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Cross-Cultural Solutions: Volunteer Abroad for the Experience of a Lifetime!
Experience another culture like never before while making a real difference in people’s lives. You’ll gain perspectives and insights into the local culture and yourself. It’s an exciting and personally inspiring experience, and you’ll develop memories that will be with you forever. Program operates in Guatemala City, and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Dates Offered: Choose from start dates year-round and lengths-of-stay from 1-12 weeks.
Costs: The U.S. tax-deductible program fee for a two-week program is $2,588 (£1,408) with each additional week of stay only $297 (£162). The program fee for the one-week Insight Abroad program offered in Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, and Russia is $1,695 (£922). Program fee includes: personalized Volunteer Placement, language instruction, cultural education, food, lodging, transportation to and from all Cross-Cultural Solutions’ placements and programs, pre-departure guidance from headquarters staff, 24-hour access to in-country staff, travel medical and emergency evacuation insurance, and more.
Contact: Cross-Cultural Solutions, 2 Clinton Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801;Tel: 800.380.4777 or 914.632.0022; in the UK call 0845 458 2781/2782; other countries call +44 (0) 1273 666392; Fax: 914.632.8494.
Email: info@crossculturalsolutions.org
Website: www.crossculturalsolutions.org
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Volunteer on a Community Construction Project in Guatemala
Volunteer on this short-term GVI community project and help improve the standard of living for indigenous communities situated near Antigua, Guatemala. You will assist in building energy-efficient stoves, promoting agriculture and rearing livestock and help families who live below the poverty line improve their living conditions. Indoor air pollution is the cause of more deaths each year than either Malaria or AIDS, due to the way people burn wood with no ventilation in their homes. Cleaner, more energy-efficient stoves provided by GVI can add literally decades onto the life-expectancy of a house’s occupants.
Dates: From 1 week and up, departures throughout the year
Costs: From US$1190 for 1 week
Contact in USA: Call toll free 888-653-6028
Contact in UK: 01727 250250
Website: www.gviusa.com
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Teach English in Guatemala
Join GVI on this volunteer program teaching English to indigenous children in communities situated near Antigua, Guatemala. By teaching English to these children, while working with a qualified TEFL trainer, the children are more likely to learn English and pass their exams. As a volunteer teacher you will spend half the day teaching English and the other half planning the next day’s lessons with your TEFL teacher. Volunteers on this project will take an introductory TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course in Guatemala which will help prepare you for your teaching job ahead.
Dates: 4 to 16 weeks, departures throughout the year
Costs: From US$1,840 for 4 weeks
Contact in USA: Call toll free 888-653-6028
Contact in UK: 01727 250250
Website: www.gviusa.com
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United Planet
Create Opportunities for Locals in Guatemala
In this beautiful location of Quetzaltenango many volunteer placements are available. Volunteers can provide much needed love and attention to discarded children in a local orphanage. Volunteers can help to build a laundromat used to sustain an abused women and children's shelter. Medically trained volunteers can help in a private clinic dedicated to aiding the underserved communities of the surrounding villages of Quetzaltenango.
Cost: Varies with duration of your stay.
Dates: Ongoing; begins on the first and third Monday of every month.
Contact: United Planet, 11 Arlington St, Boston MA 02116, USA. Tel.: 617-267-7763.
Email: quest@unitedplanet.org
Website: www.unitedplanet.org
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All Languages Abroad: 50 Countries 30 Languages 1 Adventure!
We offer a variety of language courses for all ages & budgets. Immerse yourself in the local culture, pick your accommodation type (host family or apartment) and enjoy many cultural activities with international students from around the world. We also offer the chance to volunteer in selected locations around the world helping the local community. These volunteer programs are not just fun and interesting but very rewarding and meaningful for the local people you are helping.
Visit www.languagesabroad.com/volunteer.html for more information.
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Volunteer in Guatemala with Volunteer Adventures!
Volunteer Adventures gives you the opportunity to live and volunteer in Guatemala. As a volunteer, you will be able to take care of rescued animals in the Petén rainforest, or help hatch and release endangered sea turtles on the black sand beaches of Hawaii, Guatemala. Both projects allow you to participate in the protection of these animals and restoration to their natural habitats.
Contact: volunteer@volunteeradventures.com, www.volunteeradventures.com.
