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See Eco-Volunteer in Argentina for one volunteer experience.

If you do not see the volunteer program you want, look under Worldwide for volunteer programs located in several different regions.

Contact the program directors to confirm costs, dates, and other details (Disclaimer).


Cactus Language
TEFL course and TEFL Jobs in Argentina
Argentina seems to be emerging as a fresh favourite in South America and is increasingly talked about by people contacting Cactus TEFL. The main message about teaching English in Argentina seems to be: don't necessarily do it for the money. Instead, why not look into voluntary options?

Dates: All year round; first Monday of every month.
Contact: volunteer@cactuslanguage.com
Website: Volunteer Teaching English in Argentina

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Road2Argentina
Volunteer Work in Argentina
Road2argentina places you at a local volunteer organization where you will be given hands-on assignments. Our partner organizations provide assistance in the following areas: child care, shelter, food service, medical care, child and adult education, AIDS and disease prevention programs, vocational, training, and work excursions to surrounding cities and villages.

Dates: 2 weeks - 6 months, year round.
Contact: Road2Argentina, Av. Pueyrredon 1535, 10B, Buenos Aires C1118AAF, Argentina; Tel/Fax.: +54-11-48213271.
Email: info@road2argentina.com
Website: www.road2argentina.com

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Volunteer In Argentina
Gain a new outlook on the world. Experience a unique opportunity to live and volunteer in Argentina while learning about the culture and language of the country. Project areas include community development, health care, education, and childcare.

Dates: Year Round. Please see website for details.
Cost: Program prices vary with dates and length of stay.
Contact: GeoVisions, 101 Sage Hollow Road, Guilford, CT 06437.
Tel: 203-457-4257. Toll Free: 877-949-9998. Fax: 203-738-1024.
Email: programs@geovisions.org
Website: www.geovisions.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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i-to-i Meaningful Travel
Animal Rehabilitation in Argentina
El Puma Ecological Park is an animal breeding and rehabilitation centre near Posadas that aims to promote the welfare of wild animals that are native to Argentina and wildlife preservation. Their objectives are to help sick or injured animals that have been captured by forest rangers by nursing them back to health and to raise the numbers of native species by breeding them while in captivity. The animals are rehabilitated at the centre and then once ready released back to their natural habitat, if possible. El Puma works with the Ministry of Ecology of that province and depends on them for funding.

Cost: $1225.
Dates: 2 week minimum, please call for exact start dates.
Contact: Director of i-to-i North America, 190 East 9th Ave, Ste 350, Denver, CO 80203. Tel. (303) 991-5402
Website: i-to-i.com

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Volunteer in Argentina
Immerse yourself in the culture of Argentina as you live and work among local people and become a part of their community. As a volunteer in Argentina you can lend a hand to community development, education and health care projects in either the sophisticated capital Buenos Aires or the picturesque university town of Cordoba. Help provide meals and medical assistance to the needy, help organize social and educational activities to homeless children, or assist with community campaigns to prevent the spread of HIV and other diseases, to name a few. Homestay with two meals daily is provided. Participants should have an intermediate level of Spanish (Spanish lessons are available for an extra fee). Our dedicated and friendly staff in Argentina provide support and assistance throughout the program. CCI is a non profit founded in 1985 and run by seasoned travel enthusiasts who regularly participate in their own cultural exchanges.

Dates: Flexible, year round rolling admissions.
Cost: Prices start at $1150 for two weeks including homestay with meals, arrival transportation, orientation, insurance and full support.
Contact: Center for Cultural Interchange, 746 N. Lasalle Dr., Chicago, IL 60610.
Tel: 1.312.944.2544 or direct 312.264.1601.
Email: info@cci-exchange.com
Website: www.cci-exchange.com

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Volunteer in Argentina with Volunteer Adventures!
Volunteer Adventures gives you the opportunity to live and volunteer in a community development program, a teaching English program, a public health program, or youth outreach program in Buenos Aires.

Contact: volunteer@volunteeradventures.com, www.volunteeradventures.com.

