For the Health volunteer position the following is required:
  • LH Spanish course if not at advanced level.
  • Medical professionals should be fully registered in their home country.
  • Medical students should be in their final year.
  • This position requires a minimum stay of 6 months. 
For the Social volunteer position the following is required:
  • LH Spanish course if not at intermediate level
  • Volunteers should have a degree in Education, teaching, arts, social sciences, or other related field.
  • This position requires a minimum stay of 3 months. 
For the Ecological volunteer position the following is required:
  • LH Spanish course if not at intermediate level.
  • A passion for environmental issues.
  • This position requires a minimum stay of 3 months.
 For the office volunteer position in Quito the following is required:
  • LH Spanish course if not at intermediate level.
  • Good organizational and computer skills.
  • Degree in business administration preferred but not necessary.
  • Must enjoy city life.
  • This position requires a minimum stay of 3 months.

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Volunteers without medical training will help as facilitators in such tasks as: patient mobilization; orientation within the center; recording patient information; giving assistance to the therapists and some administrative work.

Volunteers with medical experience are allowed to work directly with patients in cooperation with the local doctors.  They can also participate in special medical visits to patients in surrounding areas. The Foundation is open to receive any proposal of volunteer support whether included in the list or not Medical program with associated clinics in Ecuador for medicine students and nurses. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks.

Foundation for disabled people LHVPHC-02

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Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required unless intermediate.

  • Desire to help people in medical need.

  • Must be able to adjust working in a different medical environment.

  • Be creative and empathetic to patients needs.

 

Machallilla LHVPHC-03

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Volunteer Position Description 

The volunteer project in Machalilla has existed since 1998. The project has tried to improve the local life circumstances and currently has 35 people working on the project. Machalilla is a small coast village on 3 hours of Guayaquil in the province of Manabi. The inhabitants are in majority fisherman’s,  Tourism is coming up a a source of income dua to the presence of national park Machalilla and the Isla the la Plata, an island 2 miles from the coast which is called small Galapagos. During your stay in Machalilla you can stay at one of the families or can you choose for a stay in your own student home, 100 meters from the coast. Volunteering can be done in the following sectors:

  • Health care and information to the inhabitants in local clinic (whole year)
  • Education to the children. Since a couple of years the students have started giving lessons at the primary school build by themselves (from April to January)
  • In the national park Machalilla (the only national park to the coast of the mainland of Ecuador) manage walking routes, provide information to(foreign) tourists and reforestation projects (whole year)
  • Building and improve houses of the inhabitants, particularly those of widows of drowned fishermen (the whole year, however some projects lie quiet during the winter months January, February and March)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteer Requirements

For the education position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • education experience or at present study field in education or similar
  • This function requires a minimum stay of a trimester, 3 months
  • This function is available from April to January

For the medical position are the following requirements:  

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • Medical-nursery student or graduate
  • Strong personality
  • Minimum 2 months available
  • This function available whole year-round

For the ecological/tourist position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless intermediate level
  • An extra language fluently spoken is a plus (English, German or French)
  • Passion has for nature
  • Outside active and wll functioning in a group
  • Minimum one month available
  • This position is available the whole year and there is room for more volunteers during the months of July, august and the months of January till April.

For the construction position the following requirements are:

  • LH language course unless you have an intermediate level
  • Active person
  • A training in each level concerning construction during volunteer stay
  • Minimal a month available
  • This position is available for several volunteers between May and December

 

Volunteer Position Description 

This program aims to tackle issues of mental health and social inclusion. The volunteer works in NGOs devoted to maltreated children, addicted to drugs or beaten women.

Volunteer in mental health area LHVPHC-04

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NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

 

SM Animal  Rescue Center LHVPNE-01

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Volunteer Position Description 

This Animal Rescue Center is located about 1hour south of Quito. The center was founded by Johnny and Brenda Cordova after that they had come across 19 mistreated monkeys for sale in the street.

There is also the opportunity to volunteer at another Animal Rehabilitation Site, located outside of Puyo. This is a new animal rehabilitation and release center in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador.

 Volunteers help rescue wild animals from unhealthy and illegal situations. The main responsibility of the volunteers is the general well-being of the animals, which includes feeding and cleaning enclosures daily, while also trying to improve their living conditions. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks.

 

Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required if you don’t have basic Spanish.

  • Minimum age 18.

  • Basic level of physical fitness

  • Dormitory style living.

  • Love of animals.

