Please visit Nuevos
Horizontes for information about volunteer work during your
stay at the Simon Bolivar Spanish school.
Our organization, which is part of the Spanish
language school, offers volunteer positions in and around Quito.
Please note
that additional info (prices, activities, etc) are found to the
right of this pages. 
Volunteer work
 Ecuador
offers a range of different possibilities for volunteer work.
This could be teaching English in a poor neighborhood, working
with street/working children, working in a orphanage, planting
trees in the cloud-or rain forest, helping indigenous groups to
organize their own tourism projects, working in kindergartens,
helping out in the marketing of local handicrafts, or agriculture
work to help poor peasants in the countryside.
We work with some of the biggest NGO organizations in Ecuador
and can now offer work in many different fields.
Type of work
We can offer short or long term volunteer positions for young
people from all around the world. We prefer that the volunteer
is a university student, or has finished a university degree,
and/or has some years of related working  experience.
We can offer work in the following areas:
- Teaching
- Social work
- Children
- Agriculture
- Marketing
- Tourism
- Development
- Reforestation
We work with many different NGO organizations that need volunteers
for a period of 2 to 12 months (or even longer). The volunteer
must either speak fluent Spanish or take Spanish lessons here
in Quito before joining a program.
Accommodation
We'll provide you with a family
for homestay close to the place where you will work. The families
are carefully selected. If for some reason you need to change
families we'll help you with the relocation.
Cost
 We
charge a registration fee to provide you with information about
a specific job before you arrive. In addition we charge a monthly
fee for the first 6 months to cover administration cost. This
includes one full time staff member who is there to help you 24
hours a day with any problems you may have. It also includes help
in selecting a workplace, selecting a family, introduction to
the family/workplace, problem solving, follow up visits to work/family,
and the use of office space in Quito. In addition, we give you
a short conference on cultural aspects of living/ working in Ecuador,
and practical useful information on how to get around. We also
provide you with written information prior to your arrival.
Homestays
We offer families for homestays.
The homestays include 3 meals and your own private room. The families
charge a monthly fee depending on location and standards.
Hostel and Apartments
We can arrange long term stays
at hostels at very low costs, in shared or single room. There
are also apartments with private/shared room and access to kitchen
etc.
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