Volunteer in Latin America
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Contact the volunteer program directors to confirm costs, dates, and other details.
See our listings of volunteer programs in Latin America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. If you do not see the volunteer program you want, look under Worldwide for programs located in several different regions.
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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. Programs operate in Guatemala (Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango), Costa Rica (Cartago, Puriscal, and San Carlos), Peru (Ayacucho and Lima) and Brazil (Salvador).
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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Global Vision International in Latin America
Volunteer Teaching and Travel across Latin America
Volunteers who join this extended program have the unique opportunity to live and work for six months in four different countries throughout Latin America; from the indigenous heartland of Guatemala to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica moving high up into the Andes of Ecuador and the deserts of Southern Peru. Volunteers will be teaching on GVI initiated and run projects, dedicated to literacy and numeracy. English will be taught in Costa Rica.
Dates: Set start dates throughout the year for 6 months
Costs: US $9,030
Contact: Global Vision International, 252 Newbury Street, Number 4, Boston, MA, 02116, USA. Call Toll free on 888-653-6028.
Email:info@gviusa.com
Web Site: www.gviusa.com
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Global Vision International in Latin America
Conservation in Belize
Join a variety of conservation, research and education projects in a number of locations and National Parks around Belize. As a volunteer, you will be involved in practical conservation in national parks and archaeological sites, as well as research, education and maintenance tasks from fish and crocodile surveys to assessing jaguar populations and to running environmental field courses.
Dates: Set start dates, minimum stay 3 months.
Costs: From US $2,760
Contact: Global Vision International, 252 Newbury Street, Number 4, Boston, MA, 02116, USA. Call Toll free on 888-653-6028.
Email: info@gviusa.com
Web Site: www.gviusa.com
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WorldTeach
Volunteer in Latin America
WorldTeach offers opportunities for volunteers to make a meaningful contribution to education by living and teaching in developing countries. WorldTeach provides: full-time in country coordinator; in country orientation including language and ESL training; live with host families/apartments. Requires: native English speakers; BA for yearlong programs. Fee covers program costs, housing, insurance and airfare.
Dates and locations: Year-long programs depend on academic year; summer only programs.
Contact: info@worldteach.org
Website: www.worldteach.org
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Volunteer Programs in Latin America
A Cactus Volunteer Programme is the unique opportunity to combine a language course with volunteer work in Latin America. After taking a 4 week Spanish or Portuguese (Brazil) course at one of our approved schools, you can take a minimum 4 week volunteer placement with one of the many local organisations we work with. Work can be in any of the following areas: social, education, healthcare or nature. This is a wonderful chance to experience local life first-hand and give a little something to the community. Volunteering can be for anyone, from those taking a year out after university to those simply wanting a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life back home. One thing for sure is that you will come back with a real sense of personal achievement, to say nothing of a newfound confidence in the language.
Dates: All year round; first Monday of every month
Contact: volunteer@cactuslanguage.com
Website: www.volunteers-abroad.com
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Volunteer in South America Bolivia
Enhance your skills while you share your gap time with Bolivians. Volunteer Challenge offers a wide variety of volunteer projects such as Conservation, Special Education, Teaching English, Music Instruction, Orphanages, Museums, Sports, Media, Creative Education, Marketing etc. Spanish lessons, food and accommodation are included in the program fee.
Dates Offered: Year round
Cost: 775 USD for 2 weeks program and 140 USD / each additional week
Contact: Volunteer Challenge, Avenida Capitan Arrien # 41, Zona del Parque Urbano --- Santa Cruz – Bolivia
Email: info@volunteerchallenge.com, volunteerchallenge@yahoo.com
Website: www.volunteerchallenge.com
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Volunteer in Latin America with Volunteer Adventures!
Volunteer Adventures gives you the opportunity to volunteer in Latin America and learn Spanish or Portuguese at the same time. Our programs range from rainforest conservation efforts to turtle rescue projects to teaching English and community outreach programs. As a volunteer with Volunteer Adventures, you will be able to take intensive language classes in our locations in South America while volunteering with our local partner organization. You will benefit from not only learning the language, be applying it in your volunteer placement.