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Volunteers can be involved in Environmental Education projects, permaculture /agro forestry (sustainable agriculture), and research of flora and fauna in the reserve.  Some of the activities include tree planting, working in a tree nursery and other basic farm tasks.

If you are interested there are also opportunities for advanced research. If you are a professional scientist or student, you are more than welcome at the Golondrinas Foundations for at least 2 months. Research can be done in the following fields: agricultural engineering, agro forestry, permaculture, reforestation, soil recovery and more. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks.

Ecological Foundation LHVPNE-02

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Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required if you don’t have basic Spanish.

  • Minimum age 18.

  • Motivated.

  • Gardening skills.

  • Someone who enjoys living in the countryside.

 

 

Condor Bird Park  LHVPNE-03

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Volunteer Position Description 

Private rescue park destined to Eco-tourism is looking for intern who wants to work in the nature with animals. People with biologist and veterinary background are encouraged to apply. Free lodging provided during internship period.
This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks. more details

 

Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required unless intermediate Spanish

  • Have affinity with nature/animals

  • Flexible (no problem to work in the weekend)

 

Volunteer Position Description 

If you are interested in learning more about organic farming and filling your belly with eco-friendly edibles, working at an organic farm is a great option. As a participant, you will work on the land, helping with the production of the compost to use organic fertilizer in the organic farms. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks.

Organic Farming  LHVPNE-04

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Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required unless intermediate Spanish

  • Have affinity with nature/animals

  • Someone who enjoys living in the countryside

 

Cloud forest preservation community LHVPNE-05

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Volunteer Position Description 

According to your interests, the needs of the community, and previous conversations, each volunteer is provided with a calendar of activities. It can include work such as:

  • Environmental Education: Volunteers are needed who can support the development of an environmental education program for the children of the community.

  • Forest Research: You can also contribute doing research in different areas.

  • Eventually, the volunteers have the option of participating in social or sports events, and/or in parties that the community puts on. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 4 weeks.

 

Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required unless intermediate Spanish

  • Have affinity with nature/animals

  • Someone who enjoys living in the countryside

  • Help control global  warming

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Location: Cerro Verde, Uruguay

Work with young green turtles (Chelonia mydas)
Volunteers will carry out research and conservation activities, working close to fishermen community where the field stations are located.
Volunteers will be working at the same time with 2 researchers who will be coordinating the fieldwork, getting involved in all tasks included in the project work.

Information about the geographic place:
Cerro Verde is a protected area, located on the east of Uruguay. It’s a place with high diversity of fauna and plant communities including relict vegetation, marine mammals and seabirds.

Volunteer activities:
1. Sighting and capturing, with nets, young green turtle.
2. Walks (10-20 km.), searching for stranded sea turtles.
3. Help researchers with necropsies of any dead individual.
4. Collect data of the craft fishing carried out in this locality.
5. Get involved in talks and workshops for the community and tourists.
6. Rehabilitation of sick and weak sea turtles.
7. Help in the field station duties such us cleaning and cooking.

Requirements:
1. Willingness to work with nature in a remote place, surrounded by beautiful landscapes.
2. Good physical conditions: know how to swim and be able to walk long distances on sand.
3. Willingness to get to know a different culture, getting involved into conservation activities with this fishing community.
4. It is not necessary previous experience in handling sea turtles, training will be given as soon as arrived in the field station.

Accommodation: tents

 

Sea turtles program LHVPNE06

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Patagonia National Park Program LHVPNE07

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Volunteer Position Description 

Location: Pristine, Patagonia Chile

Help create a new national park in pristine Patagonia, Chile when you volunteer with our Patagonia National Park Project.

In this groundbreaking project, volunteers will contribute to the creation of a new national park in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. As a volunteer, you will work with scientists and park staff to collect data and carry out restoration work for one of the largest and most ambitious conservation projects in the world.

In 2004, a non-profit foundation purchased a 173,000-acre sheep ranch in the rugged Patagonia region on the Argentina-Chile border. This dramatic landscape of Patagonian steppes and Andes Mountains rises only 60 miles west of the fjords and islands off southern Chile’s Pacific Coast.

The goal of the project is to transform the ranch into Latin America’s newest national park, one that will be roughly the size of Yosemite National Park. In order to convert the pastureland back to its natural habitat, scientists are now studying the native plants and animals and putting together a restoration strategy.

As a volunteer you will work hands-on with Chilean Natural History Museum scientists and local guides to conduct scientific research and to eradicate non-native plant species and replace them with indigenous vegetation. You will also remove old sheep fences that restrict the movements of native wildlife. Through all of these efforts, you will help preserve Patagonia for generations to come.