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Buenos Aires Volunteer
Buenos Aires Volunteer is a non-profit assistance program which allows you to experience the cultural richness of Buenos Aires, Argentina, while at the same time helping to improve the well-being of the country and its people through a social-based volunteer opportunity. Services include internship/volunteer placement, Spanish classes, sustainable tourism, and other cultural activities.

Contact: info@bavolunteer.org.ar, www.bavolunteer.org.ar

Colonias de Inmersión al Idioma
Students and graduates aged 20-26 from English-speaking countries study, work, and live in Argentina, Chile, or Spain. Placements as language and culture facilitators at South American schools start in March or July and last 3 to 12 months. Fee $660-$850.

Contact: Armenia 1973, Departamento 3, 1414 Buenos Aires, Argentina; tel./fax. 011-54-11-4831 8152; info@coloniasdeinmersionalidioma.com; www.coloniasdeinmersionalidioma.com.

EIL Intercultural Learning
Volunteer in Argentina
Volunteers assist with sorting, classifying and distributing donations at the Food Bank. in Cordoba. Volunteers are also needed to teach conversational English to adults at centres in Buenos Aires, Salta and San Martin de los Andes. Volunteers help with games, songs, meals and teaching English in small towns throughout Argentina. The volunteer will travel daily back and forth from the homestay by local bus..

Contact: info@volunteerabroad.ie, www.volunteerabroad.ie/argentina.htm

Experiential Learning International
Volunteer in Argentina

  • Volunteer with orphans and street children.
  • Intern in a medical clinic in an underserved part of town.
  • Volunteer in a soup kitchen, helping to get food to the most needy residents of Buenos Aires (or other cities).
  • Volunteer at a senior center for the poor.
  • Volunteer at a center for children with mental or physical disabilities.
  • Volunteer for an environmental organization.
  • Volunteer with an Argentinean animal welfare organization.

Contact: info@eliabroad.org, www.eliabroad.org

Foundation for Sustainable Development in Latin America
Short summer and longer term internships for anyone over 18 in the field of development in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Normally volunteers will be expected to converse in Spanish.

Contact: 870 Market St, Suite 231, San Francisco, CA 94102; tel/fax 415-288-4873; info@fsdinternational.org; www.fsdinternational.org

Global Crossroad LLC
Volunteer In Argentina - Work in an Orphanage
La Casa Niño is a small community with 700 children from babies to 18 years olds. They live in 45 houses built themselves. Each house is a big family with foster parents that cook, clean, sew and take care of them. They live together making each house a home, with the familiar warmth. Children and adolescents attend public schools (normal or special) in the morning or afternoon, learn occupations and work outside of the “House”.
Volunteer In Argentina - Work in “intellectual” projects (NGO)
Our local partner is an NGO mainly focused on the training and strengthening of grassroots organizations and micro sized businesses. It helps these organizations with articulating and implementing human, material and technological resources for social development. This line of action mostly involves office/intellectual work that grassroots organizations do not have the expertise and means to perform by themselves.

Contact: Info@globalcrossroad.com, www.globalcrossroad.com

InsightArgentina
A unique alternative education program aimed at those seeking insightful, socially-oriented experiences abroad. We offer highly customizable volunteer and internship programs that will at once teach volunteers about Argentine life, integrate them into the Argentine culture, and acquaint them with Argentina's most pressing social issues. Our programs can be as basic as a short-term volunteer placement service, or can involve a long term placement that combines the volunteer experience with a customized language program, private, shared, or homestay housing, opportunities for travel and cultural exchange in Argentina, and the option of receiving college credit for parts of the experience.

Contact: info@insightargentina.org, www.insightargentina.org

Projects Abroad
Medical Work in Argentina
Shadow and Work with Doctors in and around Cordoba, Argentina.
Volunteer Care Work in Argentina
Work with Orphans in Unqillo, Argentina.
Volunteer Teaching in Argentina
Teach English to students in Unqillo, Argentina.

Contact: info@projects-abroad.org, www.projects-abroad.org

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 Argentina. 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.

Volunteers for Peace
Offers a variety of summer volunteer workcamps in Argentina.

Contact: www.vfp.org

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