 Volunteer in Guatemala
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Cross-Cultural Solutions: Volunteer Abroad for the Experience of a Lifetime!
Experience another culture like never before while making a real difference in people’s lives. You’ll gain perspectives and insights into the local culture and yourself. It’s an exciting and personally inspiring experience, and you’ll develop memories that will be with you forever. Program operates in Guatemala City, and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Dates Offered: Choose from start dates year-round and lengths-of-stay from 1-12 weeks.
Costs: The U.S. tax-deductible program fee for a two-week program is $2,588 (£1,408) with each additional week of stay only $297 (£162). The program fee for the one-week Insight Abroad program offered in Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, and Russia is $1,695 (£922). Program fee includes: personalized Volunteer Placement, language instruction, cultural education, food, lodging, transportation to and from all Cross-Cultural Solutions’ placements and programs, pre-departure guidance from headquarters staff, 24-hour access to in-country staff, travel medical and emergency evacuation insurance, and more.
Contact: Cross-Cultural Solutions, 2 Clinton Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801;Tel: 800.380.4777 or 914.632.0022; in the UK call 0845 458 2781/2782; other countries call +44 (0) 1273 666392; Fax: 914.632.8494.
Email: info@crossculturalsolutions.org
Website: www.crossculturalsolutions.org
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Volunteer with Indigenous Children in Guatemala
This volunteer program in Guatemala offers you the chance to make an exceptional difference to the lives of Guatemalan children born into extreme poverty, as you learn Spanish, live with a local family, and truly experience Guatemalan culture living in the beautiful old Spanish colonial town of Antigua, Central America. Much of the Guatemalan population lives in poverty and, as going to school costs money, few of these people can afford an education, so GVI has joined with local indigenous leaders to create community teaching projects.
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Dates: 4 to 12 week durations available, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $1740 for 4 weeks
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on volunteering with children
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Volunteer on a Community Construction Project in Guatemala
Volunteering with GVI on this short-term community project will help you to improve the standard of living for indigenous communities situated near Antigua, Guatemala. Volunteer to build energy-efficient stoves to help families below the poverty line improve their living conditions. Indoor air pollution is responsible for more deaths each year than either Malaria or AIDS, and a cleaner, more energy-efficient stove can add literally decades onto the life-expectancy of a house’s occupants.
In just a week, you can help to vastly improve one family’s situation, with both your physical and your financial contribution. You can also learn Spanish while you are there as well, with 10 hours of one-on-one Spanish lessons included, and go on a half-day adventure biking, rock-climbing or hiking.
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Dates: 1 to 4 week durations available, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $1190 for 1 week
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on this community construction project
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Volunteer Long Term on a Teaching Position in Guatemala
Volunteers on this program will teach for one year at GVIs schools in indigenous communities, providing the children with long-term assistance, greatly aiding their development. Volunteers will work alongside other GVI volunteers and local staff. Every three months volunteers will have two weeks holiday and therefore an opportunity to relax or explore other areas of Guatemala or Central America. Volunteers will stay with a local family in the stunning colonial town of Antigua, and commute to work each day to indigenous communities nearby. Much of the population in Guatemala lives below the poverty line and as education is not free many cannot afford to send their children to school. GVI along with leaders of the indigenous communities, have built schools that are free to attend. By working in these, volunteers will make a real personal contribution to improving the lives of underprivileged children.
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Dates: 9 or 12 months, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $7990 for 9 months
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on this long term volunteering project
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United Planet
Create Opportunities for Locals in Guatemala
In this beautiful location of Quetzaltenango many volunteer placements are available. Volunteers can provide much needed love and attention to discarded children in a local orphanage. Volunteers can help to build a laundromat used to sustain an abused women and children's shelter. Medically trained volunteers can help in a private clinic dedicated to aiding the underserved communities of the surrounding villages of Quetzaltenango.
Cost: Varies with duration of your stay.
Dates: Ongoing; begins on the first and third Monday of every month.
Contact: United Planet, 11 Arlington St, Boston MA 02116, USA. Tel.: 617-267-7763.
