Volunteer in Ecuador

United Planet Volunteer in Ecuador — Teaching, Education and Rehabilitation, Conservation Quests United Planet's Quests offer volunteers a unique blend of work, cultural immersion, and fun. All ages and skill levels are invited to apply. Everyone has something to offer! Join us from 1 to 52 weeks on a Quest that will change your life and will help create a world in which all people understand, respect, and support one another.
	Cost: Varies with duration of your stay. Dates: Ongoing start dates. Contact: United Planet, 11 Arlington St, Boston MA 02116, USA. Tel.: 800-292-2316 or 617-267-7763. Email: quest@unitedplanet.org Website: www.unitedplanet.org
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Volunteer in Ecuador  Volunteer with a community based organization in Ecuador! ELI works with organizations throughout Ecuador to create volunteer opportunities that benefit locals while giving volunteers a unique cultural learning experience while giving back to the communities. Placements are available in the Andes, the Amazon, the cloud forest, along the coast, and in the Galapagos Islands. Possible projects include teaching, working with children's organizations, construction, conservation, reforestation, human rights, health programs, and community development. All placements are set up on an individual basis based on the needs of the local organization and the specific skill set of the volunteer.
	Dates: Programs are available throughout the year and dates are flexible. Cost: Program fees start at $1013 and include airport pickup, accommodation, and meals. Contact: ELI, 1557 Ogden St. #5, Denver, CO 80218 Tel.: 303-321-8278 Email: info@eliabroad.org Website: www.eliabroad.org
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Volunteer with indigenous cultures in Ecuador! Help make a difference in the world by volunteering to care for the elderly, children, assist with vocational high school, and community development. Experience Ecuadorian life as a local, and become part of the development projects that help sustain and protect the local community. This beautiful location allows volunteers to experience a new way of life specific to indigenous Ecuador. Daily tasks very allowing volunteers to experience something new every day.
	Dates: 2-10 Week Programs . Cost: 1 week: $720, 2 weeks: $890, 3 weeks: $1,090, 4 weeks:$1,290, 6 weeks: $1,670, 8 weeks:$2,050, 10 weeks: $2,370. Contact: Greenheart Travel, 746 North LaSalle, Chicago, IL 60654. Tel: 888-ABROAD-1. Website: www.cci-exchange.com
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Wildlife Experience in Ecuador Interested in helping to rehabilitate the endangered wildlife, rather than looking at animals from far away or on TV? This program will give you exactly what you want. As local experts we offer you the chance of a lifetime—3 different animal rescue centers in only 4 weeks! Explore the Amazon Rainforest, the Andes Highlands and the Coast of Ecuador while helping in the rescue centers of each region. This one-of-a-kind program also offers you a one-day training of animal handling before starting your adventure. Get involved without emptying your pocket!
	Dates: Year round Contact: Lead Adventures, Mariscal Foch E8-42 Planta  Alta, Quito – Ecuador Tel.: (593) 2 2501332, Mobile: + (593-2) 250-1332 (ext. 104). Fax: + (593-9) 9249-1575 Email: info@lead-adventures.com. Website: www.lead-adventures.com
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Teach English Without Borders Sponsored by the Government of El ORO in Ecuador, this program enables native English speakers to share their language skills at the rural schools in the south coast of Ecuador. In exchange for your effort, you will receive accommodations, meals and a monthly stipend for extra expenses. This is your chance to make a difference while traveling. The placements are in the surroundings—the City of Machala, also known as World Capital of Banana, located in the Pacific coast, a few hours from the Andes highlands, and the Amazon Rainforest. Check with our specialists for more details.
	Dates: April through December. Minimum time: 3 months. Maximum time: 6 months. Contact: Lead Adventures, Mariscal Foch E8-42 Planta  Alta, Quito – Ecuador Tel.: (593) 2 2501332, Mobile: + (593-2) 250-1332 (ext. 104). Fax: + (593-9) 9249-1575 Email: info@lead-adventures.com. Website: www.lead-adventures.com
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Volunteer with Sustainable Development Projects in Ecuador Spend your summer as an AMIGOS Volunteer working, living, and learning with a host family in beautiful rural Ecuador. Learn a new language and a new culture while promoting leadership skills, team-building, and youth empowerment. Partner with local youth to run camps for 5-12 year old children. Collaborate with community members on the planning and implementation of a Community-based Initiative tailored to your community’s specific needs.
	Cost: The participation fee is $5,150. Scholarship and fundraising support is available. The Participation Fee includes: * Round-trip international airfare from your gateway city * Food, lodging, and transportation in Latin America * All project related supplies * Training materials and workshops * Veteran supervisory Project Staff * 24-hour emergency On-Call Communications System during the program * Supplemental short-term international medical insurance Contact: Amigos de las Américas, 5618 Star Lane, Houston, Texas 77057. Tel: (713) 782-5290 Email: info@amigoslink.org Website: www.amigoslink.org
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Medical programs, Conversation Corps and Conversation Partner in Ecuador & Galapagos Islands We offer medical programs in a children's hospital in Quito and the Ecuadorian Red Cross and Mobile Clinic. You can speak English to a group in Ecuador or the Galapagos Islands 15 hours per week as a Conversation Partner. Live with an Ecuadorian family in Quito or the Galapagos and teach them English 15 hours each week as part of our Conversation Corps program. Dates: Year ‘round Cost: Please see website for prices. Contact: GeoVisions, 63 Whitfield St. Guilford, CT 06437. Tel.: 203-453-5838. Toll free 1-877-949-9998. Email: programs@geovisions.org Website: www.geovisions.org

