Ecuador Volunteer and Trips

  Ecuador

• Quito: 
Quito
• All Other Regions of Ecuador: 
Banos,  Ibarra,  Nanegalito,  Otavalo,  Mindo

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks and 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: inquire for dates

Description: This programme includes volunteering and trips in Ecuador and you can choose this programme if you like adventure and helping at the same time.

Ecuador is a country of boundless diversity, friendly people and spectacular natural wonders. You can travel in a day from tropical lowlands where bananas grow, to the Andean Mountains where llamas graze beneath.

The Ecuador Volunteer and Trips program is a meaningful opportunity for volunteers who wish to explore the beauty of Ecuador, its culture, nature, and people while volunteering in Quito or the Mindo Cloud Forest. The Ecuador Volunteer and Trips programme's aims are to help orphaned children - giving them much needed hope and guidance and to conserve the beauty of the Mindo Cloud Forest.

As a volunteer you will be teaching health education/English/sanitation to poor kids/feeding hummingbirds/collecting seeds for exhibition. You also help children to develop their creative talents, working with them to draw pictures, play games and perform various creative activities. After a few days of working for the poor children or any volunteer project in the Cloud Forest, Eco-Volunteer UP will organize a four day tour of Ecuador where you will experience Ecuador's rich past, exciting future, wonderful culture and natural beauty by exploring the biggest indigenous market in Otavalo, a paradise of magical beauty in Banos, the bio-diversity of the protective forest at Pasochoa Volcano (a refuge of wild life), beautiful landscapes with dense Forest, flora and fauna in Mindo.

Highlights: Eco-Volunteer UP has a range of a volunteer programmes located in Ecuador - South America. It provides volunteer work placements in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and disappearing Cloud Forest. Eco-Volunteer UP has voluntary work with orphanages, disabled children Institutes, day care centers and is also involved in conservation of "mother-earth" (pachamama) and saving the planet one step at a time. The earth has been slowly contaminated and endangered for hundreds of years by the humans inhabitation, and for that reason we wish to give people an incentive to conserve the forest so that our children will have a place to play and breathe in safety.

Cost in US$: $450

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: A person who really wants to help the poor children, work in the Cloud Forest and know different cultures.

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Ecuador Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Eco-Volunteer Urcu Puyujunda's Mission Statement: Urcu Puyujunda is an organization designed to help people and disappearing Cloud Forest near Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Our main objective is to help the children, who are the future of the country, especially those with the fewest economic resources. Urcu Puyujunda is also involved in conservation of 'mother-earth' (pacha-mama), and is working to save the planet one step at a time. There are many orphanages, special Institute for disabled children, they need help, so the volunteers who are interested in these projects are very welcome.

Year Founded: 1999