Email: quest@unitedplanet.org
Website: www.unitedplanet.org
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Get AMPED Abroad! Live Culture in the Raw in Guatemala
Cultural immersion does not get more authentic than Guatemala as it has long been the choice destination for those wanting to learn to speak Spanish. Learn Spanish in Quetzaltenango (Xela) while improving the quality of life for Guatemala’s poorest citizens.
Teach English. Put your therapy skills to use working with special needs children. Share your expertise at a healthcare project. Care for children in one of our orphanage/daycare centers. Empower women at AMPED’s human rights project. Mentor street/at-risk children.
In your spare time, marvel at ancient Mayan ruins. Shop at bustling street markets, and relax in the natural hot springs.
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Dates: First and third Monday of each month – year round
Cost: Program fees starting at $609, includes pre-departure support, orientation, three meals per day, accommodations, and 24/7 emergency in-country staff support. FREE Spanish lessons!
Contact: AMPED Abroad, P.O. Box 24865, Fort Worth, TX 76124
Skype Phone: 214.736.7654; Skype Username: amped_abroad
Email: info@ampedabroad.com
Website: www.ampedabroad.com
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Volunteer in Guatemala with Volunteer Adventures!
Volunteer Adventures gives you the opportunity to live and volunteer in Guatemala. As a volunteer, you will be able to take care of rescued animals in the Petén rainforest, or help hatch and release endangered sea turtles on the black sand beaches of Hawaii, Guatemala. Both projects allow you to participate in the protection of these animals and restoration to their natural habitats.
Contact: volunteer@volunteeradventures.com, www.volunteeradventures.com.
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Academia Profesores Privados de Espanol (A.P.P.E.)
Volunteer opportunities and accommodations services in a Spanish language school.
Contact: www.appeschool.com/volunteers/index.php
Asociación de Recate y Conservación de Vida Sivilestre, ARCAS
Contact: Administration Office, Zona 8 Mixco, San Cristobal Guatemala; 011-502-478-4096; arcas@intelnet.net.gt, www.arcasguatemala.com.
Casa Xelaju
Supervised internships in and around Quetzaltenango. Minimum stay 6 weeks for interns, 4 weeks for volunteers. Must have good knowledge of Spanish. Placement fee $150 (or $100 in the low season between late Aug. and late May) plus $50 a week homestay.
Contact: Callejon 15, Diagonal 13-02, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; 011-502-7761-5954 or 612-235-4347; www.casaxelaju.com. U.S. contact: Casa Xelaju, 4701 Zenith Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410; 888-796-CASA.
Common Hope
Common Hope has a variety of different volunteer experiences (8 days – 1 year plus) where you can experience the people, culture, and beauty of Guatemala first hand. When you volunteer with Common Hope, you’ll meet the people whose lives have been changed by their partnership with us. You’ll learn from Common Hope’s staff and long-term volunteers about our work and Guatemala’s rich culture and history. Most of all, you’ll connect with the essence of Common Hope’s work: the children, families, and communities that now have opportunity and the hope of a better future.
Contact: For more information, please contact tel. 651 9170250 or visit the volunteer section of the website at commonhope.org/youcanhelp/volunteer.htm.
Cooperative for Education
Bring Education to Needy Children in Guatemala
Experience a short-term volunteer vacation at its best! You will deliver badly-needed textbooks and inaugurate brand-new computer centers at impoverished Guatemalan schools through nonprofit organization Cooperative for Education (CoEd). Week includes opportunities to interact with the children and families CoEd serves. Your presence will make an important contribution to CoEd projects by showing the communities that the programs are well-supported and around for the long term.
Contact: coed@fuse.net, www.coeduc.org
Eco-Escuela de Español
Students learn Spanish in Guatemalan village in Petén region and help with conservation and development work for 2 hours a day. Fee of $150 per week covers 4 hours one-to-one tuition daily plus homestay. People with TEFL qualification may be able to find paid work.
Contact: San Andrés, Petén 17001, Guatemala; 502-5940 1235; EcoEscuelaEspanol@gmail.com, www.ecoescuelaespanol.org.
El Nahual Language Center
Study Spanish and Volunteer in Guatemala
Study Spanish with an organization that is both an intense language school and a non-profit putting all its proceeds to use in community projects. Combine intensive one-on-one Spanish courses with volunteering on one of our schools, teaching English, Spanish, Mathematics, Basic Spanish or Art. Also volunteer options for those
interested in gardening, construction work or Public Relations.
