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Volunteer with us in the Peruvian Amazon (Peru)

Peru, Pucallpa
ChristianProject Manager
By volunteering with us, you get a unique chance to experience the stunning natural diversity and experience the beautiful local culture beyond a busy tourist industry.
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Response rate: 100%
Response time over a week
Christian is part of:Semillas Life
Christian is part of:Semillas Life
Basic information
min 21 day(s)
18+
15 helpers
Renewals & Fees
€ 15.00 / day per person
€ 40.00 per person / each way

Volunteering Program #1
Teaching English

We provide free English classes for children, teenagers and adults. Therefore, everybody can participate in our community.

We believe that English lessons will provide a valuable opportunity to help local people gain the skills they need to communicate with tourists and also help the younger generations to have better life opportunities.

TEFL Certificate is not a requirement but, it is a plus. We are looking for volunteers that are fluent in English and also have creative teaching ideas such as playing games, singing, storytelling, acting other activities. The focus should be on developing curiosity about other cultures and to experience language as a communication tool and part of a culture.

Volunteers can also design workshops for kids or adults such as football matches, arts and crafts, environmental education, drama and so on. The idea is to connect the new language abilities with positive emotions.

Volunteers could build teaching materials such as posters, cards and games with vocabularies to subject or writing down songs, rhymes and so on for other volunteers.

Volunteering Program #2
Kids Explorer (Scouts)

Our Kids Explorer Program is a holistic program focusing on environmental education and social integration of local kids. During the week volunteers will teach English in a primary school or different space outside school and offer different workshops to teach ways to save the environment. During the weekend volunteers and staff members will take the kids on small camping trips into the rainforest.
Our ‘Explorer’ kids program (scouts) is another strategy that we are developing to give a new perspective of life to this Amazonian communities. Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged children by creating a safe environment for healthy physical, social, and emotional development. We
want to encourage a passion and respect for the natural world to help transition eager young minds into caring, socially-conscious global citizens. Through connection with nature we can nurture a better understanding of the environment while improving their interpersonal skills with one another and other adults.

We Accept Helper(s)

From:
20 / 03 / 2023
To:
31 / 05 / 2028
Not available
Available
Help Required

Gardening

Building

Help with Eco project

Language practise

Art project

Teaching/Teaching


Hours & Roster

15 hours/week

Work Days

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Saturday

Days off

Thursday

Friday

Sunday

Volunteering Program #1
Teaching English

We provide free English classes for children, teenagers and adults. Therefore, everybody can participate in our community. We believe that English lessons will provide a valuable opportunity to help local people gain the skills they need to communicate with tourists and also help the younger generations to have better life opportunities.

TEFL Certificate is not a requirement but, it is a plus. We are looking for volunteers who are fluent in English and also have creative teaching ideas such as playing games, singing, storytelling, acting other activities. The focus should be on developing curiosity about other cultures and to experience language as a communication tool and part of a culture.

Volunteers can also design workshops for kids or adults such as football matches, arts and crafts, environmental education, drama and so on. The idea is to connect the new language abilities with positive emotions. Volunteers could build teaching materials such as posters, cards and games with vocabularies to subject or writing down songs, rhymes and so on for other volunteers.

Volunteering Program #2
Kids Explorer (scouts)

This trips need to be well prepared such as packing equipment, informing the kids about risks and rules and sharing out tasks. During the trip volunteers not only assist us with supervising the kids, but also introducing games for social interaction and group connection. Another focus will be nature education. Therefore, we are not asking volunteers to have the specific knowledge about Amazonian animals and plants, but together with the kids ask curious questions and search for answers. Ideas could be: to make research diaries with photos, sketches and data or to start making a herbarium (press leaves and label them), experimenting with filtering river water, making fire by friction with sticks or stones, etc. The idea behind this is to protect what your love.

We will work together with volunteers to develop hands on ideas for different workshop such as paper making, upcycling art, building a compost, making paints out of soil and flower or guiding discussion groups about global environmental problems. Volunteers are welcome to develop their own ideas.
Volunteers can offer group games, singing songs, but also educational games such as observing different bird songs, collecting plants, using magnifying glasses and binoculars, sketching animals and so on. We close the day together at the campfire.

Sleeping
Other
Dormitory Shared

Eating
Self-Catering

Linen & Laundry
Yes
Yes

We provide accommodation (Huts) with sharing rooms or private if there is availability. We have beds, mattress, bedsheets, blankets, pillows, mosquito nets.

