These organizations require a commitment of three or four weeks and we recommend taking a Spanish language course for a minimum of 4 weeks, either One-on-One or Group, to enable the student to communicate in Spanish with others in the workplace.
For further information please contact us.
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Clínica Belen
Organización Yanapay
Espíritus Creativos
Programa CEDNA
Clinica San Juan de Dios
Minimum requirement of 3 or 4 weeks.
Price: 3 weeks VW + 21 nights at home stay half board S/ 1,700
Price 4 weeks VW + 28 nights at home stay half board S/ 2,080
If you have any questions or you have another idea to combine Spanish + VW please contact us.
NB: Also included is a pickup from the Cusco airport where a school representative will deliver students to their host families. Important the prices is in SOLES.
An additional administration fee of S/ 75.00 is payable.
The rate of change is approximately $ 1 = S/ 2.60
We Work with These Organizations:
Asociación Civil Huchuy Yachaq
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This is an organization that works in a very poor area in the city of Cusco (asentamiento Humano Hermanos Ayar). Living conditions are very poor with no services. The organization works with all the families, parents, children and teenagers trough “talleres” or workshops in cooking, handicraft, painting, games, knitting, etc. They also help the children by providing materials for study (notebooks, books, pens, pencils, etc) and with completion of homework for the school. Volunteers can participate in all of these activities.
Volunteer Work is available from March until December. Throughout January & February they offer vacational programs.
Schedule: Mornings are from 8am – 12:30 pm & afternoons from 3pm – 6pm.
Aldea Yanapay
The Yanapay school is a place that has classrooms, a library, a games library (educational games), reading room, kitchen, and more that are necessary for the development of the children and adolescents we work with.
We work with children from various public schools who come after class. In the Yanapay Village they do their homework, making use of the library and the materials that we have. They also receive another type of education based on the arts (theatre, music, painting, etc), as well as other topics that are important in today’s world: cultures and religions, ecology, sexuality, and reading.
The Yanapay School operates Monday to Friday, from 3.00 in the afternoon to 7.00 in the evening, and on Saturdays from 10.00 in the morning until 1:30 in the afternoon.comunity-proyect-in-cusco-peru-3
Hogar Clínica San Juan de Dios
This is a hospital where there are poor children with physical problems and also some syndromes. The poorest children could not be cared for by their parents so that the volunteers can help them to move, walk, bathe, eat and do therapies.
You can work in the mornings or afternoons.
Espiritus Creativos
This work takes place in the field, approximately 1 hour from the city of Cusco. Travel by bus or taxi will incur an additional cost.
They do not require any special study or professional experience.
They require volunteers to help in these activities:
Language Volunteer. These Volunteers are giving basic instruction of Spanish or English language to children and young people in rural areas.
Educational Volunteer. These Volunteers do not need to be certified teachers.
Recreational Volunteer.
Entrepreneurial Volunteer.
Construction Volunteer.
Special Programs:
Require previous training and professional specialization in specific areas:
Therapist Volunteer
Health Volunteer
Rural Volunteer:
The Schedule is in the mornings from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or afternoons from 3:30 -6:00 p.m.
Association Cedna:
Center for Development of Children and Adolescents operating in the city of Cusco for 4 years has activities geared towards making improvements in the areas of health, education, services, and sales. It is a not-for-profit Association that works primarily with children, mothers and adolescents of scarce economic resources in urban neighborhoods and rural areas within the region of Cusco. It promotes comprehensive and sustainable development in order to improve the quality of life for families and the community.
comunity-proyect-in-cusco-peru-4Clinic Belen:
Polyclinic Parish Belén, dedicated to the integral attention of health, child and adult in different specialties of the medicine such as Gynecology, nursing, dentistry, Psychology, Rehabilitation – Physiotherapy, ultrasound, Clinical Laboratory and Ophthalmology. Managed by the parish church of the district, it is located in a poorer suburb of the city of Cusco and needs volunteers to help in these specialties to improve patient care.
Volunteer work can be done in the following hours: 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. or in the afternoons of 2:30 at 6:30 p.m.