Volunteer tasks may include:

         • Collecting scientific data on the field
            • Eradicating non-native plant species
            • Collecting seeds and plant indigenous vegetation
            • Removing old sheep fences
            • Learning about the plants and animal species of the area

Requirements

Volunteers should be physically fit in order to manage the physical labor associated with this project. Your knowledge of Spanish will determine what type of work you can do with the project. While fluency is certainly not required, a very limited knowledge will leave you with somewhat limited options.

Program Length

  • Three weeks (21 days) with an optional five-day Adventure Program extension
  • Please inquire about start dates.

 

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Malecon 2000 is the largest and main organization of the city of Guayaquil. This organization which existed since 1997, has occupied itself with improving the standard of living in the largest city of Ecuador. They are personally responsible for the largest what has been built in Ecuador, the boulevard Malecon 2000 on the river the Guayas, the icon of the city. Furthermore they are responsible for the restoration of the colonial heart of the city, the Peñas neighborhood. Which is still worked on.  The organization also made an effort to revitalize a forgotten area of the city,  the island Santay. In 1970s the then town governing board had the ambitious plan to build a new town centre on this Island. Most of the inhabitants who were dependent on agriculture left the island. The new town centre did not come there, for this reason nature the chance got of repairing itself. The remained families (approximately 300 inhabitants) now still live on the island and live particularly of the fishery and are lagged behind.

You stay during your volunteer project or intern training period, on the island in your own house, or in the city in a shared apartment or a welcoming family in a beautiful district of the city. There are 4 positions available, the first is an intern training period spot and the remaining 3  are volunteer positions:

  • Ecological research. Do a study into the unique flora and fauna system of the island in this sweet-slat water environment.
  • Tourism. Guide on the island Santay. Tour guiding with groups and look after tourists and schoolboys. Both on the island and in the city Guayaquil. Moreover, work with organizing activities (such as concerts, theater performances, folklore and festivals) on the boulevard Malecon 2000
  • Social volunteer spot 1. Volunteer with the local island community in the development and maintenance of recycling, water use, hygiene and education concerning the environment. Also in the reforestation project of Mangrove and to that the coherent project of the reintroduction of the crocodile you can help with.
  • Social volunteer spot 2. Volunteer with the local island community with relation on social problems which play on the island such as, alcohol addiction, teen moms and unilateral feeding. If diversion can you help with also in the reforestation project of mangrove and to that the coherent project of the reintroduction of the crocodile.

Tasks stagiair ecological research

  • Birds study, research the differences, the influence of the urbanization and clogging of their environment on the behavior of birds and their numbers.
  • The first weeks visit daily field, whenever you have collected sufficient information you can process the information in the office
  • Eventual findings will be presented to biologists and people of Malecon 2000,
  •  The final result on paper and digitally to Malecon 2000.

Requirements intern

  • LH language course unless advanced level?
  • Spanish course in the ecological field during your research
  • Studying in a biological direction with knowledge of birds
  • Bird lover
  • Available  for the time which you deem necessary to wind up yourself in research entirely.

During your project you will be accompanied by three biologists who are active on the island. For extra accompaniment and for accompaniment at the processing the director of the department Isla Santay is available, she has much experience in accompanying (foreign) students. During your research you stay on the island whereas when you work out your data will be staying in the city.

Malecon 2000, Isla Santay LHVPNE-08

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Volunteer Requirements

  • For the position tourist the following requirements are:
               

    • LH language course unless advanced level
    • Good knowledge of at least one of the following languages (English, German, French)
    • Presentation skills. At this position you speak both for secondary education and for groups like national/foreign tourists
    • Creativity in helping with promoting tourism on the island
    • Minimum 6 weeks available

    For the social volunteer spot 1 the following requirements are

    • LH language course unless reasonable level
    • Affinity with and knowledge of environmental issues
    • Be prepared to give information to the inhabitants of the island
    •  Minimum 6 weeks available are.

