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Volunteer In Belize
Location: Belize: Rural Areas, San Ignacio
Program Duration: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: Open
Call Us
Phone: +501-671-4421
Fax: +824-2043
Description
Flexibility and Personalized Volunteer Work Placement.
Choose our Volunteer in Belize Program for the greatest flexibility and a personalized work placement. TEP's approach to its Volunteer in Belize Program is to ensure volunteers play an important role in the community, ensuring their individual and collective efforts have a positive impact on the people in the communities where we work. TEP is dedicated to cultivating the profound learning that hands-on service and cultural exchange provides, and sharing that learning with others.
Volunteers are matched to communities immediate needs through our placement process, ensuring that the work is both timely and relevant. Placements are in the areas of:
* Education
* Health
* Conservation
* Community Development
* Social Services
Highlights
Volunteer in Belize is the ideal program for students interested in aiding social change that leads to reciprocal rewards for both students and host communities alike!
* Professional placements mapped according to your learning goals, skills and interest
* Opportunity to live in a developing country with a multicultural society
* Housing (based on double occupancy)
* Cultural learning activities, guest lectures and local excursions
* Possibility to obtain academic credit
* Comprehensive fees and exceptional program value
Qualifications
Minimum requirement for college participants: at least 19 years old and in the second half of college sophomore year.
Minimum Education
Associates
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Cost in US$:
USD2,750 (4wks.)
Cost Include Description:
Our program fees are inclusive of the application fee, professional placement, pre-departure and in-country orientation, housing based on double occupancy (supplementary fee is required for single), breakfast and dinner (Monday through Friday), round trip airport transfers, GSM local cell phone (cost of calls at student expense), 24/7 emergency and crisis management and support, and two organized excursions for duration of 2 weeks and more.
Credit Available
no
Volunteer Types
- Academic Reinforcement
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Animal Welfare
- Business
- Community Development
- Community Organizing
- Conservation
- Counseling
- Eco-tourism
- Education
- Grassroots Organization
- Marketing
- Micro-enterprise
- Microcredit
- Nursing
- Organizational Development
- Primary Education
- Tourism
- Tutor
- Youth Development
Typical Volunteer
Placements are carefully mapped against the needs of the communities where we work with the learning goals, skills and interest of participants. A typical volunteer position may be grant writing for grassroot non-governmental organization, carrying out surveys, assisting with an event, and or working with administration to further the organization's mission.Age Range
19 - 65This Program is open to
American, Canadian Participant. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangements
- Guest House
- Other
Participants Travel to Belize
Independently or in Groups
Application Process Involves
- Disciplinary Clearance Form
- Phone/Video Interview
- Resume
- Transcript
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time is
10 working daysPost Services Include
- Alumni Network
- Exit Debriefing Abroad
- Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
Toucan Education Programs (TEP)'s Mission Statement
Toucan Education Programs Limited endeavors to provide outstanding logistical and support services so that faculty and students actively experience Belize through hands-on, culturally enriching programs that promote a reciprocal educative process. Our values are grounded in good practice and quality standards that place equality and a celebration of diversity at their core.
Year Founded
2010
