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Volunteer Opportunities - Cuzco, Peru
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* Please Note: Student's may request a specific organization, however, any one organization may not have positions available at any given time. Please request more than one organization if possible.
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EDUCATIONAL & WORKING WITH CHILDREN
Organization: Centro de Educacion Especial – Don Jose de San Martin
Description: The organization offers primary and elementary schooling as well as "manual work" for older children and adults such as carpentry and dressmaking.
Activities and Tasks:
* Working with deaf and mentally disabled children as a class assistant
* Developing educational materials
* Assisting in practical projects such as knitting
* Teaching the children how to wash and iron clothes, cooking, sewing, weaving, horticulture, “how to buy goods from a shop,” etc.
* Organizing recreational activities.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Low Intermediate
Schedule: 9.00-13.00(1:00PM)
Capacity: The institution is able to accommodate up to 10 volunteers (one person in each classroom).
Organization: Jardin Infantil La Rinconada ´Kukuli´
Description: Kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds. The school consists of 2 classrooms, a small playground, a principal's office (without furniture), a small kitchen and bathrooms where the children can take a hot shower if they like. Around 11.00 the children get a glass of milk and (occasionally) a cookie. Most kids have a poor background and come from the small communities close to the school.
Activities & Tasks:
* Helping out as a class assistant
* Organizing physical activities
* Teaching very basic English classes.
Requirements: Being enthusiastic in working with small children. A plan on what you would like to do with the children needs to be set up before you start volunteering.
Minimum Commitment: 4 Weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 8.30/9.00-12.30
Capacity: Maximum of 1 volunteer at a time.
Organization: Ludoteca Puckllacuy San Isidro
Description: A play and education center where 4 and 5 year old school kids and their teachers come to play and work with the available material. There are different areas in which the children can play and learn: communication (auditory and visual); logic and mathematics; personal and social skills; articulation. There is quite a lot of material available which has all been handmade.
Activities & Tasks: Assisting the children and their teachers in the organized activities.
Requirements: Being creative, patient and liking to work with children
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8.30-14.30(2:30PM).
Capacity: Maximum 1-2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Centro Educativo Inicial San Isidro
Description: Kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds. There are two classrooms, both with (more or less) 35 children. A class assistant is needed to help the teachers. There is a lot of class material on the premises and the school is right next door to the Ludoteca.
Activities & Tasks: Assist the children and their teachers.
Requirements: Being creative, patient and liking to work with children
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 8.30-13.00(1:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum of 2 volunteers, 1 in each classroom.
Organization: ´San Fransisco´ Hogar para niños con problemas de audiciony lenguaje
Description: Institute for deaf children and children that are hard of hearing, run by the Catholic Church (nuns). The children live and attend school in the institute from April to December. They go back to their families from January - March. The Mother Superior would like to keep the institute open during this holiday period if volunteers would commit themselves for this period of time.
Activities & Tasks: In the afternoons, volunteers would be expected to participate in any of the following activities:
* Helping the children with their homework
* Organizing theatre and dance classes, music and sports, depending where the volunteer's talents lie.
* Once a week (mostly on the weekends) the children and the nuns go to a farm near Tipón (owned by the church) and tend to the animals and agriculture that basically feeds the institute. Volunteers might be asked to participate in these weekly excursions as well.
Requirements: Patience and a happy disposition.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: None
Schedule: 14.30(2:30PM)-17.00(5:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum of 3-4 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Rosa de Santa Maria de Acomoco
Description: An orphanage for girls between 10 - 17 years old. The majority of the girls come from the local mountain villages and often only speak Quechua (local language), with only a bit of Spanish. Therefore, communicating with them may be difficult in the beginning. They all have to learn Spanish in school (they leave the orphanage in order to attend local schools). The older girls, however, all have a good grasp of the Spanish language. Most of the girls had a very bad childhood, therefore volunteers are only allowed to come as teachers for a few hours and teach English classes. In this case the girls won't get too attached and be heartbroken once the volunteer leaves again. Note that consistency is very important at this project.
Activities & Tasks: Helping to prepare the class material and teaching English classes.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks, preferably longer. During the period of January - April, the orphanage might be closed.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: A few hours between 8.00-17.00(5:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum 1-2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro
Description: Children's home for boys between 8-19 years old. They provide workshops for the children as well, such as carpentry, shoemaking, sewing, etc. Unfortunately, the workshops often lack money for maintenance of the machinery. Therefore at present, only the carpentry workshop is in operation. If you have any particular type of skills that you want to share with the children, they are always willing and eager to learn. A Dutch NGO is helping to build a small study center with enough books, study material and maybe a computer to encourage the children to study.