    For the social volunteer spot 2 the following requirements are:
     

    • LH language course unless high level
    • Background or studies in medical, social sciences, education or equivalent areas.
    • Be prepared to give information to the inhabitants of the island
    • Strong personality
    • Minimum 2 months available

 

 

Machalilla LHVPNE-09

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Volunteer Position Description 

The volunteer project in Machalilla has existed since 1998. The project has tried to improve the local life circumstances and currently has 35 people working on the project. Machalilla is a small coast village on 3 hours of Guayaquil in the province of Manabi. The inhabitants are in majority fisherman’s,  Tourism is coming up a a source of income dua to the presence of national park Machalilla and the Isla the la Plata, an island 2 miles from the coast which is called small Galapagos. During your stay in Machalilla you can stay at one of the families or can you choose for a stay in your own student home, 100 meters from the coast. Volunteering can be done in the following sectors:

  • Health care and information to the inhabitants in local clinic (whole year)
  • Education to the children. Since a couple of years the students have started giving lessons at the primary school build by themselves (from April to January)
  • In the national park Machalilla (the only national park to the coast of the mainland of Ecuador) manage walking routes, provide information to(foreign) tourists and reforestation projects (whole year)
  • Building and improve houses of the inhabitants, particularly those of widows of drowned fishermen (the whole year, however some projects lie quiet during the winter months January, February and March)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteer Requirements

For the education position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • education experience or at present study field in education or similar
  • This function requires a minimum stay of a trimester, 3 months
  • This function is available from April to January

For the medical position are the following requirements:  

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • Medical-nursery student or graduate
  • Strong personality
  • Minimum 2 months available
  • This function available whole year-round

For the ecological/tourist position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless intermediate level
  • An extra language fluently spoken is a plus (English, German or French)
  • Passion has for nature
  • Outside active and wll functioning in a group
  • Minimum one month available
  • This position is available the whole year and there is room for more volunteers during the months of July, august and the months of January till April.

For the construction position the following requirements are:

  • LH language course unless you have an intermediate level
  • Active person
  • A training in each level concerning construction during volunteer stay
  • Minimal a month available
  • This position is available for several volunteers between May and December

 

Volunteer Position Description 

This program looks after teenagers from Castillos City (Rocha sate, Biosphere Reserve, Uruguay) (Rocha, the east Bathed Biosphere Reserve - Uruguay), to appreciate and respect the closer Protected Areas.
The goals of the program are:
1) to train young people to protect natural resources from protected areas;
2) to introduce young people in the world of the natural places leaders to multipliers the experiences;
3) to bring recreational and sportive activities, close to the nature to young people;
4) to bring places to young people to think about themselves and work in values about the group and individual work. The educational activities are developed over the interaction in the protected areas.

The developed activities are:
a) environmental education;
b) nature guides;
c) low impact camps,
d) expedition groups to wild areas;
e) help in cientific program to take information; among others.
The young park rangers also make an important work about bring information to everyone that they can about the people behavior with nature. In addition this program helps on generation of values, change of attitudes and behavior.

Young Park Rangers Program LHVPNE-10

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Volunteer Requirements

Goals sofar achieved;
-Has influenced in a better performance of the student.
-Has generated an integration between formal and non formal educational, between schools an protected areas, in favor of the formation of the new generations, of the conservation and of sustainable development.
Every one can work in this program participating directly on the diary activities and also on the information area developing communicational tools like blogs, web sites, mailing, pdf folders, among others.

 

Programs for 'training, investigation and conservation of Franca Austral whale in Uruguayan Protected Areas’: LHVPNE-11

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Volunteer Position Description 

Activities:
•Investigation: volunteers will be some time collecting data about biological and environmental conditions, about behavior and identification, when stay for the whales watching
•Identification of individuals: volunteers will be able to support the investigators team taking photographs of the whales
•Boats whales watching: the volunteer will help the group locating the whales and registering data about its.
•Water samples collection of the sea surface: the volunteer will help taking water samples, where the animals have been seen, to know the quality level.
•Interaction with animals: the volunteer will help to study the behavior of the visiting whales populations and the interact with the local boats or ships.

There are different monitoring stations (protected areas in Maldonado and Rocha, the Uruguayan east coast):
A - Punta del Este, Punta Ballena and José Ignacio (1 and 2);
B - La Paloma and La Pedrera (3 and 4);
C - Cabo Polonio-Valizas and Punta del Diablo (5 and 6).

Observations: The volunteer should have a good physical condition, to be capable of walking average distances on the sand and to tolerate drops temperatures. The volunteer will be qualified and prepared by means of chats and basic short courses, to carry out takes it of data and the whale watching strategic from places of the coastal zone as a group with the local coastal community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Volunteer works in NGOs which aims is to protect the nature. Volunteer in Ecological and Environment Conservation are located outside Buenos Aires, in other regions of Argentina.

