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 Includes:

• Excursions
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Registration fees
• Written materials pre-departure

Program Fees Include:

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.

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

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 - 65

This Program is open to

American and Canadian Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Guest House
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 3 - 5

Application Process Involves

• Disciplinary Clearance Form
• Phone/Video Interview
• Resume
• Transcript
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

10 working days

Post 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