Participant selection
In regard to our participants, we expect them to have the necessary abilities and skills to yield a successful international volunteer experience: the ability to adapt to a new environment and culture, the required Spanish level or the willingness to take a Spanish course and genuine commitment to the host organization. Our volunteers can participate in a wide variety of projects within the fields of community development, education, dogs and cats shelter, health care, and environmental conservation in Argentina. We have the same posibilities at Bariloche city, Patagonia, Argentina.
Volunteer´s fee
U$S 300. A portion of this fee is donated to the organization where you volunteer.
Duration and dates
Minimum term of 4 weeks and a maximum of six months. Please note that the placement process may take up to 4 weeks before your position is confirmed.
Some options:
Orphanage: Many of the orphans have come from homes of domestic violence; many of them don't have relatives. Poverty now days leaves many children abandoned. Orphanages in Peru provide orphans with daily meals, a bed and schooling, but they need people to give them attention, time and love.The work will be very varied and creative - involving teaching, playing with the children, running many types of craft activities, administration, sports, teaching English, teaching what you know. The program is developed in the afternoons while Spanish lessons are taken in the mornings.
Dogs and cats shelter: Volunteering involves more than playing with puppies: You might be lucky enough to socialize and supervise puppies and kittens, but most animal shelters or rescues need volunteers to walk or run the big dogs, scoop the cat boxes, pick up poop, mop floors and spraying down a kennel full of diarrhea. Dogs and cats often end up in rescues after living in bad situations. Sometimes people unintentionally hurt their animals by keeping them confined to one room or a garage 24 hours a day. Other dogs are homeless, sick or injured for unknown reasons and some have been beaten or abused in other ways. If you volunteer at a dog shelter, you will be exposed to many happy and sad situations involving dogs.
Being a volunteer must be a decision that comes from the heart. |
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