Volunteer Programs in Salinas, Ecuador

A desire to learn Spanish and be able to see a part of the world and experience a culture and life philosophy different from my own. My hope always wa...

My ultimate goal is to go to a Physician's Assistant School, and I had the opportunity to live in Ecuador for 8 months because my mom is Ecuadorian. 

What inspired me to go abroad was a desire to step outside familiar routines and experience life from a more grounded, human perspective. I wanted to ...

I was looking for magic and adventures. I found both along with professional skills and much more. I chose Ecuador because of its differences with Den...

In general, I enjoy traveling around the world - keeping an open mind, getting inspiration, meeting different people, getting to know different tradit...

Growing up in Chicago, I didn't have a lot of opportunities to be exposed to many natural areas. When I moved out west I was exposed to a lot of new i...

I love traveling, one of my life goals is to go to a new country each year. This year I decided to volunteer in addition to just traveling because I w...

I've always wanted to travel, but I wanted to be able to experience the cultural rather than be a tourist in a foreign country. I felt the best way to...

I was born in El Salvador and came to United States with very little, so I wanted to give back. I have been very fortunate with my health, family, and...

A desire to see a new part of the world, while simultaneously helping others; the perfect combo!

I was really inspired to go abroad because I have a deep passion for traveling. For me, the importance of traveling is not simply visiting a place for...

Normally, I would consider myself a homebody, but when this opportunity was presented to me, I just couldn't turn it down. Not only did I get to trave...

I chose to apply for an international program to do something outside of my comfort zone. I went into this experience knowing I had to challenge mysel...

I wanted to take a year off before college and thought that volunteering abroad would be an extremely important way to spend my year. I’ve always been...

I decided to apply for an international program because I saw it as an opportunity to grow personally and become more open minded, while getting to he...

IVHQ was by far the most reasonably priced of all the organizations I looked into, which was a really important factor for me, considering that I paid...

I decided to apply for an international program because I wanted to become bilingual, my dream since high school was to become fluent in another langu...

I have been traveling on and off over the past year and decided it was time to give back along my adventure. I felt lucky to have the privilege and op...

Yet again, I found myself recruiting more students to travel with ISV, and before I knew it I had enough to earn a free program in 2011. I decided to ...