Description:
United Planets Quest Volunteer Abroad program offers you or your group a life-changing opportunity to interact with local communities through customized work experiences, cultural activities, and home stays. United Planet Quests are offered in 50 countries from 1-52 weeks.
Located east of the famous and historical Galapagos Islands, Ecuador contains within its borders a variety of landscapes and cultures! As a volunteer you will have the opportunity to stay in one of the most beautiful capital cities of South AmericaQuito! Located in a long, narrow valley, Quito is the perfect place to begin exploring Ecuadors culture and landscape. Volunteers can experience the exotic beauty of the Amazon rainforest on an excursion to an ecological jungle lodge while making a meaningful impact on the Ecuadorian community! For more detailed information, please visit our website.
Highlights:
United Planets Quests offers volunteers a unique blend of work, cultural emersion, and fun. All ages and skill levels are invited to apply. Everyone has something to offer!
Ecuador Education and Rehabilitation Quest:
The aim of this project is to provide children and adolescents with mental disabilities with skills that will allow them to integrate into society. This will be accomplished through artistic activities and educational support. In this project volunteers can work as classroom and lunch service assistants. Volunteer work entails helping with homework and class activities, monitoring students during class time, watching them during recreation times, and assisting and supervising students during lunch.
Cultural Activities
You will participate in a series of cultural activities.They will be activities like learning Spanish, cooking a typical Ecuadorian meal or salsa lessons.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
None
Languages:
English
and Spanish
Cost in US$: Prices starting at $1295
Cost Includes:
Emergency evacuation services,
Food
and Housing
- Host family accommodations and meals
- Devoted support from the United Planet team
- Travel insurance
- Pre-departure training
- 1-way transfer from airport to UP's partner office for briefing
- Orientation, mid-Quest check-in, final evaluation
- Language lessons
- Historical, cultural and recreational excursions
- Global Caring Award upon successful Quest completion
- United Planet t-shirt or hoodie sweatshirt
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
arts,
disability issues
and teaching
Typical Volunteer: International volunteer travel is often filled with unpredictable surprises, such as transportation delays, local holidays, etc. Cultures may vary greatly and you might feel outside of your comfort zone in some situations. People, including the local population and fellow Quest participants, might have different religious, ideological, racial, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds.
United Planet offers volunteer opportunities to people of all ages and backgrounds and request that volunteers strive to always be: flexible, courageous, open-minded, tolerant and compassionate.
United Planet volunteers are offered pre-departure training and materials, which include cultural adjustment tools and other tips to help you adjust to your new surroundings.
Age Range: All Ages
This Program is open to
World Wide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Families, Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangement:
Home-stays
Participants Travel to Ecuador
Independently
Or
in Groups
Typically Participants Work
Independently
Or
in Groups
Application Process Involves:
- Phone Interview
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time Is 12hours
Post Services Include:
Alumni Network
Job and Internship Network
United Planet's Mission Statement: United Planet (UP) is a leading international, educational, humanitarian, and peace-building non-profit organization with members and volunteers in over 150 countries devoted to fostering cross-cultural understanding and friendship and supporting communities in need in order to unite the world in a community beyond borders. United Planet utilizes a wide range of local, online, and international programs to achieve this essential mission. The underlying principle of our programs is the concept of Relational Diplomacy, in which we recognize that the relationship between two people of diverse backgrounds is the basic building block for uniting the world in a community beyond borders. United Planets innovative programs are designed to expose our common human bonds and foster respect and appreciation for our cultural, racial, and religious diversity, while improving and enriching lives worldwide. All the people of the world are invited to join United Planet's membership in "a community beyond borders."
Year Founded: 2001