Development Internships in Mexico

Broaden your horizons and explore a new culture by interning abroad with Adelante Abroad. Live and learn in an international setting while gaining hands-on experience in your chosen field. Join us this spring or summer in one of our vibrant program locations—Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, or Uruguay—where you'll enjoy ideal weather, smaller crowds, and access to top-tier internship placements. Choose from affordable, career-focused internships in diverse fields such as Arts, Culinary, Travel and Tourism, International Business, Nonprofit, Information Technology, and many more. Internship opportunities vary by location and offer a high degree of flexibility. Start your internship on the first Monday of any month, and depending on the destination, stay for 1 to 6 months. With over 20 years of experience, Adelante Abroad offers well-structured programs and strong local support to help students and recent graduates step confidently into global professional environments. All you need to do is take the leap.

Travel to Mexico, the nation of Mayan ruins and breathtaking natural sights. Here, you’ll combine practical experience with plenty of travel opportunities in your spare time. IGS offers internships abroad in the capital, Mexico City, as well as other locations. Get the chance to intern with a company that offers whale shark tours, join a sea turtle hatching project, or work at a regional newspaper publication. Apart from these, you can find placements across a range of fields. Mexico is a perfect destination for everyone, with its blend of historic sites and natural surroundings. In your free time, you can enjoy limitless activities – from exploring a Mayan temple to swimming in a cenote. Take time to visit local communities and share in the unique culture of friendly Mexicans.

This exciting program is located in Malinalco, located only 50 km southwest of Mexico City, the capital. Because of its colonial character, it is one of the Pueblos Mágicos (Magic towns). Aldeas de Paz has established a collaboration with a grassroots NGO, one of the most prestigious civil society organizations in the municipality of Malinalco, in central Mexico. This extraordinary and successful NGO was created in 2007 with the aim of promoting community participation to preserve and protect the town's natural, social, historical, and spiritual heritage. Through its programs, FCM activates, builds capacities, accompanies, and finances projects to strengthen the diversity of communities living in Malinalco. The central aim of this joint volunteering program is to be able to enhance peace culture and conflict transformation processes in the forestry field, as well as to strengthen the activities and goals of the Forestry Culture Program of the FCM in the region.

Travel to Mexico and live in the bustling and picturesque town of Playa del Carmen where you will spend your days volunteering with children at a center operated by our project partners, Save The Children. Your presence will provide a safe and fun environment in which the children can learn and develop, with a focus on empowering the children to know and apply their own rights. On successful completion of your initial training phase, you will proceed to your work placement site. This internship includes 40 hours of 1-on-1 Spanish classes with a native speaker. How this program makes a difference: Together with Save The Children, our programs improve the lives and futures of children in need.

Mexico is a beautiful country and a great place to spend time on a volunteer program or internship. It is a real meeting place of cultures: a modern, industrialized, and well-educated country that's full of history. American, Spanish, and Indian influences all come together to make it a fascinating place that mixes developed and developing worlds. Mexico is a stimulating mixture of wealth and poverty and offers amazing opportunities for volunteers to learn and travel within its expansive borders. Our projects in Mexico are available for anyone interested in volunteering in the developing world, including those on a college summer break, gap year, career break, or volunteer vacation. The large city of Guadalajara is the home of Projects Abroad Mexico. Our volunteer office base is right next to the magnificent Expiatorio Cathedral in the center of the city. Care, Teaching, Medicine & Healthcare, Conservation & Environment, International Development, Business, and Spanish language courses are available.