Activities & Tasks: Helping out with homework, organizing sport activities and giving English classes.
Requirements: The institute would prefer men but women are welcome as long as they are aware of the fact that all of the children are boys.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks. During the period of January - April, there is the possibility the building might be closed.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Variable, either in the mornings or in the afternoons
Capacity: Maximum 1 - 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro ´San Judas Chico´
Description: Children's home for girls and small boys between 4 - 18 years old, linked to Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro. A Dutch NGO helped building a small playroom for the younger children to play in. A teacher comes in every day to assist the children in the playroom.
Activities & Tasks: Activities include playing with the younger children, assisting the teacher in the playroom, teaching English classes, helping out with homework and organizing sport activities.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: 14.30(2:30PM)-18.00(6:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Asociación ´Qosqo Maki´
Description: Shelter for street children. The institute provides a bed in a dormitory for approximately 40 children up to the age of 18. Neither meals nor formal education are provided and the children are expected to go to public schools, either in the morning or in the afternoon. The rest of the day is spent working. The institute does provide a library (10.00-12.00; 17.00(5:00PM)-23.00(11:00PM), which is also open to the general public. There are also various rooms in which socializing, games, lectures and practical workshops take place such as pottery, carpentry, fixing cars, etc. They have a computer, TV and VHS for the children to use.
Activities & Tasks:
* Participating in all activities such as working in the library, playing games and talking to the children.
* Teaching the children basic computer skills, conservation of their environment, health/hygiene, English, music (especially if you can play the guitar!)
* Developing educational material
* Organizing camping trips and outings, etc.
Requirements: Volunteers must be able to maintain distance with the children. The institute would prefer men but women are welcome as long as they are aware of the fact that most of the children are boys, with only a few girls.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 17.00(5:00PM)-23.00(11:00PM).
Capacity: Up to 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Asociación ´Puririsun´
Description: After school project for poor children. The ages of the children range from 3 -17 years old. At the moment the project lacks a lot. There is hardly anything for the children to play with and no money to buy anything. Once there will be a bit of money they would like to start workshops such as carpentry and sewing. Lately volunteers have been organizing a lot of creative activities and the children are very enthusiastic about that.
Activities & Tasks: Helping the children with their homework, playing with them, organizing recreational and creative activities and eventually assisting in workshops.
Requirements:
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 16.30(4:30PM)-19.00(7:00PM), closed on Mondays.
Capacity: Up to 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Centro Juvenil de Marcavalle
Description: Youth prison for boys between 10 - 18 years of age. The young delinquents have to participate in different workshops, such as carpentry, a tailor's firm, a shoemaking shop, helping out on the land and taking care of the animals. Sports are very important to them and lots of physical activities are being organized.
Activities & Tasks: Teaching English, organize sport activities, theatre workshops, etc.
Requirements: Being motivated and enthusiastic to teach. Most of all being aware that teaching English to young delinquents is not always an easy task.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible-approx. 4 hours per day, preferably morning hours.
Capacity: Maximum of 3 volunteers at one time.
Organization: INABIF Wanchaq
Description: INABIF stands for Instituto Nacional de Bienestar Familiar and is an after school project for children. Most of the children come from families whose parents work at the market. Besides education, INABIF also offers extra activities like dancing & sports and children are helped with their homework.
Activities & Tasks: Helping the children with their homework, organizing creative workshops and sports, teaching the children about other cultures.
Requirements: Being enthusiastic in working with children. Preference is given to volunteers with experience. A plan on what you would like to do with the children needs to be set up before you start volunteering.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Variable, either mornings or afternoons.
Capacity: Maximum of 2 helpers at one time.
Organization: Hogar Clinica San Juan de Dios
Description: A clinic run by a religious order that offers free treatment (or treatment for a symbolic fee such as a bag of rice or a bag of corn) to mentally and physically disabled children. Due to the present economic situation in Peru, the government has cut in funding for institutions like this one. The institute is mostly self-sufficient in respect that they grow their own corn, potatoes and vegetables (in greenhouses), and have numerous animals that they keep for their own consumption as well.
Activities & Tasks: Playing with the children and feeding them, giving them as much attentions as possible. Lately volunteers have been organizing fun activities for the children in order to stimulate creativity and necessary skills. There is a possibility to work as a class assistant as well in the special education section, which is in the same building.
