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Become a Hiking Guide in Guatemala to Help Kids

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The experience

Join us in Xela, Guatemala as a trekking guide leading 1, 2, and 3 day hikes around the nearby volcanoes to raise money for a local nonprofit education project. As a guide, you will lead tours, collaborate with local providers, and share regional knowledge to provide fun and safe trekking experiences. We are a small, collaborative team who love to hike and serve a community need for better education for youth in the area. 3 MONTHS minimum!

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Tour Guide: Organize and lead tours around the city.

What you get

1 day off per week

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

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.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

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

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English and Beginner Spanish

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are consistently in search of hardworking, experienced volunteers to lead hikes throughout the highlands of Guatemala. All volunteers are provided free accommodation, free communal meals, and a fun, supportive work environment. All on-trek costs are covered for guides.

Activities & Shift

Guides are expected hike roughly half of each week (3 days of trekking per week). Scheduling is flexible and collaborative. Preparation days before overnight hikes are also crucial days of work. This is a full-time commitment, and things can get quite busy. Time off is encouraged whenever possible, but it is hard to guarantee specific days off. Expect approximately 3 days of hiking and 2 days of office work each week.

Rules

The following criteria is used in consideration of potential volunteers:

*** 3 MONTHS *** absolute minimum time commitment
Some first aid experience
Basic Spanish; (must make phone calls in Spanish and communicate with locals)
Love of the outdoors, trekking, roughing it, early mornings, getting wet, and cold toes
Great people-skills, endless patience, a love of learning and a willingness to teach.

*please disregard the 30 days minimum stay requirement, as the worldpackers website does not allow to set more days than that.