Volunteer Guides
Our volunteer guides provide comprehensive information about projects that match your needs or personal interests. We provide you with between 20 - 40 organisations/projects to choose from and all the information you need to get started such as: project description; project location; postal address; email address; web address; telephone number; fax number; language requirements; time commitment; costs; accommodation details; plus details of any qualifications or experience required. Our guides also offer guidance on how to choose a project, contact a project, what questions to ask, and other useful tips. One of our guides also provides information on Spanish and Portuguese language schools.
Our guides come with active (clickable) web addresses. This means that if you click on any website address, a new web browser will open, saving you the task of manually entering the details.
The majority of projects we include in our guides are managed by local grassroots organisations. We only include projects run by foreign organisations (i.e. based outside Latin America) if we consider them to be either value for money or relevant to a specific request. We also exclude projects where the volunteer is expected to pay unreasonable registration or participation fees.
One thing is for sure, the true value of our guides will emerge when you meet other international volunteers on the same project who used the services of an expensive volunteer placement agency. We guarantee that some of these volunteers will be privately thinking 'I could have done this myself and saved the placement fee.'
Our guides will not only save you huge sums of money but a great deal of time. Why spend hours and hours searching the internet for a volunteer programme when we already have some of the best grassroots projects on our database.
If you would like to apply for a guide please click on order form
If you are interested in learning or improving your Spanish or Portuguese prior to starting a project we can help you find a language school. One of our guides contains details of over 100 recommended language schools in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. Better still, all the Spanish and Portuguese language schools offer or can arrange volunteer work. This provides you with hundreds of additional volunteering opportunities.
In addition to volunteer work some language schools allow you to combine classes with outdoor pursuits and interests such as surfing, PADI certification, trekking, kite surfing, paragliding, rock climbing, river rafting, Latin American culture and much more.
Other extra-curricular activities include cooking classes, dance classes (jazz, merengue, salsa and tango), guitar classes, canopy tours, mountain biking, horseback riding, football matches, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water skiing; weaving, workshops, yoga, and visits/excursions/expeditions to local places of interest (archaeological sites, indigenous communities, markets, national parks, volcanoes etc).
A large number of language schools facilitate the transfer of academic credits.