Requirements:
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible-need a lot of help around lunch and dinnertime.
Capacity: Maximum of up to 6 volunteers (3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon).
Organization: Hospital Regional
Description: El Hospital Regional is one of three hospitals in Cusco. It is a 'modern ' middle-class hospital with a capacity for 400 beds. La Seccion de Quemados in the hospital is a department specifically for people who have been severely burned. The majority of the victims are children from Cusco and the surrounding villages.
Activities & Tasks:
* Volunteers with no medical background can organize activities for the parents and children, such as creative workshops to keep them occupied.
* Volunteers with a medical background can also help attend to the patients' medical needs and provide insights on new possible methods of treatment. This project is especially suitable for people with experience in this field.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible.
Organization: Huchuy Runa
Description: Project for street children, school on the premises.
Activities & Tasks: Class assistant, assisting in practical workshops such as carpentry.
Requirements: Only for people with education in this field (School teachers, social workers, nurses, etc.).
Minimum Commitment: 4 months
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: 8.00-16.00(4:00PM).
Organization: Asociacion Pukllasunchis
Description: Pukllasunchis is an institute that offers alternative schooling - Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Schools- to children from all social levels. Parents pay a school fee according to their means so that poor children get a chance to receive education among children from other social levels. There is also an educational services center where new educational materials are developed. People who are interested can come to obtain information and ideas about educational materials & education in general. Also workshops for teachers are organized.
Activities & Tasks: Pukllasunchis would like to share their knowledge and recourses with other institutes. Volunteers will prepare new educational materials in the workshop, mostly by recycling old materials. After one or two weeks you will go to one of the schools in the poor neighborhoods in or around Cusco to hand over the materials and to teach both the teachers and the children to prepare and work with the materials themselves.
Requirements: Preference is given to creative people and volunteers work independently.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks. Between the months of December and April the school is closed.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: During the preparation in the workshop the schedule is flexible. The following weeks working in the school from 8.00-13.00(1:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum 4 volunteers, each working at a different school.
MEDICAL
Organization: Hospital Regional
Description: El Hospital Regional is one of three hospitals in Cusco. It is a 'modern ' middle-class hospital with a capacity for 400 beds. La Seccion de Quemados in the hospital is a department specifically for people who have been severely burned. The majority of the victims are children from Cusco and the surrounding villages.
Activities & Tasks:
* Volunteers with no medical background can organize activities for the parents and children, such as creative workshops to keep them occupied.
* Volunteers with a medical background can also help attend to the patients' medical needs and provide insights on new possible methods of treatment. This project is especially suitable for people with experience in this field.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible.
Organization: Centro de Salud Mental Almudena
Description: Hospital for patients with psychological problems.
Activities & Tasks: Conversing and participating in various activities with the patients. The director takes the volunteers under his care and tries to teach them as much as possible. Psychology students have been very enthusiastic working at this project.
Minimum Commitment: 6 weeks, preferably longer.
Spanish Level Required: High intermediate
Schedule: 8.00-16.00(4:00PM).
Requirements: Psychologists or Psychology Students Only.
Capacity: Maximum 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Casa del Cargador
Description: A "shelter" were 100 to 150 "cargadores" (porters) can stay the night against a small fee. The porters are all men, mainly from the country (they often only speak Quechua), who work near the market area where they carry loads from one place to another in order to make a living. The men arrive at the shelter around 8pm where they can get something to eat, freshen up and spend the night. The next morning they'll leave after breakfast (around 5am) for another day of work.
Activities & Tasks:
* Organizing musical activities
* Setting up a hygiene workshop
* Going out on the street to assist the psychologist and/or sociologist or help out at nighttime.
Requirements: The organization prefers psychologists, sociologists, pedagogues or students in these fields.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible
Capacity: Maximum of 2 volunteers.
ART & CULTURE
Organization: Museo Histórico Regional
Description: Museum in Cusco
Activities: Working as a guide.
Requirements: Interpersonal relationship skills.
Minimum Commitment: 8 weeks.
Spanish Level Required: Advanced.
Schedule: Flexible.
TEACHING ENGLISH
Organization: Jardin Infantil La Rinconada ´Kukuli´
Description: Kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds. The school consists of 2 classrooms, a small playground, a principal's office (without furniture), a small kitchen and bathrooms where the children can take a hot shower if they like. Around 11.00 the children get a glass of milk and (occasionally) a cookie. Most kids have a poor background and come from the small communities close to the school.
