SOME VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

We have a number of humanitarian and community projects that we offer in collaboration with a large number of existing communities and humanitarian organisations to develop projects which are beneficial to the communities and enjoyable to the volunteers.

CHILD CARE: This programme is dedicated to volunteering in NGOs for children. We can place you in some exciting social and humanitarian programmes in collaboration with a large number of orphan, street children centres, children hostels, children worker and centres for infant care in rural or urban communities. You can help children of low economic resources who come from poor homes; some have mothers in prison and many other difficulties in their young lives. In many cases they have been abandoned by their parents. You can help them improve their living conditions through volunteering in one of these institutions. Depending on your own skills and interests, you can teach English, music, dance, maths, computer or collaborate cooking, eating, bathing and personal development, administrative tasks, homework help, activities and general care for the children or any number of activities - or generally just spend quality time with the children. Furthermore, you can participate in the rehabilitation process to their families and society.

AIDS: Our programme is designed to collaborate and participate in health clinics, non-profit organisations or government agencies working with this devastating HIV/AIDS disease. As a volunteer, you can assist in developing sexual health education, promote prevention programmes and training seminars for groups like lay health professionals and sex trade workers. In addition, you can assist in the medical and psychological attention and antiretroviral therapy programmes. There are also opportunities to provide comfort and support directly to patients, their families and the community. You can make visits to hospices and medical facilities, which really provides you with a sense of the personal side of this disease.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Our host Human Rights organisations seek to promote and protect individual rights. The activities of the organisation include: human rights education to youth and children and teachers in schools, women’s rights (emphasis on reproductive and domestic rights) education in rural areas, psychological attention in crisis, legal pursuit of human rights cases, foreign governments abuse of local interests, and more. They are located in different Ecuadorian cities, but we can offer you the opportunity in Quito (capital city of Ecuador) in one of our collaborator organisations in some areas of the human rights.
 

TEACHING ENGLISH: Our English teaching project in Ecuador is located in the urban and rural communities. Volunteers also have the opportunity to explore and learn or improve the Spanish language. Most of the volunteers working in this project work as a teacher in a private or public elementary school. Responsibilities of volunteers include teaching simple English and the practice of simple conversational English with the children. Additional help with health, sanitation, and extra curricular activities are also expected. We believe education is the key to enabling this South American country to rise above its poverty. You will help in this process by teaching a class for some hours each day from Monday to Friday. Volunteers are free to use a variety of methods like singing songs, repeating words and playing with flash cards. The aim of your work is to help the children to enjoy learning English.

HEALTH / NURSING: Our health/nursing programmes welcome anyone thinking of taking up nursing or alternative health. By working on this programme, you will make a real contribution in hospitals, clinics and NGO's. Your help is needed throughout Ecuador to help the Ecuadorian population in the poorest urban or rural areas. Our host medical centres and patients welcome medical students, specialist, nurses, etc. The key requirements in our health/nursing volunteer programmes are initiative, enthusiasm and readiness to work in unfamiliar circumstances. You will be involved in the day-to-day running of medical centres, observing or directly providing general assistance to the doctors and nurses or you might help maintain the files, help at the reception desk or in the nursery, assist with patient check-ups, etc.

GENERAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMMES: Work in the midst of the most spectacular Ecuadorian biodiversities where projects range from maintaining to research. Your help is needed in the preservation, investigation, environmental education and management of the Ecuadorian flora, fauna and landscapes. We work in collaboration with a big number of private and public reserves, National parks and NGOs throughout Ecuador (Andes, Coastal, Amazonia and Galapagos Islands). Environmental projects such as reforestation, agroforestry, organic and sustainable farming practices, permaculture, tree nursery, biological research, environmental education (focused to promote the protection and conservation), recuperation and regeneration of the ecosystem are available. Ecuadorian dry, cloud, rain and mangrove forest wait for you. Live in a world of plenty nature and enjoy it while volunteering.

ANIMAL CARE: The goal of this programme is to rescue, rehabilitate and relocate confiscated animals to their natural habitat. You as volunteers will feed animals and clean and repair cages. In addition, you will help to build new cages and improve existing facilities to provide more natural environment for the birds and animals. Volunteers are needed to gather food from the forest for animals in captivity, introduce the food to the animals, monitor progress, consult with the biologist, and under supervision of the biologist and centre staff, teach the animals how to eat and other behaviours they need to know in the wild.

VETERINARY MEDICINE: You can combine a veterinary placement with an animal care placement, working in a zoo, animal rehabilitation centre or animal clinic. You may be able to spend some time concentrating on the veterinary practice. Working as a veterinary volunteer, you will be involved in vaccinations, operations, laboratory work, post-mortems, meat inspections and the routine treatment of domestic farm animals and pets. These programmes are available to you in Amazon Region, Machalilla National Park, Galapagos Islands, Baños, Guayabamba and many other places throughout Ecuador.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION WORK: If you are looking for a rewarding experience to provide decent housing for a family in need, join our Volunteer Programmes in Ecuador which offers a vibrant cultural and humanitarian experience. Many Ecuadorian families live in substandard, overcrowded and unhealthy conditions. With your help, more deserving families can have decent places to call home. Help repairing fences, roofs or cabins, assistance and supporting with construction of water pipes, houses, etc. Our objectives are to help Ecuadorian families benefit from available and existent housing programmes.
Other volunteer descriptions are available upon request.

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