Empower Women and Children in Guatemala
Location: Guatemala: Comalapa
Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
Program Duration: 3-6 months (includes high school academic semester abroad), 7-12 months (includes high school academic year abroad)
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education
11640 Hwy. 128 Calistoga, CA 94515 United States
Call Us
Phone: 707-431-7265
Fax: 707-431-8479
Description
Volunteer with a non-profit organization in Guatemala to empower indigenous women and children. Help to break the cycle of poverty through education, construction projects, environmental awareness and health projects. This organization looks at what a community needs and creates it together with the local people. Their mission it to empower the Guatemalans and not have them rely on help from outside. The organization has an organic garden, runs micro-finance projects, works in schools, offers a park for the community, puts stoves into the huts for the women to cook with, provides clean running water, builds school and initiates other local projects.
Highlights
This opportunity is part of the LEAPYEAR program - check out our website for more details!
Intern Types
- Admin (Health Services)
- Admin (Hospitality, Sports)
- Admin (Recreation, Parks)
- Anthropology
- Education
- English as a Second Language
- Environmental Studies
- Family and Home Studies
- Field-Study
- Food Science and Nutrition
- Health Sciences
- Human Resources
- Humanities
- Linguistics
- Music
- Photography
- Social Sciences
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Sports
- Women's Studies
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Cost in US$:
Credit Available
yes
Volunteer Types
- Adult Education
- Animal Welfare
- Anthropology
- Arts
- Athletics
- Building Maintenance
- Building/construction Projects
- Childcare/children
- Clerical And Office Work
- Community Centers
- Community Development
- Community Health
- Community Organizing
- Computer Training
- Conservation
- Cooking
- Culture
- Cutting Wood
- Digging
- Disability Issues
- Education
- Elderly
- Energy
- English Teaching
- Environment
- Equestrian
- Fixing Fences
- Food
- Gardening
- Gender Issues
- Grassroots Organization
- Handicapped
- Health
- Health Care
- Health Education
- Home Visit
- Homelessness
- Hospital
- Housing
- Human Rights
- Income-generation
- Indigenous Issues
- Marketing
- Media Work
- Medicine
- Micro-enterprise
- Microcredit
- Minority Groups
- Music
- Nutrition
- Office Work
- Organizational Development
- Orphans
- Painting
- Planting
- Playgrounds
- Popular Education
- Population Issues
- Primary Education
- Public Education
- Repairs
- Research
- Sanitation
- Secondary Education
- Small Business Development
- Social Services, Social Work
- Solar & Hydro Projects
- Sports
- Street Kids
- Teaching
- Transportation
- Tutor
- Volunteering
- Water
- Women
- Youth
- Youth Development
This Program is open to
Worldwide Participant. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.
Participants Travel to Guatemala
Independently or in Groups
Application Process Involves
- In-Person Interview Required
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time is
1 weekPost Services Include
- Exit Debriefing Abroad
- Job and Internship Network
- Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education's Mission Statement
Leapnow's primary purpose is nothing less than transformation and positive change on the planet. We aspire to keep our work on the cutting edge of human evolution. We feel that we can have the most positive impact on the world by working in the area of education- which ideally is all about transforming and expanding the consciousness of our students. Cultural immersion, study and work abroad are our main vehicles for learning about one's self and the world.
Year Founded
1993