Activities & Tasks:
* Helping out as a class assistant
* Organizing physical activities
* Teaching very basic English classes.
Requirements: Being enthusiastic in working with small children. A plan on what you would like to do with the children needs to be set up before you start volunteering.
Minimum Commitment: 4 Weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 8.30/9.00-12.30
Capacity: Maximum of 1 volunteer at a time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Rosa de Santa Maria de Acomoco
Description: An orphanage for girls between 10 - 17 years old. The majority of the girls come from the local mountain villages and often only speak Quechua (local language), with only a bit of Spanish. Therefore, communicating with them may be difficult in the beginning. They all have to learn Spanish in school (they leave the orphanage in order to attend local schools). The older girls, however, all have a good grasp of the Spanish language. Most of the girls had a very bad childhood, therefore volunteers are only allowed to come as teachers for a few hours and teach English classes. In this case the girls won't get too attached and be heartbroken once the volunteer leaves again. Note that consistency is very important at this project.
Activities & Tasks: Helping to prepare the class material and teaching English classes.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks, preferably longer. During the period of January - April, the orphanage might be closed.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: A few hours between 8.00-17.00(5:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum 1-2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro
Description: Children's home for boys between 8-19 years old. They provide workshops for the children as well, such as carpentry, shoemaking, sewing, etc. Unfortunately, the workshops often lack money for maintenance of the machinery. Therefore at present, only the carpentry workshop is in operation. If you have any particular type of skills that you want to share with the children, they are always willing and eager to learn. A Dutch NGO is helping to build a small study center with enough books, study material and maybe a computer to encourage the children to study.
Activities & Tasks: Helping out with homework, organizing sport activities and giving English classes.
Requirements: The institute would prefer men but women are welcome as long as they are aware of the fact that all of the children are boys.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks. During the period of January - April, there is the possibility the building might be closed.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Variable, either in the mornings or in the afternoons
Capacity: Maximum 1 - 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro ´San Judas Chico´
Description: Children's home for girls and small boys between 4 - 18 years old, linked to Hogar de menores Maria Salomé Ferro. A Dutch NGO helped building a small playroom for the younger children to play in. A teacher comes in every day to assist the children in the playroom.
Activities & Tasks: Activities include playing with the younger children, assisting the teacher in the playroom, teaching English classes, helping out with homework and organizing sport activities.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: 14.30(2:30PM)-18.00(6:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Asociación ´Qosqo Maki´
Description: Shelter for street children. The institute provides a bed in a dormitory for approximately 40 children up to the age of 18. Neither meals nor formal education are provided and the children are expected to go to public schools, either in the morning or in the afternoon. The rest of the day is spent working. The institute does provide a library (10.00-12.00; 17.00(5:00PM)-23.00(11:00PM), which is also open to the general public. There are also various rooms in which socializing, games, lectures and practical workshops take place such as pottery, carpentry, fixing cars, etc. They have a computer, TV and VHS for the children to use.
Activities & Tasks:
* Participating in all activities such as working in the library, playing games and talking to the children.
* Teaching the children basic computer skills, conservation of their environment, health/hygiene, English, music (especially if you can play the guitar!)
* Developing educational material
* Organizing camping trips and outings, etc.
Requirements: Volunteers must be able to maintain distance with the children. The institute would prefer men but women are welcome as long as they are aware of the fact that most of the children are boys, with only a few girls.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 17.00(5:00PM)-23.00(11:00PM).
Capacity: Up to 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Centro Juvenil de Marcavalle
Description: Youth prison for boys between 10 - 18 years of age. The young delinquents have to participate in different workshops, such as carpentry, a tailor's firm, a shoemaking shop, helping out on the land and taking care of the animals. Sports are very important to them and lots of physical activities are being organized.
Activities & Tasks: Teaching English, organize sport activities, theatre workshops, etc.
Requirements: Being motivated and enthusiastic to teach. Most of all being aware that teaching English to young delinquents is not always an easy task.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible-approx. 4 hours per day, preferably morning hours.
Capacity: Maximum of 3 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Instituto Nacional de la Cultura
Description: National Institute for Culture, located in Cusco. National organization in charge of the conservation of all Inca Heritage sites.
Activities & Tasks: Teaching English to the employees of the institute.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Advanced.
Schedule: 18.00(6:00PM)-19.00(7:00PM).
