Foundation Local Dreamers

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

WE ARE NOT ABLE TO SOLVE HUGE PROBLEMS LIKE POVERTY AND CORRUPTION.

It is, however, important that our volunteers are aware that their contribution will never have been for nothing. As soon as you start to appreciate the small changes that you´ll achieve on your project, those changes will give you a very special feeling. Happiness is to be found in the little things, as simple as putting a smile on a face.

Another important change occurs in you! In many cases, volunteers will improve themselves more than that they improve others. Take this into account when managing your expectations. A period in a new country, with new people and a different culture might be more educational for you than for the people that you encounter on our projects in Ecuador. Working as a volunteer is just as much an investment in others as it is an investment in yourself.

The foundation aims to improve the quality of life and the level of development in disadvantaged communities or social vulnerability in Ecuador. With our projects, we provide the lower class Ecuadorians with quality lessons, trainings and courses. We focus on aspects as self-confidence, taking initiative, teaching and developing norms and values, such as respect, discipline and cooperation. Everybody is welcome, from a 5-year old kid to a 60-year old grandpa. After all, nobody is too old to learn! Over the years, we have welcomed more than 1200 Ecuadorians in our projects. For both locals and volunteers we have created a safe and inspiring learning environment. We have connected passions and learned from one another, in other words: we created a lasting bond between two totally different worlds. We've teached our Ecuadorian students to use English, we practiced sports and games with them at our Soccer school and teached them how to safe themselves in water during our swimming classes. On the other hand 'our' locals helped our volunteers by practicing the Spanish language, learning us everything about the Ecuadorian life and traditions and showing us some of the greatest places of Ecuador. Local Dreamers already brought a smile on over a thousand faces.

In six years we've built fruitful projects in Quito and successful partnerships in different regions in Ecuador. Together with our local partners we provide in various needs of the community. Besides practicing languages and sports, we contribute to the community by providing daycare, affordable healthcare and research on and maintaining of the beautiful nature of the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands.

All this, we have reached with a team of young, technical, professionals and dreamers, who have set the goal of creating an environment of inspiration and self-regulation, where volunteers and the local population can learn and share with others.