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Academia Profesores Privados de Espanol (A.P.P.E.)
Volunteer opportunities and accommodations services in a Spanish language school.
Contact: www.appeschool.com/volunteers/index.php
Asociación de Recate y Conservación de Vida Sivilestre, ARCAS
Contact: Administration Office, Zona 8 Mixco, San Cristobal Guatemala; 011-502-478-4096; arcas@intelnet.net.gt, www.arcasguatemala.com.
Casa Alianza/Covenant House Latin America
Organization works in a number of Central American countries though volunteers are most needed to work with street children in Guatemala (voluntarios@casaalianza.org.gt) and Honduras (recursos-humanos@casa-alianza.org) for varying periods.
Contact: SJO 1039, P.O. Box 025216, Miami, FL 33102-5216; www.casa-alianza.org. Affiliated with Covenant House in the U.S. (www.covenanthouse.org).
Casa Guatemala
Orphanage and backpackers’ hostel in the Petén region that needs volunteer medical staff, teachers, nannies, and general staff (aged 24+ and with basic Spanish) for at least 6 months. Shorter volunteer stays possible for hostel staff. Fee of $180.
Contact: 14th Calle 10-63, Zona 1, Guatemala City, 01001 Guatemala; 011-502-232-5517; casaguatemal@guate.net; www.casa-guatemala.org.
Casa Xelaju
Supervised internships in and around Quetzaltenango. Minimum stay 6 weeks for interns, 4 weeks for volunteers. Must have good knowledge of Spanish. Placement fee $150 (or $100 in the low season between late Aug. and late May) plus $50 a week homestay.
Contact: Callejon 15, Diagonal 13-02, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; 011-502-7761-5954 or 612-235-4347; www.casaxelaju.com. U.S. contact: Casa Xelaju, 4701 Zenith Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410; 888-796-CASA.
Common Hope
Hospitality Coordinator Volunteer Opportunity in Guatemala
Common Hope organizes 10-day trips for groups of 12 people to discover Guatemala and Common Hope. The Hospitality Coordinator is responsible for coordinating all the in-country logistics of their visit as well as listening, sharing, encouraging, answering questions, facilitating communication with Guatemalans and making sure the teams physical/emotional needs are met.
Contact: info@mn.commonhope.org, visionteam@mn.commonhope.org, www.commonhope.org
Cooperative for Education
Bring Education to Needy Children in Guatemala
Experience a short-term volunteer vacation at its best! You will deliver badly-needed textbooks and inaugurate brand-new computer centers at impoverished Guatemalan schools through nonprofit organization Cooperative for Education (CoEd). Week includes opportunities to interact with the children and families CoEd serves. Your presence will make an important contribution to CoEd projects by showing the communities that the programs are well-supported and around for the long term.
Contact: coed@fuse.net, www.coeduc.org
Eco-Escuela de Español
Students learn Spanish in Guatemalan village in Petén region and help with conservation and development work for 2 hours a day. Fee of $150 per week covers 4 hours one-to-one tuition daily plus homestay. People with TEFL qualification may be able to find paid work.
Contact: San Andrés, Petén 17001, Guatemala; 502-5940 1235; EcoEscuelaEspanol@gmail.com, www.ecoescuelaespanol.org.
Eco-Escuela de Español & Bio-Itza
Students learn Spanish in Guatemalan village in Petén region and help with development work for 2 hours a day. Fee of $175 per week covers 4 hours one-to-one tuition daily plus homestay.
Contact: Calle Centromerica, Ciudad Flores, Petén 17001, Guatemala; tel/fax 502-926-3202; ecomaya@guate.net; www.ecomaya.com.
El Nahual Language Centre
Volunteer Teachers Needed
Volunteers needed to teach at a free school for children, "Manos de Colores." This school is part of El Nahual Language Center, a non-profit organisation which serves the local children and their families. Classes include art, music, math, literature, bicycle repair and other areas of enrichment depending on volunteers' skills and interests. Volunteers can take Spanish classes in the morning and live with a Guatemalan family. The school is situated in beautiful Western Highlands of Guatemala and in the centre of the Quiché Mayan people. Study Spanish in the morning and work on our social projects in the afternoon!
