Ecuador Eco Volunteer

Lise Blanchard (France)
el centro Zanja Arajuno para salvar y rehabilitar animales esta llevado por un pareja muy amables. fui un experencia unica con los animales, fui muy dificile de salir despues. Ahora siempre me extranan.

Vive tranquila en un casa con una cocina y aqua caliente. el mas increible fui de caminar con los animales en el bosque para que se adaptar a buscar comidas. el fin del camina hay un rio muy bonito donde se puede banar.
Que chevere este lugar

Sarah (California, USA)
I enjoy traveling best when I am most involved with the communities that I am visiting. Wlady provided a great opportunity for this and I felt very fortunate to have met him and his family and friends. Really they went above and beyond for me in terms of hospitality. It was such a welcoming experience, especially traveling on my own, I felt as if I had a family there. I have vounteered in the past, where I wasn’t sure what I was doing was really helping out the community but I really felt I got to see, first hand how the community was benefitting. I volunteered in Arenal near Chimborazo, teaching English to a wonderful group of children and I will always cherish the memories I had there among many other things.

If you have any questions for me feel free to get my email through Wlady and I would be more than happy to go into further detail about this awesome experience. Thanks Wlady and to your family as well…por favor mande saludas para mi.

Christine Zimmerman (USA)
I spent 10 days as a volunteer in the village of Nizag during July of 2010. My goals in deciding to live and work with this community were to force myself to practice my Spanish through immersion and to experience Ecuador from a more authentic perspective than my Lonely Planet tour guide would allow me. At the same time, I wanted to reciprocate this favor to the native people of Ecuador.

I spent each day with a different person or family, exploring the Nizag culture and community and participating in the daily chores. The people of this remote village nestled in the Andes are as welcoming, generous, hard-working, and good-eaters as they come. They literally grow everything that they eat, with the exception of sugar, salt, and cooking oil, and are so proud and eager to share everything they have with you, from the heaping platefuls of rice and choclo to their melodic Kichwa language.

I would absolutely recommend this experience to anyone looking to get to know this country on a more intimate level. Despite the Nizag lifestyle being remarkably different from that which I knew in the states, I was still comfortably housed with my bedroom, bathroom, and hot shower in their Casa del Tourismo. The single disappointment in my Nizag experience was that I was hoping to contribute to the community by teaching English, but because it was the cosecha (harvest), the villagers were too busy to fit lessons into their day. You might look into this if you hope to give back in this way.