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Teach English in a wonderful town in Guatemala and live the Extraordinary 🌋

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The experience

Join us in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, to teach English in primary schools and empower children for the growth of local tourism. Amid the rich Mayan culture and the beauty of Lake Atitlán, you will be part of an inspiring experience, leaving a lasting legacy while living the extraordinary.
Our organization requires at least 6 weeks of volunteering, and you are responsible for covering all your expenses, including flight, accommodation and food.

What you offer

18 hours of help per week

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

3 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Requirements

Fluent English or Beginner Spanish

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

In Guatemala we are based in Santiago Atitlán, one of the maya indigenous communities of Sololá that houses several towns around the Atitlán Lake.



Santiago is a small town with approximately 45.000 inhabitants. For the 90% of the population Tz'utujil is their mother tongue, one of the 24 indigenous languages spoken in Guatemala. It is a beautiful town with a lot of history and with an important indigenous culture that makes it especially unique and interesting. In Santiago Atitlán, we are focused on teaching English in primary schools. English class is part of the national primary school curriculum, but very few primary education teachers have the skills to teach the language to their students. At this moment, we are collaborating with four primary schools, where our volunteers teach English to 5th and 6th graders. With these lessons, we are preparing them for their English classes

Activities & Shift

You must have travel insurance to come to Guatemala. If you need help we can give you some information about different companies and prices.
The minimum length of stay is 4 weeks. If possible, we ask the volunteers to stay at least 12 weeks in the project to give more consistency and continuity to the children and our project goals. Longer stays also greatly improve the quality, depth, and breadth of your experience and achievements with this project.
The minimum number of hours a volunteer is required to work is 16 hours per week from Monday to Thursday. Volunteers do not teach from Friday to Sunday, so that they can travel and enjoy their stay in Guatemala during the long weekends.

Rules

Although the level of English we teach is low, we require our volunteers to have an intermediate level of English to be a teacher and communicate with volunteers from other countries.
Regarding costs, the volunteer is responsible for their transportation to and from Guatemala, the cost of their own accommodation, meals and other expenses. One,Two…Tree does not charge any fee for administration and project management. Prices in Santiago vary depending on the host family and they are around 250-300 USD. These differences owe to the conditions of your stay and the services these families provide.