Contact: volunteer@volunteeradventures.com, www.volunteeradventures.com.
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How Will You Touch The World?
Volunteer Projects in Latin America - Peru, Belize and Mexico
REAL projects….REAL experience! Your development project is determined by matching your skills with the needs of the local community. Hands on service work, weekly adventures, homestays, and local culture and language classes create an unforgettable experience. Volunteer projects include: health care, environment, journalism, teaching, and human rights.
Dates: Programs start every month of the year and run from 2 – 26 weeks in duration.
Cost: Program fees are based on the location and duration of your volunteer project. Please inquire or visit our website for current pricing. ProWorld scholarships and many private scholarships are available. We also offer fundraising support.
Program fees support our host community economies in the forms of project materials purchases, local salaries, host family payments, and local purchases. Program fees include: full room and board, domestic transportation, 24 hour safety and medical services, local culture and language classes, and funding of development projects and internships. The program fee also includes multiple cultural and adventure activities.
Contact: ProWorld Headquarters, ProWorld Service Corps, 1215 Taylor Avenue, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
Tel: 877.733.7378 (toll free); 406.245.7348 (direct line). Fax: 406.252.3973.
Email: info@myproworld.org
Website: www.MyProWorld.org
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GIC Argentina: Volunteering
Volunteer in Latin America with GIC Argentina. Choose from a variety of challenging and rewarding positions, including volunteering in a health clinic, working with street children or in an orphanage, helping at a community clinic for the poor, working with disabled children, or teaching English, among many other volunteer positions.
Dates: Every month of the year
Cost: Check website for details
Contact: Mirian Balducci, Program Advisor, GIC Argentina, Av. Rivadavia 2009 - 1D, C1033AAK, Buenos Aires
Tel.: +54-11-49514003
Email: info@gicarg.org
Website: www.gicarg.org
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Volunteer in Latin America with Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS)
Looking for an alternative to a semester-long study abroad program that still has impact? Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) offers 5-8 week summer programs in which students immerse themselves in a Latin American community, live with a host family, and collaborate on sustainable development projects. Participants will experience life-changing growth as they strengthen their Spanish skills, experience a new culture on a personal level, and work together with community members to accomplish shared goals. See the website for details about specific projects.
Dates: Summer programs: 5-8 weeks
Cost: The participation fee is $3,995. This includes:
- Round-trip international airfare from your gateway city Food, lodging, and transportation in Latin America
- All project related supplies
- Training materials and workshops
- Veteran supervisory Project Staff
- 24-hour emergency On-Call Communications System during the program
- Supplementary short-term international medical insurance
Fundraising support and scholarships are available.
Contact: Amigos de las Américas, 5618 Star Lane, Houston, Texas 77057.
Phone: (713) 782-5290 or (800) 231-7796. Fax: (713) 782-9267.
Email: info@amigoslink.org
Website: www.amigoslink.org
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American Friends Service Committee: Mexico Summer Project. The American Friends Service Committee invites you to seven weeks of mind-blowing experiential learning with Totonaca and Nahua indigenous communities. Spend this summer with international peers living, working and growing together. Partake in community projects, share from diverse cultures and experiences, and learn ways to address the political, social, ecological, and economic challenges of the present and the future. Contact: mexicosummer@afsc.org, www.afsc.org/latinamerica/int/mexicosummer.htm.
Amizade Volunteer & Global Service-Learning Programs, P.O. Box 110107, Pittsburgh, PA 15232; 888-973-4443 or 412-441-6655; volunteer@amizade.org; www.amizade.org. Community service volunteer programs across Latin America, including Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and Jamaica, lasting 2 weeks to 6 months. (Opportunities also available in Australia, Ghana, India, Northern Ireland, Poland, and Tanzania.)
Bimini Biological Field Station, www6.miami.edu/sharklab/. Volunteers at shark research station in the Bahamas perform tasks including research, maintenance and cooking, for at least 1 month.
