Agroecological Demonstrative Center that contribute to build a sustainable, equitable and inclusive society, through environmental education and alternative energies.
The center has different agro-ecological areas such as:
Lombricompost, mushroom production, bio-fertilizers production, planting and harvesting vegetables and traditional maize, breed rabbits and chickens, work in the field and look after the greenhouse.
Activities:
Participate in the different activities of each agro-ecological area (rabbit breeding, orchard, cornfield, compost, mushroom production) Participate in workshops with the educational team to learn the ways of work and the educational goals. Make didactic and pedagogical materials for workshops. Participate in the team meetings and in the general center organization. Offer educational workshops for children and youth groups. Depending on your profile, skills and competencies, the volunteer will be specifically integrated in one area.
Profile:
+21 years old, willingness to teamwork, open minded. Interest in learning agroecology activities, facility in working with children and interest in learning new processes and dynamics.
Location:
Tzimol, Chiapas. 20 minutes from Comitan and 2 hours from San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Terminal:
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Airport, Chiapas, arriving you have to take the bus to San Cristobal City. You can also travel in bus from Mexico City. The duration of this bus are 13 hours moreless.
Language:
English and Spanish. If you don't speak it, you can learn it before or during your volunteering project.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will stay at the center`s facilities, in dormitories. They will have access to basic services: dry latrines, showers with solar heating system and water treatment biofilters.
Participation fee:
4500 Mexican Pesos per month (£175). The participation fee covers accommodation, food and partially the administrative cost which consist of the management, promotion, evaluation, monitoring and material of the projects. Furthermore, the accompaniment is provided during the volunteer period and the supervision of the activities on the project. It does not include local transport.
The San José Educational Park was founded in 1995 with the aim of providing a space for recreation and knowledge of biodiversity. They promote research, management and recovery of flora and fauna in captivity or in different natural areas in the state. We have 16 hectares of pine-oak forest that characterizes the region. It is a place to discover the flora and fauna of the region through the small zoo and an epifitario (a place where they preserve epiphytes) and is open to locals and students from different schools that come to the different workshops, and it is open too to national and international tourism.
Activities:
1. MANAGEMENT AND PROMOTION * Promotion and diffusion * Support in managing social networks (Facebook) to promote the park * Development of promotional materials * Create a promotion plan * Translate the Park Guide’s map * Support management activities and operation of the park
2. ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE This area aims to sensitize the inhabitants of the communities in the region, students and visitors in general, regarding the environment/society relationship as structural basis for sustainable ways of life as well as promoting social values and raise awareness about the environmental problems and help them manage natural resources.
Activities that may develop - * Planning, Design and Implementation of the interpretive trail "Abronia". * Display the path of Ecosystem Wildlife Educational Park San Jose’s Guide.
3. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING. In this area we promote the interests of children, youth and adults of different grade levels of public and private institutions for the care of the environment and conservation of natural resources and mitigation of climate change through different activities - * Develop proposals to create educational support material and briefing papers on environmental concerns. * Develop workshops with environmental issues for working with children baseline. * Construction of a space for the collection of solid waste materials.
4. FLORA Activities that may develop - * Maintenance of the Epifitario (the meaning of the word refers to any plant that can grow on another plant using it as support, without damaging it). * Maintenance of the mountain biking track. (4 km in a closed circuit) * Maintenance of the path t'e Na (exhibition of medicinal plants, shrubs and trees). * Maintaining the compost and vermicompost. (Management of organic matter)
5. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT UNIT / WILDLIFE Activities that may develop - * Taking care of the specimens on display and quarantine; diet preparation, and monitoring. * Development of informative and educational materials on fauna. * Preparation of animal enrichment program * Collection of insects for feeding animals on display, quarantine and laboratory.
Location:
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Terminal:
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Airport, Chiapas, arriving you have to take the bus to San Cristobal City. You can also travel in bus from Mexico City. The duration of this bus are 13 hours approximately.
Language:
English and Spanish. If you don't speak it, you can learn it before or during your volunteering project.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will stay at the VIVA volunteer house equipped with basic services such as water, gas, electricity and a kitchen to prepare food. Volunteers will share a room with other volunteers.
Participation Fee:
2300 Mexican Pesos per month (approx. £90). The participation fee covers accommodation and partially the administrative cost which consist of the management, promotion, evaluation, monitoring and material of the projects. Furthermore, the accompaniment is provided during the volunteer period and the supervision of the activities on the project. Volunteers must cover their own meals. The park is 9 km from the city, you can arrive by bus, so the volunteer must cover the cost of transportation (6 Mexican Pesos one way - approx. 25p).
Reserva Natural is located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. The main objective is to offer experiences with the nature contact, to contribute to the formation/training of sensitives, conscious persons of theirs rights and duties and, specially, committed toward the preservation and conservation of their social, cultural and natural context. Besides, we strengthen the skills in conservation topics to kids and adolescents who will be social actors for improving the environment. We run environment programs towards organizations, groups and different groups with the objective to promote a sustainable life.
Activities:
-To support as facilitators/trainers during the summer workshops with environmental approach. -To participate “Training Program” where you can develop skills in environmental topics, the human and their context. -To organize workshops to public and private schools. You will be facilitator in environment topics (care, responsibilities and sustainable life) -To design, to organize and to run workcamps and adventures activities with kids and adolescents. -To participate during the workshops, trainings and workcamps.
-To support activities as:
attention to visitors, offer of products and services that offer our ecological reserves Moxviquil and Huitepec.
Volunteer Profile:
Love and passion for the nature and the field work. Skills to work with different groups (age, cultures) Previous knowledge related to diversity, conservation, biology, sciences of the earth and environmental education. Compromise Proactive and enthusiasts. To support the people to awareness about the environment care and engaged them about the importance to conserve and preserve the nature in our city.
Location:
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Terminal:
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Airport, Chiapas, arriving you have to take the bus to San Cristobal City. You can also travel in bus from Mexico City. The duration of this bus trip is 13 hours approximately.
Language:
English and Spanish If you don't speak it, you can learn it before or during your volunteering project.
Accommodation:
Volunteers will stay at the VIVA volunteer house equipped with basic services such as water, gas, electricity and a kitchen to prepare food. Volunteers will share a room with other volunteers.
Participarion fee:
2300 Mexican Pesos permonth (approx. £90). The participation fee covers accommodation and partially the administrative cost which consist of the management, promotion, evaluation, monitoring and material of the projects. Furthermore, the accompaniment is provided during the volunteer period and the supervision of the activities on the project. Volunteers must cover their own meals and also local transportation. The project is located 15 minutes from the Volunteer House. The volunteer needs to take a “Colectivo” (local bus) and pay 6 Mexican Pesos (approx. 25p).
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