A school for children with disabilities- Camp Hope
This project benefits 40 plus people.
Location: Quito, Ecuador (50 min by bus from the Spanish school)
Duration: 1 week, minimum commitment
Spanish level needed: High Basic- Low Intermediate
This project takes place at a day-school for disabled and underprivileged children with around 40 students ages 5 to 20. The caring staff and volunteers provide daily care and attention, rehabilitation, after-school programs and recreational activities along with vocational training for disabled teenagers. The school also runs a Casa-Hogar where live-in care is provided for its children.
Camp Hope is located in the north of the city of Quito, about 50 minutes by public transport to the Spanish school.
There are a broad range of activities that volunteers can undertake depending on their experience and Spanish level. Qualified individuals may assist with physical therapy, social work and teaching. Other activities include assistance with educational activities and daily care for disabled children, help during meal times, live-in volunteering at Casa Hogar, facility maintenance, office work, cooking and cleaning. Twice a week there is a program of hippotherapy that volunteers can assist with.
Volunteers can work during morning and/or afternoon shifts. Evening, weekends, and during regularly scheduled school holidays volunteers are needed.
Required skills– the ideal volunteer is flexible, caring, and willing to adapt to another culture. Successful volunteers are also motivated and able to take initiative.
Sustainable Development in the Amazon region- Guayusa
Location: Napo, Ecuador (an average of 3 hours away from Quito by car)
Duration: 1 week, minimum commitment
Spanish level needed: High Basic- Low Intermediate
Experience the life in the Ecuadorian jungle by working hand in hand with the indigenous communities’ in the in the Amazon rainforest (Napo province). This program gives participants a unique opportunity to experience the culture, environment and learn about a social enterprise that markets Guayusa- a natural tea that provides a source of energy and nutrition straight from the Amazon jungle. This organization provides tools and resources (direct market access, agro forestry training, and integrated development services, etc.) to Amazonian farming families to create lasting social change.
Volunteer activities include: guayusa harvest and planting, collecting guayusa “mother trees,” work in guayusa factory and nursery. Longer-term volunteers may get involved with research in the areas of Agroforestry System Design, Community Development and Agricultural Economics.
Qualified volunteers may also work on Forest Conservation and Watershed project in Colonso forest.
This project offers a full day schedule and traveling is involved. Regarding the accommodations, volunteers stay in “Casa Runa” in Tena. The house is a 3-story house and sleeps 6-7 people. It is a 10 minute walk from the centre of Tena in Barrio Las Hierbitas. The house has a kitchen, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, hot water and a balcony with a hammock and a beautiful view of the river and the jungle. All bedding is provided. Volunteers are responsible for their own food, but often cook communally.
Need more details about the program or want to register, contact us.