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Animal Shelter Santa Cruz La Laguna, Ecuador
Join Us in Caring for Animals and Enjoy a Rewarding Experience!
What you offer
25h
- Hours per week
- Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.
- Animal Care
- Help look after and take care of animals.
- Building & Repairing
- Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
- Gardening
- Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
2
- Days off per week
- Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.
- Shared Dorm
- You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
- Fast Internet Access
- High-speed internet for you to work remotely
- Use our equipped kitchen
- Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
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- Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.
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Availability
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
- Stay at least
- 4 weeks
The Experience
Join us in creating a loving and safe space for animals while enjoying the great outdoors! 🐾🌿 Help with cooking and feeding the animals in the morning and evening 🍽️, clean their spaces to keep them happy and healthy 🧹, and even build dog houses 🏠 and a cat tree 🐱. Get your hands dirty with fruit picking 🍊 and gardening 🌻, and give the animals some TLC by brushing 🐶 and washing them 🧼. Plus, build an outdoor kitchen 🍳 and enjoy quality
Learn moreRequirements
- Beginner Spanish
- Over 20 years old
- Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
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Hours & Tasks
Animal Shelter
Learning & Fun
How this experience will transform you
- 1 Immersing in the local culture
- 1 Get in touch with nature
- 1 Developing environmental awareness
- 1 Meeting locals
- 1 Creating true social impact
- 1 Practicing Spanish
This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals
- 1 12. Responsible consumption and production
- 1 15. Life on land
- 1 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
Basil
Switzerland
My stay at the dogshelter was amazing. The dogs are all well socialiced, super cute and need a lot of love and cuddels. The facilitys are simple but you will get everything you need. There are a lot of unfinished projects and tasks. This place is perfect for volunteers who like to initiate new projects, (like taking the dogs on walk in to the city (they love the Bus/Taxi rides!) work independent, arent afraid to get dirty and love animals. The dogs have a beatiful life at the shelter but to find potential forever-homes and donations the socialmedia aspect is also very important!
about 1 month ago
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