Contact: cdl.elnahual@gmail.com, www.elnahual.org
ELI-Experiential Learning International
Volunteer in Guatemala
ELI partners with organizations in Guatemala to offer volunteer opportunities that benefit the locals while giving participants a unique cultural learning experience. Volunteers can work with at-risk youth, teach, help with community development projects, assist with ongoing income generation projects, assist with women’s empowerment projects, help with conservation projects, work in a charity clinic, or work with special needs children.
Contact: info@eliabroad.org, www.eliabroad.org
EntreMundos
Volunteer in Guatemala
EntreMundos works with over 160 local NGOs in Guatemala with the aim of building their institutional capacities. Included in the services we offer is a free-of-charge volunteer placement program. We can place volunteers either long- or short-term, with basic to advanced level Spanish in all fields of work. You can contact us by email for advice or assistance or apply directly to one of the NGOs we work with via the volunteer opportunities database on our website.
Contact: EntreMundos, 6a Calle, 7-31, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango; tel. (00 502) 7761 2179; mail@entremundos.org; www.entremundos.org.
God’s Child Project
Provides an education for slum children in Antigua, Guatemala and uses short- and long-term volunteers who pay about $180 a month and live with a local family after doing a Spanish course.
Contact: P.O. Box 1573, Bismarck, ND 58502-1573; 701-255-7956; www.godschild.org.
Guatemala Accompaniment Project
G.A.P. is a project of the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), formed in 1981 in response to the need for national coordination voiced by Guatemalan activists in the U.S. The project facilitates relationships between communities of refugees and displaced in Guatemala and communities in the U.S. willing to sponsor persons to serve as accompaniers. The goals are to provide a measure of security against human rights violations and to build long-term relationships of mutual support. G.A.P. has volunteer work and internships available in the heart of Central America.
Contact: gap@nisgua.org, www.nisgua.org.
New Development Experience
Volunteer in Guatemala
New Development Experience (“NDE”) offers social entrepreneurship volunteering programs, Spanish language programs for educators, as well as exciting travel programs in Guatemala. NDE is led by former Guatemala Peace Corps volunteers and international development professionals who have unmatched experience in creating opportunities for both local and international constituents. Having consulted for and created education, tourism, artisan, health care, technology and agricultural ventures in this amazing country, we have in-depth knowledge about what the amazing Maya people have to offer. Join us for the international experience of a lifetime where you will not only observe, but rather learn about and create a friendship with this country and its people.We have designed our programs so that you are truly investing in yourself in a way that improves others' lives.
Contact: info@newdevelopmentexperience.com, www.newdevelopmentexperience.com
Project Mosaic Guatemala, PMG
The non-profit organisation PMG links volunteers to Guatemalan partner organizations so that the local population and the volunteer benefit from the experience. Whether you are interested in education, childcare, community development, the environment, or any other area of development PMG can find a volunteer work placement for you in one of our 60 partner organizations.
Contact: 3a Avenida Norte # 3 (Interior de Casa de Mito), Antigua, Guatemala; Tel./fax 011-502-832-7337; promigua@yahoo.com, www.promosaico.org.
Quetzaltrekkers
Volunteer Managed Adventure Trekking in Guatemala
Quetzaltrekkers is Guatemala´s only all volunteer managed, non-profit trekking/hiking organization. Quetzaltrekkers offers multi-day adventure treks and one day excursions in the highlands of western Guatemala to an international clientele of outdoor enthusiasts. We follow locally sustainable and eco-friendly tourism practices. Volunteer guides are always needed.
Contact: Quetzaltrekkers, Casa Argentina, 12 Diagonal, 8-37, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango; 011-502- 7765-5895; info@quetzaltrekkers.com, www.quetzaltrekkers.com.
Volunteer Petèn
Sustainable Volunteer Projects in Guatemala
AidS development in Guatemala by training international volunteers to participate in, design, and implement sustainable projects. Volounteer projects available in various forms of conservation and teaching.
Contact: volunteerpeten@hotmail.com, www.volunteerpeten.com
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