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Volunteer Abroad in Ecuador from US$270 Affordable volunteer opportunities available in Quito. Volunteers can participate in Teaching English, Street Children Work, School Support Program and Summer Project. IVHQ sends over 5000 volunteer travelers worldwide annually — one of the world's most popular volunteer placement organizations!
	Cost: Program Fees start from US$270. Dates: Programs start any day of each month. Duration: Volunteers can volunteer anywhere from one week to six months. Contact: International Volunteer HQ, PO Box 8273, New Plymouth, NEW ZEALAND. Tel.: +64 6 758 7949. Email: volunteer@volunteerhq.org Website: www.volunteerhq.org
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Earth to City Ecuador Volunteers do hands-on farming, fishing or wildlife activities typical of rural Ecuadorean communities. In the mountains, work side-by-side with community members to milk cows, make cheese, plant organic fruits and vegetables, harvest, fleece sheep, gather wild mushrooms, cook, teach English to locals, and more. In the jungle, make jewelry out of seeds, take notes on wildlife during jungle patrols, tour petroleum extracting facilities, take part in jungle activities under guidance of members of the Cofan indigenous community. On the coast, fish, chop plantains, pull up yuca, trap crabs, harvest coconuts, make raw chocolate out of cacao, and more...
	Dates: Every Monday through Friday, ongoing, year round. Minimum 5 days stay with option to extend as longer-term volunteer. Cost: $320 - $380 for first 5 days, including food, lodging, bilingual English-Spanish guide, optional Spanish lessons, all transportation and hands-on activities; After that, about $6/day paid to family to cover electricity and water costs. Fees as longer-term volunteer may be waived if you have significant agricultural/wildlife experience. Contact: Tien-Shun Lee, Founder & Community Coordinator, Earth to City; Mailing address: Earth to City, c/o EarthMatters, 177 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002. Tel. 1-914-648-1689. Email: tien.shun@gmail.com Website: www.earthtocity.org
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True Galapagos Experience Volunteer in one of the wonders of the world trying to preserve the unique habitat of the Galapagos. You will get your hands dirty with conservation projects while also being able to island-hop and take in the beauty of the archipelago. This land-based program combines sightseeing tours, a comprehensive lecture on the Galapagos by a veteran scientist, and the opportunity to be part of the conservation work going on in the islands. We offer 10 days, 2 week, and 3 week programs. We can also personalize your program if you would like to extend your stay.
	Dates: Year round Cost: 10 Days: $ 1690,  2 Weeks: $1990, 3 Weeks: $2190 Contact: Lead Adventures, Mariscal Foch E8-42 Planta  Alta, Quito – Ecuador Tel.: (593) 2 2501332, Mobile: + (593-2) 250-1332 (ext. 104). Fax: + (593-9) 9249-1575 Email: info@lead-adventures.com. Website: www.lead-adventures.com
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Wildlife Animal Rescue in the Andes and Amazon Animal Rescue Program welcomes volunteers to come and be the caretakers of beautiful and exotic animals who have been victims of animal trafficking or mistreatment. Volunteers will be responsible for helping to foster their transition back to the wildlife while living in two different and beautiful regions of Ecuador— the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes.
	Dates: Year round Cost: 2 Weeks, $890 Contact: Lead Adventures, Mariscal Foch E8-42 Planta  Alta, Quito – Ecuador Tel.: (593) 2 2501332, Mobile: + (593-2) 250-1332 (ext. 104). Fax: + (593-9) 9249-1575 Email: info@lead-adventures.com. Website: www.lead-adventures.com
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APF Languages in Ecuador
Flexible Spanish language and volunteering program working with street children (e.g. care and nursery) or in ecology projects outside Quito. Minimum stay two weeks language course plus two weeks volunteering. Also 6-month positions as jungle guides.

