Project Life
Teach and Travel in Central and South America for Six Months

Guatemala

Volunteers work full-time on their project from Monday to Friday, once the Spanish classes have been completed, during which time you will work half-days. Your days will start early to eat breakfast with your host family before you meet with the other volunteers (usually up to six per community) at around 7.15am to catch the transport to the relevant project site. Help with homework for the children is then available before classes start at 9am. There is a break mid-morning for a fruit snack for the children and classes then continue to 12.15pm, when the volunteers will eat with a local family in the community, plan lessons and relax. Classes restart with new children at 1.30pm (with the fruit break mid-afternoon) and finish at around 4pm. Volunteers all return to Antigua a little after 5pm.

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Honduras

Volunteers work full-time on the project from Monday to Friday starting early eating breakfast with the host family before meeting up with the other Volunteers (usually up to 6 per community) at around 6.30am to catch the transport to the project site. Lessons start after 7am and continue until 1pm, with a mid-morning break for a food and fruit break for the children; classes can then continue for two hours in the afternoon in the GVI Secondary school. Volunteers head back to Copán for 5pm.

Ecuador

Volunteers work on their project from Monday to Friday. You will begin your days early, eating breakfast with your host family. Depending on which community you are designated to work in you will either: meet the minivan at 6.55am that will take you directly to either Urcusiqui or Huayrapungo, or catch a local bus at 7.25am to work in the community of Larcacunga (after a short walk you) to arrive in time for the start of the school day at 8am. Classes officially run until around 1.15pm in all schools, however those in Urcusiqui and Larcacunga will have until around 1.45pm to help the kids with their homework or to clean up the classrooms. ‘Aulas abiertas’ are being started so some days will end later.

Peru

You will work in the chosen community from Monday to Friday. Days start with eating breakfast with the host family before meeting the pickup at around 7.15am and traveling to the designated communities, usually located about a 30-minute drive along semi-paved roads, arriving to start classes at 8am. Morning lessons are interspersed with breaks and finish at 1pm whereupon you will have a short break for lunch before the ‘aula abierta’ sessions, which continue until 3.30-4pm, after which you will return to Arequipa.