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Welcome to the Volunteer Ecuador pages of our website.

These pages list volunteer opportunities with carefully selected partner organizations throughout Ecuador. Our aim is to guarantee you a successful and rewarding volunteer experience that will benefit the project or community to which you commit your time and effort.

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Click on the tabs below to view the different volunteer projects that are available.
  • Quito
  • Amazon
  • Andes
  • Coast/Galapagos
  • Medical
Conservation work in Quito
This is a foundation that runs projects in 6 poor neighborhoods of Quito, working with daycare centers, schools, and youths using international volunteers and local staff.
FUNGERES is an organization that is working on recycling projects in Quito with poor indigenous families.
Volunteer teaching English in one of 3 schools on the outskirts of Quito
Volunteer at a school for disabled and underpriviliged children in Quito
Work as a volunteer with street children in Quito
Volunteer in a poor daycare centre in Quito
Work with adults and youth with severe mental disabilities in Quito
Teach in one of two public schools in the valley of Los Chillos and organize community agricultural projects
Education in Tena: Work as a volunteer in one of several social and educational projects in the jungle town of Tena
Yancacocha Animal Rescue Centre: Volunteering with rescued and illegally traded animals
     
El Arca Animal Rescue Center: Volunteer in a center to care for rescued animals
The Runa Foundation: Work and learn from a social enterprise that works in social empowerment, community development, and environmental management and markets natural herbal tea from the Amazon region.
Proyecto Ecológico Selvavida: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Community Development, and Teaching English in an indigenous Shuar Community.
Arajuno Lodge: Nature reserve and Eco-tourism project that promotes conservation, community development, and education projects on the banks of Arajuno River.
     
     
Fundacion ADIN- Guayabillas:
 Volunteer in an animal rescue center north of Quito
Jovenes para el Futuro: A foundation that works to improve the quality of life and future prospects of Ambato’s poor and at risk children and teenagers
Ugshapamba:
 Volunteer options in agro forestry, environmental education, and sustainable agriculture
Maquipucuna:
 Volunteer in conservation, organic farming, tourism and community development projects in a cloud forest nature reserve.
Brethren y Unida:
 Work in reforestation and sustainable agriculture in the Northern Andes one and a half hours from Quito
Comunidad de Chilcapamba: Teach English and work as a volunteer teacher’s aid or assist with community development projects in an Indigenous Andean community
     
Tsa'chila Communities:
 Voluntary work in one of two unique indigenous communities on the western slopes of the Andes
Finca Sarita:
 Work as a volunteer and learn on an organic farm and education centre for alternative agriculture techniques.
Assist with reforestation projects and other volunteer activities around the eco-city of Bahia de Caraquez on the central coast of Ecuador

Pacific Whale Foundation:

 Whale monitoring and analysis and environmental education volunteer projects on the Pacific coast of Ecuador’s.
Rio Muchacho:
 Work on an organic farm
Cerro Seco:
 Environmental education, park maintenance and community education volunteering programs in the dry tropical forest nature reserve outside Bahía de Caràque
Hacienda Tranquila:
 Hacienda Tranquila is a 50 hectare working dairy ranch in the highlands of San Cristobal, Galapagos, supplying fresh milk and meat to the local population
Pajaro Brujo:
 Work with residents of the Galapagos Islands and preserve native plant and animal species on Santa Cruz island
     
Working in the main hospital of Esmeraldas on the north coast of Ecuador; a perfect place for medical students, nurses and other students and volunteers in the health professions
Jambi Huasi:
 A clinic in Otavalo that works with both traditional and modern medicine, using a righs-based approach to delivering health care, welcomes volunteers
Paushiyacu Clinic:
 Volunteer in a health clinic in the Amazon region
 Volunteer in heath and social work with a centre for family planning, reproductive health and education
Amupakin:
 A natural midwifery and traditional healing center in the Amazon
Clinica Cemedso:
 A clinic and laboratory in Quito, ideal for students in all health fields
Clinica Jerusalén:
 Medical and nursing internships in Quito
Guamani health center:
 Internships in medicine and nursing in a busy health center in the south of Quito
Clinica San Martín:
 Learn about Quito’s public health system while working and learning from local doctors.
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The advantages of arranging everything throuh Yanapuma are:

1. You can be assured that these organizations are reliable and well run
2. We will provide you with a full orientation when you arrive in Quito
3. Yanapuma will have set the volunteer program up specifically for you
4. We will accompany you there to introduce you and get you settled in
5. There will be no nasty surprises when you get there
6. Yanapuma will offer ongoing volunteer support in case it is needed
7. Your volunteering efforts will be in aid of a truly worthwhile cause