Experience the daily way of life in rural Ecuador as you live high in the Andes mountains. While spending time in a local community, you could help your host family with a range of chores, such as harvesting potatoes and milking the cows. Throughout the summer, build your business savvy and community development skills by working alongside local students to design and implement a project. You may help develop programs for a community radio station, work on a reforestation project, or help out at a seed bank. 

Work alongside local groups to support a variety of projects identified by the municipal governments of the rural communities where volunteers will be placed. You may help amplify the work and paja toquilla products of an artisan cooperative; help recover old cultural traditions; learn about and document ancestral medicine techniques; or support community tourism programs.  

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