Volunteer in Spain

Atlantic Whale Foundation
Volunteers needed to work 2 to 6 weeks on whale and dolphin projects based in Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain. Must contribute toward expenses, e.g. £400 ($790) for 6 weeks. New database of conservation volunteering opportunities available on website.

Contact: 59 St. Martin’s Ln., London WC2H 4JS, England; 011-44-116-240- 4566; edb@whalenation.org; www.whalefoundation.org.uk.

Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects (CADIP)
Short-Term Volunteer Projects in Spain
Participating in an international short term volunteer project (so called Workcamp ) can be an exciting prospect. It is an interesting and meaningful way to travel with purpose and spend 2-3 weeks in a foreign environment. Working and living together with other young people from around the world provides an excellent opportunity to make many new friends, learn about unknown places and culture, gain new skills and experience. Your time, energy, and enthusiasm can make a difference in areas where help is really needed.

Contact: www.cadip.org/volunteer-in-spain.htm

Deya Archaeological Museum and Research Centre
Deya, Mallorca, Baleares, Spain; 011-34-971-639001. Participants join this long-established research project and excavation for 2 weeks at a time via Earthwatch, 3 Clocktower Pl., Suite 100, P.O. Box 75, Maynard, MA 01754; 800-776-0188; www.earthwatch.org.

EcoForest
Small fruit farm in southern Spain (Costa del Sol) that offers a place to live at low cost (5, 10 or 15 euros a day) while changing to a healthy, sustainable way of life. Working visitor program (e.g. see website) where work contributed subsidizes keep; vegan diet, all raw food.

Contact: Apdo Correos 29, 29100 Coin, Malaga, Spain; 011-34-661-079-950; info@ecoforest.org, www.ecoforest.org.

Eurointerns
Volunteer English Teaching in the Spanish Countryside
You will pair with Spanish participants in an English language village in the Spanish countryside. For one week you will rotate daily among the Spanish professionals whose aim it is to learn English through conversation, making friends and experiencing this fascinating linguistic, cultural and social event.Your role will be to expose Spaniards over a 7-day period to non-stop English as it is spoken outside the classroom. No grammer teaching. You will rotate on an hourly basis from one Spaniard to another and talk, talk, talk. These camps, commencing weekly year-long, offer intern posts to native English speakers with no previous experience, willing to converse on a one-to-one basis with a group of approximately 20 Spaniards learning English. "Work" will take place through sports, meals, games, drama, arts and music, etc. You will be provided with lodging and food in a hotel atmosphere during the camp session. Following your week of exposure to authentic Spanish and Spain through this experience there are optional post-camp Spanish language classes to boost your confidence and help you to adjust your own Spanish language level.

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

Instituto Hemingway
Spanish school that offers work placements as English teachers, au pairs, and volunteers throughout Spain. Non-EU candidates wishing to stay longer than three months should arrive in Spain on a student visa. Work experience placement fee 800 euros.

Contact: c/ Bailén 5, 2 Dcha, 48003 Bilbao, Spain; 011-34-94-416-7901; info@institutohemingway.com, www.institutohemingway.com.

Manga del Mar Menor Restoration and Research Project
Volunteers stay 15 days to 3 months at this coastal wetlands center collecting data and working with the public. Two-month working stay costs about $675.

Contact: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Ambientales and Amigos de la UNESCO, Plaza Cetina n°6, Entlo 1°, 30001 Murcia, Spain; Tel./fax 011-34-968-22-05-96; unesco@ctv.es, www.ctv.es/USERS/murban/volunt.htm.

Oasis-PraFor Project
Internships/Volunteer Opportunities in Spain
We help students and universities to find an internship/volunteer work in Spain without charge any fee. Internships/volunteers are accepted in the following fields: tourism, social work, administration, marketing, communication.

Contact: oasis@aulapolis.com, www.aulapolis.com/oasis/oasising.htm.

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 Spain. 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.

Sunseed Desert Technology
Volunteer in Andalucia, Southern Spain
Sunseed Desert Technology aims to develop, demonstrate and communicate accessible, low-tech methods of living sustainably in a semi-arid environment. They are based in the province of Almeria in the eastern part of Andalucia, Southern Spain.
Every year up to three hundred international volunteers come to work at Sunseed Desert Technology staying for between a week and several months. Volunteers can work in all of our departments which include: Appropriate Technology, Organic Gardening, Dryland Management and Construction and Maintenance. All volunteers and staff also share the communal cooking and cleaning duties. Volunteers pay a weekly donation towards food and accommodation, this money almost entirely funds the work of the project.

Contact: Sunseed Desert Technology, Apdo 9, 04270 Sorbas, Almeria, Spain, sunseedspain@arrakis.es, tel. + 34 950 525 770, www.sunseed.org.uk

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

Contact: www.vfp.org