EcuaExplora

Join forces with educators, farmers and citizens uniting to combat the slash and burn agricultural techniques that subsistent cacao, coffee and banana farmers in this transitional coastal region routinely practice. Via an expanding education and citi...

Beneath the Amazonian rainforest canopy, our interconnectedness with the community of life becomes undeniable as the playful animals, lush plants, and thriving rhythms of village life blend in perfect harmony. This energized, entangled jungle context...

Ecuador: Rural Areas

Located three hours by moto-canoe down the Napo River from the Amazon outpost of Coca, the biodiverse jungle surroundings and innovative business approach of this Ecolodge are a living laboratory for individuals or faculty-led group who wish to imm...

Amidst the cacophony of wild bird calls in a misty cloud forest, volunteers at this foundation contribute to is mission of biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in Ecuador. The Foundation encourages and promotes th...

Ecuador

The Working Boys' Center focuses on tackling poverty as a spiritual problem and considers the formation of a Family of Families as the foundation of its work. Therefore, the WBC serves the working boys (and girls) and their entire families, providing...

Ecuador: Puyo

Assist teachers in a child care center in the indigenous community of Lumbisi that gives kids, age two to five, the tools, skills, and confidence they need to get a head start to success in elementary school. In a country often plagued by teenage pre...

Ecuador: Guayaquil, Banos and 2 other cities, Galapagos Islands, Quito

Gain valuable real-world experience with a summer internship or volunteer position with EcuaExplora. Choose from our diverse portfolio of health, environment and socio-economic projects collaborating with local Ecuadorian partners NGO. Explore your o...

Ecuador: Banos, Galapagos Islands, Quito

Gain practical experience through a customized internship in a number of fields, including community/public health, marketing, social entrepreneurship, environmental science, education, law, tourism, media and communication, social work and physical ...

Ecuador

Fundación Pachamama was founded in 1997 in Ecuador with the objective of supporting the Achuar people of Ecuador to strengthen their social-organizational capacities and to exercise their territorial rights. After many years directly supporting the ...

Ecuador: Quito

Currently, 50 to 60 homeless children with regular and special needs are cared for in three residential care homes at this orphanage in north-east Quito. The environment provides physical and emotional support, spiritual nurturing, and lots of tende...

Ecuador: Quito

For years, the maltreated workers at Quito's biggest landfill, called "miners", spent hours shifting through toxic garbage in unsafe and unsanitary conditions with no guaranteed salary. Since our partner began working and organizing with this communi...

Ecuador

Located in La Villaflora, an underserved area of south Quito, this integrated therapy center calls on its dedicated, multidisciplinary team to treat children and adults with its broad spectrum of services: from early stimulation for the mentally disa...

Ecuador

It's a sad reality to see children, often as young as three years old, working upwards of ten hours a day in the markets, streets and countryside of Ecuador to support their financially struggling families. This intervention program takes a very proa...

Ecuador

If your conversational Medical Spanish isn't good enough to impress your cadaver, we've got the perfect program for medical professionals who want hands on healthcare experience in a clinical setting coupled with four hours of focused medical Spanish...

Ecuador: Quito

With the culturally vibrant capital and historically intriguing colonial city of Quito as your classroom, the semester program at Catolica allows student total immersion in Ecuadorian culture, past, present and future. Ideal for intermediate to advan...

Ecuador: Quito

Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is the first private liberal arts university in Latin America. Located in the valley of Cumbaya, just twenty minutes from downtown Quito and twenty minutes from nearby indigenous Andean communities, the campu...

This comprehensive, high-impact Ecuadorian NGO that implements comprehensive sustainable development projects in isolated communities living in poverty to provide their members with the tools necessary to provide opportunities to escape poverty. All ...

Ecuador: Banos

The Fundacion Fuvirese is a non-profit organization in the BaHos region of Central Ecuador. The foundation was established to help those of the area with physical and mental disabilities. Many of the people whom the foundation helps struggle with dys...