Contact: APF Languages, El Mercurio 345, Quito, Ecuador; 011-593-2-244-8204; info@apf-languages.com, www.apf-languages.com.

Bosque Nublado Santa Lucia
Help conserve the cloud forest. Volunteers are needed for physical activities in support of conservation, such as reforesting and trail-building; requirements include good physical condition, cultural sensitivity and openness to new experiences.

Contact: info@santaluciaecuador.com, www.santaluciaecuador.com

Caledonia Languages Abroad
Spanish and Volunteer Work in Latin America
Programs organized in Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador, year round. Community and environmental projects and teaching English, depending on skills and level of language ability.

Contact: The Clock-house, Bonnington Mill, 72 Newhaven Rd., Edinburgh EH6 5QG, Scotland; 011-44-131-621-7721; www.caledonialanguages.co.uk

Charles Darwin Foundation
Volunteer with the Charles Darwin Foundation
Volunteers must be at least second year undergraduates. See more details on website.

Visit: www.darwinfoundation.org

Eco Volunteer UP
Eco Volunteer UP is an Ecuadorian non-profit organization composed of a group of Ecuadorians who work through volunteers to conserve the forests of Ecuador, to improve the communities' economies and to give Ecuadorian children a better life. We offer volunteers real immersion in the various Ecuadorian ecosystems, and real opportunities for learning and sharing Ecuadorian cultures, customs and traditions, all the while helping different projects promote their development and changing lives.

Contact: ecovolunteerup@ecovolunteerup.org, www.ecovolunteerup.org

EcuadorExplorer.com, www.ecuadorexplorer.com/html/work_or_volunteer.html. Useful information about working and volunteering in Ecuador with links to about 20 organizations with volunteer programs.

Ecuador Volunteer
Our non-profit organization offers volunteer work programs in South America, our volunteer opportunity is focused in ecological, social and educational areas creating new hopes.

Contact: www.ecuadorvolunteer.org

EcuaExplora — Volunteer Projects in Ecuador
Lend a helping hand while immersing yourself in the culture and language of the beautiful, diverse country of Ecuador! EcuaExplora offers flexible, affordable volunteer projects throughout the country. Volunteer in the health sciences, child development, social work, community development, environmental conservation, wildlife rehabilitation, micro-business, education and more. Choose from programs in Quito, the Amazon region, the coast, or the mountains. Come enjoy Ecuador and give back!

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

EcuEVP
Unpaid internships in Ecuador in many fields such as journalism and media, medical, business, architecture, human rights, and marketing.

Visit: www.ecuevp.com.

Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Program (ELEP)
ELEP volunteer and internship programs offer affordable and suitable volunteer and internship opportunities in Ecuador, for individuals and groups from all over the world interesting in gaining valuable work experience and personal fulfillment.
If you are looking for a volunteer or internship program abroad and immerse yourself in a new culture, then you have found the right place. ELEP is a leading volunteer and internship program provider and places international volunteers in community and ecological projects and interns in well respected firms, companies NGOs and communities across Ecuador. We offer short- and long-term volunteer and internship programs for motivated students, retirees, professionals, vacations, summer trips, etc.

Contact: programs@elep.org; www.elep.org.

Equinoccial Spanish School
Language school arranges unpaid environmental or community work with partner organizations throughout Ecuador. Volunteers pay a reduced fee for Spanish lessons of $6.80 per hour.

Contact: Reina Victoria 1325 y Lizardo Garcia, Quito, Ecuador; tel/fax: 011-593-2-256 4488; www.ecuadorspanish.com.

FEVI
Volunteer Work and Internships in Ecuador
High quality programs. Medical and Social Science students welcome.

Visit: info@fevi.org; www.fevi.org.