Contact: cdl.elnahual@gmail.com, www.languageselnahual.com
ELI-Experiential Learning International
Volunteer in Guatemala
ELI partners with organizations in Guatemala to offer volunteer opportunities that benefit the locals while giving participants a unique cultural learning experience. Volunteers can work with at-risk youth, teach, help with community development projects, assist with ongoing income generation projects, assist with women’s empowerment projects, help with conservation projects, work in a charity clinic, or work with special needs children.
Contact: info@eliabroad.org, www.eliabroad.org
God’s Child Project
Provides an education for slum children in Antigua, Guatemala and uses short- and long-term volunteers who pay about $180 a month and live with a local family after doing a Spanish course.
Contact: P.O. Box 1573, Bismarck, ND 58502-1573; 701-255-7956; www.godschild.org.
Guatemala Accompaniment Project
G.A.P. is a project of the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), formed in 1981 in response to the need for national coordination voiced by Guatemalan activists in the U.S. The project facilitates relationships between communities of refugees and displaced in Guatemala and communities in the U.S. willing to sponsor persons to serve as accompaniers. The goals are to provide a measure of security against human rights violations and to build long-term relationships of mutual support. G.A.P. has volunteer work and internships available in the heart of Central America.
Contact: gap@nisgua.org, www.nisgua.org.
New Development Experience
Volunteer in Guatemala
New Development Experience (“NDE”) offers social entrepreneurship volunteering programs, Spanish language programs for educators, as well as exciting travel programs in Guatemala. NDE is led by former Guatemala Peace Corps volunteers and international development professionals who have unmatched experience in creating opportunities for both local and international constituents. Having consulted for and created education, tourism, artisan, health care, technology and agricultural ventures in this amazing country, we have in-depth knowledge about what the amazing Maya people have to offer. Join us for the international experience of a lifetime where you will not only observe, but rather learn about and create a friendship with this country and its people.We have designed our programs so that you are truly investing in yourself in a way that improves others' lives.
Contact: info@newdevelopmentexperience.com, www.newdevelopmentexperience.com
Project Mosaic Guatemala, PMG
The non-profit organisation PMG links volunteers to Guatemalan partner organizations so that the local population and the volunteer benefit from the experience. Whether you are interested in education, childcare, community development, the environment, or any other area of development PMG can find a volunteer work placement for you in one of our 60 partner organizations.
Contact: 3a Avenida Norte # 3 (Interior de Casa de Mito), Antigua, Guatemala; Tel./fax 011-502-832-7337; promigua@yahoo.com, www.promosaico.org.
Quetzaltrekkers
Volunteer Managed Adventure Trekking in Guatemala
Quetzaltrekkers is Guatemala´s only all volunteer managed, non-profit trekking/hiking organization. Quetzaltrekkers offers multi-day adventure treks and one day excursions in the highlands of western Guatemala to an international clientele of outdoor enthusiasts. We follow locally sustainable and eco-friendly tourism practices. Volunteer guides are always needed.
Contact: Quetzaltrekkers, Casa Argentina, 12 Diagonal, 8-37, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango; 011-502- 7765-5895; info@quetzaltrekkers.com, www.quetzaltrekkers.com.
Service Civil International Workcamps SCI US
SCI is an exchange organization that sends volunteers on 2-3 week international work projects and long term 3-12 month opportunities in over 50 countries, including Guatemala. The $250 application fee covers lodging, meals, and minimal health insurance. SCI promotes voluntary service to impact social, environmental and humanitarian issues.
Contact: Service Civil International (SCI), 5505 Walnut Level Rd, Crozet, VA, 22932; Tel. 1-206-350-6585.
Email: sciivs.placement@gmail.com
Visit www.sci-ivs.org for an application.
Volunteer in Latin America
Sustainable Projects Volunteers in Guatemala
International volunteers wanted to join an organisation whose mission is to aid development in Guatemala by being trained to participate in, design, and implement sustainable projects.
Contact: info@volunteerlatinamerica.com, www.volunteerlatinamerica.com.
Volunteer Petèn
Sustainable Volunteer Projects in Guatemala
AidS development in Guatemala by training international volunteers to participate in, design, and implement sustainable projects. Volounteer projects available in various forms of conservation and teaching.
Contact: volunteerpeten@hotmail.com, www.volunteerpeten.com
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