The following is an outline of current voluntary work options. We hold more details for each placement and can send these out to you when you identify a project that interests you.
ARGENTINA
Volunteer work is available in a diverse range of organisations that work in an effective and sustainable way towards the development of Argentina. Social organisations require volunteers to help promote personal and educational development and support for Argentina's youth, children who have suffered abuse and the sick and disabled in different types of communities. Environmental projects also require volunteers to help promote the sustainable use of natural resources and awareness of environmental protection.
BOLIVIA
Volunteers are needed for projects in Sucre, La Paz and rural areas. Work is available in a drop-in centre for children working on the streets; in a psychiatric hospital; in a boy's orphanage in a rural community; in a small school on Lake Titicaca. Work also offered in a National Park with animals or at the La Paz Museum of Science.
Depending on the current political situation, volunteer work in Bolivia may not be recommended so please check with us first.
COSTA RICA
Volunteers work in Costa Rica's stunning national parks and nature reserves. Work includes making or maintaining trails, guiding park visitors, setting up signs, watching over ranger stations, patrolling, animal protection, construction and maintenance of park facilities. In some special cases, volunteers will be able to participate in research or special group projects with more specialised tasks.
ECUADOR
A very wide range of volunteer work is available in Quito and other parts of the country. There are four categories of work: social organisations that work with street children, counselling in a women's prison, helping in an orphanage, helping with children of women prisoners or women in hospitals, and working with rural women; educational placements such as teaching English at a University or a small school; cultural organisations giving art classes/guiding and translating/training local volunteers at an Art Museum; and environmental organisations that work primarily in research, education, conservation and agro-forestry at biological stations and in cloud-forest or wildlife reserves.
PERU
The volunteer program is for people interested in learning about sustainable solutions to poverty. All volunteers will work in partnership with local people in a variety of community-based projects around Cusco. This unique programme offers exciting hands-on work opportunities and meaningful cultural interchange. Areas of work include: teacher's assistant at a kindergarten, children's home or youth centre; work in an after-school club; helping in a clinic for mentally/physically disabled children; working with street children; work in an old people's home
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