Free Volunteering in Ecuador
VolunteerSouthAmerica.Net lists the free and low-cost volunteer opportunities in South America. The site is designed for backpackers / independent travellers looking for a real volunteer experience abroad, without paying any middle-man or agency fees.

Visit: www.volunteersouthamerica.net

Fundación Brethren Y Unida
The FBU is non profit foundation dedicated to rural development with also offer several volunteer program options. All programs have the option of college credit through Burlington College, Vermont.

Contact: info@fbu.com.ec, www.fbu.com.ec

Fundación Jatun Sacha
Volunteer interns participate in research, plant conservation, agroforestry, etc. at 10 reserves in Amazonian Ecuador. Reserve fees including lodging and meals.

Contact: volunteer@jatunsacha.org, www.jatunsacha.org.

Fundación Zoobreviven
A South American charity based in Ecuador established in 1997 to protect Ecuador's ecosystems and wildlife conservation. We manage three reserves in North Western Ecuador, two in the cloud forest of the Choco Bioregion and one in the Esmereldas region. We work to preserve these important environments through wildlife, plant and tree conservation work, community education, environmental management, volunteer projects, community ecotourism and scientific research into the flora and fauna of the region.

Contact: Fundación Zoobreviven, 6 de Diciembre N32-36 y Whymper, Quito, Ecuador; Tel./fax 011-593- 2252-2916. To volunteer email a cover letter with attached résumé to: volunteer@zoobreviven.org. For general information, email: info@zoobreviven.org. Website: www.zoobreviven.org.

Global Volunteer Network
Biological reserves throughout Ecuador, including the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon, with conservation and community projects.

Contact: info@volunteer.org.nz, www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/ecuador/

Homestay Ecuador
Coordinates services for persons interested to learn about and live in our country, and who want to share their time benefiting social projects. Having nearly a decade of experience with over 800 volunteers from all over the world, we saw a great need to create and provide services to foreign volunteers. Homestay Ecuador aspires to be the link between volunteers and organizations, projects and persons, providing you with the best and safest way to realize your desire to volunteer while living in our country. We contribute a percentage of our fee towards the benefit and development of social projects. Our Objectives are not commercial, we are a group of that want to help, to support orgranizations and give the best information and orientation for the volunteer.

Contact: homestayecuador@hotmail.com, www.homestay-ecuador.com.

Inter Cultural Youth Exchange
Volunteer in Community Projects in Ecuador
ICYE-UK offer a range of community based projects in Ecuador. You can volunteer from 3 weeks to 3 months depending on how much time you have to give. You have the opportunity to choose your project such as working in schools, in alternative learning centres, or with the elderly. You can also join Spanish or Quechua classes if interested.

Contact: info@icye.org.uk, www.icye.org.uk

Maquipucuna Foundation, Inc.
Cloud forest reserve, near Quito in Ecuador, accepts paying volunteers ($450 per month or $360 if staying longer than 3 months).

Contact: Maquipucuna Foundation, Inc., Baquerizo E9-153, P.O. Box 17-12-167, Quito, Ecuador. Fax. 011-593-2-250 7201. Also: c/o Inst. of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2202; 706-542-2923; volunteers@maquipucuna.org; www.maqui.org.

Volunteer in Ecuador
Care of Poor and Ill Children
Use your heart and spirit by helping the needy. At the same time, share Ecuadorian homes (room, board and laundry), learn Spanish on one to one basis with university professors, and get an unforgettable experience by visiting beautiful landscapes from snow at volcanoes to fantastic forests at the Amazons jungle.

Contact: www.volunteeringecuador.org.

Yanapuma Foundation
Volunteer in Conservation and Reforestation
Yanapuma offers low-cost volunteering opportunities in conservation and reforestation throughout Ecuador. We are looking for volunteers to send to projects in the coast, sierra and amazonia regions to work on different reforestation programmes. Programmes include a mixture of manual labour and environmental education. No Spanish necessary for manual labour work, but intermediate Spanish preferable for education projects. Volunteer projects in Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation, Volunteer in Daycare Centres in Quito, and Volunteer in Organic Agriculture.

Contact: Director of Volunteer Programmes, E8-125 Veintimilla y 6 de Diciembre, Quito, Ecuador txtTelephone = +593 2 254 6709; volunteer@yanapuma.org; www.yanapuma.org/en/volEcuador.php.