WORKING WITH THE ELDERLY
Organization: Asilo de Ancianos ´La Recoleta´
Description: Home for elderly people. The home is run by a religious order with very friendly nuns that love having volunteers around.
Activities & Tasks: Various kinds of work related to the care of elderly people. Personal attention in recreation, serving meals, cleaning, assisting with the laundry, etc. The elderly people love having foreigners around and start smiling once you walk in the door.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: 9.00-13.00(1:00PM).
Capacity: maximum 2 volunteers at one time
WORKING WITH THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISABLED
Organization: Centro de Educacion Especial – Don Jose de San Martin
Description: The organization offers primary and elementary schooling as well as "manual work" for older children and adults such as carpentry and dressmaking.
Activities & Tasks:
* Working with deaf and mentally disabled children as a class assistant
* Developing educational materials
* Assisting in practical projects such as knitting
* Teaching the children how to wash and iron clothes, cooking, sewing, weaving, horticulture, “how to buy goods from a shop,” etc.
* Organizing recreational activities.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Low Intermediate
Schedule: 9.00-13.00(1:00PM)
Capacity: The institution is able to accommodate up to 10 volunteers (one person in each classroom).
Organization: ´San Fransisco´ Hogar para niños con problemas de audiciony lenguaje
Description: Institute for deaf children and children that are hard of hearing, run by the Catholic Church (nuns). The children live and attend school in the institute from April to December. They go back to their families from January - March. The Mother Superior would like to keep the institute open during this holiday period if volunteers would commit themselves for this period of time.
Activities & Tasks: In the afternoons, volunteers would be expected to participate in any of the following activities:
* Helping the children with their homework
* Organizing theatre and dance classes, music and sports, depending where the volunteer's talents lie.
* Once a week (mostly on the weekends) the children and the nuns go to a farm near Tipón (owned by the church) and tend to the animals and agriculture that basically feeds the institute. Volunteers might be asked to participate in these weekly excursions as well.
Requirements: Patience and a happy disposition.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: None
Schedule: 14.30(2:30PM)-17.00(5:00PM).
Capacity: Maximum of 3-4 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Hogar Clinica San Juan de Dios
Description: A clinic run by a religious order that offers free treatment (or treatment for a symbolic fee such as a bag of rice or a bag of corn) to mentally and physically disabled children. Due to the present economic situation in Peru, the government has cut in funding for institutions like this one. The institute is mostly self-sufficient in respect that they grow their own corn, potatoes and vegetables (in greenhouses), and have numerous animals that they keep for their own consumption as well.
Activities & Tasks: Playing with the children and feeding them, giving them as much attentions as possible. Lately volunteers have been organizing fun activities for the children in order to stimulate creativity and necessary skills. There is a possibility to work as a class assistant as well in the special education section, which is in the same building.
Requirements:
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible-need a lot of help around lunch and dinnertime.
Capacity: Maximum of up to 6 volunteers (3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon).
Organization: Centro de Salud Mental Almudena
Description: Hospital for patients with psychological problems.
Activities & Tasks: Conversing and participating in various activities with the patients. The director takes the volunteers under his care and tries to teach them as much as possible. Psychology students have been very enthusiastic working at this project.
Minimum Commitment: 6 weeks, preferably longer.
Spanish Level Required: High intermediate
Schedule: 8.00-16.00(4:00PM).
Requirements: Psychologists or Psychology Students Only.
Capacity: Maximum 2 volunteers at one time.
Organization: Casa del Cargador
Description: A "shelter" were 100 to 150 "cargadores" (porters) can stay the night against a small fee. The porters are all men, mainly from the country (they often only speak Quechua), who work near the market area where they carry loads from one place to another in order to make a living. The men arrive at the shelter around 8pm where they can get something to eat, freshen up and spend the night. The next morning they'll leave after breakfast (around 5am) for another day of work.
Activities & Tasks:
* Organizing musical activities
* Setting up a hygiene workshop
* Going out on the street to assist the psychologist and/or sociologist or help out at nighttime.
Requirements: The organization prefers psychologists, sociologists, pedagogues or students in these fields.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate
Schedule: Flexible
Capacity: Maximum of 2 volunteers.
TOURISM
Organization: Perol Chico *con fines de lucro
Description: Perol Chico is located near Urubamba and offers adventurous horseback riding for all levels of riders, from first timers to the advanced, from a 2-hour trek to expeditions of 7 days. Perol Chico is owned by a Dutchman named Eddy who has trained horses for over 23 years. In addition to the horse stables Perol Chico also has a small guest house on the premises. All the horses are purebred Pasos, a Peruvian breed with a special and very comfortable style of riding.
