Minimum time for volunteering is 4 weeks, with the possibility to extend it to periods of 6, 10 months or to the whole school period.

Volunteers are needed nationwide to teach English and Computers (if the school has computers available). Based on the volunteers skills and education, it is also possible to volunteer as teachers’ aid for subjects like Maths, World History, Environment, Grammar, Science, etc. This project offers the opportunity for volunteers to assist the students of Elementary Schools located in rural areas, where normally students do not have access to English and/or Computer teachers.

Volunteering consists in teaching Basic English, Computer and Environmental lessons in country schools with no resources, from the Coast, Highlands and Amazon region. For those who have good Spanish knowledge there is the chance, in the afternoons after the school time, to assist the children who have learning problems helping them in reading, writing, grammar, mathematics, mainly in the schools situated in the Coast region.

Schools do not have didactic materials for English lessons therefore volunteers are responsible to prepare the material. They will also be responsible for making exams and evaluations for each grade, a report about the students' achievement and goals must be given to the Principals of the schools. Volunteering is from Monday to Friday with free weekends.

Provided by local families or by the School teachers. Food (three meals per day are provided during the placement) based on the Ecuadorian diet.

Basic knowledge of Spanish language is required.

300 Euro or US$360.
Fee includes 4 weeks of lodging, three meals per day and administrative assistance in the offices of Fundación Chiriboga. The fee does not include transportation, bottled water, extra food and drinks, phone calls and internet access.

Located in the south of Quito, this school for mentally challenged children offers programs to prepare them for their future and to become independent individuals. Volunteers interested in this project will need to stay a minimum of 8 weeks, in order to follow up with the children’s progress.

Work consists in assisting the teachers taking care of the children, to play and teach them new games. Volunteers will also help the children at lunch time, helping them to learn how to eat by themselves.
Volunteers will work from Monday to Friday, afternoons free and weekends off.

Accommodation, breakfast and dinner are provided at Fundación Chiriboga’s house in Quito.

Basic knowledge of Spanish language is required.

280 Euro or US$330.
Fee includes 4 weeks of lodging, breakfast and dinner and administrative assistance in the offices of Fundación Chiriboga. The fee does not include lunch, all types of transportation, bottled water, extra food and drinks, phone calls and internet.

Located in Colonial Quito, this wonderful project benefits low income children who work in the streets, and children and adolescents whose parents can not give them total attention at home.
The project helps children by providing them a safe place where they can do their homework, watch TV, play table football, and to have lunch.
Children and adolescents at an age risk are assisted by the project staff and by volunteers. They are also assisted by a psychologist provided by the project.

In this project, volunteers have the opportunity to look for the children in the streets together with the specialised staff, making their work directly in the streets, visiting the families to know why the children abandoned their homes, why the parents can not protect their children.

Volunteers are responsible to assist the children with their homework, and to make recreation activities and to visit other centres in other provinces with the children. Volunteering is from Monday to Friday, weekends are free.

This project offers placements in the following cities:Quito, Ambato, Santo Domingo de los Colorados and Esmeraldas.

Provided at Funadción Chiriboga’s house in Quito or in host families if the project is situated in one of the other locations.

Basic knowledge of Spanish language is required.

300 Euro or US$360.
Fee includes 4 weeks lodging, breakfast, lunch (at the project), dinner and assistance Fundación Chiriboga's house. The fee does not include any kind of transportation, bottled water, extra food and drinks, phone calls and internet.

The Daycare Centre where the project takes place is located in the southeast of Quito. Children whose mothers work on the streets or work as domestic servants are admitted in this project. Children from 1 to 12 years old are assisted in this site.

Volunteers can participate as teachers’ aid teaching the children to write their first letters, to learn the colours, numbers (in Spanish Language), to draw, to paint, to play and to sing.

Volunteers can attend this project for a minimum of four weeks.

Volunteering is from 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, weekends off.

Provided at Fundación Chiriboga’s house in Quito.

Basic knowledge of Spanish language is required.