Volunteer in environment area LHVPNE-09

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CULTURE - EDUCATION - TEACHING

 

Volunteer Position Description 

Volunteers will teach Basic English in a public high school. You may be asked to teach in a formal classroom, or informally after school. more details

This position requires a minimum stay of 8 weeks

English Teaching Assistant LHVPE-01

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Volunteer Requirements

  • LH Spanish course required unless intermediate Spanish

  • Affinity with adolescents.

  • Must be able to keep a class under control.

  • Some experience teaching adolescents.

  • Minimum age 21 years old.

 

 

Young Women's Mentoring Program LHVPE-02

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Volunteer Position Description 

Location: Santiago de Chile

Volunteers participating in our Young Women’s Mentoring program will be encouraging young women to believe in themselves and in their dreams.  As a volunteer with our local partner organization, you will play a role in improving the lives of girls aged 3 to 18 who have been abandoned or abused by their families. The foundation firmly believes that volunteers provide a window to a world that the young women and girls have previously not been able to access. You will be an important role model, and will provide hope for a better future.

Volunteer tasks may include:

  • Helping the girls with their homework, especially English
  • Teaching other subjects if possible
  • Mentoring the girls
  • Helping the staff with various tasks
  • Organizing recreational and educational activities for the girls
  • Taking part in special events
  • Playing sports and games with the girls
  • Assisting staff in the maintenance of the shelter
  • Monitoring the swimming pool (December to March)

Requirements

            • 18 years of age or older
            • Program only available to female volunteers
            • Intermediate Spanish communication skills
            • High level of maturity, responsibility, and commitment
            • Initiative and independence

Program Length

  • Minimum: 2 weeks
  • Maximum: none
  • January until March (summer vacation) / July (Winter vacation) Program activities may be limited or not available.

 


Volunteer Position Description 

Location: Atacama Region, North Chile

Scope:
This Project is based around helping a network organization in Atacama and the rural communities with whom they work. These communities include: Peine, Socaire, Solor, Ollague, Machuca, San Pedro, Río Grande, Tulor y Quitor.

The network organization is a group of indigenous communities that have created a network of microindustralists who felt the urgent necessity to develop the tourist industry among their villages and people. The Tourism Network has its first meeting house in San Pedro de Atacama, as well as in other locations in local Atacameñon Towns. In most of the communities now they offer the service of lodging, traditional gastronomy and ethnotouristic circuits realized by the members of the corresponding towns.

English training is currently a priority for the development of these communities.

Project Content:
Training English in local schools and organizations / community groups which are working with the Network.

Objectives:

Local Schools:

  • Reinforce English capabilities: understanding and speaking (basic)
  • Improve the schools curriculum
  • Support educational staff with teaching materials and oral communication

Communities (Tourism):

  • Develop / Reinforce English capabilities with the following goals:
    • Tourism Development: to enable the marketing and sale of tourism products, including accommodation, gastronomy and artisan products.
    • Enable local people to transmit their culture to foreigners for
      • Tourism
      • Valuation and protection of their communities within the Networks programs.
    • To give a feeling of personal and cultural value and development to local people.
    • Improve quality of life

During the project, there may be mini projects / side jobs that can include:

- Helping the women of the Network in the kitchen cooking for the volunteer groups.
- Carpentry work
- Translations

Tourism network Atacama LHVPE-03

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Mentoring and education program LHVPE04

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Volunteer Position Description 

Location: Curicó, Central Chile

Scope: Working with two organizations that work together in the Curicó region: a government funded organization that helps extremely poor and underprivileged communities in the regions of Chile, and a Fair Trade Organization.

Project Content:

  • Mentoring children and adolescents.
    • This includes team-work games, activities and leisure activities to improve communication skills, interpersonal and family relations, and self-confidence.
  • English Teaching
    • Teaching school English classes
    • Personalized help to struggling students who need extra attention in their English studies.
  • Repairing houses for families of limited means.
    • Repairing and expanding the main rooms of houses where families live and sleep together.

Objectives:

  • Mentoring children and adolescents.
    • To improve communication skills, interpersonal and family relations, and self-confidence.
  • English Teaching
    • To give the children an opportunity to learn English – an opportunity that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to learn.
  • Repairing houses for families of limited means.
    • To improve the quality of life of the individuals and families who are a part of this program.

Other possible projects with the Network:

    • Sustainable Farming: working with a vineyard.

