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Volunteer Coordinator for Cultural Exchange Centre
Highlights
- Help build, maintain and run a community space where foreigners and local people work together on innovative sustainable development projects
- Experience traditional indigenous culture: language, clothing, markets, music, food, buildings, and ways of life!
- Get to know the warm local people of Ecuador and improve your Spanish with them; they are always keen to chat
- Develop your leadership skills and build friendships with other international volunteers/interns
- Experience Ecuador's huge diversity in only an hour's drive - hiking in the mountains, bird watching in the jungle, and exploring colonial villages
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About the program
Help manage volunteers during day-to-day chores at Cultural Exchange Centre in the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes
Be a part of creating something meaningful - use your volunteer coordination skills to help manage a volunteer programme that is transforming an abandoned farmhouse into a thriving cultural exchange centre with permaculture gardens, in the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes.
About Us and the Project
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Typical day
We'll up front - we are a small organisation without external funding, so our free volunteering programme is the less glamorous chores of cooking, cleaning and manual labour; it's designed for those who are travelling on a budget but still want the experience of living in nature and immersing ...
Free-time activities
Free Time Activities
With your time off, you can take a walk around any of the beautiful local trails in the surrounding communities, down to the river or jump in a taxi to savour the spectacular cloud-covered sunset. There are regular buses into town if you would like to go shopping, try the local ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
- Guaranda is equal distance between the two international airports, Quito and Guayaquil
- Bus travel is cheap and low-risk, $7 for a 5 hour journey
- Shared shuttle cars are available $45 for a 4 hour journey
- 10 minutes by bus you reach the nearest town with some food & vegetables
- 30 minutes by bus you arrive in Guaranda with supermarkets and the large weekly market
Program fees
Meet your organization
El Terreno
Agency - founded in 2021
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Joshua
About the project
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