Cosmic Volunteers in Latin America. Programs in Latin America are Ecuador and Peru. Volunteer programs include teaching English, orphanages, healthcare, journalism, organic farming, animal rescue, community kitchens, and programs on the Galapagos Islands. Spanish lessons are also available. This is a unique opportunity to learn about and contribute to communities in South America in a meaningful way. Contact: Cosmic Volunteers, P.O. Box 11738, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101, U.S.A.; Tel: 1-610-279-2052; Fax: 1-419-831-4792; info@cosmicvolunteers.org; www.cosmicvolunteers.org.
ELEP (Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Programs): Volunteer Opportunities in Latin America — Ecuador. Volunteer programs include Child Care: A program dedicated to volunteering in rural or urban NGOs for children (orphan, street children centres, etc.) of low economic resources or who come from poor homes. You can help them improve their living conditions through volunteering in one of these institutions in recreation activities, personal development, administrative task, etc. Other volunteer projects include Human Rights, Nursing, AIDS, Teaching English, Conservation, Animal Care, and Veterinary Medicine. See website for more details. Contact: info@elep.org, www.elep.org.
Experiential Learning International: Volunteer in Latin America. Volunteer projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. See website for more details. Contact: info@eliabroad.org, www.eliabroad.org.
Global Volunteer Network in Latin America: Volunteer in El Salvador. Join a team of teachers promoting solidarity and exchange among El Salvador's people in a progressive English School in San Salvador. Contact: info@volunteer.org.nz, www.volunteer.org.nz/elsalvador.
Globe Aware in Latin America: Brazil—The Road Less Traveled Brazilian Village Experience. The volunteer program takes place in a little village with approximately 500 inhabitants, in the state of Bahia. The community faces a number of challenges: Poverty; alcoholism; unemployment; absence of basic infrastructure (sewage and treated water for instance); local school maintenance (materials, food for the kids and transportation); lack of medical and dental assistance; and lack of a space to display, market and sell local crafts.
Globe Aware in Latin America: Costa Rica—The Road Less Traveled Village Experience. Costa Rica is a cultural and natural paradise, but most travelers see only the large, touristy resorts. This Road Less Traveled program, however, offers a unique opportunity in the middle of a secluded natural rainforest to help an untouched community create a sustainable future. While helping the community to help themselves, volunteers will be treated to enormous cultural learning and spectacular contact with the lush rainforest. A decade ago, the government set aside a national forest reserve for the spectacular Carara Rainforest, which borders the village. The villagers love their nature paradise and appreciated the action. However, since then, the tiny village has struggled for sources of income, as their crops are being eaten by protected wildlife. As a first step toward creating sustainable eco-tourism, the community needs help clearing paths, marking trails, learning English, etc. No special skills are required.
Globe Aware in Latin America: Peru—Care for Cuzco: Heart of the Inca Empire. The orphanage caters primarily to deaf children, though some have other challenges. These children are hungry for human contact, love and care. Their smiles will melt your heart. Volunteers are needed to help them get ready in the morning before school, to take them on cultural outings, and other such activities. During their school time, and due to staggered “shifts” you have ample freetime. Contact: info@globeaware.org, www.globeaware.org.
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, P.O. Box 81046, Pittsburgh, PA 15217; 412-361-5200; info@hashaiti.org; www.hashaiti.org. Work team projects use self-funding voluntary input to help at this Haitian hospital run by the Grant Foundation.
i-to-i Volunteer Travel: Conservation Work, Community Service, Volunteer Teaching English, and Volunteer Work Building in Latin America . i-to-i provides a variety of meaningful volunteer projects across Latin America. Contact: usca@i-to-i.com, www.i-to-i.com.
Mondo Challenge: Chile - Volunteer Teaching. We work mainly in three rural schools, welcoming pupils aged from 4 to 14 in the villages of Monte Grande, Paihuano and Pisco Elqui. Volunteers help raise the level of English in the comuna, as well as developing sports offered to kids. We are also looking for volunteers to be involved in vocational training to adults, including communication skills and basic computing classes. Contact: info@mondochallenge.org, www.mondochallenge.org.
