Volunteering in Ecuador on Indigenous Communities

  Ecuador

• All Other Regions of Ecuador: 
Rural Areas

Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months

Description: Centro del Amanecer Educational Foundation is currently working with marginal rural communities that need immediate support in education. Because of this, we have rendered urgent assistance providing teacher trainings and searching for improvements in their infrastructure. We also help volunteers that wish to actively contribute on a daily basis as teachers in the communities.

Here is where Integra-Ecuador project, part of the Foundation, helps with volunteers that wish to help as teachers in schools in these marginal and far from the city communities where basic public utilities, such as telephone, are lacking. Most of these schools have only one teacher and are placed in bilingual Quechua-Spanish communities.

Mainly, the job of the volunteer will be to teach, most of the times English classes and other classes depending on his/her Spanish level.

Highlights: People who live in these communities are very poor and indigenous or sometimes semi-indigenous. They lack basic public services, such as telephone. The communities are located in the countryside at the northern mountain range in Ecuador in the so called moor.

The length of a voluntary service is from three months up to one year.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: Contact us for more info.

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 18 - 25

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Ecuador Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Fundacion Educativa Centro del Amanecer's Mission Statement: We are a new proposal in the educational field, from a social choice, integrated into a foundation created in 1993 by parents, education professionals and volunteers. Our goal is to develop and promote projects, programs and educational alternatives in a search system that allows us to build coherent responses to the need for changes in the traditional formal and informal education.

Year Founded: 1992