We do not provide food. However, we provide gas and kitchen where volunteers can prepare their own food. Usually volunteers cook together and share the expenses.

Please factor in €10 to €15 per a day for personal living expenses.

Getting There

FAP Captain David Abensur Rengifo International Airport is an airport serving the city of Pucallpa in the Ucayali Region of Peru.

Get Free Quote

From the city of Lima, volunteers need to take either a bus or flight to the city of Pucallpa.

Busses take around 22 hours and flights only 1 hour. We will send a driver to pick up the volunteers from the airport in Pucallpa or bus station (cost is approx. €40). The driving time to get to Puerto Inca from Pucallpa takes 2.5 hours approximately.

The taxi driver will bring the volunteers to our volunteer hut.

Males & Females welcome

Couples accommodated

Families NOT accommodated

Pets allowed

There are many ways our volunteers can benefit from this cultural exchange:-
1. Volunteers will be welcomed into the community where they can witness and take part in the region’s customs and traditions, where people live happily despite their limitations and lack of modern-world facilities. You can develop new friendships and learn how to talk and interact with people from another culture, whilst learning how to adapt to a new environment and different way of living. Our vision is to build relationships, promoting a mutual understanding of respect and values.
2. We are happy to organise trips to local attractions and, of course, into the rainforest, where we can introduce our volunteers to the incredible flora and fauna of our beautiful Peruvian Amazon and also share some fascinating jungle legend stories!
3. If you like cooking, you will have the opportunity to learn how to cook some of the amazing Peruvian dishes with the help of our project chef!! Buen provecho!

We offer to volunteers an amazing perspective into Amazonian living and its beautiful nature, including:
- Swimming in the river and streams (trips included)
- Camping in the jungle (trip included)
- Bird watching
- Bonfire (included)
- Trekking (trip included)
- Hiking (trip included)
- Fishing (trip included)
- Fruit picking (trip included)
- Play sports with locals (football & volleyball)
- Boating on the river (optional - extra fee)
- Visiting indigenous communities (optional - extra fee for transportation & donation to the community). This is an activity that can be done if we have a minimum of 5 volunteers.
- Visiting an Austrian-German community (Codo Del Pozuzo) (optional - extra fee for transportation)
- Visiting Boiling River (optional - extra fee for transportation)
- Visiting Waterfalls for swimming (Sungarillo & 13 Tiros Waterfalls) (trips included)
- Ayahuasca ceremony (optional - extra fee)
- Making artisanal chocolate with us (included)

Basic information
min 21 day(s)
18+
15 helpers
Renewals & Fees
€ 15.00 / day per person
€ 40.00 per person / each way

Volunteering Program #1
Teaching English

We provide free English classes for children, teenagers and adults. Therefore, everybody can participate in our community.

We believe that English lessons will provide a valuable opportunity to help local people gain the skills they need to communicate with tourists and also help the younger generations to have better life opportunities.

TEFL Certificate is not a requirement but, it is a plus. We are looking for volunteers that are fluent in English and also have creative teaching ideas such as playing games, singing, storytelling, acting other activities. The focus should be on developing curiosity about other cultures and to experience language as a communication tool and part of a culture.

Volunteers can also design workshops for kids or adults such as football matches, arts and crafts, environmental education, drama and so on. The idea is to connect the new language abilities with positive emotions.

Volunteers could build teaching materials such as posters, cards and games with vocabularies to subject or writing down songs, rhymes and so on for other volunteers.

Volunteering Program #2
Kids Explorer (Scouts)

Our Kids Explorer Program is a holistic program focusing on environmental education and social integration of local kids. During the week volunteers will teach English in a primary school or different space outside school and offer different workshops to teach ways to save the environment. During the weekend volunteers and staff members will take the kids on small camping trips into the rainforest.
Our ‘Explorer’ kids program (scouts) is another strategy that we are developing to give a new perspective of life to this Amazonian communities. Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged children by creating a safe environment for healthy physical, social, and emotional development. We
want to encourage a passion and respect for the natural world to help transition eager young minds into caring, socially-conscious global citizens. Through connection with nature we can nurture a better understanding of the environment while improving their interpersonal skills with one another and other adults.

We Accept Helper(s)

From:
20 / 03 / 2023
To:
31 / 05 / 2028
Not available
Available
Help Required

Gardening

Building

Help with Eco project

Language practise

Art project

Teaching/Teaching


Hours & Roster

15 hours/week

Work Days

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Saturday

Days off

Thursday

Friday

Sunday

Volunteering Program #1
Teaching English

We provide free English classes for children, teenagers and adults. Therefore, everybody can participate in our community. We believe that English lessons will provide a valuable opportunity to help local people gain the skills they need to communicate with tourists and also help the younger generations to have better life opportunities.