Peace Villages Foundation: Exciting Grass-Roots Volunteer Opportunity with Local NGO in Venezuela. Come and do volunteer work side by side with locals and other enthusiastic volunteers, have fun and learn the Spanish language: Youth, Care & Community, Medicine & Healthcare experience and observation. Live and volunteer in a typical Pemon Indian community, Conservation & Environment, Teaching & Tutoring, and Ecological Building. Contact: mail@peacevillages.org, www.peacevillages.org.
Projects Abroad
Volunteer Animal Care in Mexico
Work at a care facility for animals who have been injured, abandoned or mistreated in the center of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Volunteer Care Work in Argentina
Work with Orphans in Unqillo, Argentina.
Volunteer Care Work in Chile
Work with Orphans in Punta Arenas, Chile
Volunteer Care Work in Mexico
Work with Orphans in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Volunteer Care Work in Peru
Work with Orphans in the Sacred Valley, Peru.
Volunteer Conservation Work in Chile
Work outside of Punta Arenas, Chile, building hiking trails. Or, work in Tierra del Fuego at a national park protecting penguins.
Volunteer Conservation Work in Mexico
Work on a turtle conservation camp on the Pacific Ocean near Colima, Mexico.
Volunteer Conservation Work in Peru
Biological research in a hut in the Peruvian rainforest.
Volunteer Journalism in Bolivia
Work at one of several Spanish language newspapers in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Volunteer Sports Coaching in Bolivia
Coach volleyball to children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Volunteer Teaching in Argentina
Teach English to students in Unqillo, Argentina.
Volunteer Teaching in Chile
Teach English, Sports, Music or Drama to schoolchildren in Punta Arenas, Chile.
Volunteer Teaching in Mexico
Teach English to school children in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Volunteer Teaching in Peru
Teach English to school children in the Sacred Valley, Peru.
Contact: info@projects-abroad.org, www.projects-abroad.org
Puentes de Amistad: Volunteer Service Work in Latin America. Low cost travel experience short-term volunteer service work in Tijuana, Mexico, or in a village in El Salvador. Help in construction work, at an orphanage or medical clinic, with short-term classes in English or art, or assist a doctor with patient intake. The program provides cultural immersion and learning in Latin America. Contact: info@puentesdeamistad.org, www.puentesdeamistad.org.
Service Civil International Workcamps SCI US is an exchange organization that sends volunteers on 2-3 week international work projects and long term 3-12 month opportunities in over 50 countries, including many in Latin America. The $250 application fee covers lodging, meals, and minimal health insurance. SCI promotes voluntary service to impact social, environmental and humanitarian issues. Contact: Service Civil International (SCI), 5505 Walnut Level Rd, Crozet, VA, 22932; Tel. 1-206-350-6585. Email: sciivs.placement@gmail.com. Visit www.sci-ivs.org for an application.
uVolunteer: Volunteer Latin America. uVolunteer arranges volunteer vacations abroad for individuals wanting to work and teach in rural and urban communities in Latin America. We offer affordable programs ranging from 2 - 52 weeks including Teaching, Community Development and Conservation projects. A volunteer organization run by volunteers for volunteers; their goal is to make volunteering affordable and accessible to all. Contact: info@uvolunteer.org, www.uvolunteer.org.
Volunteer Latin America provides international volunteers with a comprehensive and affordable solution to finding volunteer work opportunities in Central and South America. You tell us where and what you would like to do and we will provide you with everything you need to get involved via your own personalised information pack. Our extensive knowledge of the region ensures you are unlikely to find some of the projects we offer elsewhere. Volunteer Latin America is not only a great source of affordable voluntary work but a means to finding some of the best schools to learn Spanish. Contact: info@volunteerlatinamerica.com; www.volunteerlatinamerica.com.
VolunteerSouthAmerica.Net: Free and Low-Cost Volunteering in Latin America. Website lists free and low-cost volunteer opportunities in Latin America. The site is designed for backpackers / independent travellers looking for a real volunteer experience abroad, without paying any middle-man or agency fees. Visit: www.volunteersouthamerica.net.
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