As a developing country, Guatemala faces many challenges that affect people’s lives every day. International visitors are most welcome to volunteer their skills and their time to help improve the lives of the country’s poor and disadvantaged.
Help is needed in many places and we work with several organizations where you can make a difference – primarily in education, health care, social work and environmental protection.
Participants in the Study & Volunteer program can learn Spanish and volunteer at the same time. You’ll spend half a day in class and the other half volunteering.
Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro is a large charity hospital with orphanage and senior citizens home in the center of Antigua. They provide medical services to the poor who do not have the resources to pay for medical treatment.
Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro is almost always in need of volunteers, but the positions they have available tend to be rather basic, like visiting with patients or helping out in the kitchen.
Brillo de Sol is a school based in San Gaspar Vivar, a village just outside of Antigua Guatemala, providing a personalized and inclusive education and other services to children who would otherwise have no opportunity for a healthy, happy and productive future.
Volunteers are needed year round to assist the regular staff, particularly teacher’s assistants, psycologists and therapists.
Centro de Salud San Andres Itzapa is a government-operated clinic in the town of San Andres Itzapa, about 45 minutes by bus from Antigua. It provides basic medical services and serves mostly low-income families in the area northwest of Antigua where little access to primary health care is available.
Volunteer positions at Centro de Salud San Andres Itzapa require medical training, clinical experience and at least intermediate-level Spanish.
It was founded in 1991 by GOD’S CHILD Project founder Patrick Atkinson. Since then, and with GOD’S CHILD Project support, ANA has grown from humble beginnings in a borrowed farmhouse to currently serving an estimated 4,000 orphaned and impoverished children, and 7,000 widowed, abandoned, and single mothers and their dependents across Guatemala. In addition to financial support, volunteers of all skill levels are greatly needed to support all 32 ANA programs in Guatemala.
Can you see yourself feeding a baby, building a home, cooking, gardening, teaching an art class, or one of a thousand other things? ANA needs you today.
Caoba Organic Farm is located just outside of Antigua, about 15 minutes on foot from the Central Park. The farm grows a wide variety of products for the local food market and promotes sustainable agriculture and low-impact farming.
Volunteers are welcome year round to help with the operation of the farm. Most positions involve work on the fields and in the greenhouses as well as harvesting and packaging the produce.
FUNDAL is a private, non-profit institution dedicated to the educational, social, recreational and cultural inclusion of children and young people with deaf blindness and multiple disabilities, through its Educational Centers located in the Capital City, Quetzaltenango, and Huehuetenango, as well as through support programs for the interior of the Republic.
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