300 Euro or US$360.
Fee includes 4 weeks lodging, breakfast, lunch (at the project), dinner and administrative assistance at Fundación Chiriboga's offices. The fee does not include any type of transportation, bottled water, extra food and drinks, phone calls and internet.

Located in the southwest of Quito, this orphanage for boys provides them a safe and loving atmosphere. Boys aged from 6 to 18 years old are welcomed here. In the case boys are mentally challenged or have any other sort of disability exceptions to their age can be considered, admitting individuals up to 20 years of age.

Volunteers will be teaching English and Computers at the School located at this orphanage. Low income children who are not orphans come to this school to eat lunch. Volunteers can also assist serving their lunch.
Volunteers must be able to contribute with recreational activities with children or teaching children any kind of crafty creative activity. Children will create some items made of recycled paper in order to sell them on Christmas time. In the afternoons there will be a variety of workshops like carpentry, bakery and handicrafts.
Volunteering is from 8am to 4pm, Mondays to Fridays, weekends off.

Provided at Fundación Chiriboga’s house in Quito.

Basic knowledge of Spanish language is required.

300 Euro or US$360.
Fee includes 4 weeks lodging, breakfast, lunch (at the project), dinner and administrative assistance in the offices of Fundación Chiriboga. The fee does not include any type of transportation, bottled water, extra food and drinks, phone calls and internet.

We offer volunteer programmes on the island of San Cristóbal, Galápagos. We have projects available in the following categories: environmental, community work and hypo-therapy, which uses the therapeutic movement of horses to treat numerous conditions.
Our projects are situated on the upper part of the island, and we rely on the co-operation between various organisations.

Our mission is to provide alternative activities and projects which promote participation with the native communities on the island.
Our vision is to create sustainable projects with civic participation to create more opportunities to enjoy the tranquility which exists in the upper part of the island, as much for the volunteers and tourists as for the population of San Cristóbal.

We have a house and 50 hectares of land which are used for the project. We have a tree nursery which is used for the reforestation project, and also use eight horses for the practice of hypo-therapy.

Furthermore, we work in co-operation with families in the communities on projects involving the control and monitoring of harmful plants, as well as cultural exchange. Additionally, we work in co-operation with various other organisations for Inter-cultural interaction with children and teaching of Basic English; technical support at a reforestation project; providing hypo-therapy workshops for children with special needs and to provide fruit for the canteen.

This is an ongoing project. Minimum period of volunteering is of 4 weeks.

The volunteers work together with local families in monitoring plants introduced in the area, and encourage people to plant local vegetation in their garden rather than the newly introduced plants which are damaging the local environment, and in particular demonstrating that local plants can be very effective in decorating gardens. Furthermore, the volunteers help to collect fruit from the estate to take to the canteen at INNFA. This allows volunteers to get to know the poorer children in the community. They also sow local plants with the children, and are in charge of encouraging children to care for the environment.

In the school, the volunteers help in the teaching of English. In classes with special needs children, they are especially involved in conducting lessons of the language in question. As a way of teaching the children to care for the environment and of interacting with them, the volunteers will take guided walks with students in the area to demonstrate the environmental projects and use fresh air to give more dynamic lessons.

Volunteers will work from Monday to Friday, from 9am-12am and from 3pm-5pm.

US$450, to be paid in Quito at Fundación Chiriboga offices.
It includes 4 weeks of accommodation in the project's house. When there are groups of more than 10 volunteers per project, volunteers will be placed in family homes in the port. Our services rely on help in all areas relating to the needs of the volunteers, in particular help in preparing meals. The volunteers will buy the supplies and will be assisted by a lady in the preparation of meals.

The fees also include a tour on horseback for a day, a day of surfing lessons, 10% discount in the Dive & Surf Club shop and a volunteering certificate signed by the manager and the director of the Charles Darwin Scientific Station. This fee does not include food, flights, any kind of transport, local tours, bottled water, extra drinks, phone calls or Internet.