Volunteering Abroad: Volunteer in Ecuador, Volunteering Overseas: Volunteer Work Abroad - Ecuador

  Ecuador

• Quito: 
Quito
• Galapagos Islands: 
Galapagos Islands
• All Other Regions of Ecuador: 
Ambato,  Latacunga,  Otavalo,  Mindo,  Puerto Lopez,  Rural Areas

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: Throughout the Year

Description: Becoming a volunteer in Ecuador is an exciting and rewarding experience that will change your life. Let Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Programs (ELEP) introduce you to this extraordinary country and the warmth and hospitality of its people. Living and volunteering in Ecuador, you could help enrich the lives of Ecuadorian needy people by sharing your skills, your worth and your time. Your input and contribution also helps mobilize and motivate the youths to seek better opportunities.

Our main goal to create a global understanding by encouraging volunteers to assist with our community development and volunteer mobilization programs. The programs further enrich your experience, knowledge, understanding and offer you the opportunity to discover other cultures, yourself, lifetime friends, great fun and a memorable vocation.

ELEP designs and delivers cheap-affordable and suitable volunteer programs for everyone and provides educational opportunities to students. ELEP places individuals and groups of all ages and backgrounds in two- weeks to six-month community development projects in humanitarian, educational and environmental fields.

ELEP program partners with development organizations and communities throughout Ecuador and you as a volunteer can participate in ongoing projects making a meaningful contribution by living and volunteering in this developing country, gaining in this way a great and unforgettable experience where you will get a whole new perspective of the world.

Choose from a variety of challenging and rewarding positions, including volunteering in a health center, working with street children or in an orphanage, helping at a community construction for the poor, working in general conservation, or teaching English, collaborating in animal care centers or veterinarian clinics and many other volunteer positions.

Having nearly a decade of experience with over 800 volunteers from all over the world, we saw a great need to create and provide services to foreign volunteers. The goal of the organization is to make sure that the less fortunate members of the community are reached by the fortunate communities of the world.

Your voluntary experience around the world would never be complete if you don't visit Ecuador. Remember: The experience of a lifetime awaits you and ELEP and Ecuador can make it happen...come for it!

As an applicant for a volunteer placement you definitely have many questions. We want to provide you with enough information that you need to enable you make the best decision in your voluntary quest.

Highlights:
- You will be proud of yourself for doing something very positive in your own means to change the life of someone.
- You will discover more about yourself which will definitely help you in making many vital decisions.
- You will experience a true and pure culture of a different kind in this same world.
- Another opportunity to find a lifetime friend very far away from home and with a different perspective of life.

Qualifications:
- Volunteer should be 18 years and above
- Volunteer should be able to adjust to the new culture and environments
- Volunteers should be able to work within rural and urban communities
- Volunteers should be of sound mind

Experience Required: no

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

Participants Travel to Ecuador Independently Or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

ELEP - Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Programs's Mission Statement: Our mission is to promote international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between Ecuador (Latin-American) and the rest of the world, to help people to gain hands-on practical experience, acquire knowledge and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world, accomplishing these goals through our Volunteer, Internship and Spanish Study Programs. Therefore, ELEPs commitment is to contribute to intercultural and learning experience opportunities and development of the people, companies, organizations and communities through our programs

Year Founded: 1999