 


Volunteer Position Description 

The school Semillero de la Patria exist since 2004, and is located in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the city. In this part of the city live the immigrants who came from the countryside of the country. Most of the inhabitants of this slum are living in houses which aren’t much more than 4 walls of cane and sink roofs. Education is very important for the children of the neighborhood to have a chance for a better live for themselves and for their kids. The school is a private initiative of a local family to give the poor kids in this neighborhood a chance to have education. Now there are around 100 kids learning here and you can help them. The school year is split up in 3 parts. You can do your practice here for your university or you can just work voluntary for at least one of the 3 parts. A school year is from 15th April till the end of January.  And the classes are from 7.30 am till 12.30 pm.  The school offers you the possibility to give classes here to your own group when you have sufficient knowledge of Spanish, when your have a starters level you can give English. To teach in this slum is totally safe, the house of the owning family is in front of the school and a taxi is picking you up everyday. In both functions the director of the school is helping you with whatever you need.

Teaching at primary school in Guayaquil LHIPC-04

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Tasks

For English teacher

  • Teach the English lenguage to all levels of the school. That´s about 4 hours every day.
  • Follow the existing programme but you can change the programme if you can make it better.
  • Prepare your classes
  • Make your own tests or use the existing ones and correct them.
  • Give a hand to organize activitities like Day of the Mothers, Day of the Children, celebrationes of the city, Christmas etc.

For an ordinary teacher.

  • Teach, when you are ready you give your own classes in subjects like mathematics, writing, lenguage, biology, history, geografy and drawing)
  • Prepare your classes.
  • Make your own tests or use the existing ones and correct them.
  • Give a hand to organize activitities like Day of the Mothers, Day of the Children, celebrationes of the city, Christmas etc.)

Requirements

For English teacher

  • LH lenguage course when you don´t have at least a reasonable knowledge of Spanish
  • Reasonable knowledge of English grammer
  • Experience in teaching or following a education for teaching
  • A good treatment with children
  • Willing to give classes in a basic environment.
  • Availble for at a least a trimester (3 months )

For a teacher of an own class

  • LH lenguage course when you don´t have an advances knowledge of Spanish
  • Experience in teaching or following a education for teaching
  • A good treatment with children
  • Willing to give classes in a basic environment
  • Availble for at a least a trimester (3 months )

 

 

Machalilla LHVPE-05

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Volunteer Position Description 

The volunteer project in Machalilla has existed since 1998. The project has tried to improve the local life circumstances and currently has 35 people working on the project. Machalilla is a small coast village on 3 hours of Guayaquil in the province of Manabi. The inhabitants are in majority fisherman’s,  Tourism is coming up a a source of income dua to the presence of national park Machalilla and the Isla the la Plata, an island 2 miles from the coast which is called small Galapagos. During your stay in Machalilla you can stay at one of the families or can you choose for a stay in your own student home, 100 meters from the coast. Volunteering can be done in the following sectors:

  • Health care and information to the inhabitants in local clinic (whole year)
  • Education to the children. Since a couple of years the students have started giving lessons at the primary school build by themselves (from April to January)
  • In the national park Machalilla (the only national park to the coast of the mainland of Ecuador) manage walking routes, provide information to(foreign) tourists and reforestation projects (whole year)
  • Building and improve houses of the inhabitants, particularly those of widows of drowned fishermen (the whole year, however some projects lie quiet during the winter months January, February and March)

For the education position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • education experience or at present study field in education or similar
  • This function requires a minimum stay of a trimester, 3 months
  • This function is available from April to January

For the medical position are the following requirements:  

  • LH language course unless advanced level
  • Medical-nursery student or graduate
  • Strong personality
  • Minimum 2 months available
  • This function available whole year-round

For the ecological/tourist position are the following requirements:

  • LH language course unless intermediate level
  • An extra language fluently spoken is a plus (English, German or French)
  • Passion has for nature
  • Outside active and wll functioning in a group
  • Minimum one month available
  • This position is available the whole year and there is room for more volunteers during the months of July, august and the months of January till April.

For the construction position the following requirements are:

  • LH language course unless you have an intermediate level
  • Active person
  • A training in each level concerning construction during volunteer stay
  • Minimal a month available
  • This position is available for several volunteers between May and December

 

 


Volunteer Position Description 

The volunteer works with poor children. Activities include helping children with their school’s assignments, sharing games with them, helping to prepare their meals and leading other new activities for participants, for example, dance, art, teaching English, etc.

 

Volunteer in educational area LHVPE-08

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SOCIAL PROJECTS

 

Working with street children LHVPSP-01

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