Internship/Volunteering program in Environmental NGO

  Argentina

• Buenos Aires: 
Buenos Aires

Term: Throughout the year 
Duration of Program: 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Dates: throughout the year

Description: This internship program allows you to carry out your own environment related project.

The projects are determined on the basis of the interns' interest, formation and the duration of the internship. The interns will have a tutor, who will help them during the elaboration of their work. He will follow them, guide them and stimulate them so that they can do their best in their tasks. Meanwhile, they will draw up a schedule for their research tasks. Therefore, the planned activities can be carried out on time more easily.

Examples of projects carried out by international volunteers:
- Companies environmental awareness
- Pollution of the Rio de la Plata and its impact on small-scale coastal fishing
- Family gardens assistance. Education and sustainable development program in Barrio Hospital de Niños of La Plata.

Highlights: Develop your own environment project!

For 15 years, the foundation has worked with various collaborators in a city that is 1 hour away by bus from Buenos Aires. It works for the protection of the environment and focuses on climate change, biodiversity, urban sustainable development, solid waste management...

Qualifications:
- Skills and knowledge in environment field
- Basic Spanish

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: 430 per month

- Taxi round trip from the airport to the hostel
- First night in a shared room in a hostel in Buenos Aires
- Transfer round trip from Buenos Aires to the city of work
- Housing in a shared or individual room in the center of the city, all furnished with WIFI and TV
- Monthly donation to the NGO
- Welcome pack
- Full time assistance
- Presence on place of work on the first and the last day of the internship
- Argentina Exchange advantage card that offers you discounts in various places in the city
- Monthly paid cellular, 120 free minutes and unlimited communication with every Argentina Exchange members

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 19-25

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

Participants Travel to Argentina Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Argentina Exchange's Mission Statement: Argentina Exchange is an Organization dedicated to satisfy the necessities of the international students during their stay in Buenos Aires and in the rest of Argentina. Forged and integrated by students with experiences of interchange and works abroad. It offers customized integral services for the necessities of each young person, includes the totality of the services that a foreign student needs when arriving in Argentina. From the arrival of the young person in the country, Argentina Exchange is in charge to attend him at any moment and integrating him to the international movement in the city and inserting it within the Argentine culture. Its services: airport pick up and transfer, accomodation search, search of internships, programs of volunteering, courses of languages and management of courses in different disciplines. Offers an ample agenda in organization of events, exits and trips, an attendance 24hs by any type of consultation or necessity of the young person.

Year Founded: 2007