ADISA (Educación Especial)

Santiago Atitlán Template/Cold Weather

This is a school for children and youth with special abilities, The school includes a stimulation area for children with mental handicaps, paralysis, down syndrome, and autism. Also, they work with youth, teaching them different practical skills like bakery or carpentry. In the afternoons the provide space to injured people from the civil war to do crafts that they sell for profits. You will help in these areas as needed. Working with the kids is a joy and sharing with the adults in the afternoons doing crafts will give you time to share talking and listening to many testimonies from people that suffered the violence firsthand. You will live with a host family in Santiago Atitlan, this organization receives volunteers from other countries so you will probably share the experience with people from other places around the world.

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ANADESA

Santiago Atitlán Temperate/Cold weather

ANADESA means “Asociaciòn Nuevo Amanecer de Santiago Atitlan”, and as it names suggests they are working on different programs, such as jewelry commerce, planting trees, tours for tourists, education programs, etc to give the people of Santiago a new beginning, new opportunities. Some examples of the kind of thing a volunteer might do are: teaching program for groups of adults, women and tutoring for kids at school, organizing the books at the library and supervising the time when the library is open, translating for the groups of foreigners, teaching English, support art projects, work at the orchard, teach some computer skills, help with the Motacilla crafts, etc. You will be living with a host family from the community.

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Community Cloud Forest Conservation

Alta Verapaz Temperate/ Cold weather

Community Cloud Forest Conservation alleviates poverty and protects cloud forests through education, reforestation, academic scholarships, agricultural development, food security, income generation, and holistic community/human development. You would help with the conservation and agroecology leadership training program, we think that these scholarships can change the life and transform Villages.

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AMI (Accion Medica Integral)

San Pedro la Laguna, Atitlan Temperate/Cold weather

Medical clinic/Community Health Education with Dr. Israel Hernandez; you will be working in a clinic founded by the Christian church in San Pedro La Laguna, their main goal is to provide a whole (physical and mental) health program through the clinic itself and through preventive health lectures to improve the community’s daily life as an extension of Jesus’ love and gospel. This means you will help out in the clinic sometimes but also you will be doing fieldwork accompanying Dr. Hernandez to give preventive talks to schools, groups of women, health promoters, etc in the communities around Lake Atitlàn, you will live with a host family from San Pedro la Laguna close to the AMI office.

UPAVIM

Guatemala City, Mezquital Temperate/ cold weather

The mission of this organization, UPAVIM, is to empower the women of the community, giving them an opportunity to improve the quality of life for themselves and for their families. We pursue this mission by giving them access to education, employment opportunities, daycare services for their children, health care services, and programs for personal and professional development. You can be a teacher, help with handcrafts, help with the daycare, or give tutoring. Is close to the city but in a very poor part of it.

AGDI Mixco

Ciudad de Guatemala Temperate /cold weather

Is a community-based organization, that works in Zone 6 of Mixco, in the County of Guatemala. Having the information on the students’ academic background, one may help to teach the English language during the mornings. There are many youths that would love to learn English. Teach new methodologies to teachers in Education. Teach mathematics. Provide support for our school garden. Classifying species, guidelines to improve gardens. Also, they work with youth, teaching them different practical skills like bakery, carpentry, automotive mechanic, etc.