Activities & Tasks: Volunteers will be expected to assist with the maintenance and training of the horses. Housing is provided on the premises, and is within walking distance of Urubamba.
Requirements: Previous experience with horses is essential.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks stay is required, although if a volunteer chooses to stay for a longer period of time, it can be arranged.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: Flexible.
Organization: don Quijote Spanish Language School
Description: Spanish School for foreigners in Cusco.
Activities & Tasks: Working as a Student Coordinator: attending to the general needs of the students in the office, airport pickups, organizing and participating in student activities, organizing orientating meetings, organizing excursions, etc.
Minimum Commitment: 6 months (bed and board may be arranged)
Spanish Level Required: High Intermediate
Schedule: 10.00-16.00(4:00PM) and all the student activities.
Organization: Eric Adventures *con fines de lucro
Description: Tourist and travel agent, specialized in adventure trips such as rafting, biking, mountain climbing, etc., located in Cusco.
Activities & Tasks: Helping out at the office counter (selling tours, giving information, etc.), filming and editing videos, making updates for the website, help the guides on excursions, working in the warehouse, picking people up from the airport, etc.
Requirements: Recommended to people who have a special interest in this field and would like to gain some experience in a foreign adventure agency.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks. Should you be able to stay for a longer period of time, there will be a possibility to learn to be a rafting guide.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, times are variable (depending where you will be working).
Capacity: Maximum number of volunteers is 2.
Others: You will be offered a free trip (climbing, mountain biking, rafting, kayaking, etc.) each week.
Organization: Agencia 'Wasi Tours' (Arequipa)
Description: Travel agency in Arequipa, specializing in trips to the Colca Canyon. Recently a hotel has been built as well.
Activities & Tasks: Giving information to clients, selling tours, administrative work,
evaluating guides, front desk, etc. You will be allowed to go on some of the tours.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks.
Spanish Level Required: High intermediate.
Schedule: 9.00-13.00(1:00PM) & 16.00(4:00PM)-19.00(7:00PM).
Others: Opportunity to work in the Colca Canyon as liaison officer. (An air ticket will cost you approx. $89, duration: 30minutes).
ENVIRONMENTAL & WORKING WITH ANIMALS
Organization: Perol Chico *con fines de lucro
Description: Perol Chico is located near Urubamba and offers adventurous horseback riding for all levels of riders, from first timers to the advanced, from a 2-hour trek to expeditions of 7 days. Perol Chico is owned by a Dutchman named Eddy who has trained horses for over 23 years. In addition to the horse stables Perol Chico also has a small guest house on the premises. All the horses are purebred Pasos, a Peruvian breed with a special and very comfortable style of riding.
Activities & Tasks: Volunteers will be expected to assist with the maintenance and training of the horses. Housing is provided on the premises, and is within walking distance of Urubamba.
Requirements: Previous experience with horses is essential.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks stay is required, although if a volunteer chooses to stay for a longer period of time, it can be arranged.
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Schedule: Flexible.
Organization: Machu Picchu Project
Description: Non-Governmental Organization, in charge of the environmental politics concerning the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, located in Cusco.
Activities & Tasks: English/Spanish translations, organizing the library, administrative work, etc.
Requirements:
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Low Intermediate.
Schedule: 8.00-13.00(1:00PM) or 16.00(4:00PM)-19.00(7:00PM).
Organization: SAAF - Servicios Ambientales y Agro Forestales
Description: Organization engaged in the environmental development and conservation of the southern part of Peru offering consultancy and research.
Activities & Tasks: English/Spanish translations, organizing the library, administrative work, exchanging knowledge, etc. Sometimes volunteers will be asked to do research near Machu Picchu as well.
Requirements: This project is especially suitable for those who have experience in this field and want to exchange ideas.
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Low intermediate
Schedule: Flexible
Organization: Jardin Zoológico de la Universidad Antonio Abad
Description: Small zoo on the university ground in Cusco.
Activities & Tasks: Assisting in all kinds of work, such as construction, repairs, cleaning, informing visitors (especially schoolchildren), assisting zoological students in their study objects, looking for information on the different species to make folders, videos etc. for presentations
Minimum Commitment: 4 weeks
Spanish Level Required: Intermediate.
Requirements: Being interested in the animals and the public.
Schedule: Variable
Capacity: Up to two volunteers a time.
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