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Help our ancestral indigenous community & teach us English!

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The experience

For a project of ethnoeco sustainable tourism the collaboration in our establishment is constant, to facilitate the communication with the foreign tourists, participation in the maintenance of the hostel, exchange of culinary knowledge, agricultural and gardening works, accompaniment to the different activities of the place.

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Fluent English and Intermediate Spanish

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are located in an ancestral indigenous community of Otavalo.

Teaching some local communities the art of transforming the natural materials of the region into crafts, has enabled more than 80 artisans to both consolidate and assert their unique working techniques.

Since this first design work, strong bonds of trust and friendship have been built, so much that a few years ago permission was granted to carry out a territorial development project. Land was therefore sold for the first time to foreigners in the community, which proves a real connection between the parties.

Rules

Our ultimate goal is to generate self - sufficiency from an environmental, social, cultural and economic point of view. We have set up a flourishing project, fluctuating with to the seasons of life.