TEFL Certificate is not a requirement but, it is a plus. We are looking for volunteers who are fluent in English and also have creative teaching ideas such as playing games, singing, storytelling, acting other activities. The focus should be on developing curiosity about other cultures and to experience language as a communication tool and part of a culture.

Volunteers can also design workshops for kids or adults such as football matches, arts and crafts, environmental education, drama and so on. The idea is to connect the new language abilities with positive emotions. Volunteers could build teaching materials such as posters, cards and games with vocabularies to subject or writing down songs, rhymes and so on for other volunteers.

Volunteering Program #2
Kids Explorer (scouts)

This trips need to be well prepared such as packing equipment, informing the kids about risks and rules and sharing out tasks. During the trip volunteers not only assist us with supervising the kids, but also introducing games for social interaction and group connection. Another focus will be nature education. Therefore, we are not asking volunteers to have the specific knowledge about Amazonian animals and plants, but together with the kids ask curious questions and search for answers. Ideas could be: to make research diaries with photos, sketches and data or to start making a herbarium (press leaves and label them), experimenting with filtering river water, making fire by friction with sticks or stones, etc. The idea behind this is to protect what your love.

We will work together with volunteers to develop hands on ideas for different workshop such as paper making, upcycling art, building a compost, making paints out of soil and flower or guiding discussion groups about global environmental problems. Volunteers are welcome to develop their own ideas.
Volunteers can offer group games, singing songs, but also educational games such as observing different bird songs, collecting plants, using magnifying glasses and binoculars, sketching animals and so on. We close the day together at the campfire.

Sleeping
Other
Dormitory Shared

Eating
Self-Catering

Linen & Laundry
Yes
Yes

We provide accommodation (Huts) with sharing rooms or private if there is availability. We have beds, mattress, bedsheets, blankets, pillows, mosquito nets.

We do not provide food. However, we provide gas and kitchen where volunteers can prepare their own food. Usually volunteers cook together and share the expenses.

Please factor in €10 to €15 per a day for personal living expenses.

Getting There

FAP Captain David Abensur Rengifo International Airport is an airport serving the city of Pucallpa in the Ucayali Region of Peru.

Get Free Quote

From the city of Lima, volunteers need to take either a bus or flight to the city of Pucallpa.

Busses take around 22 hours and flights only 1 hour. We will send a driver to pick up the volunteers from the airport in Pucallpa or bus station (cost is approx. €40). The driving time to get to Puerto Inca from Pucallpa takes 2.5 hours approximately.

The taxi driver will bring the volunteers to our volunteer hut.

Males & Females welcome

Couples accommodated

Families NOT accommodated

Pets allowed

There are many ways our volunteers can benefit from this cultural exchange:-
1. Volunteers will be welcomed into the community where they can witness and take part in the region’s customs and traditions, where people live happily despite their limitations and lack of modern-world facilities. You can develop new friendships and learn how to talk and interact with people from another culture, whilst learning how to adapt to a new environment and different way of living. Our vision is to build relationships, promoting a mutual understanding of respect and values.
2. We are happy to organise trips to local attractions and, of course, into the rainforest, where we can introduce our volunteers to the incredible flora and fauna of our beautiful Peruvian Amazon and also share some fascinating jungle legend stories!
3. If you like cooking, you will have the opportunity to learn how to cook some of the amazing Peruvian dishes with the help of our project chef!! Buen provecho!

We offer to volunteers an amazing perspective into Amazonian living and its beautiful nature, including:
- Swimming in the river and streams (trips included)
- Camping in the jungle (trip included)
- Bird watching
- Bonfire (included)
- Trekking (trip included)
- Hiking (trip included)
- Fishing (trip included)
- Fruit picking (trip included)
- Play sports with locals (football & volleyball)
- Boating on the river (optional - extra fee)
- Visiting indigenous communities (optional - extra fee for transportation & donation to the community). This is an activity that can be done if we have a minimum of 5 volunteers.
- Visiting an Austrian-German community (Codo Del Pozuzo) (optional - extra fee for transportation)
- Visiting Boiling River (optional - extra fee for transportation)
- Visiting Waterfalls for swimming (Sungarillo & 13 Tiros Waterfalls) (trips included)
- Ayahuasca ceremony (optional - extra fee)
- Making artisanal chocolate with us (included)